It's supposed to show a commandline volume mixer. Another good indication for a proper setup is to run alsamixer. The correct setup can be tested by running lsusb which should list your USB sound card. If so, you need to execute the following lines once: modules='soundcore.ko snd.ko snd-hwdep.ko snd-page-alloc.ko snd-seq-device.ko snd-timer.ko snd-pcm.ko snd-rawmidi.ko snd-usbmidi-lib.ko snd-usb-audio.ko snd-mixer-oss.ko snd-pcm-oss.ko' Those modules won't load themselves unless you're using Synology's Audio Station package. This is explained in the earlier article Bootstraping an Intel Atom-based Synology NAS.Īfter the bootstrapping process is done, the necessary packages can be installed by using the following line: ipkg install alsa-lib alsa-utils libusb usbutils To install those the Synology box needs bootstraping. In order to be able to stream actual sounds to the USB sound card, some modules and libraries are needed.

When looking for different hardware, it can be helpful to check for OS X-support, as the necessary sound modules for OS X usually derive from Linux - and we need those modules for Linux. Any other USB sound card should do just fine, too. It features a digital s/pdif output which I was looking for. To be able to output sound from the Synology NAS, an external USB sound card is needed. As my Synology NAS sits just next to my stereo, I had the idea of using it as the Squeezebox server as well as a softclient. It can be run as a daemon on Windows, OS X, Linux, OpenWRT-based routers and several other devices - among them NAS devices. But that's not a complete showstopper.Īs the whole Squeezebox project is open source, there is a sweet comandline tool called squeezeslave that acts as a software client. That's quite unfortunate, as those devices offered nice build quality together with an amazing centralized setup. Yet, Logitech decided to discontinue the whole Squeezebox lineup. In addition, it is controllable by different IR-remotes as well as by very handy Android and iPhone apps. It offers the possibility to stream your own music library to any Logitech Squeezebox around your house. It's a very decent feature in Syology's DSM 4.1 having Logitech Media Server at the tip of your finger as an official 3rd party package.

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