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 Jun 10 VortexBox 1.4 has been released
We are pleased to announce the release of VortexBox 1.4 by VortexBox in the US. Continuing with our goal to make VortexBox the universal server for any media player full DLNA support has been added to VortexBox. DLNA is the future of media sharing and many players such as PS3, Windows 7 Media Player, and Samsung televisions support DLNA. Now you can easily serve your music and video files to all these devices.
We have also added Bliss to the VortexBox web GUI. Bliss can find cover art for even the most obscure albums.
As usual there are also may other fixes and updates requested by the VortexBox community.
You can upgrade to VortexBox 1.4 via the update button in your VortexBox appliance’s web interface or you can download the .iso from here.
Tags: VortexBox 1.4 released
13 Apr 10 VortexBox 1.3 is available now
VortexBox 1.3 released today. This release includes lots of new features and bug fixes. We have the latest version of SqueezeBox Server and all the latest versions of the 3rd party projects that make up VortexBox. We have also added Subsonic a new GUI that allows you to manage your music collection and stream it to iPods and Android players. New features include
- Logitech SqueezeBox Server 7.5.0 pre installed and configured
- Subsonic music interface for remote playing
- Edit your tags and cover art using the Subsonic web GUI
- Latest version of TwonkeyMedia Server
- Many bug fixes including USB backup manager
- File sharing fix for OSX 10.6.3
- Auto re-index after rip for Sonos players
To upgrade your existing system you can use the updater in the VortexBox GUI or you can download the .iso image from here.
Enjoy! 
Tags: software update, VortexBox 1.3
11 Mar 10 Vortexbox 1.2 released
The VortexBox community has been working hard on this release. We have added a lot of new features to make VortexBox the best NAS for SqueezeBox. These include adding the new SqueezeBox Server 7.4.2 and fixing some critical bugs in VortexBox Player. VortexBox Player is now the highest resolutions (192/24) player available that is compatible with SqueezeBox Server (SBS).
The new package manager allows new software packages to be installed from the GUI. The Sonos web GUI can now be installed from the GUI making VortexBox the best NAS for Sonos players.
We have fixed the mp3 encoding with better support for genre and cover art that works well in all applications. Thanks to everybody in the community for helping out.
- Logitech SqueezeBox Server 7.4.2 pre installed and configured
- Package manager for installing new software from the GUI
- Better support for mp3s (thanks Ron)
- Many bug fixes including VortexBox player
To update use the GUI update menu.
03 Feb 10 Vortexbox 1.1 software released
We are very excited about this release of VortexBox. We are moving from being just a media server to a music player as well. This version of VortexBox includes VortexBox Player. You can use your internal sound card or external USB DAC to play your music. VortexBox Player supports music recorded at up to 24-bit/192kHz. This is higher then most players support including the Sonos and SqueezeBox line of hardware players.
We have also added a lot of other great features requested by the VortexBox, SqueezeBox, and Sonos communities. Here is a list of the new features.
- VortexBox Player as the default software player.
- Cover are added to all mp3 files for easy use in iTunes and XBMC.
- Option to have mp3 or AAC mirror updated after ripping.
If you have a recent version of VortexBox you can update using the GUI software updater. If you have an older version without the GUI updated use
yum update
from command line.
If you are upgrading from an older version you will need to run
setup-vb-player
from command line to get VortexBox Player working.
Tags: new software, Vortexbox 1.1
12 Jan 10 Vortexbox 1.0 released
21 Dec 09 VortexBox 1.0 released
After several months of hard work we have released VortexBox 1.0. It has many of the features requested by the community including
* FLAC to Apple Lossless (m4a) mirroring through the web GUI
* MusicBrainz and CDDB used for ID3 tags
* Tool tips for each section in the GUI
* Logitech SqueezeCenter 7.4.1 pre installed and configured
* Software upgrade through the web GUI
1.0 also has a lot of bug fixes including better handling of existing cover art. You can update to this version using this from the command line.
yum update
If you have squeezecenter you will need to do this first. http://vortexbox.org/2009/10/squeezebox-server-on-vortexbox/
if you have a version before 0.7 you will need to do this or reload from the ISO.
http://vortexbox.org/2009/06/vortexbox-06-to-07-upgrades/
15 Dec 2009 New Product
Vortexbox Australia is proud to announce a new version of the Vortexbox appliance, the Vortexbox RAID 1. This is identical to the normal Vortexbox except that it has a pair of hard drives configured in RAID 1, (also known as mirrored hard drives) & a different case, (so that we could fit the extra hard drive in).
This technology is commonly used in servers for data redundancy, as if 1 hard drives fails, they can keep on operating as the 2nd hard drive is an exact duplicate of the 1st hard drive. Dimensions of the case are 20 cm X 33.5 cm X 26.9 cm. For further details including pricing, please visit the Buy page or click here.
21 Oct 09 FLAC to CD
Ever wanted to get your FLACs back on a CD to play in your car CD player?
Now you can. The latest update to VortexBox now has a script called flac2cd.sh. From command line cd to the folder with your FLACs. Insert a blank CD and type flac2cd.sh.
The disk will eject in a few minutes and you can play it in your CD player!
24 Sep 09 VortexBox NAS with Twonky Media server
Some VortexBox users have requested easy installation of Twonky Media server. For those of you who don’t know Twonky Media server is a $30 UPnP server. This allows you to stream music and video to any UPnP compliant device. Although VortexBox already has a free UPnP server installed the free server doesn’t work that well with some devices.
So if you want to stream your media to your xbox 360 or other UPnP device this in the add-on for you. To install Twonky Media server type this from command line;
yum clean all
yum update
yum install twonkymedia
One Twonky Media server is installed you will need to buy a $30 license from http://www.twonkymedia.com/ you can enter the license code through the web GUI.
