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.
