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 music, including the song's 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:

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 DiskStation support 24-bit audio output when USB speakers are plugged in to your DiskStation.

To enable high quality output:

  1. Go to Settings > Options.
  2. Tick Enable high quality output for USB speakers.
  3. Click OK.

Music Transcoder

Transcoder options allow Audio Station to support more audio formats under streaming mode. The following audio formats will be transcoded if your browser does not support them: FLAC, APE, AAC, OGG, AIFF, WMA.

To transcode your audio formats:

  1. Go to Settings > Transcoder.
  2. Choose any of the following options:
  3. Click OK.

Note: The Transcoder options are available on specific models only.