Audio Station organizes music libraries, streams music to browsers and supported devices, manages playlists and sharing links, and integrates Internet radio, Hyper Backup, and Amazon Alexa voice control.
Audio Station
Overview
Music Library and Playback
- Music library views with a search field.
- Home page display of pinned playlists, folders, albums, artists, and recommended genres.
- Automatic music organization by artist, album, composer, and genre.
- Display music via folder structure.
- Browsing of music collections on other Synology storage systems through DLNA.
- Song rating, downloading to local storage, and drag-and-drop arrangement in the play queue.
- Live lyrics display in the player, with a lyric plug-in that searches the Internet.
- Music tag (ID3 Tag) updates from online search.
- Smart playlists to collect music matching user-defined criteria.
- Random 100 for randomly selecting 100 songs to play.
- Song rating import from iTunes.
- Play queue limited to 500 songs.
- MP4 files not supported by the indexing feature; renaming the file extension from .MP4 to .M4A allows those files to display and be managed in Audio Station.
Playlists, Personal Libraries, and Sharing
- Playlist categorization as personal playlists or group playlists shared with DSM users.
- Personal library, enabled through custom options.
- Automatic creation of the indexed folder "/home/music" when personal library is enabled.
- Sharing link generation for songs and playlists.
- Indexed folder addition in Control Panel > Indexing Service.
- Backup and restoration of indexed folders, personal playlists, ratings, and package configuration with Hyper Backup.
Internet Radio
- Internet radio stations collected by SHOUTcast(TM).
- Addition of user-defined radio stations.
- Radio station favoriting for quick access.
Browser Streaming
- Stream music to web browsers.
- Browser-native audio formats: M4A, M4B, MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC.
- Browser-convertible audio formats: AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless, WMA, WMA PRO, WMA VBR, and DSD.
- WAV, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC browser playback not supported on Internet Explorer.
- Browser gapless playback limited to original uncompressed audio files.
- Browser gapless playback not supported on Safari.
AirPlay and DLNA Streaming
- Stream to AirPlay-certified speakers.
- AirPlay audio formats: AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless, FLAC, M4A, M4B, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, WMA, WMA PRO, WMA VBR, and DSD.
- AirPlay gapless playback for original uncompressed audio files.
- Streaming to DLNA players.
- DLNA audio formats: FLAC, APE, ALAC, OGG, and AIFF.
- DLNA playlist formats: M3U, PLS, and WPL.
- Native DSD not supported for AirPlay streaming.
- Support for other DLNA formats varying by player.
Amazon Alexa
- Song playback by specific artist, album, or playlist through Amazon Alexa.
- Currently playing music check through Amazon Alexa.
- Player control, including start, stop, shuffle, and loop, through Amazon Alexa voice commands.
- Audio Station Skill for Amazon Alexa supporting English (United States), English (United Kingdom), English (Canada), English (Australia), English (India), German (Deutsch), French (France), and French (Canada).
- Simultaneous streaming of the same audio content to multiple Alexa devices under the same Amazon account not supported.
- Non-MP3 audio files streamed in 128 kbps MP3 format for Amazon Alexa compatibility.
- Music playback through Alexa over IPv6 not supported.
Affiliated Utility
DS audio
Overview
DS audio provides mobile music access, management, streaming, sharing, and offline playback for iOS and Android devices. Requires iOS 11.0 or above, or Android 8.0 or above.
Mobile Library and Playback
- Home page display of pinned playlists, folders, albums, artists, and recommended genres.
- Automatic music organization by artist, album, composer, and genre.
- Music display by folder structure.
- Song rating and categorization by rating.
- Song download to mobile devices for offline playback
- Live lyrics display in the mobile player
- Sleep timer to stop playback after a specified time.
- Shake to Shuffle, letting iOS users play the next song by shaking the device.
- Drag-and-drop song arrangement in the play queue.
- Random 100 for selecting 100 songs to play.
- Adjustable playback quality.
- Equalizer for local music streaming on Android devices.
- SHOUTcast(TM) Internet radio and user-defined radio stations.
Mobile Streaming and Formats
- Music streaming from Synology storage systems to mobile devices, and to AirPlay (iOS only), Chromecast, DLNA, Android Auto, and CarPlay-compatible devices.
- Mobile streaming formats: AIF, AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless (ALAC), FLAC, M4A, M4B, MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, WMA PRO, WMA VBR, and DSD.
- Android-native formats: FLAC, non-ALAC M4A, M4B, MP3, WAV, and Ogg Vorbis.
- iOS-native formats: AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless (ALAC), M4A, M4B, MP3, and WAV.
- Sharing link generation for songs and playlists.