Nonreality;573167 Wrote: > Ok so I'm in the dark on this. Make fun of me if you want but after all > that I'm a bit confused. Is it linux or will it work with a old > computer with windows? also can I make it use dbpoweramp as the > burner? See I'm really confused on how it all works now that I've read > his review. ahha > > Also no matter what, it was a good review on Vortexbox.
Vortexbox is a computer OS. Vortexbox Appliance is a turn key Music Server running the Vortexbox OS. If you take an old PC and install Vortexbox it wipes the old drive including the OS and installs the Linux Fedora based Vortexbox OS. The install creates an auto ripping Music Server. Once Vortexbox is installed, just insert a CD and play it on a Squeezebox five minutes later. No you can't make it use dBpowerAmp because the PC is now using Linux not Windows. Experienced Linux users could install WINE and then run dBpowerAmp but why bother when its easier to use the built in ripper or just use dBpowerAmp on a Windurs PC and move the ripped files across the network onto the Vortexbox. I have had three CDs that dBpowerAmp refuses to rip. My Vortexbox ripped all three of them (but I still rip my CDs on a Windurs PC using dBpowerAmp). While the review is generally factual, the reviewer has no idea what the real or general idea of the Vortexbox Appliance is or the free Vortexbox OS. The reviewer doesn't understand that one doesn't need to know, use, or understand Linux to use Vortexbox. The reviewer actually wrote a follow up where he stated that he is still using the box (computer part) but wiped the Vortexbox OS and put Windows on it. His review also hints that he has no understanding of Digital Audio. He talks about the 'satisfying sound' of the Vortexbox. The Vortexbox has no sound and can't add anything to or take anything from the audio. It is a digital file server. It feeds an exact FLAC digital data file copy of the CD to an external Network Media Player (unless one uses the build-in Vortexbox player). He states that 'tunes emerge flawlessly with no evidence of constriction or audible limitations' when again the Vortexbox is not an audio device or Network Media Player in its main function or the way he used it. He speaks of it as if it is an active audio component in the analog chain when it serves digital files to Network Media Players. Vortexbox could be thought of as all ones CDs placed in a single place in an organized easy to use format IE one big jewel case holding all ones CDs to be feed to a Network Media Player without ever opening another CD Jewel Case once its been auto ripped by the Vortexbox Server. Do tunes 'flawlessly emerge' from CDs, I don't think so as CDs are digital audio media. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Wood Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1, Vandersteen V2W Subwoofer Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Squeezebox BOOM Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81499 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
