I'm sure we would all appreciate this very much. Could you please update the community as to your short to medium term plans in this regard. Ideally, I would like to do this from my Synology DS918+ NAS (as would countless contributors to this excellent forum). As an audiophile, I am constantly searching for the ideal music setup, and right now that consists of running JRiver Media Center 24 on my iMac in order to stream hi-res music on my Cambridge Audio AZUR 851N Network Audio Player. If that isn't already apparent, then please take heed. To allude to doubting you'd ever make such a package available, without at the very least conducting extensive market research, appears highly premature and somewhat ill-conceived.įurthermore, let me echo the overwhelming sentiments of this forum by saying that as a Synology user (this is my second Synology NAS incidentally), the availability of a flexible and accommodating music server package on Synology NAS that is compatible with iTunes and allows for a seamless transfer of iTunes playlists (yes, we are all held hostage to iTunes and those painstakingly curated playlists) would be a game changer. That old adage of giving the customer what they want exists for a reason.

I had to question the wisdom of one of the other contributors questioning whether or not such a product would ever be released to the consumer market, especially as the NAS, albeit in its relative infancy, is clearly here to stay, with several significant advantages. As a consumer (I currently use the 4-bay DS918+), it seems a no-brainer in the uber-competitive world of media players/servers. Assuming JRiver aspires to make continuous significant inroads into the media player market worldwide, and given that the rise of the NAS is at this point unstoppable, one would like to think that they (JRiver) are now giving some serious thought to the possibility of building a Media Center package for Synology, one of the leading NAS manufacturers.

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