VOLUMIO 3.3 UNIVERSAL IS HERE

What does it mean by ALL music lovers? We thought that the values audiophiles believe in, can be of great enjoyment also to a wider music community.  This is why we are introducing our newest release, Volumio 3.3, as Volumio UNIVERSAL. We added new features that give the ability to use our music player in many new playback devices available in the market, both increasing convenience of Volumio as the central hub for music playback that can be appealing for both audiophiles and for music listeners in general.

So, without further ado, let’s see what Volumio Universal brings:

MANIFEST USER INTERFACE FOR EVERYONE!

The Manifest User, who we introduced in the launch of Volumio 3 only for Premium users, will now be available for ALL, both Free and Premium Users. We believe the Manifest UI is the best in terms of aesthetics and music presentation, so we decided everyone should have it. Old UIs are still available but will be decommissioned (maybe becoming optional plugins) soon.

In addition to have it available for all, we worked on making improvements to be more user-friendly, especially on the mobile version. We also redesigned the main menu and designed a new output menu that gives new and improved functionalities which you will learn more about in the next paragraphs.

NEW OUTPUT MENU

In the manifest UI, there is a new output menu with new and improved functionalities:

• Volume control
• Remote Control: the Remote control option on any Volumio device
• Multiroom Control Management with improvements.

And the newest features of Volumio 3.3. Available for Premium users:

• Play Here Function
• Sonos and Chromecast outputs

PLAY HERE FUNCTION

The Play Here function, allows you to stream the audio from Volumio to your mobile device, your computer and also your smart TV. Pretty much everywhere the UI is displayed. For example, if you open Volumio on your computer browser, you can click on the Play Here button found on the output menu and the sound will come out from your computer.

This means that you can enjoy Volumio as a normal music player app when you work on your PC, or via Bluetooth headphones connected to your mobile phone. Since Volumio is a powerful music aggregator, it’s a convenient way to integrate your music from different sources and leave it playing when cooking, working, gardening or having a party. Where audio quality is not needed, and good background music is preferred.

CASTING TO CHROMECAST AND SONOS

With the Casting option on the output menu, you can cast whatever you are playing in Volumio to any Chromecast and Sonos device. Now Volumio is compatible with different endpoints from the single app. As the title says, output whatever audio you are playing on Volumio to your Chromecast-enabled devices (Google Home, Chromecast-enabled Soundbar, Chromecast Audio, etc.) and SONOS devices.

The stream happens thanks to a low-latency HLS encoding which can be sent to any of the above devices. Please note that synchronization is not possible between Chromecast devices and SONOS devices, but you can play to a Sonos Group to have audio synchronized to that group.

This, in a nutshell, it the latest round of features that you will see in Volumio 3.3. In short, those features will make Volumio YOUR UNIVERSAL MUSIC PLAYER.

How to get Volumio 3.3?

If you are a first time Volumio user, you can download it directly here. If you already have Volumio installed on your device, go to System Updates and click on Check Updates. You are looking for v3.378.

What do you think? Do you like what you see?

Let us know in the comments and enjoy!

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The Music and Artists Credit Discovery feature will allow you to answer all the questions above and more by exploring the behind the scenes of the music you listen on MyVolumio.

You can see on the video above a quick overview of how this new feature works.

The new released is available to all MyVolumio Superstar subscribers. We believe is an important addition for the audiophile, letting you find out detailed information about songs, artists or albums.

You can read the biography of your favorite artists.

From the biography of an artist to the story of the studio where an album was recorded, all this information will be easily accessed on the User Interface. You can access to all this data on the browse menu, or in the playback page.

Want to know who play what? Now you can!

The Music and Artists Credit Discovery feature gives you the opportunity to learn the story of each album, the credits list, or even the instruments that were used to record from all the music on your local files. And not only for your local files, but also for MyVolumio compatible services such as Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, and more.

The feature comes in different languages (French Version)

Adding to all these capabilities, the data can be available in the current language you use on the software, but if that’s not the case, the will appear in English.

You can also enjoy it on the mobile version.

And this is where we say thank you to all the contributors that made this release possible. This new addition to MyVolumio would not have been possible without the help of Jo, his creative mind came up with the idea, worked on the cloud side of it and the design, making this vision a reality.

Another important contribution we must acknowledge is to Agnes & Bence of Ollala Design Studio. For all Volumio users, this great team worked on the usability of the Volumio UI, releasing a refreshed web user interface, with many fixes. The Ollalla Design Studio team explained “In this release we designed and implemented the newest iteration of the music browser. The main goal was to provide a flatter and more content rich music experience for the users while maintaining consistency with the existing UI. This project was definitely a good start to get to know Volumio and the team. Stay tuned for the leap of developments that are coming! Volumio has a bright future and we’ll make sure to polish the UI this pearl.”

A big thanks goes as well to Chris for his great insights, code contributions and suggestions, Gkkpch, Balbuze, Ash, Giacomo, Monica, Stefano, Massimiliano and all Volumio team members which do awesome things for this project.

Last but not least, we have to thank Wikipedia and Music Brainz (to which we are proud to be Supporters) for their amazing collective work over the years. The contribution of those 2 projects to mankind wisdom and access to information is invaluable. Without them, the work we’ve done on this feature would not simply be possible. If you appreciate freedom of information, think about the fact that those 2 projects have huge operational costs to be run, so consider making a donation to keep them making the world a better place ( Wikimedia foundation Donation Link, Metabrainz Foundation Donation Link).

Learn all the credits in the Credit Section

Now that we’ve shown you what the Music and Artists Credit Discovery features does, the facts you can read and learn about your favorite music, and the refreshed Volumio web UI; we want to invite you to see it for yourself and try it out!

The feature is available to MyVolumio Superstar users, just update Volumio to the latest version and enjoy the feature, in the event you still cannot see it, simply refresh your browser page.

This new release brings also many improvements for the free Volumio system (as you know, the financial boost coming out from MyVolumio is reinvested in the whole platform, no just the freemium part). All users are getting a reworked Album and Artist overview pages (with a more informative readout of the item, such as genre and file type), and a whole bunch of minor fixes. Next on our roadmap is to further improve the “customizability” of the browse page to allow you to “PIN” your favorite items for faster access and extra convenience.

Last but not least, we want your feedback! What do you think about this new addition to MyVolumio? Do you find it useful and interesting? Are there other credits information about your music you would like see? Give us your opinion or write down any questions you may have in the comment section!

Enjoy!

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Volumio Team is proud to announce that MyVolumio beta phase is now over, and that starting from today it will be available to everyone!

If you’re late to the party and don’t know what MyVolumio is, here’s a quick recap for you:

MyVolumio is a set of premium features, together with some cloud wizardry that expand Volumio capabilities. Specifically:

• TIDAL and QOBUZ native implementations (so you can enjoy those two Streaming Services in their full Hi-Res glory
• Automatic syncing and backup of Favourites, Playlists and Webradios (and they do get automatically imported on new installs too!)
• Remote Control of your devices from myvolumio.org (so you will be able to control your devices remotely, and without messing with IP addresses or Dynamic DNS stuff…)

And the fun is not over here: thanks to the cloud infrastructure we’ve set up for MyVolumio, we will be able to bring you even more functionalities in the near future (such as CD Playback and Ripping, Remote Streaming of your files, Synced Multiroom Playback, Auto-Updates and so on). If you’re curious to see why we developed MyVolumio you will find a pretty comprehensive explanation in this post and in this forum thread.

I would really like to thank you all beta testers that participated in the MyVolumio Beta testing program: thanks to your help we are now able to deliver this amazing addition for all our beloved users!

So, if you’re eager to get started, here’s how you can do it:

1. Update your Volumio install or download it and flash it (you’re looking for version 2.501 onwards)
2. Create your MyVolumio account. You can do it either from Volumio’s User Interface or from myvolumio.org
3. From your profile page, select  “Upgrade your Plan” and select your favourite flavour of awesomeness: Virtuoso 2,99 euros/month and 28,99 euros/year or Superstar 6,99 euros/month and 66,99 euros/year.
4. From now on you will see TIDAL and QOBUZ settings into My Music section and you will be able to control your device remotely from myvolumio.org (click on the play button next to your device).

By selecting one of our Premium Plans, not only you’ll get the aforementioned features, but you will actively support our project (and fund the development of the next great features we have in mind).

If you want to experience the best Volumio has to offer and support the project SUBSCRIBE NOW TO MYVOLUMIO!

UPDATE

I really wish to say a huge thank you to everyone which joined MyVolumio in the first 3 days of release. We really had an overwhelming response, well beyond our most optimistic expectations (we got hundreds of MyVolumio subscriptions in the first 3 days).

A sincere thank you to whom subscribed, to who will do it and to everyone which participated to development and discussion of MyVolumio!

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The Volumio team is proud to present you MyVolumio.

MyVolumio is the brainchild of a dream we had since few years: emancipate our beloved Volumio Audiophile player from being just accessible on the local network, and make it communicate with the world out there.
To make what, you might be asking.

To extend Volumio capabilities. To make Volumio smarter. To make Volumio better in new ways, and most important: to make ourselves enjoy more our music.

So, let’s go straight to the point: we’ve been working hard for almost 2 years to make something which we think will evolve Volumio by a great shot.

And guess what, we called it MyVolumio because we have plenty of creativity, and we wanted to be truly yours, Volumio user.

WHAT IS MYVOLUMIO

In a nutshell, myVolumio is:

– A premium paid subscription service which extends Volumio’s capabilities
– It’s available in 3 tiers: free, Virtuoso and Superstar
– It’s not mandatory, and never will be, to enjoy Volumio (which will remain free and open source)
– Awesome

You will be able to access MyVolumio directly from Volumio’s Web Interface or by navigating to myvolumio.org

WHY WE MADE MYVOLUMIO

It always felt to us that Volumio needed an evolutionary leap: it’s just great, but it could have been better with a Cloud Service supporting it, allowing it to integrate smoothly with online and cloud music service. Let’s face it: this is where digital music is going.

Music in increasingly dematerializing and it’s getting more and more fragmented into a plethora of online services, and a Music Player which has some ambitions must be capable of fetching every kind of music from every kind of service.

Then, the way we currently use Volumio, via browser from a local network is great. We imagined that it could have been even better, for example by allowing control of it even without being connected to your home network, or from anywhere you are.

Last, the single most requested features were streaming services support like QOBUZ and Tidal, and we simply could not have been able to deliver them without a wider approach which involved some additions to Volumio as we know it.

HOW DOES MYVOLUMIO WORK

Basically, you will be able to crete an account on MyVolumio (like you do with every other service in the world) which will allow you to experience some pretty good stuff nicely integrated in your Volumio player.

After you created your account, MyVolumio can be accessed in 2 ways: directly from the Volumio UI or via myvolumio.org . You will retain the same functionalities in both modes, and when you’re not connected to your network you can access MyVolumio (and your associated devices) from Myvolumio.org.

That’s it.

You’ll notice a profile tab on the usual settings menu, and by going to your profile you can choose which device to connect, edit your profile settings or upgrade your subscription in any moment.

From there, you will be able to subscribe on our 3 subscription tiers, which offer different levels of features:

FREE
That’s your entry point here, feel free to look around and experiment. By signing in for the free account you will be part of the family, and we’re working hard to bring some cool feature for the free tier as soon as possible (suggestions are very welcome).

VIRTUOSO
That’s where it gets interesting: you get the full MyVolumio experience for one device. We expect this to be the ideal choice for all of you which have only one Volumio player, but want more from it.

SUPERSTAR
It can’t get any better. You get the full MyVolumio experience (same features as the Virtuoso plan) but for up to 6 devices together, which you can use at the same time. So if you’re like me and you’ve basically a Volumio player in every corner of the house, you will be able to control them all from one convenient place.

As you will read later, we are releasing MyVolumio initially as an Open Beta, to gather your feedback and to make it ready for prime time.

This gives also us a chance to show you what we have in mind and what can be achieved with it. Let’s view what MyVolumio introduces:

STREAMING SERVICES SUPPORT

The single most asked question has been: when do we get other streaming services support (namely TIDAL and QOBUZ). Well, we’ve worked really hard since day 1 of Volumio2 development to bring such functionalities.
It turned out to be an extremely complex task, due to legal requirements and technical challenge. So the only way we could make it happen has been creating a cloud service to support them. This is in fact, how we started working on what has later become MyVolumio. So yes, we’ve laid the groundwork for every major streaming service support. And the good news is that we have a great one from day 1.

QOBUZ VOLUMIO INTEGRATION IS AVAILABLE WITH MYVOLUMIO

We’ve worked closely with QOBUZ to make it happen, and we finally made it. I must admit it has not been easy in the beginning, but in the process I really saw the tremendous improvement this Music Service has done over the last year and I am pretty sure it will become the first choice of many.

What I really love about QOBUZ is their editorial selection (which is beautifully presented in MyVolumio). It’s definitely a great way to discover music, for all tastes. Well done on that.

Last but not least, directly from MyVolumio you can receive a 30 days free trial from QOBUZ, so you don’t have more excuses for not trying it.

REMOTE VOLUMIO CONTROL

And when I say remote, I mean it. With MyVolumio you can add as much as 6 Volumio players into a single account, and control them directly even if you’re not connected to your home network. Even if you’re not in the same city.
Even from a different continent (yeah, that’s not quite useful I know).

But this is a great advantage if you want to have all your playback endpoints available in a single glance without messing with IP address or network issues.
Not to mention that we use an end-to-end encrypted connection, so you get a pretty big bonus in security.

MYVOLUMIO ROLLOUT MASTERPLAN

As I already anticipated, we are relesing MyVolumio as an Open Beta, until we hammer it to perfection. This is our plan:

Phase 1: Open Beta

Even if we worked on MyVolumio for more than 18 months as of now, we need to make sure everything runs as good as our community deserves. This means addressing every possible residual misbehavior MyVolumio has.
So, we decided to relase MyVolumio initially as an Open Beta to validate our Cloud infrastructure, to see how well it performs under reasonable loads and to make it as stable as possible.

As some of you know, Volumio counts about 150k users: and serving such a potentially wide crowd is something to be taken seriously. Phasing out the load our infrastructure is the soundest choice to get us prepared for the big show.

This is why we deiced to release MyVolumio in this Open Beta stage. What it means is:
– We will provide a limited amount of Voucher codes for people to try it for free. We will offer about 50 voucher codes every week to gradually increase the load on the system. This does not mean that this beta is closed:  everyone can subscribe to MyVolumio service, but we want to offer the possibility to enjoy it for free to our community members, while they are willing to give us a hand by reporting suggestions, feedbacks and bug reports. Voucher codes have a limited duration of 2 months.

– We are starting with a limited set of functionalities, in order to perfect them and focus on having few but robust additional features. Namely:

– Secure Remote connection from anywhere to your Volumio player.
– Full QOBUZ support

We will be adding in this phase also:
– Automatic syncing and backup of Favourites, My Webradios, WebRadio Favourites and Playlists
– Another very famous Hi-Res Streaming service (it ends with L) integration

Last but not least, we want to listen to what our beloved community has to say about this work we’ve been doing behind the curtains for so long. Our vision is to create a set of cloud-based additional features that improve the listening experience with Volumio, and we’re eager to know if we actually made something relevant for you guys.

Before focusing on moving forward with more functions, we want to know if this is a good direction or if there is something we should reconsider, and how.
The single most important feature that MyVolumio is asked to serve is to improve the experience of people like us, who just love to listen and discover exciting music. We’ve done our part, now it’s your time to say what you think about it.

You can leave your feedbacks in the MyVolumio Feedback thread

This initial Phase will last for likely a couple of months, and we will then progress to official release, expansion and community driven development. More info on the MyVolumio 101 thread.

Last, but not least we want to make it very clear that Volumio is and will remain always free and Open Source.

MyVolumio is a set of additional premium capabilities which are not mandatory at all to enjoy Volumio.
We will retain all current features as Free and Open, and we will also add new one in this scheme. In parallel, we will be adding new and new features to MyVolumio.

It’s very important to note that if you love the Volumio project, MyVolumio is the perfect way to sustain it financially, and get a pretty good features bonus in return.

If you’re still here after this huge post, then it means you really want to try MyVolumio! During the Beta Stage we will offer special MyVolumio images for download, which are separate from Volumio standard release cycle. You can find all the informations on the following link:

MYvolumio.org – This is where you login on MyVolumio

MYVOLUMIO 101 FORUM THREAD – Refer to this thread to stay up to date with everything regarding MyVolumio and to download the current release

MYVOLUMIO BETA VOUCHER CODES – Check this periodically for 2 months of free MyVolumio Service

MYVOLUMIO FAQs – Everything you want to know about MyVolumio

MYVOLUMIO TECHNICAL OVERVIEW – For the Geek in you, see how we developed MyVolumio

We really hope you will enjoy MyVolumio as much as we enjoyed developing it.

A new era for Volumio has just started…

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And if we talk about mere specifications, it can’t get any better:
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• CPU: Rockchip RK3288 – Quad core 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A17 (32-bit)
• RAM: 2GB dual channel LPDDR3
• Storage: removable MicroSD slot ( supporting SD 3.0 )
• Display Output: full size HDMI 1.4
• Audio port: 3.5 mm audio jack ( supporting line out and microphone in )
• Audio Playback: 192k/24bit sample rate
• GPIO: 40-pin header with 28 GPIO pins
• Ethernet: Gigabit LAN ( not shared with USB bus )
• Wireless: Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, with IPEX antenna header
• USB: four USB 2.0 ports
• Integrated SPDIF Out (requires soldering 2 pins)
• I2S Output

More informations at Tinkerboard product page

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From what you can see, there are many reasons to believe that the Tinkerboard is just a perfect fit for Volumio, and the most serious candidate to become the platform of election to build an audiophile music player. Some of the advantages we think are just great are:

• Its blazing fast: really, it is. I would also say faster than low-tier X86 machines
• It features an external Wi-fi antenna connector, super useful to extend its wireless capabilities without the need of external dongles
• The integrated Analog Jack is very competent and sounds good enough for casual music listening, and it’s capable of 24\192 playback
• Integrated SPDIF output, although you need to solder 2 pins
• Gigabit LAN onboard, without all the known problems of PI with USB BUS

However, to make a Single Board successful and worth, there are many pieces that should come together. As Volumio Team, we were indeed excited by the ASUS Tinkerboard, however, I2S DACs are still not supported as of now: Tinkerboard supports I2S output, however for some reasons the I2S output is handled (at driver level) via USB. We’re still not sure how I2S connection is handled at Hardware level, and whether the board is Pin compatible with Raspberry PI in regard to I2S. We’re working closely with ASUS to clear everything related to I2S and try to extend its compatibility with Volumio’s supported I2S DACs.

We can conclude by saying that the Volumio on the ASUS Tinkerboard is among the best (together with X86) you can get: browsing is super smooth, Network is fast and the sound quality via USB is as good as it can be (especially when paired with  iFi’s  iPurifier2). To become the real Raspberry PI killer (we do find that the price difference is more than acceptable for what you get more) it remains to be seen how I2S support will evolve, but rest assured we’re working with ASUS to make it happen.

As always, you can get Volumio for ASUS Tinkerboard on our download page

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Yes, finally DSD Direct is available on Volumio, your favourite audiophile music Player. The formats supported in the new Direct DSD mode are:

• DSD64 (Single-rate DSD)
• DSD128 (Double-rate DSD)
• DSD256 (Quad-rate DSD)
• DSD512 (Octuple-rate DSD)

Previously, DSD Playback in Volumio was only possible via DoP (DSD over PCM) mode, which was encapsulating DSD Audio into PCM samples. You can see DoP as a “compatibility mode” for non direct DSD capable DACs: files would still play, but losing the supposed advantages of DSD. Instead, direct DSD mode allows DSD Playback the way its meant to be played, on compatible DACs.

DSD What?

As you may know, DSD is considered the new de-facto standard for Hi-Resolution music playback, although its improvements over Hi-Resolution PCM audio are highly debated. We will cover the technical aspects of DSD Audio and its differences between PCM in a future article, but those articles represent a great introduction to the matter:

• What is DSD, from Wikipedia
• A very comprehensive explanation on DSD, from Native DSD
• How DSD is handled on MPD

Test DSD Files

And as always, what really matters in the end is how Music sounds. So your best bet to understand how DSD Audio fits into your listening sessions is to try for yourself.
And the best way to start is to get some free DSD audio samples:

• Get the same tracks encoded in different formats (both hi res PCM and DSD) here
• Same as above, but native DSD encodings here
• Free samples from Blue Coast Music Group

What’s needed to enter the DSD Direct Club

As previously mentioned, DSD Direct requires a DSD Capable DAC. As of now unfortunately no I2S DAC has this capability (mainly due to a combination of hardware and driver’s idiosyncrasies). Therefore the only way to go DSD Direct is to use a USB DAC. Specifically, USB DACs equipped with XMOS receivers are your best bet (also the Amanero Combo384 USB receiver).

If you don’t have a direct DSD capable DAC, and you’re thinking on getting one, the iFi iMicro DSD BL  and IFI Nano iDSD LE are just a very convenient way to get an outstanding quality DSD direct DAC. If instead you already have a direct DSD capable DAC a truly suggested accessory is the The iFi – iPurifier2 USB Reclocker
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How direct DSD and DoP work in Volumio

This great addition comes thanks to the awesome work that Max Kellerman has done with MPD 0.26, and this is basically what you need to know:

• Direct DSD playback is available from version 2.163
• If you have a direct DSD DAC, just select DoP off and Volumio will play your DSD files natively up to the resolution supported by your DAC
• If your DAC does not support Direct DSD (or the resolution at which you’re playing them) it will automatically convert DSD to PCM
• This conversion is done with a multi-threaded Ultra Hi quality resampler: SOXR . On slower devices (like PI 1 and 2) this might result in stuttering. Try then to enable Resampling and choose a lower quality algorythm or a lower target samplerate or bithdepth
• Alternatively, if your DAC does not support Direct DSD but supports DoP (DSD over PCM), turn DoP on.
• Since no I2S DAC is capable of playing direct DSD, DSD files will be sampled up to the max I2S DAC resolution supported (usually 24\192), in this mode DoP should be set to off

That’s all folks! Enjoy your DSD Music with Volumio!

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As some of you may know, I have a very special relationship with UDOO, since I’ve been part of UDOO Team since its early days. And this great board is not only one of the most awesome SBC out there, but its made by a very skilled, passionate and inspiring team.

So, I am extremely proud to announce that Volumio is now available both for UDOO Quad and UDOO NEO. And the good news is that we’re capable to use most of their advanced functionalities with this Volumio release. First of which is their integrated wireless connectiviy. We’ve also prepared the groundings for I2S support, which will be fully available in future releases.

Let’s look at some of their specs:

UDOO QUAD\DUAL

• NXP® i.MX6Quad, 2\4 x ARM® Cortex-A9 core @ 1GHz with ARMv7A instruction set
• GPU Vivante GC 2000 for 3D + Vivante GC 355 for 2D (vector graphics) + Vivante GC 320 for 2D
• Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 CPU (same as Arduino Due)
• RAM DDR3 1GB
• 76 fully available GPIO with Arduino compatible R3 1.0 pinout
• HDMI and LVDS + Touch
• 2 Micro USB (1 OTG)
• 2 USB 2.0 type A and 1 USB 2.0 internal pin header (requires adapter cable)
• Analog Audio and Mic jacks
• CSI Camera Connection
• on board Micro SD card reader (boot device)
• Power Supply (6-15V) and External Battery connector
• Ethernet RJ45 (10/100/1000 MBit)
• WiFi Module
• SATA connector with power header

UDOO NEO

• NXP® i.MX 6SoloX applications processor with an embedded ARM Cortex-A9 core and a Cortex-M4 Core
• 512MB (Basic) or 1GB (only Extended and Full)
• Integrated 2d/3d graphics controller
• Micro HDMI interface
• LVDS interface + touch (I2C signals)
• Analog camera connection supporting NTSC and PAL
• 8-bit parallel camera interface*
• HDMI audio transmitter
• S/PIDF & I2S*
• 1x USB 2.0 Type A ports
• 1x USB OTG (micro-AB connector)
• Fast ethernet RJ45 – 10/100Mbps (only Basic and Full)
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n,Direct Mode SmartConfig and Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (only Extended and Full)
• 3x UART ports*
• 2x CAN Bus interfaces*
• 8x PWM signals*
• 3x I2C interface*
• 1x SPI interface*
• 6x multiplexable signals*
• 5 V DC Micro USB
• 6-15 V DC Power Jack
• RTC Battery Connector
• Arduino-Compatible through the standard Arduino Pins layout and compatible with Arduino shields.
• 32 extended GPIOs (A9 dedicated)
• 22 Arduino GPIOs (M4 dedicated)

And, if you’re wondering if the awesome UDOO X86 is going to be supported, well it is on Volumio x86 version.

As always, you can find the UDOO images in the DOWNLOAD SECTION

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The Pine64, after its jawdropping Kickstarter Campaign is now on the hands of many of its early supporters. And we’ve received many many requests to make Volumio available for it. Let’s briefly see the interesting specifications of this SBC:

• 1.2 Ghz Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit Processor. Executes both 64 and 32 Bit for scalable high performance
• Dual I/O expansion slots
•  Dual Core Mali 400 MP2 Graphics card
• Up to 2GB DDR3 Memory
• Integrated Display engine with HDMI 1.4a
• 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Port
• Optional Wi-fi\BT combo module
• i2s Output (to be enabled still)
• More info @ pine64.org

So, on paper this translates to a great price\value combination. An ideal candidate to build an Audiophile Music Player or server with Volumio!

And, here it is. You can download Volumio for Pine64 from our download page

Looking for some accessories for your Pine64 powered music player? Give a look at these cool items in our shop, not only they are great value for money, but getting them will help funding Volumio project!

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This is for you, for all our community members that patiently tested, suggested and made Volumio what it is. It’s for Volumio Team, who made a fantastic job using all their expertise and passion. It’s for all our OEM Partners which fostered the development and helped us financially. It’s for the Music: she deserves a player like Volumio.

Here’s what you’ll get

FIXES

• Fix swap creation on Raspberry PI 1
• Fix playlist creation\deletion
• Fixed player name in Airplay
• Fix Airplay playback with async DACs
• Fixed search when Volumio is offline
• Fix .cue files playback
• Fixed hardware mixer dropdown when no mixer is available
• Fixed alarm being activated each hour
• Fixed removal of backgrounds
• Fixed background color selection resulting in unusable UI
• Fixed scanning of network drives on wireless
• Fixed clear and play
• Fixed error with installing big plugins
• Fixed my webradios playback
• Fixed webradios playback
• Fixed albumart with strange characters retrieval
• Improved syncing changes to disk
• Fixed adding shares with spaces
• Fixed startup volume control
• Leveraging browser cache for albumarts
• Fixed playback for entire genre
• Fixed static IP

NEW FEATURES

• Software mixer if no hard mixer is available
• Ability to protect or disable hotspot
• Library view
• Grid View with Albumarts
• Last 100 songs played in Playback menu
• Added gapless playback as default
• Added update db button
• MPODMPDROID albumart server
• Ability to control volume from mpd clients
• Improved volume control on mobile devices
• MPD 19.9 version
• Unique SSH keys at first boot
• Ability to force network scan on hotspot (compatible wi-fi dongles)
• New languages (portuguese,suomi, hungarian, chinese, japanese, spanish)
• Ability to update plugins when new versions are released
• I2S DAC Autodetection via EEPROM
• Current track vertical alignment on queue
• Manual network connection

Volumio version 2 is available now in the download page or via the OTA Updater. We’ll first release Raspberry PI and X86 versions, in the following days we’ll also update all other platforms.

In case you’re a bit lost, take a look at the brand new user manual, and feel free to improve it by issuing us a PR!

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Sure enough, one that got quite lot of attention is the Odroid C1, thanks to its Raspberry-like 35$ price tag, and  more than compelling hardware specs . Let’s have a closer look at it:

If we should make a comparison based on mere specs, here’s what makes the Odroid C1 interesting:

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