Vortexbox Distributor for Australia
Vortexbox (Australia) is the authorised distributor of the Vortexbox appliance for Australia & New Zealand.
As well as supplying the Vortexbox, we also cover the warranty for all Vortexbox appliances supplied by us. They are built for Australia & all parts come from Australian distributors.
The official announcement was made on the US web site today, see it here.
05 Jan 12 Email addresses
We’ve had some people post requests using the contact forms on this web site recently who’ve apparently made a mistake when entering their email address. This means that when we reply, it bounces. So please make sure your email address is entered correctly so that our reply reaches you.
Alternatively, you can ring us on 02-6112 8955. If you get voicemail, please leave a message, we will return your call. 
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08 Dec 11 Web site issues
We’ve been experiencing issues with the internet connection for our web site & mail server for the last few day. The company that does this for us hopes to have it fixed shortly. In the meanwhile, we hope that you’ll persevere with us.
Our apologies for the inconvenience.
19 Nov 11 Thailand Flooding forces Hard Drive Price Increase
Since the flooding occurred in Thailand earlier this year, the price of hard drives has effectively doubled as over 25% of the world’s hard drive manufacturing was taken out by the floods. While we are able to keep the pricing of the standard VortexBox the same. we have been forced to increase the price of the hard drive upgrades. The pricing has been amended on the Buy page.
Our apologies for this, but it is beyond our control. We hope that the price of hard drives will go back down when the manufacturing capacity is rebuilt.
13 Nov 11 VortexBox 2.0 released
With the recent release of Fedora 16 it’s time to release a new version of VortexBox based on it. VortexBox 2.0 is based on Fedora 16 and also includes the new Logitech Media Server 7.7.0. We have added some other fixes and updates as well including new versions of MPD and our built in DLNA server.
The upgrade process can not be done via the web interface, it is a command line only process. The details are available at http://info.vortexbox.org/tiki-index.php?page=Upgrade. Please note this is not guaranteed to work & backup of all the data/music etc on your VortexBox appliance should be done first.
Please note that VortexBox 2.0 does not support RAID1, so if you have a VortexBox RAID1 appliance, at this point in time you cannot upgrade to VortexBox 2.0
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08 Sep 11 VortexBox 1.10 released!
It’s been a while since we released a new version of VortexBox and there are a lot of small fixes and tweaks in this new version. There are the usual updates such as a new Kernel and SqueezeBox server 7.6.1. There are also a lot of small updates such as increased UPnP player support. VortexBox now supports the latest Samsung TVs and the BeoSound 5 from Bang & Olufsen.
We added a lot of user requested features such as a one click restore button in the USB backup manager. We also added faster mp3 mirroring at the request of VortexBox users. This version has been tested with new products from Sonos and Logitech including the new Play:3 to ensure these devices are fully supported.
You can upgrade to 1.10 by clicking on the Upgrade button in your VortexBox’s web interface & if you’d like to download a disk image to make your own CD, its available here.
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