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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Volumio X86 has however a great addition over its ARM counterparts: kiosk mode (thanks Gé!!). Basically, you will see Volumio’s UI in all its splendor on your monitor, if you have a laptop, or on an external display if you attach it via HDMI for example. And the result is just brilliant.

Speaking of Audio quality, we applied the same optimizations that you learned to love on Raspberry Pi. And such solution might be of interest especially for those with async USB DACs, which are still marginally affected by PI’s USB bus packets dropouts (the glitches you hear with hi-res files). I won’t enter into too much audio quality speculations, since I don’t have any data or measurements to prove or dismiss any difference. Sure, the most notably difference is the speed and reactiveness of the system.

I’m successfully using Volumio X86 on a very basic NUC5i3RYK (mind that you must add RAM and Hard Drive) with more than satisfactory results.

I also triend on my main machine, a Dell XPS 15 which looks like a slight overkill.

However, from now on, Volumio x86 will be available as an official supported platform, and will be on direct development by the team, together with Raspberry PI and Odroid. As usual, you can download it in the download section.

Also, for those wanting to get a valid x86 system, the good news is that we’re working on a big surprise that will head to our Shop in the beginning of september .

Let us know what you think!

… fun fact behind the curtains

Without being announced, Volumio x86 totalled in the first 3 days of the new website uptime, a grand total of 68k downloads. We then realized what a mess we did and decided to push hard to release asap…

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