No argument about the desirability and technical possibilities of ripping vinyl that way, and if I had the time I'd possibly be interested just as a geek project. But I suspect it wouldn't be quite as simple as we'd hope (having perfect pitch means disliking cheap CD players just on general principles).

Speaking of cool ideas, when is someone going to release a chainable NAS box? This hassle of spanning my stuff across multiple drives is annoying, it's like DOS all over again. Every time I fill up the array I have to split stuff to free space on the full unit and move it to the new unit. Why can't I just plug them together and say "ok, you are one drive now, all 8 or 12 or 20... hard disks worth of you". Well, for less than $50k, anyway. It can't be that hard, especially since half of them are running linux and software RAID anyway... ideally getting a RAID6 6+2 array out of it, but 2 RAID5 with JBOD NAS boxes would be acceptable. It might even be possible to homebrew using eSATA NAS boxes and motherboard JBOD... fragile though.