For Music Lovers, From Music Lovers
Volumio project was born in late 2013, out of frustration by the lack of valid solutions to emancipate digital music playback from ordinary PCs, usually big, loud machines with poorly performing softwares for music streaming.
We wanted the flexibility to control our music through web interfaces, the ease of managing it all in a single place and the possibility to move beyond PCs and towards better performing machines. But, above all we longed for a software crafted and dedicated to maximize audio quality at bit-perfection level.
We decided it was time to build our own audiophile music player.
The first Rasperry PI model was just been released and we started developing a minimal audio-oriented Linux Distribution called RaspyFi as a side project. We made it available via a small blog and, to our great surprise, the response was amazing.
At that moment, we finally realized we were not alone in our quest for our ideal audiophile music player.
Volumio was born. A side project turned quickly into a full-time commitment, a small software evolved rapidly into a multi device operating system and a small team is now an amazing community of 200k music lovers.
Everything we do is driven by our love for music and our mission is to continuously research and improve in the field of audio system to always provide our community the best possible music experience.
Our Values
Open Source & Free
We strongly believe that Free and Open Source Software is not an ethical and philosophical choice, it is above all a path towards never-ending product improvement in the medium and long term. We don’t aim at becoming a simple business like many other out there. We aim at building a community, a movement towards a continuously better audio products, and we believe collective collaboration and freedom of participation is the best way to get there.
Product Excellence
We believe Volumio should be founded upon 3 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.
Audio Education
There’s no other field in technology that relies on myths and weak information as the audio industry. Our goal is to promote a scientific, where possible, approach to digital audio. We believe critical thinking and user education on audio can make a difference, and we will never stop researching, improving and spreading new knowledge.
Our Team
MICHELANGELO GUARISE
PROJECT FOUNDER
Entrepeneur, Professor and Interaction designer.
Can’t just explain his job to parents.
DANIELE BUSCIANTELLA RICCI
PROJECT BRANDING
If Volumio looks good, this is the guy to applaude. Designer and Musician he knows how things should look
MASSIMILIANO FANCIULLI
BACKEND LEAD DEVELOPER
Defining himself as “An engineer with an Axe” he is the mind behind the core functionalities of Volumio, despite callback hells and endless promises
DAVIDE PETRUZZI
DIGITAL STRATEGIST
A man on a mission: make Volumio grow
GIACOMO DEGL’INNOCENTI
FRONTEND LEAD DEVELOPER
Winner of 2018 Fullstack JS Developer mustache competition, by a long shot
STEFANO PAGLIAI
VOLUMIO SITE DEVELOPER
The man who knows Wordpress better than you do
DARIO ROSSI
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Dario sees things you don’t. Dario designs things that you like.
STEFANO BELLANDI
CFO / BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Stefano is in charge of numbers, and they know it.
Gé KOERKAMP
INITRAMFS MASTER
He lives were no kernel has ever dared, he knows things you don’t
ALBERTO ROVERONI
BRAND AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGIST
Whenever we will look cool and groundbreaking it will be because it made it look like that
STEFANIA LANFRANCO
SHOP MANAGER
Extremely competent in shopping and fully devoted to management. A girl with skills, indeed
GIULIANO GAMBACORTA
CHARMING DEVELOPER
He wanted to be a Polar Bear, instead he now develops all things Volumio
CRIS PINTEA
LEAD ANDROID DEVELOPER
Give him a code editor good enough and an API on which to work on, and he shall move the world
FABIO MOSETTI
LEAD IOS DEVELOPER
Incredible attention to details and patience: that’s what you need to work on iOS.
ANDRE MARTIN
SALES
Passionate, supportive, friendly. He takes care of our beloved partners
SERGIO VISINONI
PLUGIN INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGIST
A man with a vision, and few lines of code to make it real
TORELLO QUERCI
CLOUD SERVICES INTEGRATION
Torello is our cloud wizard.
SAMUELE MASSARO
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Our digital storyteller, we could listen to him for ages
TOMMASO GRECO
3D DESIGN
Tommaso is our 3d specialist. He shapes our renderings and gives our ideas a better form than ever.