Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-09 Thread garym
agillis;532039 Wrote: So would users still want an option to switch back and use the internal hard drive? Also what should happen if the USB drive is disconnected? It could create a command line script to do this. It's much harder to do in the GUI. Is that good enough? Also is it OK if

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-09 Thread avalerio
JJZolx;532034 Wrote: I think you misunderstand. Nobody is looking for the ability to swap these drives at will. They simply want to store their library on an external drive, so you'd treat it as if it were permanently attached. SbS doesn't care one way or the other. I'm sure many people

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-09 Thread agillis
garym;532187 Wrote: My preference would be to have it work similar to my windows machine setup. That is, I could have music on the internal 2TB drive, a couple of external 2TB USB drives, etc. but on the local harddrive I would simply have short cuts in a music directory pointing at these

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-09 Thread agillis
garym;532187 Wrote: My preference would be to have it work similar to my windows machine setup. That is, I could have music on the internal 2TB drive, a couple of external 2TB USB drives, etc. but on the local harddrive I would simply have short cuts in a music directory pointing at these

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-08 Thread agillis
erland;531205 Wrote: I'd like AAC mirroring, or is that already supported by changing some configuration file for the ALAC mirroring feature ? What is the advantage of AAC over ALAC? ALAC is lossless. If you want lossy compression why not use mp3? -- agillis rip, tag, get cover art… All

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Leigh
agillis;531789 Wrote: What is the advantage of AAC over ALAC? ALAC is lossless. If you want lossy compression why not use mp3? ...If you want lossless, why not use FLAC! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-08 Thread avalerio
I'd love an easy way to setup an external usb drive for holding a music library. -- avalerio avalerio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3858 View this thread:

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-08 Thread erland
agillis;531789 Wrote: What is the advantage of AAC over ALAC? ALAC is lossless. If you want lossy compression why not use mp3? I'm talking about lossy AAC, my iPod Touch tends to work better with AAC than MP3. At least that was the case earlier when I tried to use mp3. I got problem with

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-08 Thread agillis
erland;531902 Wrote: I'm talking about lossy AAC, my iPod Touch tends to work better with AAC than MP3. At least that was the case earlier when I tried to use mp3. I got problem with some mp3 just being silent when played on the iPod Touch while they work perfectly on a PC or Squeezebox.

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-08 Thread agillis
avalerio;531872 Wrote: I'd love an easy way to setup an external usb drive for holding a music library. How would this work with SBS? Would you need to drop and rescan your library each time you connected and disconnected your USB drive? Also keep in mind SBS only supports one music folder so

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-08 Thread JJZolx
agillis;532022 Wrote: How would this work with SBS? Would you need to drop and rescan your library each time you connected and disconnected your USB drive? Also keep in mind SBS only supports one music folder so the USB drive would have to be mounted under the rest of your library. So you

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-08 Thread agillis
JJZolx;532034 Wrote: I think you misunderstand. Nobody is looking for the ability to swap these drives at will. They simply want to store their library on an external drive, so you'd treat it as if it were permanently attached. SbS doesn't care one way or the other. I'm sure many people

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-08 Thread pski
agillis;532039 Wrote: So would users still want an option to switch back and use the internal hard drive? Also what should happen if the USB drive is disconnected? It could create a command line script to do this. It's much harder to do in the GUI. Is that good enough? Also is it OK if

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-08 Thread pski
agillis;532039 Wrote: So would users still want an option to switch back and use the internal hard drive? Also what should happen if the USB drive is disconnected? It could create a command line script to do this. It's much harder to do in the GUI. Is that good enough? Also is it OK if

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-08 Thread agillis
pski;532069 Wrote: It would not be difficult to implement the winders philosophy: scan what you can and then play what you can... P How would we do that without changing SBS? -- agillis rip, tag, get cover art… All you do is insert the CD! http://vortexbox.org agillis Lead Developer

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-07 Thread erland
I'd like AAC mirroring, or is that already supported by changing some configuration file for the ALAC mirroring feature ? -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList,

[slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread agillis
We are coming up on another release of VortexBox. Please post any other features you think we need to make VortexBox the perfect NAS for SquezeBox. -- agillis rip, tag, get cover art… All you do is insert the CD! http://vortexbox.org agillis Lead Developer VortexBox

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread mr-b
AccurateRip. -- mr-b mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76870 ___ discuss

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread OGS
I somehow messed up my Vortexbox installation the other day. Streaming to a SB2 worked, but playback via Vortexbox Player did not. I am familiar with Linux command line after using various distributions for many years, but I am certainly not an expert in any way. I managed to fix the problem,

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread Ron Olsen
mr-b;530762 Wrote: AccurateRip. You really think you can hear an audible difference between a CD ripped using AccurateRip and one ripped using cdparanoia with full error checking? If so, your ears are far more golden than mine... Also, I don't see any Linux version of AccurateRip on their

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread maggior
I don't think it's about having golden ears, but about having confidence that the rip was accurate. I haven't used CD Paranoia, but I have used AccurateRip with both EAC and dbPowerAmp. AccurateRip compares your rip against a database containing information about other people's rips of the same

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread Ron Olsen
maggior;530809 Wrote: I don't think it's about having golden ears, but about having confidence that the rip was accurate. I haven't used CD Paranoia, but I have used AccurateRip with both EAC and dbPowerAmp. AccurateRip compares your rip against a database containing information about

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread JJZolx
maggior;530809 Wrote: I don't think it's about having golden ears, but about having confidence that the rip was accurate. I haven't used CD Paranoia, but I have used AccurateRip with both EAC and dbPowerAmp. AccurateRip compares your rip against a database containing information about

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread iPhone
mr-b;530762 Wrote: AccurateRip. AccurateRip is currently only working with Windows or MAC based ripping programs. Vortexbox is Linux based (thank the stars). Also AccurateRip is not a program or advanced ripping program, it is only a means to compare other rips which could in fact be bad rips.

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread maggior
Ron Olsen;530817 Wrote: It doesn't run on Linux...end of story. AccurateRip isn't an application (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=AccurateRip). From what I can see, there isn't anything that would prevent a Linux application from using AccurateRip. My quick googling didn't show

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread iPhone
maggior;530827 Wrote: AccurateRip isn't an application (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=AccurateRip). From what I can see, there isn't anything that would prevent a Linux application from using AccurateRip. My quick googling didn't show it to be a licensed API or interface.

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread garym
iPhone;530835 Wrote: Yeah but it is owned and licensed/controlled is it not? Somebody has to house, maintain, and pay for the bandwidth. I don't think they are doing it for free. I asked Spoons about this one time and can't find the reply he sent me but he did answer my question. info on

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread maggior
iPhone;530835 Wrote: Yeah but it is owned and licensed/controlled is it not? Somebody has to house, maintain, and pay for the bandwidth. I don't think they are doing it for free. I asked Spoons about this one time and can't find the reply he sent me but he did answer my question. In my

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread maggior
garym;530841 Wrote: info on licensing, etc. http://www.accuraterip.com/ I recall that Spoon has said there will be an accuraterip2 coming out shortly that deals with multiple pressings and a few other things that improve its use. The info at that URL gives you email contacts to request

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread iPhone
maggior;530840 Wrote: In my quick poking around, I didn't find any developer information on AccurateRip. I'm curious about what is involved from a licensing and cost standpoint to integrate AccurateRip into an application. From the website: AccurateRip is implemented and maintained by

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread bobschneider
I'd like some type of Linux front end like KDE. Maybe there's something like that buried in there for us non experts, but I haven't been able to find it. I'm really happy with my VortexBox overall (purchased from the website), but I had it make MP4 copies of all my flacs, and now that I don't

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread bobschneider
I'd like some type of Linux front end like KDE. Maybe there's something like that buried in there for us non experts, but I haven't been able to find it. I'm really happy with my VortexBox overall (purchased from the website), but I had it make MP4 copies of all my flacs, and now that I don't

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread pfink
iPhone;530847 Wrote: From the website: AccurateRip is implemented and maintained by Illustrate If one goes to dBpowerAmp, it is Illustrate. And from that website: illustrate are innovators in the field of audio, over the years Illustrate have been the worlds 1st to: Implement an online

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread garym
iPhone;530847 Wrote: So I don't think just anybody can use it or has access to it. I could be wrong. True, but at that site, it does say these rippers currently can use accuraterip: * dBpoweramp, * Exact Audio Copy * Rip (Apple MAC), * XLD (Apple MAC), * Songbook (Apple MAC) I suspect the

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread andynormancx
iPhone;530819 Wrote: It is also no better or more accurate then any ripper that does multiple passes to make sure of the accuracy of the data that is ripped, it can just be faster if you choose to select that setting. That just isn't true. I've come across several disc that would rip with

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread agillis
bobschneider;530854 Wrote: I'd like some type of Linux front end like KDE. Maybe there's something like that buried in there for us non experts, but I haven't been able to find it. I'm really happy with my VortexBox overall (purchased from the website), but I had it make MP4 copies of all

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread agillis
Wow, this thread has gone over an Accuraterip discussion thread. I think it is possible to use Accuraterip on VortexBox but it would require licensing fees etc. This is probably why it has never been used on Linux software. cdpandora has been used by very successfully by audiophiles world

Re: [slim] What else does VortexBox need?

2010-04-06 Thread bobschneider
agillis;530930 Wrote: You need to click on files - music - mp4 to delete the files. If you can't figure it out post the the VortexBox forum and we can help you. That worked, when I went in on my Mac as an SMB share, and deleted the directory. Thanks! -- bobschneider