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
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 (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
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