Minidisc ?? MP3 <--> Atrac

I just wanted to see if anyone knows of any Atrac software?? My girlfriend bought me a Sony NetMD and the software that comes with it is terrible-- I wonder-- if anyone knows of any Atrac ripping software-- or how to implement Atrac recording/playback in Visual Basic? It would be an interesting endevour as I'm sure it is an unexplored alley.

oh by the way today im 22!!! happy birthday me ;-)

atrac is the music compression algorithm used by minidisc plays to record and play music -- from any format .wav .mp3 .mid .cda

so if you know of anything like this ;-) thanks for the input!