What is VortexBox?
VortexBox is an open source, Fedora-based Linux distribution that is designed to turn an old computer into an audio jukebox for playback of your personal digital music collection. It boots directly into a simple graphical user interface that allows you to easily manage your music library, create playlists, and control playback over your home audio system.
Some key features of VortexBox include:
- Music player daemon (MPD) for indexing songs and managing playback
- Logitech Media Server support for streaming music to Squeezebox devices
- Built-in support for popular audio formats like MP3, FLAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, etc.
- Web-based user interface accessible from any device on your home network
- Automatic retrieval of album art, song metadata from online databases
- Transcoding support to convert audio files into desired formats
- Downloadable plugins and skins to customize your setup
In summary, VortexBox aims to make it easy for anyone to set up a centralized, home audio server for enjoying a personal digital music collection from any room in your house with a very simple setup process and intuitive web-based interface to manage your library.
Subsonic, LibreELEC, Daphile, Ampache, AudioStreamer, Logitech Media Server, OpenELEC, GeeXboX, Jinzora Media Server, Sockso, netjukebox, Ampache Doped are some alternatives to VortexBox.