Volumio 2 is here. Stable and gorgeous as it should.



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!