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Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:13 am

You can also back up Vortexbox by using the using the 'backup' button on the GUI. Just type in 'vortexbox' in your browser and you should locate your vortexbox on yer home network. Scroll down the icons to the back up feature and click on it. Plug in your ext HD via the USB and and then click backup. The beauty of doing it this way is that it'll only back up what you haven't already backed up on your VB HD. Incremental is the word I think. It'll also delete any crud you've deleted too on yer VB HD so it maintains a mirror on the USB ext HD of what you've got on yer VB HD.

S'quite handy.

I luv this way of playing music. Its sooooooo convenient. JTS is getting a SB radio for her Birfdee.

DTB

Mike H · Post by **Mike H** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:25 am

The Stratmangler wrote:
andrew Ivimey wrote:Aha, first it helps having the vortexbox actually switched on and second it is http//:juke - it works - simple as that.

Thanks for your reply Chris!
Mmmmmm (rubs chin)

lol ..

Lee S · Post by **Lee S** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:17 pm

Dave the bass wrote:JTS is getting a SB radio for her Birfdee.

I have one of them.... They're really nice... Great in the kitchen.

Cressy Snr · Post by **Cressy Snr** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:33 pm

andrew Ivimey wrote:I never thought I would enjoy flipping through a rack of CDs but they are more tangible than a computer screen or an SB Touch. LPs are of course the perfect medium in everyway. I have found that it is so very easy to 'forget' just what music I have on my SB Touch vortexbox and find again and again I just go back to my many favourites. LPs and CDs I believe I play(ed) a more diverse range of music.

There is to much what purpots to be music in the world - don't we just revel in it!!!

I used to be continuously playing the same old stuff. That was before I had the benefit of the Mac Mini running iTunes as the library.
Below is a shot taken from the screen of our 32" telly of iTunes' album view.
it enables you to do a virtual flick through of your collection.

You can do it by Artist, Genre or Composer (very handy for classical albums). iTunes logs how many times you play a track so you can also search by number of times played,
in ascending or descending order. If you for example decide to look for albums you haven't played in a while, it is simple to set up a search to find them.
Or you can just browse away to your heart's content.
The iPad remote app allows all these views too.
OK... you can't hold the files in your hand, but it is easy to make the experience more enjoyable than merely scrolling down a huge virtual print list.
One can easily lose the will to live that way.

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:33 pm

Lee S wrote:
I have one of them.... They're really nice... Great in the kitchen.

You've got a JTS too?! Agreed they're great in the kitchen. You can tell by the size of my tum tum....

DTB

Cressy Snr · Post by **Cressy Snr** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:58 pm

Big telly, Mac Mini, iTunes library (other computers/music managers are available) and a pair of big Mets

Paradise baby

Paul Barker · Post by **Paul Barker** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:36 pm

Julie The Sax?

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:40 pm

Paul Barker wrote:Julie The Sax?

Close!

Julie the Stitch. She's a keen Textile Artist studying for her Degree in her spare time.

This is her most 'famous' piece of work.

DTB

Ali Tait · Post by **Ali Tait** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 8:10 pm

SteveTheShadow wrote:
andrew Ivimey wrote:I never thought I would enjoy flipping through a rack of CDs but they are more tangible than a computer screen or an SB Touch. LPs are of course the perfect medium in everyway. I have found that it is so very easy to 'forget' just what music I have on my SB Touch vortexbox and find again and again I just go back to my many favourites. LPs and CDs I believe I play(ed) a more diverse range of music.

There is to much what purpots to be music in the world - don't we just revel in it!!!
I used to be continuously playing the same old stuff. That was before I had the benefit of the Mac Mini running iTunes as the library.
Below is a shot taken from the screen of our 32" telly of iTunes' album view.
it enables you to do a virtual flick through of your collection.

You can do it by Artist, Genre or Composer (very handy for classical albums). iTunes logs how many times you play a track so you can also search by number of times played,
in ascending or descending order. If you for example decide to look for albums you haven't played in a while, it is simple to set up a search to find them.
Or you can just browse away to your heart's content.
The iPad remote app allows all these views too.
OK... you can't hold the files in your hand, but it is easy to make the experience more enjoyable than merely scrolling down a huge virtual print list.
One can easily lose the will to live that way.

Looks a lot like JRiver wot I use on the TFS, that does the same thing, I like it too. I can set various playlists too, such as one for all the hi res I have stored.

Cressy Snr · Post by **Cressy Snr** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 10:21 pm

Aye
Computer audio is improving rapidly, no doubt at all.

Ali Tait · Post by **Ali Tait** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:19 am

Yes indeed, when you see how far it's come in the last few years, it bodes well for the future.

Ali Tait · Post by **Ali Tait** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:20 am

Yes indeed, when you see how far it's come in the last few years, it bodes well for the future.

Paul Barker · Post by **Paul Barker** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:10 am

Yes but the technology is still imperfect as proved by your double post.

Ali Tait · Post by **Ali Tait** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 2:13 pm

That's Android for you!

audio-talk

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