Browse Music
After selecting one of the audio sources on the left panel, you can browse its contents in the display area of Audio Station by changing views and using the search field to find your music quickly.
Can't browse your music?
If you see unreadable song titles, album names, or artist names while browsing through your music, go to Synology DiskStation Manager to set the correct codepage that matches the language of your computer, and then re-index your music. Open DSM Help, and see Language (Control Panel > System > Regional Options) and Search Music for more information.
Personal Music Library
DSM admin or users belonging to the administrators group can enable personal library to allow DiskStation users to have their own personal music library. Once users' personal library is enabled, they can choose to browse and play either their own personal music or both shared and personal music.
To enable personal library for DiskStation users:
- Click Settings and then click the Personal Library tab.
- Tick Enable Personal Library and click OK.
To browse and play music collection:
- Select either of the following to browse and play music in the main area of the Audio Station:
- Shared (files stored in the "music" shared folder and any other indexed folders which contain music files) and personal music
- Personal music (files stored in the "home/music" folder)
- Click OK. File indexing will be performed right away.
Note: Only personal music files will be indexed. You may click Re-index to re-construct the index structure of the files if you found files missing.
Change Views
By clicking the three buttons on the right side of the control bar, you can browse your songs or media contents in three different views:
- List (the first button): Your media items are organized in a list.
- Artwork (the second button): Icons or artwork (if any) of your songs or folders appear in the display area.
- Playing Queue (the third button): It includes the now playing song and songs in queue.
Note: Only when music files are in the following formats can their cover art be displayed in Audio Station: MP3, M4A, M4B, WAV, FLAC, AIFF.
Having trouble displaying album artwork?
What if your music file formats are not supported by Audio Station? You can still add album artwork yourself by following the tips below.
- Prepare image files you want to display on album cover. The format of the images must be JPG.
- Rename the files to any of the following: cover.jpg, Cover.jpg, COVER.jpg, folder.jpg, Folder.jpg, FOLDER.jpg, albumart.jpg, Albumart.jpg, AlbumArt.jpg, ALBUMART.jpg
- Place the JPG files in the corresponding subfolders containing music files under the "music" shared folder.
- Open Audio Station to start playing songs whose file location has the JPG file just added. You should be able to see the image shown on Audio Station.
Search Music
You can enter keywords in the search field at the top-left corner of Audio Station to quickly find the music you are looking for.
To search music files:
Do either of the following:
- Click the magnifier icon in the search field and choose a category from the drop-down menu. Enter keywords in the search field and press Enter on your keyboard. The search result will appear in the display area.
- Click
All Categories or Title to search all music files.
- Click any of the other options to search music files in the corresponding category.
- When you are at the root directory of any of the categories in the display area, enter keywords in the field and press Enter on your keyboard. Items matching the keywords will appear, depending on your current location.
To re-index audio files:
- Go to Main Menu > Control Panel > Media Indexing Service.
- Under the Media Indexing Service tab, click Re-index to reconstruct the index structure of the audio files if you found missing music in Audio Station. The process will be executed in the background.
Manage Lyrics Plugins
Enbaling lyrics plugins added to Audio Station allows you to search lyrics on the Internet and save the lyrics. You can listen to music with live lyrics display.
Lyrics is also available under either of the following circumstances:
- If the music file is embedded with lyrics
- If the lyrics file (in .lrc format) has the same file name as the music file and both are stored in the same folder
To enable lyrics plugins and search lyrics online:
- Go to Settings > Lyrics Plugin, click Add to choose a file to upload, and click Add when the file is selected. The plugin will appear in the grid.
- Tick the checkbox to enable the plugin, and click OK.
- After enabling the plugin, right-click a song on the song list and choose Song information.
- Click the Lyrics tab to view the lyrics for the song.
If no lyrics is shown in the window, click Search Internet to search lyrics on the Internet.
- The search results will be displayed in the window that appears. You can preview the beginning few lines of the lyrics if available. Select a result and click OK to apply.
- You may click the Next or Previous button to browse to or edit the lyrics of the next or previous song on the list consecutively.
- Click Save when finished.
Edit Music Information
With Audio Station, you can view as well as edit the information of music files and song lyrics.
Note: Only users with the Edit Music Tag privilege (in Settings > Privileges) can edit the information of music files and lyrics.
To view or edit music information:
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Select one or more music files, and right-click to choose Song information.
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Here you can view or modify the music file's information, or choose a language from the Codepage drop-down menu to convert non-Unicode text to Unicode and display the text in the correct language. (System default is the codepage you specified at Main Menu > Control Panel > Regional Options > Language.)
- You may click the Next or Previous button to browse to or edit the next or previous music information of the song on the list consecutively.
- Click Save when finished.
Note: You can only edit music files in the following formats: MP3, M4A, M4B, OGG, FLAC, AIFF.
To edit song lyrics:
- Select one music file, and
right-click to choose Song information.
- Click the Lyrics tab to modify the lyrics for the song.
If no lyrics is shown in the window, click Search Internet to search lyrics on the Internet.
- The search results will be displayed in the window that appears. You can preview the beginning few lines of the lyrics if available. Select a result and click OK to apply.
- You may click the Next or Previous button to browse to or edit the lyrics of the next or previous song on the list consecutively.
- Click Save when finished.
Note: You can only edit lyrics of one music file at a time. The edit mode will be disabled upon multiple selections.
Display Additional Attributes
You can display additional attributes of your music to show them in new columns of the main section.
To display additional attributes:
- Hover the pointer over any column header of the main section, and click the downward arrow that appears to the right of the header.
- From the pop-up menu, choose the Columns submenu.
- Tick the checkboxes next to the extra attributes to show them in new columns.
Record Diagnostic Log
The log can help determine the cause of the problem when you contact Synology Support for assistance.
To manage Audio Station communication log:
- Click Settings and then click the Options tab.
- Tick Enable Audio Station log for diagnosis and click OK. You can download or clear the recorded log by clicking Download or Clear.
Add Music to Playing Queue
There are several ways to add your songs from the library or playlists to the playing queue for playback:
- Double-click an item to add it to the queue and start playing it right away.
- Select one or more items, right-click and choose Add selections to queue to add the selected songs to the queue.
Note: You cannot add folders to the queue.
Download Music
You can enable music download and then download songs from Audio Station to your local computer.
To enable music download:
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Click Settings and then click the Options tab.
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Tick Enable music download.
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Click OK.
To download music, do any of the following:
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Select multiple songs by holding Ctrl or Shift key and right-clicking to choose Download selected song(s).
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Right-click any songs in the playing queue, and choose Download playlist.
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Right-click any playlist or go to Action to choose Download playlist.