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Music Station 
 
Music Station (5.0) helps you create a personal music center on the cloud. This web-based 
application is designed for users to play music files on the NAS, listen to thousands of radio stations 
on the Internet, and share your music with your friends and family. Your music collection stored on 
the NAS is automatically organized into categories for easy access. 
 
 
This chapter covers the following topics: 
Starting Music Station 
Familiarizing yourself with Music...

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Note:  
The admin login credentials of Music Station are the same as that of the NAS 
administrator. 
If you use Music Station for the first time, it is recommended to upload or copy music 
files to media folders and scan them using the Multimedia Management. For more 
information about media folders, please refer to the Multimedia Management chapter. 
   
2. Launch Music Station from the Main Menu/Desktop shortcut, or directly log into Music Station by 
going to:...

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Bar 
10 Items Viewing  Show items in List Mode or Thumbnail Mode 
11 Sort Sort items by various attributes in ascending or descending order. 
12 Add Playlist Create a playlist or a smart playlist. 
13 Import Music Upload music files from your local device. 
14 Download Download music files to your local device. 
15 Share Music Share link via email: Please ensure that your email settings are 
correctly configured. Click your profile icon in the top-right corner of 
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“Desktop Preferences”). 
3 Previous Play the previous song. 
4 Play/Pause Play or pause the current song. 
5 Next Play the next song. 
6 Volume Adjust the volume. 
7 Repeat Repeat the current song or repeat all the songs in the playlist. 
8 Shuffle Randomly play songs in the playlist. 
9 Lyrics Show the lyrics of the current song. 
10 Now Playing Show the Now-playing panel. Drag & drop songs to the panel to add 
them to the now-playing list. 
 
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To stream media files to HDMI or Chromecast...

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Playlist names should not include: /    |   \  :    ?        *         $. 
Music Station only supports these file formats: MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, AIF, and AIFF. 
 
Using Music Station 
 
Import music files 
Please refer to the Starting Music Station section.  
 
Creating and managing playlists 
To create a playlist, click “Add Playlist” on the menu bar and select “Create a Playlist,” or drag & drop 
music files onto “Playlist” on the left panel. You can also create a Smart Playlist that...

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installed in the App Center. 
Bonjour must be enabled when using multi-zone streaming. You can enable Bonjour in 
Control Panel > Network Service > Service Discovery > Bonjour. 
Please check the QNAP website for supported USB speakers. 
Some models with 3.5mm audio output may not support USB audio output. 
Radio stations only support playing under streaming mode and Bluetooth. 
 
Changing album covers or artist photos 
Music Station automatically searches for an image for your albums and...

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administrator.) Your /home folder contents can be found under Private Collection. 
To create a shared folder, go to Control Panel > Privilege Settings > Shared 
Folders. 
 
Music files stored in the shared folders are only visible after they are detected and scanned by Media 
Library. To set Media Library to scan for music files manually or by a schedule, go to Control Panel 
> Multimedia Management > Media Library. For more information about media folder settings, 
please refer to the chapter...