Services and connections

Works with Volumio

Your streaming services, your apps and your own music, played bit-perfect. Every Volumio device has it all built in.

What works

What it plays, and what it plays to

All of it is built into every Volumio device. On a Raspberry Pi or a PC, Volumio OS is free, and the items with a dot come with Volumio Premium.

With Volumio Premium on your own hardware. Built into Volumio devices.

Streaming services

TIDAL (with Volumio Premium on your own hardware)
In Volumio, and TIDAL Connect from the TIDAL app
Qobuz (with Volumio Premium on your own hardware)
In Volumio, and Qobuz Connect from the Qobuz app
Spotify
Spotify Connect, from the Spotify app
Highresaudio (with Volumio Premium on your own hardware)
In Volumio
More services
YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Bandcamp and Pandora, with plugins

Radio and podcasts

Web radio
Radio directories, built in
Radio Paradise
With a plugin, in FLAC too
Podcasts
With a plugin
FM and DAB+
With a USB tuner (RTL-SDR) and a plugin

Your own music

Files
FLAC, ALAC, AAC, Vorbis, MP3, DSD and more
USB drives
Plug in a USB stick or a hard drive
Network drives
CIFS (SMB) and NFS, found automatically
Media servers
UPnP servers, and Jellyfin, Plex or Subsonic servers such as Navidrome, with plugins
CDs (with Volumio Premium on your own hardware)
Play and rip them with a USB CD drive
Inputs (with Volumio Premium on your own hardware)
The digital and analog inputs of players that have them

From your phone or computer

AirPlay
From any app on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Bluetooth (with Volumio Premium on your own hardware)
From any phone, tablet or computer
UPnP and DLNA
A renderer with OpenHome, for UPnP control apps

Other systems

Roon
Roon Ready on Volumio devices. On your own hardware, the Roon Bridge plugin
Lyrion
Squeezelite and Lyrion Music Server, with plugins
Home Assistant
Its Volumio integration, or MQTT with a plugin
Last.fm
Scrobbling, with a plugin

Plays to

DACs
Any USB 2.0 DAC, and Raspberry Pi DAC boards natively
DSD
Direct DSD on DACs that take it, or DSD over PCM (DoP)
Multiroom (with Volumio Premium on your own hardware)
Up to 6 Volumio players, in perfect sync
Chromecast (with Volumio Premium on your own hardware)
Speakers and TVs with Chromecast
Sonos (with Volumio Premium on your own hardware)
Sonos speakers
Your browser (with Volumio Premium on your own hardware)
Play here: listen on the computer or phone you control it from

Not on the list? Most other apps play over AirPlay from an iPhone, iPad or Mac, or over Bluetooth from any phone.

From volumio.com/get-started, the Help Center, Volumio's spec sheet and the Volumio 4 plugins, October 2026.

Plug and play

All of it, built in

Volumio devices play all of this out of the box, with the Premium features built in and no subscription. Designed and assembled in Florence.

Building your own? Volumio OS is free for Raspberry Pi and PC.

FAQ

Questions and answers

Does Volumio work with Apple Music?

Yes, over AirPlay. Play from the Music app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac and choose your Volumio player as the speaker.

Does Volumio work with Deezer or Amazon Music?

Yes, from their apps: over AirPlay from an iPhone, iPad or Mac, or over Bluetooth from any phone. Bluetooth is built into Volumio devices, and comes with Volumio Premium on your own hardware.

Is Volumio Roon Ready?

Volumio devices are Roon Ready. On a Raspberry Pi or a PC, the free Roon Bridge plugin lets Roon play to Volumio.

Can Volumio play to Sonos or Chromecast speakers?

Yes. Volumio sends your music to Sonos speakers and to speakers and TVs with Chromecast, and plays in sync on up to 6 Volumio players. It's built into Volumio devices, and comes with Volumio Premium on your own hardware.

What needs Volumio Premium?

Only on a Raspberry Pi or a PC: TIDAL, Qobuz and Highresaudio, CDs, Bluetooth, inputs, multiroom, Chromecast, Sonos and Play here. Volumio devices have all of it built in, with no subscription. More about Volumio Premium.

What are plugins?

Free add-ons made by the Volumio community: more services, radios, screens and remotes. Install them from Volumio's settings.