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submitted 1 month ago by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I'm running a <cough, cough> years old instance of Volumio 2 on a Raspberry Pi 3

The security of this is terrible, but it sits in my bedroom with a local USB drive full of music and works absolutely fine with a Nanosound DAC audio preamp hat / board which makes it sound lovely... which I don't want to change (it handles a remote control with power on / off)

When Volumio 3 came along, I wasn't impressed, didn't see the software improving much... it was starting to be more of a pull towards their subscriptions

So, I've left it alone and feel like it might be worth a revisit.

So, how's Volumio 4? Or... should I consider another FOSS product ( has to work with the same hardware).

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[-] drrodneymckay_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I don't remember why but years ago I opted for Moode over Volumino. Just upgraded from a pi2 running Moode 8 to a pi3 on Moode 10. At some point they upgraded to a 64bit base os forcing my hardware update.

Local library from a Nas, Streaming sources , mpd controls , connects with many platforms, started using it with Home Assistant music server last summer running my outdoor speakers.

[-] Wfh@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I just need an AirPlay Audio server so I can stream music from my phone to my stereo. Volumio fits the bill but is probably overkill. I'm open to any suggestions for an up to date FOSS alternative.

[-] cirdanlunae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Do yourself a favor and check out Lyrion. Use piCorePlayer to install Lyrion (the server) and Squeezelite (the player).

FOSS, actively maintained, and a much better experience IMO. Tried it back when I was an active Volumio user back in 2020, fell in love instantly, and have never looked back

[-] chris@lemmy.grey.fail 1 points 1 month ago

I'm very interested as well. It's been almost a decade since I ran Volumio. 👴

[-] parse_error@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I've been using Volumio 3 for a while to drive my office setup. I run it on Pi 3, USB to my DAC and play my FLAC over an SMB share. I mostly control it through the web interface or the Android app. I also use it as a Spotify destination.

It's met my needs well, but I'm not doing much complicated with it. Just play and album or playlist from my library.

I never used Volumio 2 so I can't comment about how it compares. I am interested to try Volumio 4 and hear what other people think.

[-] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 0 points 1 month ago

i looked at volumino, lyrion and some others. didn't feel like i was really digging further into open source

i have a similar setup cobbled together with navidrome, mopidy (with subidy, MPD and other extensions) and snapcast running right along side it, allowing me to play two audio streams at once. (one is audio, other is announcement pipeline)

mopidy has a decent amount of dev action. navidrome even more so.

snapcast can sling anything across the network.

tied into home assistant for control and automations

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