- Provides different display modes for music library with a search field to easily find your music
- Plays and streams music through web browsers, mobile devices, DLNA-certified devices, and AirPlay-certified devices, and displays songs in the play queue
- Categorizes playlists into personal and group playlists shared with DSM users for easy access to your favorites
- Generates music sharing links for music sharing
- Provides lists of Internet radio stations collected by SHOUTcast(TM) and adds radio stations to your favorites list for quick access
Audio Station
Features
Specifications
- Shows your pinned playlists/folders/albums/artists and recommended genres on the home page for quick access
- Automatically organizes all the music contents by artists, albums, composers, and genres
- Displays all the music in folder structure
- Allows users to browse the music collection on other Synology NAS via DLNA
- Supports rating songs
- Downloads the selected songs to the local storage
- Displays live lyrics in the player with a lyric plug-in to search lyrics from the Internet
- Drags and drops to arrange the order of music playback in a play queue
- Supports updating music tags (ID3 Tag) from online search
- Smart playlists collect music that matches the specified criteria and saves it to smart playlists
- Random 100 feature that randomly selects 100 songs to play
- Imports song rating from iTunes
- Supports custom options to enable personal library. Once the personal library is enabled, an indexed folder “/home/music” will be automatically created.
- Supports Internet radios with a list provided by SHOUTcast(TM) and user-defined radios
- Streaming to web browsers
- Audio formats supported natively: M4A, M4B, MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC (IE does not support WAV, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC)
- Audio formats supported for conversion: AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless, WMA, WMA PRO, WMA VBR, DSD
- Gapless playback
- Only supports original uncompressed audio files
- Safari is not supported
- Streaming to AirPlay speakers
- Audio formats supported: AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless, FLAC, M4A, M4B, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, WMA, WMA PRO, WMA VBR, DSD
- Native DSD is not supported
- Gapless playback (original uncompressed audio files only) is supported
- Streaming to DLNA players
- Audio formats supported: FLAC, APE, ALAC, OGG, and AIFF
- Other supported formats depend on the player
- Supported playlist formats: M3U, PLS, and WPL
- Generates sharing links for songs and playlists
- Adds indexed folders in Control Panel > Indexing Service
- Supports backing up and restoring indexed folders, personal playlists, ratings, and package configuration via Hyper Backup
- Supports Amazon Alexa service
- Voice commands to play songs by a specific artist, an album, or a playlist and to check the currently playing music
- Voice commands to control the player to start, stop, shuffle, loop, etc. (See detailed commands here)
Limitations
- The indexing feature is not supported for MP4 files. You can manually change the file extension from .MP4 to .M4A to successfully display and manage these files in Audio Station
- Amazon Alexa: Audio Station Skill
- Supports English (United States), English (United Kingdom), English (Canada), English (Australia), English (India), German (Deutsch), French (France), and French (Canada)
- The maximum number of songs in athe playing queue is 500
- Streaming the same audio content to multiple Alexa devices under the same Amazon account at the same time is not supported
- To ensure the best compatibility with Amazon Alexa, any audio files in a format other than MP3 will be streamed in 128kbps MP3 format
- Music playback via Alexa with IPv6 is not supported
Affiliated Utility
DS audio (for mobile)
Features
- Easy access and music management on the go with music searching, sharing on iOS and Android devices
- Music streaming from Synology NAS to mobile devices or AirPlay/Chromecast/DLNA/Android Auto/CarPlay-compatible devices
- Offline playback of music downloaded to local devices
Specifications
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System requirements
- iOS: 11.0 or above
- Android: 8.0 or above
- Shows your pinned playlists/folders/albums/artists and recommended genres on the home page for quick access
- Automatically organizes all the music contents by artists, albums, composers, and genres
- Displays all the music in folder structure
- Rates songs and categorizes music by rating
- Downloads the selected songs to your mobile devices
- Displays live lyrics in the player
- Timer set to stop playing after a specific time
- The handy feature, Shake to Shuffle, allows users to play the next song simply with a shake on iOS devices
- Drags and drops to arrange the order of music playback in a play queue
- Random 100 feature that randomly selects 100 songs to play
- Adjustable playback quality
- Equalizer function for local music streaming (Only available on Android devices)
- Supports Internet radios with a list provided by SHOUTcast(TM) and user-defined radios
- Audio formats supported for streaming: AIF, AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless (ALAC), FLAC, M4A, M4B, MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, WMA PRO, WMA VBR, DSD
- Audio formats supported natively on mobile devices:
- Android: FLAC, non-alac M4A, M4B, MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis
- iOS: AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless (ALAC), M4A, M4B, MP3, WAV
- Generates sharing links for songs and playlists
- Streams music to AirPlay (only available on iOS devices), Chromecast, DLNA, Android Auto, Carplay-compatible devices