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Now that sounds interesting.....will investigate

Hi Bruce

Streaming is an option however always the issue with connectivity, so for example what to do when in poorer reception areas, how do you find this?

A lot of the time for music on the go...

Hi All

Been a vortexbox user for a number of years, used to post more regularly before having a young family, vortexbox is key to that now given the time it saves me!

However just wanted to get...

ignore this - its now solved, as soon as I posted I had an inspiration that I had edited ripit config and so I backed up the previous version and its back working again!

Hi All

Wondered whether anyone could help me. My vortexbox has been running fine for quite a while, however I bought a CD last week (I normally buy 4-5 a month but had a few weeks without getting...

Hi Ron & All,

I recently upgraded from 1.10 to 2.0 via the fast upgrade which worked fine for me, I did this mainly to get access to Plex and updated version of Bliss etc.

However post upgade I...

Hi Andrew & Ron

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What are the reasons that a fresh install is required when VB moves to a newer version of fedora? The problem I have, and its probably the same for other users, is the time...

andyd37 said:


Hi Ian,

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Like the case - do you recall the make/model?

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Hi All

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I've recently changed servers so am selling my old server which has served me very well over the last 2 years - Atom motherboard, 1TB HDD, 1GB RAM and stylish/small/quiet unit, full...

Hi Andrew

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They were both existing files and ones created from the ripping process.

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The code sounds interesting, by stopping the creation does it mean that not all tracks would be...

Reformatting the external HDD didn't solve the problem, I then tried and failed to get rsync to work with the iconv setting. I was just going round in circles trying to find a script to remove...

Hi All

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Can anyone help with a problem I have re: special characters, I've just moved to a new server and transferred music from my usb backup from old server to /storage/music on new server....

Hi All

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I ripped my collection on quite an early version of vortexbox, I think the ripping quality has improved since then - however on my rips there was a lot of manual work required to...

I think the handling of 'Unknown Artists' is quite frustrating for a lot of people but the Vortexbox is restricted by online music databases.




A long time back though I did recommend a...

Ron Olsen said:

Just want to thank everyone for the kind words and let you know that I'm OK -- just taking a break from VortexBox support for the summer. As Andrew can attest, it's a LOT of work....

The good news is that I have spotted Ron posting on the Squeezebox forum in the last few days, he seemed to have a long break from June to July so could well have been on holiday.




Andrew -...

Dennis A said:
socistep said:

Hi All




I've noticed recently that Ron Olsen, Halfbit, JimG etc. haven't contributed to vortexbox a lot recently – Andrew – have you had any...

Hi All




I've noticed recently that Ron Olsen, Halfbit, JimG etc. haven't contributed to vortexbox a lot recently - Andrew - have you had any contact with them ?

wasn't vortexbox player 0.9-6 pulled after the announcement as it wasn't fully tested and didn't work ?

Andrew said:Ok maybe you can help write one??


Hi Andrew




I don't really think its my place to write this, you lead the project so setting the scene/expectations should come from you....

Hi Andrew




Your last post is exactly what I was talking about with a mission statement, it sets the scene on what Vortexbox is, a community led open source project, this detail added to the...

Andrew said:What's difficult to use about the wiki? tikiwiki is the most common wiki software and has the most features. Please tell me how to fix it so you will start using it. Getting the community...

Hi Jim




I can understand the frustration here, the user experience post sales has been raised in previous threads, the main concerns being

Couple of points from my perspective




Brennan - This probably appeals to those people who have a HiFi system and have spotted the ad in papers/magazines, probably not that technology minded...

3. The naming convention on VortexBox is fixed unless you want to do some "Hacking"




In response to this, this is a common request from users who want to change the way vortexbox stores the...