jtf;511297 Wrote:
Old thread - but Ralphy or someone else - can you tell me more about
this?
We now use VortexBox Player on VortexBox not squeezeslave. But it does
support viewing with track is playing on a usb attached lcd screen. It
will also show you how much of the track is left and a few
ralphy;497605 Wrote:
I don't know about displaying ripping info but squeezeslave supports USB
LCD displays on linux, so you can use it to display the current track.
Old thread - but Ralphy or someone else - can you tell me more about
this?
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jtf;496241 Wrote:
How hard would it be to support a character LCD? I have a USB Matrix
Orbital VFD and another (unknown) USB VFD that I'd like to try. It would
be cool to have it display current track info and ripping info.
I don't know about displaying ripping info but squeezeslave supports
agillis;496811 Wrote:
We now have FLAC mirror instead of rip to mp3. It speeds up the ripping
process only having to rip to FALC. When your done you run FLAC mirror
and it will make mp3s out of any FLACs you don't have mp3s of. It will
also update any tags you have changed!! You never need
pippin;497151 Wrote:
I would want a way to select that from within SBS (Controller,
iPeng,...) but that gets you into plugin development.
The ideal case would be: Enter a CD-Open CD Player-select play or rip
option
I don't know anything about plug-in development but I could give you a
jonstahl;497207 Wrote:
MusicIP support baked in would be the deal-maker for me. Impossible to
imagine my Squeezebox without it!
I have been trying to find an easy way to get MusicIP working but it
seems very complx to set up under Linux. There is no way to create a
simple setup script.
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agillis;497426 Wrote:
I don't know anything about plug-in development
The problem is: me neither
but I could give you a simple script to do this. If you added the GUI
part into iPeng.
Hm. You mean I could use the Execute Script plugin to do this from
within SC/iPeng and thus would just
agillis;496976 Wrote:
The CD Player plug-in should work fine with VortexBox.
Didn't YOU tell me that would not work because the CD automatically
gets ripped as soon as it's inserted?
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pippin;497005 Wrote:
Didn't YOU tell me that would not work because the CD automatically gets
ripped as soon as it's inserted?
Good point. I could make a way to shut off the auto ripper.
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agillis
rip, tag, get cover artÂ… All you do is insert the CD!
http://vortexbox.org
agillis
Lead
I would want a way to select that from within SBS (Controller,
iPeng,...) but that gets you into plugin development.
The ideal case would be: Enter a CD-Open CD Player-select play or rip
option
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MusicIP support baked in would be the deal-maker for me. Impossible to
imagine my Squeezebox without it!
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I've been using the VortexBox for the past week and have ripped about
300 CDs. Here are my suggestions for improvements:
* Option to preview and edit filenames and tags before rips start.
* Option to rip only certain tracks from the CD.
* Option to interrupt a hung rip and
a) skip the track, or
Maybe you can make it suitable for the Sheevaplug. Or start selling a
vortexbox appliance based on the Sheevaplug.
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raven22
Setup: 1 SB3, 3 Booms.
Server: SheevaPlug running Debian 6.0 Squeeze on SD-card with
SqueezeBoxServer 7.4.2
raven22;496733 Wrote:
Maybe you can make it suitable for the Sheevaplug. Or start selling a
vortexbox appliance based on the Sheevaplug.
The problem with Sheevaplug is no internal hard drive. You can use USB
but the performance is very poor. We have a small, low power (6watts),
no fan.
bernt;496698 Wrote:
A few suggestions.
Option to preview and edit the tags before the rips start.
Option to preview the cover art and download cover art only to the
current rip.
To make things more iPod friendly embedd the cover art on rips and flac
mirror.
Add the itunescompalition
Ron Olsen;496731 Wrote:
* Option to preview and edit filenames and tags before rips start.
* Option to rip only certain tracks from the CD.
* Option to interrupt a hung rip and
a) skip the track, or
b) retry the rip with different options (i.e. less paranoia
checking)
1. Option to
agillis;496747 Wrote:
The problem with Sheevaplug is no internal hard drive. You can use USB
but the performance is very poor. We have a small, low power (6watts),
no fan. appliance already.
http://vortexbox.org/buy/vortexbox-micro-appliance-datasheet/
That is a nice one as well, but it
agillis;496749 Wrote:
1. Option to preview and edit the tags before the rips start.- This
would be quite a bit of work and would slow down ripping. it's easy to
go back and edit the tags latter.
2. Option to preview the cover art and download cover art only to the
current rip. - This
agillis;496749 Wrote:
1. Option to preview and edit the tags before the rips start.- This
would be quite a bit of work and would slow down ripping. it's easy to
go back and edit the tags latter.
Hi Agillis -
I'm glad to see that you are continuing to improve VortexBox. It's
nice to
maggior;496765 Wrote:
Hi Agillis -
I'm glad to see that you are continuing to improve VortexBox. It's
nice to have a simple solution to suggest to new users in the forum.
Something like VortexBox has been needed for some time.
I'd like to comment on the suggestion about allowing the
1). Option to disable services not required
christian
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I would only want ONE additional functionality: I want to be able to
play a CD right in place, like with the CD Player plugin.
Please :)
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agillis;496750 Wrote:
3. Option to interrupt a hung rip. You can restart the ripper from the
GUI. It should already auto-retry without paronoia but it tries really
hard with paronoia first. We are always trying to get a bit perfect rip
so I don't think allowing users to disable paranoia is
pippin;496901 Wrote:
I would only want ONE additional functionality: I want to be able to
play a CD right in place, like with the CD Player plugin.
Please :)
The CD Player plug-in should work fine with VortexBox.
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agillis
rip, tag, get cover artÂ… All you do is insert the CD!
induna;496386 Wrote:
I think I understand what happened in my case. I had use Album Art
Downloader to get cover art. It creates a file called Folder.jpg. The
Vortexbox album art downloader didn't recognize that file name as cover
art and downloaded new files called folder.jpg and cover.jpg
Hi!
I'm currently trying out Vortexbox and I'm planning to replace my
Ubuntu server with it.
A few suggestions.
Option to preview and edit the tags before the rips start.
Option to preview the cover art and download cover art only to the
current rip.
To make things more iPod friendly embedd
I am working on VortexBox 1.0. I have added a lot of features requested
by this community. VortexBox already has auto ripping to FLAC and
converting to mp3 and SqueezeBox Server pre-installed.
What other features do we need to make VortexBox the perfect media
server for SqueezeBox or any other
How hard would it be to support a character LCD? I have a USB Matrix
Orbital VFD and another (unknown) USB VFD that I'd like to try. It would
be cool to have it display current track info and ripping info.
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jtf
jtf's
agillis;496233 Wrote:
I am working on VortexBox 1.0. I have added a lot of features requested
by this community. VortexBox already has auto ripping to FLAC and
converting to mp3 and SqueezeBox Server pre-installed.
What other features do we need to make VortexBox the perfect media
server
I've just installed Vortexbox because I NEED IT.
The HDA is ginormous. How do I copy (move) all the music there? (as a
tree is OTay.)
P
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induna;496337 Wrote:
How about the ability to install supported/included packages from the
web interface? I see a lot of posts on your forum about Twonky, mplayer,
etc. installs. It might be nice for the less technically adept to be
able launch the install process from the web interface.
agillis;496372 Wrote:
This will not overwrite existing cover art. It will only add art to
albums that don't have it already.
I think I understand what happened in my case. I had use Album Art
Downloader to get cover art. It creates a file called Folder.jpg. The
Vortexbox album art
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