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The Village Voice is running a story on how to rip mp3s from vinyl, something Cate was asking about a while back. The author outlines a few of the products available, but not Cakewalk Pyro, which I use. He also outlined one method I found particularly cool. Ofer Springer, an engineering student in Israel, has developed a novel way to digitize audio from vinyl LPs. He scans the wax, then applies an algorithm to the image data to detect the minute waveforms that appear in a groove. The result is a questionable facsimile of the original recording, but the mp3s on his site (scroll down) are trippy as a muppet-humper. BTW, I got like four hours of sleep last night, and I'm about to crash in front of this machine, so the drive to Tulsa will be postponed until tomorrow.