Network Media Player With Storage

Your entire music collection, available anywhere in your home! VortexBox is designed to store your entire CD and Media collection in one easy to access location. With an integrated CD ripping engine and a huge amount of storage, the VortexBox is a single device connected to your home network, allowing blissful music management. It really couldn't be any easier - simply insert an audio CD into the DVD/CD burn drive. The CD is converted within a few minutes, added to the media library, shared on your network. You can then access your music from your Logitech SqueezeBox , iTunes, Windows Media Player, or other Media Player. VortexBox is easy to configure: just plug it into your home router and browse to the easy to use interface through your favorite web browser. Available in 500 GB or 1 TB (1000 GB) capacities, VortexBox distributes your entire collection throughout your home and has plenty of room to grow. Watch anything, anywhere at home. VortexBox doesn't only stream music. Add movies, TV Shows, and other content to its storage to stream to any part of your house. Works with Logitech Squeezebox, Sonos, XBMC or ReQuest server. VortexBox includes Slimserver for media serving to any network connected audio device.

Color: Black Brand: VortexBox Model: vb-1000b Dimensions: 2.50" h x 12.00" w x 10.50" l, 8.00 pounds Hard Disk: 1000GB 1TB of Storage with Gigabit Ethernet for fast data transfer Compatible with nearly all digial audio players. (Squeezebox, iTunes, Sonos, WMP, XBMC, etc) Automatic CD ripper (MP3 and FLAC) Works with Logitech SqueezeBox automatically Low power, draws only 25W. Small size 12 x 2.5 x 10.5 inches (WxHxD)

Most helpful customer reviews 36 of 36 people found the following review helpful. The very best! A real problem solver at a great price. By David deForrest I bought this gadget after a considerable amount of frustration with a Netgear ReadyNAs I had expected to use as a server for my Logitech Squeezebox Duet. The ReadyNAS supposedly performs this function but with a large collection of files it is simply too slow to keep up with indexing and searching etc. Plus ripping my 2,000+ CDs was a real chore. I read about this product and jumped on it. Well, within a week of getting my Vortexbox appliance, all my CDs are in my mini storage, my Levinson 31.5 transport sold on eBay, and my entire CD collection is now available to me throughout my home without the slightest issues, disappointments or problems. I initially corresponded with the manufacturer a few times with questions about configuring this device to suit my particular needs I got immediate, understanding an useful help. I cannot speak more highly of the builder. In fact, I sent a modest voluntary donation to them as I felt the help I got was above-and-beyond. Since I became familiar with this gadget, I have had zero issues, it has been up and running for over sixty days without a reboot, issue, glitch etc. You just pop a CD in the slot and it will rip it to flac and/or any almost any other format you care to have. Useful tip: if you are ripping a large collection disable the creation of MP3 copies (the system rips to both flac and mp3 by default). This will speed up the tedious job of ripping enormously and you can go back later on and create MP3 versions of any or all of your stuff as a background task when you're done transcribing your collection. Info on how this is done is on the manufacturer's simple but very useful web site. Anyway, this is a great product from nice people and if anything happened to it I'd buy another in a flash. 19 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Great value for money NAS By K. Bowker I found out about this great device through the Logitech Squeezebox forums. After getting my iPhone to control my Squeezebox using the iPeng application I was looking for a better solution to store my digital media library and I found out about the Vortexbox operating system, which is basically a custom modified version of a Linux distribution. If my memory serves me correctly I initially thought Vortexbox was based on Debian but the website documentation now says it is based on Fedora. Originally I was going to build my own network area storage (NAS) device using an old PC but I soon realized I was better off buying the Vortexbox Appliance. My old PC was too loud for my living room. I didn't want to hear PC cooling fans running all the time when I'm listening to music. Plus my old PC had issues as a Windows box so I wasn't sure if I could trust it to be reliable enough as the problems may have been related to hardware components going bad on the motherboard. The Vortexbox appliance is quiet and powerful and inexpensive. It is really tiny and easily fits on my bookshelf and the full-size CD tray is nice. There are just two lights on the front and they are unobtrusive. Did I mention this device is quiet? Even when the hard drives are spinning and the orange light is flickering on the front I can barely hear a thing. And its very low power consumption, only 25W. I leave mine turned on all the time and it never gets hot. I plugged it directly into my wireless router using an Ethernet cable and turned it on and my Windows Vista machine recognized it immediately in My Network Places. I am operating the device headless (without a monitor or keyboard or mouse attached) so I access the files directly via Windows Explorer on my other computer. If I want to custom configure the Vortexbox Appliance I can teleport in and access a command line prompt using a free telnet/ssh client called PuTTY. The version I have has an older release of Vortexbox on it so I will