Synology audio station

Posted by: blodsbror on 04 March 2015

Hi!

Some people may already know, but in my travels I found that the Synology Audio Station Android/IOS apps, and also the audio station web/browser application - can work as a UPNP control point. So any audio stored on the NAS itself, can be played directly on any UPNP capable device.

I found this after looking for an alternative to the Naim App, as I actually prefer to use a laptop where possible to view and control things. So now, I load up the audio station in any browser, on any pc I have around the house, select the Unitilite - and start enjoying the music in full quality (FLAC), without any other boxes in between

Posted on: 17 March 2015 by Dambor

Let me re-ellaborate on the truncating issue. The problem with "truncation" from 24 bit to 16 bit happens when you want to select to transcode files from lossless formats to wav in media server to stream them to your streamer, as supposedly (as many posts point out in this forum and I think I hear for certain files) this is a better sounding strategy. It doesn't happen if you play native alac or flac files.