Re: [slim] Home Server - Dilemma - Any recommendations?

2009-02-27 Thread agillis
It looks like VortexBox will do everything that AVA Media does. VortexBox rips CDs to FLAC and MP3 automatically and downloads the cover art. VortexBox is free instead of the £39 that AVA Media costs. And you don't have to spend $100 on Windows Home Server. You can also use VortexBox as a generic

Re: [slim] Home Server - Dilemma - Any recommendations?

2009-02-27 Thread socistep
mr_alan;401321 Wrote: > I think GRIP can do things automatically on insert - and then eject when > finished. If not, then abcde (*a* *b*etter *c*omman*d* line *e*ncoder - > geddit?) for command line only servers. However, I find that I often > have to change what comes up automatically from CDDB.

Re: [slim] Home Server - Dilemma - Any recommendations?

2009-02-27 Thread mr_alan
I think GRIP can do things automatically on insert - and then eject when finished. If not, then abcde (*a* *b*etter *c*omman*d* line *e*ncoder - geddit?) for command line only servers. However, I find that I often have to change what comes up automatically from CDDB. This is especially true for Cl

Re: [slim] Home Server - Dilemma - Any recommendations?

2009-02-27 Thread socistep
GlenL;401236 Wrote: > You might want to take a look at Vortexbox http://vortexbox.org/about/ > > I believe the author is a member of this site (which is always a good > thing) :-) Yeah, I had a look at Vortexbox previously, it looks good however I guess this means that the box would exclusively

Re: [slim] Home Server - Dilemma - Any recommendations?

2009-02-27 Thread GlenL
You might want to take a look at Vortexbox http://vortexbox.org/about/ I believe the author is a member of this site (which is always a good thing) :-) -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?us

[slim] Home Server - Dilemma - Any recommendations?

2009-02-27 Thread socistep
Hi All, Made a decision to purchase a barebones tranquilPC mainly to act as a server for streaming music, file sharing etc., was going to add 1Tb HDD/RAM and run Linux on this... http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/T7-330_Barebones.html I preferred this over a NAS and although would be he