Good but frustrating.
The Volumio app is basically okay. With it I can stream music from my NAS to multiple RaspyPi based network streamers. However it’s functionality and user interface leave a lot to be desired compared to slicker apps such as that from Audirvana (for example). It desperately needs an A-Z quick find ‘jump’ index system as currently have to tediously scroll through your entire artist list to search from A-Z. Annoyingly when moving from a specific artist listed under (for example F) instead of finding myself back in the alphabetical list of all artists under F it jumps back to ‘A’ necessitating more scrolling to get back to where you were in the first place. Secondly an auto update on start up for newly added music should be added (asap please)! Thirdly if left playing but not interacted with the app seems to forget that it’s playing and I have to re search for the player to wake it up again. On the plus side the BBC radio links, and Tidal integration is much appreciated. It’s rock steady streaming files and is easy to configure. It has a lot going for it but I’d rather see these basic issues addressed before any more AI functionality is added.
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App Has Improved Hugely in 2024
And it now does mostly what you’d expect. Very fast connection to your Volumio instances on start (before, it often could not even find my Volumio instances.) A huge improvement and I now find myself actually using the app more than the Web interface for the first, it’s so good. Congrats to the developer, as this was formerly a major shortfall in the platform.
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Now Can’t find devices, was ok
This latest release is worse than previous versions, not finding devices, however the device works ok with a direct browser window so it’s an app issue
Buggy
Very unacceptably and unprofessionally buggy on IOS. Should not be offered before bugs and crashes are fixed.
Improved
Improved. I still prefer it over Moode.
I want to upgrade to Premium…
But I’m not giving this little company y credit card.
PAYPAL DOESN’T WORK!
Fix that and I’ll pay you the annual fee!
PAYPAL DOESN’T WORK!
Fix that and I’ll pay you the annual fee!
Needs work
Could be a great app if they sorted a few issues, e.g.
White screen of death
Bloated list of radio stations: most are garbage or dead, it’s way too tedious to search by genre or country
UI is buggy and confusing
Still useful but could be much better.
White screen of death
Bloated list of radio stations: most are garbage or dead, it’s way too tedious to search by genre or country
UI is buggy and confusing
Still useful but could be much better.
Mostly works
I love this app for streaming lossless subscription service. I have only used related features, I don’t have a large collection of music on hard drives, so do not have any experience with that.
It does freeze and is sometimes really slow, but the features are great and - i often share a stream to multiple pi- sourced stereos around my house for background music, which is a great feature. It sometimes needs a reboot to get the pi’s to share, so I’m hoping there are improvements in the pipeline.
I also assume that all my problems with the system are on the pi side, not iOS. All in all, this system is worth the hassles, and hopefully it’ll continue to improve.
It does freeze and is sometimes really slow, but the features are great and - i often share a stream to multiple pi- sourced stereos around my house for background music, which is a great feature. It sometimes needs a reboot to get the pi’s to share, so I’m hoping there are improvements in the pipeline.
I also assume that all my problems with the system are on the pi side, not iOS. All in all, this system is worth the hassles, and hopefully it’ll continue to improve.
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Not easy
This is always disconnecting from wifi, but once it works it is great, don’t recommend
Love the app, wish it would not go into white screen
The app is great and well designed.
The only issue is that every time I open it it jumps from the last state to a white screen with a spinning wheel and sits like that for a few seconds. It’s probably doing device discovery every time. It would be nice if the discovery was not triggered every time and was optional (conditional if nothing found or manual).
Thanks for Volumio! It’s come a long way since I tried it a few years ago! :)
The only issue is that every time I open it it jumps from the last state to a white screen with a spinning wheel and sits like that for a few seconds. It’s probably doing device discovery every time. It would be nice if the discovery was not triggered every time and was optional (conditional if nothing found or manual).
Thanks for Volumio! It’s come a long way since I tried it a few years ago! :)
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