can I stream my music library from my NAS Drive/Server, Please help. Thanks, Rudy
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Yes you can. If you look at the UpnP section of the manual, it tells you how to set up Windows Media Player on any PC to allow the Grace Solo access plylists you configure on the Media Player.
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Sure. This is not about WD 4TB NAS. This is much more about storing music in a logical way on a disk drive, and then telling itunes where the music is, avoiding itunes screwing with your careful disk layout, and gracefully letting itunes build it's internal database (and performing the transfer to the itunes devices. Any diskdrive will do, including WD 4TB NAS. I only have one comment about WD4TB My Cloud. The WD software is extremely keen to share your disk contents with the internet (protected only by your login/password.) It requires significant thought to use the MyCloud as a NAS, and not implement the Cloud functionality. Caveat Emptor.
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As a network attached storage device (NAS), it will function as a Sonos library. I have a Buffalo NAS on which I keep all my digital music, and my Sonos system accesses that drive to play my music.
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I am not sure I understand your question. Yes it will playback audio from streamed video given that the audio signal is routed to the receiver. I use Plex Media Server to stream movies to an Apple TV 3 which is connected to the Yamaha receiver and it works fine. To be specific, Plex Media Server houses all the video on a Drobo which is attached to a computer that is the server. The server streams the video to my Apple TV which is connected to my receiver via HDMI. The receiver passes the video on to the display device (in my case a projector) and the audio is played by the receiver. If you are asking if this can play video directly from a Synology NAS then the answer is probably no as far as I know. I don't believe you can use the ethernet port on it to directly connect to a NAS and play video from the NAS. I'm not sure this is possible with any receiver.
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Yes. I did exactly that when I purchased my Synology NAS. The BlackArmor NAS was a piece of crap, but the drives are fine and the Syno. NAS will play well with them.
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You can download mp3 or other music files like .flac to it. it is not a streaming device, and does not have an internet connection to use a service.
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Second thoughts: It could be that the Windows Media Player is the problem. My network sharing of my music files is done through the WMP, and I think it doesn't recognize FLAC files -- I just checked my WMP "library" and my FLAC files are not shown, so they wouldn't be available on my WiFi network. I'm sure there are other ways of setting up "My Shared Music" which might be able to include FLAC files (maybe using Real Player, etc.). Speak to a techie!
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This NAS has a version of Linux running the device and I map right to the drive with the IP Address... there is no need for software, just drag and drop even I Linux.
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Yes it works like a file server or can be used to stream music and video to devices in your home or to your wireless devices. I used to have a Windows NT server for shared file access. Now I just have this unit for file storage, file backup, cloud access, etc.
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Yes, you can use it as an iTunes server. This NAS is AMAZING!!! You can use it as an FTP server, ssh, file server, dlna ready, twonky server for movie streaming, share pics, mp3 streaming, remote file access and a Lot more. I can't complaint. Can be accessed from my iPhone. I get notifications and can even turn off the unit from my iPhone
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If you purchase and download the actual music files, you should be able to play them from your storage space linked tot he squeezebox. If you are meaning streaming music from Amazons server, i dont think so. To my knowledge there is no "in unit app" to stream from amazon. I recommend you follow up at squeezebox website/open forum. The gurus there know everything about the units and how you can tweak them.
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Yes, the server can act as a dlna media server and stream to other devices. I stream from mine to a dlna blu ray player.
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Omar, I don't have it connected to a NAS drive personally, but the instruction manual and setup screens provide for NAS setup option. In fact, the manual states the following: "This unit can play back music files and playlists (m3u, wpl) stored on a PC and on Network Attached Storage (NAS) that supports DLNA. The network audio playback function of this unit connects to the server using Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service." The audio/video format types and specifications supported by this unit for playback are as follows: - WMA (Windows Media Audio) - MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3) - WAV - MPEG-4 AAC - FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) - ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) - AIFF - DSD - JPEG Hope this helps.
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I stream mkvs from a NAS all the time. It can access PC file systems too. The best part is that it will automatically retrieve movie info for those mkvs.I have no personal experience with HD audio. You can check the A-400 forum for that.
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IF you do not have a user account that has access to a share on that drive then you will get an error mapping the drive.I thought there was a util;ity built in that would map a drive for you. i hve upgraded to a netgear nas
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It's not listed as compatible, your best bet is to use a drive listed as compatible from the NAS category of drives, purpose built for use in a NAS.
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If you plug in any drive or add to nas it would work. Make sure all drives are same speed but I wouldn't. It's not a good idea. Use internal drives for nas