Comments on: A pleasant surprise: VortexBox http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/a-pleasant-surprise-vortexbox/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andrew http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/a-pleasant-surprise-vortexbox/#comment-45275 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:58:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/a-pleasant-surprise-vortexbox/#comment-45275 There is actually quite a bit to VortexBox. It rips to FLAC but it can also mirror your collection to mp3 or ALAC. VortexBox also has a host of built in features including backup to USB attached storage. But it’s real claim to fame is it’s ability to stream music to any media player.

Not only does it have SMB and NFS sharing it also has DLNA, and DAAP (iTunes) protocol. VortexBox also runs SqueezeBox server for compatibility with Logitexh SqueezeBox players and it has a built in player that can be controlled by an iPod.

Not to bad for a free Linux distro.

]]> By: Links 19/4/2010: Synaptics Gesture Suite on Linux | Techrights http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/a-pleasant-surprise-vortexbox/#comment-42829 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:23:22 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/a-pleasant-surprise-vortexbox/#comment-42829 [...] A pleasant surprise: VortexBox As a test for my new torrent slave, I downloaded an ISO of VortexBox, which is something I hadn’t ever heard of, probably because I don’t travel in Fedora circles very much. I had no rationale for grabbing that torrent; it just happened to be at the top of the stack at linuxtracker.org. [...]

]]> By: Adrian http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/a-pleasant-surprise-vortexbox/#comment-42806 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:12:13 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/a-pleasant-surprise-vortexbox/#comment-42806 I can’t see how it could be heavyweight. It’s nothing but a sambaserver with some scripts running automaticly when media is inserted.

Or am I wrong here?

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