Play Music

When playing music, you can manage music player controls at the bottom of Audio Station, and view songs in queue by going to Playing Queue on the left panel.

Music Player

The music player shown at the bottom displays the information of the currently playing song, including its title, album, artist, and duration. You can do the following to control music playback.

Playing Queue

You can see the now playing song and songs in queue by going to Playing Queue on the left panel of Audio Station.

To manage the playing queue:

Output Devices

To play music via different devices, you can select your desired output device from the My computer/USB speakers/[Media renderer name] (indicating the device you have been streaming music to) drop-down menu on the control bar, and add songs to individual devices.

The output devices include the following:

Note:

To switch between output devices:

Choose any of them from the drop-down menu at the top of the music player. You can play music via different devices at the same time.

High Quality Output

You can enjoy better audio quality if your music files and the sound card of the DAC (Digital-to-analog converter) connected to your Synology NAS support 24-bit audio output when USB speakers are plugged in to your NAS server.

To enable high quality output or DSD over PCM output:

  1. Go to Settings > Advanced.
  2. Once you have ticked Enable high quality output for USB speakers, you can then tick Enable DSD over PCM (DoP) output for USB speakers.
  3. Click OK.

Note:

  1. Only 2-channel DSD64 and DSD128 files are supported if you enable DSD over PCM (DoP) output for USB speakers.
  2. Once you enable DSD over PCM (DoP) output for USB speakers, both DSD64 and DSD128 files will be played via DoP. For example, a DAC that only supports DSD64 cannot play DSD128 files.

Amazon Alexa Devices

Audio Station allows you to stream music content to an Alexa device using voice commands.

To stream music content to an Alexa device:

  1. Go to Settings > Advanced.
  2. Tick Enable Amazon Alexa service checkbox, and then select the Corresponding hostname.
  3. Click OK to apply settings.

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Music Converters

Music converters allow Audio Station to support more audio formats under streaming. If your web browsers or DLNA devices do not support the audio formats mentioned below, please find the conversion advice. Also, please note audio files converted by Audio Station can only be 16 bit; 24-bit files would be downsampled.

To convert audio formats for web browsers:

Follow the steps below if your web browsers do not support the formats: FLAC, APE, OGG, AIFF, WMA.

  1. Go to Settings > Options > Converter for Web Browsers.
  2. Choose any of the following options:
  3. Click OK.

To convert audio formats for DLNA devices:

Follow the steps below if your DLNA devices do not support the formats: FLAC,APE, ALAC, OGG, AIFF.

  1. Go to Settings > Advanced.
  2. Tick Enable audio conversion for DLNA devices to play converted music on your DLNA device.
  3. Select the formats (FLAC, APE, ALAC, OGG, and AIFF) unsupported by your DLNA device to render them playable.
  4. For better compatibility between your DLNA device and the selected formats, tick Downsample audio files for better DLNA compatibility.
  5. Click OK.

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