Right from the start I've followed for Lumio, the free software player for the Raspberry Pi. It's not the only player for the Pi, but for me it worked better than others at a time. Since it's impossible to keep track of all players, I kept on checking out for Lumio, and now there is version 3. Judging player software is somewhat personal. The software you are used to is likely to be your favourite. Over time you get used to the menus and the behaviour, and when they improve the user interface you often initially don't like it. For Lumio 3 has its user interface changed in what is now called Manifest, and although you can still set for Lumio to the older user interfaces, I love the new one. Already for a number of years, Lumio offered its basic functions for free, and the advanced functions on a subscription basis. That didn't change, although the new user interface is only available to subscribers. There are several payment plans, but if you agree to a yearly payment, it's 60 euros per year. Which is what you pay with PC-based players like Jay Riffor and Oliver Nato, although not on a subscription basis, but for a yearly update. These are the extras you get as a premium subscriber. Multirum synchronised playback, music and artist credit, Bluetooth input playback and CD playback and ripping using a USB drive. Furthermore you get title, co-bus, high-res audio and title connect browsing if you are subscribed to these services. You can use it on up to 6 devices and you will enjoy a dedicated email support. You need to this new interface is that there is a menu icon in all four corners, or the main screen. In the top right corner you can select other Raspberry Pisces for Lumio running or group them for Multirum. In the lower right corner you go to the input menu, which is identical to previous versions. Favorites and playlist are clear options. Music library, artist, albums and genres show the content of the selected storage medium, for instance connected to a USB. Media servers show all DNA and UPPAV service on your network. I have several, the blue ones are Synology DNA service, the yellow ones Minion server DNA service and the two red ones are for Lumio DNA service or for Lumio players. I'll get back to that. Back to the input menu where we see last 100, which is your play history. Web radio works like most Web radio programs as can be seen here. Tile and Cobrus gave access to these streaming services if you have a subscription and the Volumium Premium account. And then there is the menu in the top left corner. The menu in the top left corner shows the set of menus and some extras. I've ingranted a premium plan and have it active on my Raspberry Pi based Volumio setups that are useful testing. These are all players I have reviewed earlier. There will be links in the notes below this video on YouTube. It's a Nano sound one, the L-O bus, the L-O katana, the audio fornix rush touch with iSaber ES9038 Q2M DAC and the 7-inch touchscreen and the L-O use bridge signature network bridge. The next setup is menu sources. Here you have the USB drive indexed, add some bus shares as network drives and select what input you want to accept. UP&P branderer SharePoint sync which is Apple Airplay compatible, D&L browser, Bluetooth input, multi-room playback, CD playback and ripping and digital and analog inputs for as far as the hardware supports this. Then you can log into title, Cobrus or high-resorio. Again provided you have a subscription. Remain some settings for indexing and display. The appearance menu lets you set away for Lumio looks. For the older skins you can choose another background including your own. Once set to manifest there's little to change and that's no problem since it looks great. Systems that you change the name and run update and network shows the network settings. In the plugins menu you find plugins like Spotify, Spotify Connect, 80s, 80s radio, hotelradio.fm, jellyfin, mixcloud and other internet sources. There also is a plugin for the 7-inch touchscreen like i use here in the audio fornix rushpludge, the network player with built-in touchscreen on the rush-prey pie basis. Another plugin lets you use an infrared remote console. Then there is the room bridge that makes you a volume player a room endpoint next to being a volume player and there even is a D&L A server. We already sort of volume players as servers next to the synology service. This was done by installing the mini D&L A plugin. Just attach a USB drive, I use the Samsung T7 SSD and fill out the path for audio files. I also changed the friendly name to in this case Katana D&L A since I use the rush-repy 3B with an alo Katana DACA server. That's all. The music gets indexed and shared over the network to D&L A players. That can be another volume player but also when a VBC for vibrance like Moran's, Denem, Yamaha, Cambridge Audio, Lin, name and many others. This makes the volume of software ideal to have music be and share throughout the house. Let's imagine one volume player in the living, one in the study, one at Sun, John's Room and one at Dota James's Room. That has its own music on a USB drive in the study. That music can be played over the network in the living but it can also be played by John and Jane at their rooms. And the music John and Jane have on their USB drives can also be played by dead in the study or living room. When John has a party when mum and dad are away, he can have his music play throughout the house perfectly in sync. I had no problems with the sound quality of earlier versions. The output of Lumia was an USB perfect meaning that any sound degradation is due to the hardware used. With simple headboards I like the Raspberry Pi 3B best. And I like the alo USB signature with Chenti Power Supply best if you need a USB Audio Class 2 for your DAC. I have the version with Digi-1 Signature integrated so it offers me high quality speed of as well. The Raspberry Pi with Lumia 3 will appeal to those that like a bit of Tinkrin. It also gives the feel of saving money although that's only partly the case. The advantage is that you can start off with the Raspberry Pi with Lumia under 100 euros. From there on you can, if you seek higher sound quality, get a higher quality sound card and extra features by subscribing to Volumia Premium. Fact is that the new manifest interface, at least to me, feels more intuitive, which brings us to the end of this video. As usual, there will be a new video next Friday at 5pm for Century European Time. If you don't want to miss that, subscribe to this channel or follow me on the social media so you will be informed the new videos around. 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