Love the sound quality of the Volumio Primo, beats out my Sony Bluray and Denon embedded DACs by far, which was the point. Have a NAS full of FLAC and some MP3.
Being being used to MusicBee, Volumio flexibility is nonexistent. This isn’t a problem normally as I can use Musicbee to organise the NAS.
Similar to the OP I like albums, but my family prefers playlists.
I find it remarkable that playlists cannot be imported / converted to Volumio Primo. I can’t even find a format to follow to manually convert.
How come Volumio ignores playlists created elsewhere (and yes I know about the Win*nix path challenges, that’s not rocket science)?
Are there any workarounds that don’t involve SSH and hacking?
Hello, I am using the primo with buchardt a5oo active speakers and the buchardt hub. I acivated the roon bridge, but my roon core, a intel nuc, only recognizes the primo as a airplay-shairport sync device. It works well- but instead of airplay I would rather like to stream with RAAT at higher sampling rates. How can I solve this problem. Thanks for your help. Kind regards
I’v had my Primo for a while now. Excellent product!
I have not been able to get it to display to an LG TV running WebOS (vers. 05.00.15) through HDMI. Tried all kinds of different combinations of HDMI ports, on-off settings on the Primo etc. No signal makes it to the TV.
Any ideas / suggestions?
Thank you!
Here’s a recent log file in case it helps: http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/wuZ6nJ0.html
You don’t need to install the plugin. On primo hdmi is enabled by default.
Can you please connect to another display to see if that works?
We will start from there
Will have to borrow another TV. Will do so and report back tomorrow.
FYI… I have a Roku connected to the same TV through HDMI. To eliminate some possibilities, I tested it on all 3 HDMI inputs and all worked fine. I tested the Primo with the same HDMI cable I used for successfully testing the Roku. No luck. Thanks for your attention!
Thinking about picking up a Primo HiFi. Can you SSH into it as root or otherwise gain root access? Not keen on purchasing a device I don’t own, so I’d appreciate any insights.
Thanks, that’s all I needed to hear. Apologies if that should have been patently obvious, but I couldn’t find much on the matter with a cursory search.
Have either of these questions been resolved with the new 3.x update?
Is there any way to get Volumio to display embedded art from the FLAC audio files themselves?
Also is there any way to setup Volumio play files from multiple folders randomly. For example if I select a file share with 50 folders, how would I setup Volumio to play all the songs contained in those 50 folders randomly?
All went fine here Mike. The only cautionary thing I would say is about the use of USB disks, which is currently under investigation. You don’t need to be connected to the internet to use plugins (after their installation, & unless it is a plugin requiring internet access eg. Spotify)
Hello guys, I have the Primo Hifi e. with an S-booster power supply and I am very satisfied. I have a Cambridge Azur 840C as a CD, which can also process external digital sources as a DAC. One can assume that the DAC of the 840C can do more than that of the Primo… I would say so. To test I bought a cheap Amazon digital 75Ohm digital cable. Switched the Volumio to SDIF and DSD over PCM and the Cambridge claims it’s not getting a digital signal. Can’t read the Cambridge 840C DSD over PCM? Or what am I doing wrong. Thanks, Dirk
I would say a/b test your dac, the built in one is pretty impressive. Several folks have abandoned external dacs due to this. Of course, spend enough and you’ll beat it… if your speakers are also good enough.
Undoubtedly the DAC of the Volumio is not bad, but we agree that there is more to it than that. I have a tuned Rega Brio and the Buchardt s400mk2. Just listening to comparison Qobuz stream “Currentzis - Dido + Aenas” in 44/16 with the same recording from Cambridge CD. Let’s put it politely, you can clearly hear the 3-fold price. The 840C circles around the Primo. The Primo only has a chance against the 840c DAC if it gets HiRes material from Qobus… The Sbooster is a linear external power supply, through which the Primo starts to sound better. Yes we tested it forward and backward. Not a little, a big step forward… in my opinion.
