IMO Vortexbox ripping isn't of much value. You can continue to rip your CDs on your desktop PC, then transfer the finished, tagged files to the server. Whatever ripping software you choose (which on Windows should be either EAC or dbpoweramp) will automate the downloading of metadata, allowing easy tagging of the tracks. You'll then probably want to use a good tagging program such as Mp3tag to clean up or add additional tags, as you find necessary. I would never trust a completely automated ripping process, as it's bound to pull down typos and incorrect or inconsistent data from whatever database it uses.
Sounds like your key decision will be which software environment you can deal with and how much work you're willing to put into learning something that may be new. If the answer to the latter is "very little" then there really aren't many choices. I would say it would have to either be a system with LMS already on it, such as the Vortexbox, or a system running (or capable of running) Windows, with which you're already familiar and where the installation of LMS is very easy. Another possibility might be a Mac Mini, which (I believe) can be run headless, where LMS is easily installed, and which probably wouldn't require much of a learning curve. Small, quiet, very good looking, powerful, but pricey. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100416 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
