14 DAY TRIAL // Listening to the VortexBox, Sonos and SqueezeBox communities' requests, Andrew Gillis proudly announced on February 1st the new VortexBox 1.1 release, which includes a lot of great features. VortexBox will turn your computer into an easy-to-use and out-of-the-box music jukebox and server. With it, you can rip Audio CDs to the FLAC and MP3 formats, add ID3 tags, grab album art and stream music files on your network. And with version 1.1, VortexBox also allows you to play music!
"I'm very excited about this release of VortexBox. We are moving from being just a media server to a music player as well. This version of VortexBox includes VortexBox Player. You can use your internal sound card or external USB DAC to play your music. VortexBox Player supports music recorded at up to 24-bit/192kHz. This is higher than most players support including the Sonos and SqueezeBox line of hardware players." - Andrew Gillis said in the official release announcement.
Highlights of VortexBox 1.1:
· Added VortexBox Player, as the default music player; · Artwork/covers is/are automatically added to MP3 files, for compatibility with XBMC and iTunes clients; · Added an option to update the AAC or MP3 mirrors, after the CD ripping process.
Users of VortexBox 1.0 can easily update to VortexBox 1.1 by using the included graphical software updater. For older versions of VortexBox, users will be able to update using the "yum update" command in a terminal.
VortexBox is a Fedora-based Linux distribution that turns any computer into a music server or jukebox. It automatically rips Audio CDs to MP3 and FLAC files with ID3 tags and cover art, then it streams the music files to a network player such as Logitech Squeezebox, Linn or Sonos, and even to a Windows or Macintosh system. For installation, VortexBox requires an empty hard drive. It doesn't work on a hard disk partition.
Download VortexBox 1.1 right now from Softpedia.