On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:52:10AM +0100, Peter Alcibiades wrote: [snip tale of woe about vortexbox]
Its not nice to be overly critical about something which enthusiasts are doing and releasing out of the goodness of their hearts, but all I can say is, this is not really working for me. Time to look for something else!
I've found somewhat the same, simple, straightforward solutions for playing music are thin on the ground.
I have a Squeezebox Radio which is a very neat and effective internet radio but the (now becoming unsupported) software is a bit wierd and there's all sorts of external servers it can use which seem to offer little more useful function.
For music I'm using mpd to play the music and various clients to drive mpd but it still feels rather a sledgehammer to crack a nut.