VTB Appliance Arrives Tomorrow:

Posted by: Russ on 22 December 2013

and I am eager to get started--and on the right track.  I purchased the 4 TB version and for the time being, will back up to a laptop.  Question is, I have a couple of hundred CD s ripped to Flac files.  Should I just move them over to the VTB or is there an advantage to re-ripping them to the new unit?  Thanks.

 

Russ

Posted on: 22 December 2013 by Pev

Hi Russ

 

just move 'em over - FLAC is FLAC and once they're ripped they are ripped!

 

Pev

Posted on: 22 December 2013 by Tog

Assuming you are talking about the estimable Vortexbox - welcome to the fold - as Pev says just copy your flac across.

 

Tog

Posted on: 22 December 2013 by Russ

Thanks, Pev and Tog.  I have also seen advice elsewhere that ripping via dbpoweramp (as I am now to the laptop from which I will be moving the ripped files) sometimes results in superior metadata.

 

Best regards,

 

Russ

Posted on: 22 December 2013 by Tog

XLD works fine - if you get really stuck Music Brainz program Picard works well to sort out tagging.

 

Tog

Posted on: 24 December 2013 by Russ
I think i have a handle on this, but I habe seen some references that SEEM to be sayimg you can use the VTB itself as a source for internet radio.  Could this be correct?  Surely I have that wrong.

Russ
Posted on: 24 December 2013 by garyi

You can also install bliss on bortex box, which is a good ol' tagger there.

Posted on: 24 December 2013 by The Meerkat

Russ...Did it arrive, and are you pleased with it?

Posted on: 24 December 2013 by Russ
Meerkat:

Hasn't arrived yet.  Held up in Illinois by weather and rescheduled for today.  Now rescheduled for 12/28.

Best regards,

Russ
Posted on: 02 January 2014 by Russ

As an update, the VTB 4 TB got caught up in the problems UPS had with regard to high volume and bad weather.  I have now had it about a week and have had a chance to play with it.  Mohit had said he preferred to build a VTB from scratch and I can definitely see how having some of the software you can plug into a PC built for that purpose might increase the flexibility.  However, as the pathetic non-technical dork that I am, I preferred the turnkey solution  So far--so good.  With the help of some folks on the VTB Help Forum, I have it up and running and accessible to what passes for my home "network".  I have ripped a few albums, but since most of my library is classical in nature, I have been moving files over that I had previously ripped using DBPOWERAMP.  The only problems I am having so far relate, as you may imagine, to multiple-CD files, but I have been given a solution for that and will try it later--checking a box somewhere I have not yet.

 

The other interesting aspect of the box, about which I did not know, lies in its internet radio capabilities.  I currently have access to this via the SU, of course, and through my second system in the living room--a nice little Marantz MCR-603.  But I need a source of internet radio to plug into my third, "whole house" system--without running hundreds of feet of wire through the attic.  So I am hopeful that I can figure out how to play the stuff from the VTB into the line-in that is the only way to get input into the whole house amplifier.  That will come later.

 

Hope all have had a happy start to 2014.

 

Russ