Well, first of all you download it. Then it depends on your operating system...
bliss requires the location of your music on your filesystem. bliss will normally auto-populate this to the most common location. Commonly, this is:
| Windows XP | C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\My Music |
| Windows Vista and 7 | C:\Users\[username]\Music |
| Mac OS X | /Users/[username]/Music |
| VortexBox | /storage/music/flac |
On Windows, you can either specify a UNC path (make sure you have the rights to read/write from the path) or 'map' the network storage to a drive. Here's how to map a network drive on Windows XP and here's how to do it on Windows 7.
On Mac, check the /Volumes folder for your network drive.
Finally, on Linux or Mac, you can mount the network storage to a location on your filesystem.
Once the storage is 'mapped' or 'mounted', you should then be able to find it by using the 'Browse' button.
You can't... yet. bliss only supports one location right now.
Read the VortexBox installation instructions. It's command line only right now, sorry.
This is caused by the compression method for the bliss JAR file. bliss uses something called Pack200 to keep the file size as small as possible.
You're probably trying to install using an incompatible version of Java. bliss requires Java version 1.6 or later. The only workaround, currently, is to install Java 1.6 or later.
First, check bliss is actually running. Next, if bliss is running, try http://127.0.0.1:3220 instead.
Windows 7 introduced a change where 'localhost' (which means the computer that you are accessing bliss from) is discovered by asking your network, rather than trusting your local computer. If your network is not correctly configured, it may return the incorrect location. '127.0.0.1' forces your local computer to be used.
Simply download the new version and install it as before. Your existing settings and any fixes you have purchased will be retained.
bliss runs in the background and its user interface is served via a Web interface. This means there is no usual 'x' icon to close the application.
Instead, bliss loads an icon into the (Windows) system tray at the bottom right of the screen or (OS X) the menu bar at the top right. By right clicking on these icons you should see a 'Quit' option. bliss stops when you press this 'Quit' button.
On Linux systems it depends whether you are running a user interface with a system tray concept. If so, the bliss icon should appear here in the same way as above. Otherwise, or alternatively, 'kill' bliss with normal process management commands. A ps -ef | grep bliss should give you the PID.
Any other FAQs I forgot or clarifications required? Post your ideas below!
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