garym;572243 Wrote: > vortexbox is essentially a liunx operating system (see link) that is > setup for SqueezeboxServer and disc ripping (among other things). One > can also purchase a vortexbox appliance (a small computer already > running Vortexbox). > > Read all about it here: > > http://vortexbox.org/about/ > > This may not be the answer for you. One has really four basic options. > > 1. run mysqueezebox.com (don't need your own computer on, but can't > play your own music either. > 2. Run SqueezeboxServer on your regular home computer (desktop, laptop, > Mac or Windows, etc.). Easy to install SbS and point it to your own > music. Downside is that you either need to leave it on 24/7, set up > Wake on Lan, if your computer has this, or turn it on an off when you > want to use your players. > 3. Have a dedicated music server that is on 24/7. This could be a > windows machine, a Mac, a machine running some flavor of linux > (vortexbox for example is already setup for serving SbS) > 4. connect USB drive to TOUCH and serve your SB players with "tinySbS" > inside the Touch. > > You can also do a combination of 1 and 2. That is, use mysb.com with > your computer off for internet radio, pandora, etc., and use SbS with > computer on, only when you want to listen to your own music.
Thanks garym. I have looked into vortexbox and it looks good. One thing I am unsure about is whether it can also be used to store other media such as photos, videos and be used for backup? I am assumning that you cant use a Windows backup porgram on it? If it cant do back up can it still be used as a general media server rather than just a squeezebox one? -- morthan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ morthan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30644 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
