VortexBox on Fedora 14

[elfrom]

I can confirm CZESLAVUs's experience with the stuttering at the beginning of FLAC's.


I experience squirting noices during WMA Radio playback as well.


As reported earlier i experienced two other problems which i have overcome.


The first conserning no sound from VortexBox Player i believe was fixed by an update package.


The other problem conserning no status for services in the service manager, was probably because i by during advanced setup, which was the only setup method that didn't err, chose danish language. After i changed language to english in the i18n file everything was fine.

[moley6knipe]

Hi - I'm willing to help beta test this. Can I just ask - I assume, because it's based on Fedora 14, that it will align 4k drives properly?




I've just bought a couple of Samsung AFD 2Tb drives which I want to install in my VB as RAID0, so if this beta will allow me to do that then great, I'm in!

[sonorejr]

moley6knipe, two drive in raid 0 is supported and you just select the option from a pop up screen. Not sure about your other question, but it should be ok.




Andrew, the mpd update is working like a champ! Revise the md5sum when you have a chance.




Ron, +1 on the "nice work" to Andrew! I can tell you he has been working really hard on this this release!!




sonorejr


http://www.sonore.us

[avalx]

I succeeded to install as a virtual machine on VirtualBox. Except from autoripping everything seems to work at the moment. I guess autoripping won't work because this is a virtual machine?


The only thing problematic was starting the VortexBox-player. I am not sure as I tried many things but I think it started working after I clicked the submit button on the player page.


Other thing I am still testing to see if everything is OK.


I have only one question regarding partitioning of the disk, I only configured a small 10GB virtual disk and after installation there is only one VG/LV mounted as /. Will the installation procedure on the VB appliace still create a sepparate LV for /storage?


Otherwise I like VBA very much - VERY nice work!

[yeswork]

Hi,




I did a bare metal install using VB 1.5 fc14.iso on my "spare" VB atom based hardware.




Running fine with 13,548 songs. VB player did seem to require a kick start with "submit" to get going (it was not auto started as a service on the first or second boot until "submitted" as hw:0,0)




Andrew, thanks for moving Vortexbox forward.

[CZESLAVUs]

Andrew said:

There was a bug in mpd that was causing vortexbox-player to fail. This is now resolved. Just do an update.





Yes I can confirm now mpd works ok apart from these errors




Nov 15 20:20 : flac: flac crc mismatch
Nov 15 20:20 : flac: flac lost sync




Currently the stuttering is very little and only on the beginning of each FLAC - previously I used vortexbox 1.3 with the atom230 board but the same cheap CMedia USB card and neither stuttering occured nor such errors in var/log/mpd.log

[andrew]

That's a problem. Update again and see if that error goes away.

[elfrom]

Squeaky noises from webradio playback and stuttering flac playback are resolved after installing the two latest updates:

mpd i686 0.16-9.fc14 vortexbox
vortexbox i686 1.6-1.fc14 vortexbox

Thanks for a absolutely fantastic product.

[andrew]

Thanks everybody for all your help testing the product. The community is what makes VortexBox work!

[CZESLAVUs]

I'm glad to confirm what elfrom has written ! Thank you a lot !

elfrom said:Squeaky noises from webradio playback and stuttering flac playback are resolved after installing the two latest updates:

mpd i686 0.16-9.fc14 vortexbox
vortexbox i686 1.6-1.fc14 vortexbox

Thanks for a absolutely fantastic product.