RE: A kind question for the Inmates using Synology Nas.

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Music servers and other computer based digital audio technologies.

In Reply to: RE: A kind question for the Inmates using Synology Nas. posted by beppe61 on October 21, 2014 at 05:08:58:

There are many ways to Roma.
To mention 2

1 DLNA
You can configure the NAS to act as a DLNA server (as the Synology also can play audio, it probably acts as a renderer to)
In this scenario all other DLNA compliant devices can browse the contents of the server and play it.
If the Synology also can play, DLNA compliant apps can act as a control point, telling the server what to play.
This is a nice and pretty popular solutions. A lot of devices today (TV, Android smartphones, Win)are DLNA compliant.
IMHO performance is a bit sludgy.
It is often a bit unclear how audio is send.
Just like USB, DLNA does device enumeration. Both know what the others capabilities are. Nice because everything play, not so nice, it might be that audio is down-sampled.
It is not easy to find out if this is the case.

2 Share
This is the conventional way (NAS= Network Attached Storage)
All audio is stored on a share and the media player access it just like files stored on a local HD.
This allows you to maintain your collection e.g. tagging just like you do with data on a HD.
An obvious one is that this is a must, as you do have to maintain your collection.
Performance is in general crisp compared with DLNA.
You have full control as you can configure your media player to be bit perfect.
Obvious only devices able to connect to this share, can play the content.

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Topic - A kind question for the Inmates using Synology Nas. - beppe61 02:14:55 10/21/14 (8)

LMS on a Diskstation - Skip Pack 07:33:30 10/21/14 (3)

RE: LMS on a Diskstation - beppe61 08:54:23 10/21/14 (2)

RE: LMS on a Diskstation - Skip Pack 09:30:38 10/21/14 (1)

RE: LMS on a Diskstation - beppe61 10:05:48 10/21/14 (0)

RE: A kind question for the Inmates using Synology Nas. - navman 04:56:56 10/21/14 (3)

RE: A kind question for the Inmates using Synology Nas. - beppe61 05:08:58 10/21/14 (2)

RE: A kind question for the Inmates using Synology Nas. - Roseval 10/21/1409:47:51 10/21/14 (1)

RE: A kind question for the Inmates using Synology Nas. - beppe61 10:11:22 10/21/14 (0)

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RE: A kind question for the Inmates using Synology Nas. - Roseval 10/21/1409:47:51 10/21/14 (1)

RE: A kind question for the Inmates using Synology Nas. - beppe61 10:11:22 10/21/14 (0)

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