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title: "What is Volumio?"
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# What is Volumio?



Volumio is a free and Open Source Linux Distribution, which runs on a variety of devices, typically micro computers like the Raspberry Pi, on low-powered PCs, notebooks or thin clients and on our own products.

It is designed and finely tuned exclusively for bit-perfect music playback, transforming your device into a headless Audiophile Music Player, that is controlled via your mobile phone, computer or tablet.