The maximum number of songs in the play queue is 500.Supports English (United States), English (United Kingdom), English (Canada), English (Australia), English (India), and German (Deutsch).M4A to successfully display and manage these files in Audio Station You can manually change the file extension from. The indexing feature is not supported for MP4 files.Voice commands to control the player to start, stop, shuffle, loop, etc.Voice commands to play songs by a specific artist, an album, or a playlist and to check the currently playing music.Adds indexed folders in Media Indexing > Control Panel.Generates sharing links for songs and playlists.Other supported audio formats for DLNA players depend on the player Supports streaming FLAC/APE, ALAC/AAC, OGG, and AIFF formats for DLNA players.Supports gapless playback when streaming to a web browser (original files only) and AirPlay speakers.Supported playlist formats: M3U, PLS, and WPL.Audio formats supported for AirPlay speakers: AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless, FLAC, M4A, M4B, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, WMA, WMA PRO, WMA VBR, and DSD (Native DSD is not supported).Audio formats supported for conversion: AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, WMA PRO, WMA VBR, and DSD.Audio formats supported natively: M4A, M4B, MP3, WAV, and FLAC (IE does not support WAV and FLAC).Supports Internet radios with a list provided by SHOUTcast and user-defined radios.Personal music library will appear in the default “/home” folder once enabled with the custom option to show either personal library or both shared music and personal music.Administrators can assign privileges to restrict DSM users’ access to Audio Station.Random 100 feature that randomly selects 100 songs to play.Smart playlists collect music that matches the specified criteria.Supports updating music tags from online search.Arranges the order of music playback in a play queue.Displays live lyrics in the player with a lyric plug-in to search lyrics from the Internet.Downloads the selected songs to the local storage.Rates songs and categorizes music by rating.Allows users to browse the music collection on other Synology NAS via DLNA when Media Server is installed.Displays all the music in folder structure.Organizes all the music contents by artists, albums, composers, and genres.Shows your pinned playlists and recommended genres on the home page for quick access.The DS Audio mobile app also works with CarPlay and Android Auto. Those with Amazon Alexa can use voice controls on the package. Apple, Android, and Windows Phones (whoever uses those still) can download the app (DS Audio) for Audio station and take it on the go or connect to Bluetooth devices to play. The package has lossless playback to the players it supports and gapless live music when streaming to web browsers, internet connection not withholding. According to Synology, Audio Station allows users to enjoy high-quality playback at what they say is near-original quality (when playing through a DLNA renderer). I have dozens are these albums that I can only listen to with Audio Station or in their original format. There are also “rare” albums or ones that have track listings that are different from the main album. There are several albums that just aren’t available to stream for various reasons (including the artists or studio fighting over rights). And to be honest, the streaming services don’t cater to my eclectic tastes. I’m not a music connoisseur, I am a huge fan and I have music in various media formats from some rare vinyl to CDs to MP3s I’ve purchased over the years. And while I have two of the three listed, I still use Synology Audio Station several times a week. The big question here is why bother? There are several music streaming services now and they all run at about the same price, these include: Apple Music, Amazon Prime Music, and Spotify. And with the nifty mobile apps, you can take the music with you and even listen to it offline. Users can add internet radio stations as well. The package allows users to create and manage large music collections where they can create playlists and even share. Today we are going to look at, what is probably the most used package on my Synology NAS, Synology Audio Station.īy the title, it is easy to guess that Synology Audio Station is for playing audio like music and radio stations. These packages run the gamut of multimedia for the casual user to virtualization and containers for small to medium businesses. The Synology NAS and their underlying OS, DiskStation Manager (DSM), comes with several interesting packages (think apps) that can be downloaded from the Package Center for free.

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