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Volumio is now a company, Volumio SRL, which still retains the original principles of the project, and trying to continuously improve project’s quality, impact and outreach.

Our guidelines are:

Keep the project as open as possible. We strongly believe that Free and Open Source Software is beneficial not only for ethical and philosophical reasons, but also will make our project better in the medium and long term. Volumio has originated, during those years, lots of forks which in turn generated competition, resulting in the end to increase our efforts to push our standards to higher levels.

Three main product features: sound quality, ease of use, ability to play any kind of music source. Volumio is often referred as a “no-frills” Audiophile Music Player, and this is one of the most appreciated aspects of it. As in many other engineering and social fields of applications, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication and we’re committed to keep it that way (even if we focused a lot on aesthetics, since it’s an important part of the usability experience).

Develop a sustainable monetization and growth plan. Volumio as a company helped various OEMs engineer and developed tailored music solutions. This not only helped the project financially, allowing us to work on it on a full-time basis, but lots of the improvements and modifications were incorporated in the software stack you can download for free. In parallel, the shop and premium subscriptions will help the project with a stable revenue income, granting the assurance our customers, partners and users to have an ethically proven and financially solid company to rely on.

Foster critical thinking and user education on audio matters. There’s no other field in technology that relies on myths and weak informations as the audio industry. Our goal is to promote a scientific, where possible, approach to digital audio.