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!