Synology NAS comes with features that will help you keep your files safe, including Back up PC and Mac automatically, Photo and video backup for iOS and Android, Share and collect files in a breeze, share videos and stream between devices. NAS is the best alternative and a necessity for the modern home or office! Synology also allows you to avoid major drawbacks of storing files on the public cloud or USB drives. NAS helps you save more space on your device by consolidating your files into one safe place, a secure and centralized storage solution. This makes NAS the perfect storage solution whether you're at home, or running a business. By using a web browser or mobile apps, you can access files and use various services provided by the NAS via the Internet.
You can store all your family and colleagues' files on the NAS, from important documents to precious photos, music and video collections. NAS is an intelligent storage device connected to your home or office network. Synology uniquely enables you to manage, secure, and protect your data, on whatever scale you need for you or your business. Even better: Movian supports FLAC playback, which is great for me as much of my music is in that format.Synology specialises in Network attached storage (NAS) devices. I chose the latter… and I could browse the music collection there and listen to it. I started up Movian, chose the “Local Network” option, and was presented with two server options, both from the Synology: the UPNP/ DLNA, and the LMS instance. Well, to spoil the suspense: yes, it can, because it seems that LMS also supports UPNP/ DLNA, at least to some degree.
This morning, it hit me: DLNA also serves audio and photos as well as video, so could Movian somehow play networked music from the Synology? Movian is a very capable UPNP/ DLNA media player, which I had put on the Chromebit for playing video files from the DLNA server on the Synology box. The key Chrome OS app here is, ironically, one I had already installed for another purpose. Movian playing music from Logitech Media Server Even better: it supports Logitech Media Server, which meant I didn’t have to mess around with any other servers. I had a feeling that there must be some means of playing networked audio from the Synology box on a Chrome OS machine… and this morning I had a moment of inspiration, which turned out to work.
#LOGITECH MEDIA SERVER ON SYNOLOGY NAS FOR ANDROID#
Sadly, no Squeezebox player software has been ported to Chrome OS, and although there are Squeezebox player apps for Android (such as SqueeezePlayer), at time of writing the Chromebit hasn’t received Android app support, although apparently it is on the way for 2017. We have a Synology NAS server running Logitech Media Server, which serves audio to the Squeezebox Duet connected to the hi-fi in our lounge, and also to any software players on our home network (such as SqueezePlay on our Mac, and iPeng on my iPhone). That’s not to say there are no gaps, of course, and one item I really missed was a Logitech Squeezebox player/controller app. Now that many “Chromedevices” are getting support for Android apps, the choice of software available to owners has never been wider. Far from being simply “a Web browser on a laptop”, as too many reviews of Chromebooks mistakenly dismiss them as (this isn’t 2013, people!), the Chrome OS platform allows users to undertake a pretty wide range of computing tasks (increasingly, not requiring an active network/Internet connection). Since I acquired my first Chrome OS computer two months ago-an Asus Chromebit CS10-I have been pleasantly surprised by how few “holes” I have found in what I can actually do with the device.
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