Volumio as a Jukebox?

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I have a couple hundred CDs, feeding a nice CD player which feeds a nice stereo system. I like that the CD sound is as good as can be; no lossy MP3s. But really, in 2025, physically swapping CDs in and out …

I’d like to rip the CDs one last time, as FLACs, and then select them electronically.

There’s lots of ways to do this using any number of streaming devices and a phone or tablet, and I like that functionality.

But I would also like to be able to listen my CDs “standalone” … no phone required. A jukebox, in other words.

It LOOKS like Volumio running on an RPi with a DAC-hat and the Raspberry display will do both … give me the standalone jukebox for when company comes over and fiddling with a phone is just wrong, and tune selection by app for when I’m too lazy to lift my butt off the sofa.

Have I got this right? Can Volumio do this?

And can I do this with the free version of Volumio?

And are there limitations on which hat the free version will work with? HifiBerry have some interesting devices.

Thanks for any thoughts!

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Volumio is excellent at playing Flac Files.

Ive been using it on a Raspberry PI 2B with a IQaudio Digital Hat for almost 10 years now.

You can Rip & Play your CDs on Volumio. However it’s only through the paid version.
I certainly would not want to be ripping CDs on my little Pi 2B it would take a while! I did all that using DBpoweramp, which did a grand job of checking the FLAC rips were error free (and then converting it to mp3 for use in the car too). Some time was needed to change the Mp3 Tags though, as I hadn’t noticed that the naming is not quite consistent enough.

Unless you set up a touch screen, or another type of interface, you will still need your phone or another web access device to select your tunes. but you can expand & modify, make fancy as you choose. My system is pretty basic. I wanted an optical out from my Pi to my amp, that’s as fancy as I got.

Give it a go. Setup is very easy to get going.