It started with one music player

Michelangelo Guarise wanted a small, inexpensive computer to play music as well as hi‑fi should. He wrote the software himself and gave it away. In 2020 that project became a company. Today Volumio runs on more than 800,000 active devices, and the team builds its own hi‑fi in Florence.

Florence seen from across the Arno, with the Duomo and Giotto's bell tower above the rooftops.
  • 2020the year Volumio was founded
  • 800,000+active devices worldwide
  • 30+hardware brands build on Volumio
  • 32,000+community members

Great sound, for everyone

Volumio exists for a simple conviction: music deserves to be heard at its best, by everyone. Not only by people who can find their way through components, cables and settings, or afford a rack of hi-fi.

That is why the first Volumio was open source, and why it ran on small, inexpensive computers like the Raspberry Pi. People all over the world adopted it, improved it and built their own players around it. A hobby became a community, and the community made Volumio what it is.

From a hobby to a hi-fi maker

The open-source project that started it all, then Volumio the company, from 2020 to the latest award.

Before the company

A free, open-source music player, built by Michelangelo Guarise and its community.

  1. 2013

    1. November

      Volumio is released

      Free and open source, it grows out of RaspyFi, a project started about a year earlier, and turns a small computer into an audiophile music player.

  2. 2014

    1. January

      The first Volumio-powered product

      Audiophonics announces a player built on Volumio: the first of the hardware brands that build on it.

  3. 2015

    1. June

      Volumio 2 is announced

      The player is rewritten from scratch.

  4. 2016

    1. July

      The team goes full-time

      The Volumio Shop opens, and the team commits to Volumio full-time.

    2. October

      Volumio 2 is released

  5. 2018

    1. October

      MyVolumio opens to everyone

      A set of premium features that expand Volumio.

    2. November

      Primo, the first Volumio device

      The first batch of 20 sells out in less than 20 hours.

      Primo today

  6. 2019

    1. May

      First time at High End Munich

      Volumio joins the Munich hi-fi show as an exhibitor.

Volumio, the company

Founded in 2020.

  1. 2020

    1. Volumio becomes a company

      The open-source project becomes Volumio, the company that makes it today.

    2. July

      The code goes into the Arctic vault

      Volumio's open-source code is stored in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault.

    3. August

      The first EISA Award

      Primo wins Best Digital Source 2020–2021.

  2. 2021

    1. Late 2021

      Volumio 3

      A new version of the player, with the Manifest interface.

  3. 2022

    1. May

      Rivo, Integro and Primo V2

      Three devices in one aluminum cabinet designed by Design Narratives, shown at High End Munich.

      Rivo

  4. 2023

    1. July

      Supersearch

      AI search that understands requests like "a playlist for a party".

    2. August

      A second EISA Award

      Rivo wins Best Digital Player 2023–2024.

  5. 2024

    1. iF Design Award

      For the Volumio product range, designed with Design Narratives.

    2. April

      Motivo

      A streamer, transport and headphone amplifier, shaped by feedback from more than 600 people in the community.

      Motivo
    3. November

      Rivo Plus

      Rivo, upgraded with the features the community asked for.

      Rivo Plus

  6. 2025

    1. January

      CORRD

      A Volumio spin-off for music discovery, first as a beta for the community.

    2. May

      Preciso

      A dual mono DAC: Volumio's first device that isn't a streamer.

      Preciso
    3. November

      Volumio 4 and the new app

      The new Volumio OS for Raspberry Pi and PC, with the new Volumio app.

      Get started
    4. November

      Primo Plus

      A dual mono streaming DAC, made by hand in Florence.

      Primo Plus

  7. 2026

    1. July

      Primo V3

      The third generation of the first Volumio device.

      Primo
    2. August

      A third EISA Award

      Primo Plus wins Best Streamer 2026–2027.

Made by hand, in Florence

Volumio is in Florence, a city with a long tradition of craftsmanship. The devices are designed there and assembled by hand in Volumio's own lab, by the team that also writes their software.

Every unit is checked before it leaves the lab. It is an Italian way of working: technology built with craft, and the conviction that engineering and beauty belong together.

At a workbench in Florence, a person in a white T-shirt holds a dark circuit board above rows of more boards.
Three Rivo units stacked, with light blue fronts and orange buttons. The top one is open and shows its main board.

The people behind Volumio

Engineers, music lovers and audiophiles, led by the founder, Michelangelo Guarise.

  • Michelangelo GuariseFounder & CEO
  • Joel ReboulVP of Partnerships
  • Nicola SignoriSales Manager
  • Simone BianchiVP Product & Growth
  • Tom DolfiProduct Manager
  • Alia ElsaadyMarketing Manager
  • Leo ReboulPartnership Marketing
  • Katia FanelloGraphic Designer
  • Gianluca AltomaniBack-End Developer
  • Luigi BarbatoBack-End Developer
  • Andrea ValenzanoFlutter Developer
  • Leonardo RignaneseUI/UX Designer & Front-End Developer
  • Dario MurgiaLead Hardware Engineer
  • Pierluigi ColangeliHardware Engineer
  • Francesco MusiCFO
  • Marta ToniFinance Assistant
  • Bruno BottariBuyer
  • Daniele TurillazziProcurement Specialist
  • Stefania LanfrancoHR Lead
  • Francesca TrapaniSenior HR Consultant
  • Jago MartiniQA Lead
  • Marco MelziadeCustomer Support

Built with a community, and with partners

32,000+ community members

The community writes the plugins, answers questions on the forum and helps shape the devices: more than 600 people helped design Motivo, and Rivo Plus took in their requests.

Join the community

30+ hardware brands

Audio brands build Volumio into their own streamers, amplifiers and speakers.

Partner with us

Among them: Bryston, Pro-Ject, MBL, miniDSP, Musical Fidelity, LSA, Quad, Kii Audio, Emotiva, Orchard Audio, Bladelius, SMSL, DEQX, Margules, Copra, Channel Island Audio.