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 playlists and group playlists shared with DSM users for easy access to your favorites
Generates music sharing links for people who are not on the same network or do not have a Synology NAS
Provides lists of Internet radio stations collected by SHOUTcast(TM) and adds radio stations to your favorites list for quick access
Specifications
Shows your pinned playlists and recommended genres on the home page for quick access
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 when Media Server is installed
Rates songs and categorizes music by rating
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
Arranges the order of music playback in a play queue
Supports updating music tags from online search
Smart playlists collect music that matches the specified criteria
Random 100 feature that randomly selects 100 songs to play
Administrators can assign privileges to restrict DSM users' access to Audio Station
Imports song rating from iTunes
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
Supports Internet radios with a list provided by SHOUTcast(TM) and user-defined radios
Streaming to a web browser
Audio formats supported natively: M4A, M4B, MP3, WAV, and FLAC (IE does not support WAV and FLAC)
Audio formats supported for conversion: AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, WMA PRO, WMA VBR, and DSD
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)
Supports DSD over PCM (DoP)
Supported playlist formats: M3U, PLS, and WPL
Supports gapless playback when streaming to a web browser (original files only) and AirPlay speakers
Supports streaming FLAC, APE, ALAC, OGG, and AIFF formats for DLNA players. Other supported audio formats for DLNA players depend on the player
Generates sharing links for songs and playlists
Adds indexed folders in Media Indexing > Control Panel
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), and German (Deutsch)
The maximum number of songs in the play 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
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/CarPlay-compatible devices
Offline playback of music downloaded to local devices
Specifications
System requirements
iOS: 11.0 or above
Android: 8.0 or above
Shows your pinned playlists and recommended genres on the home page for quick access
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
Arranges the order of music playback in the 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, and DSD
Audio formats supported natively for mobile devices:
Android: FLAC, non-alac M4A, M4B, MP3, WAV, and Ogg Vorbis
iOS: AIFF, APE, Apple Lossless (ALAC), M4A, M4B, MP3, and WAV
Generates sharing links for songs and playlists
Streams music to AirPlay-compatible devices (only available on iOS devices) and Chromecast