04 Sep 09 VortexBox 0.9 released

We have added a lot of great features to this release. These include

• FLAC to mp3 mirroring through the web GUI.
• Backup to USB drive through the web GUI
• Built in Simplify Media server with web GUI configuration
• Better auto cover art. Using both Amazon and Google images

We have also added a few other small enhancements like the ability to restart SC through the web GUI. The ripping process is now a little different. CDs are only auto ripped to FLAC files. This speeds up the ripping process to 4-6 minutes for an average CD even on a slow machine. Then you can use the FLAC mirroring to generate mp3 files. You can start this process and it will run until all your FLAC files are converted even in you close your browser window. The mirroring process will also mirror cover art and any .txt files you have with your FLAC files.

The USB backup system works by formatting your drive to NTFS (you have to start the format process) Because VortexBox formats the drive we don’t have to worry about and strange format issues and because the backup process uses NTFS you can mount your backup drive on a windows machine if you want.
As always you can install a new system using the ISO or type

yum update

to update an existing system.