DS audio User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience23.3% of reviews
Neutral22.8% of reviews
Negative experience54.0% of reviews

~ Based on 215 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is DS audio Safe?

DS audio has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for DS audio is 57/100.

This assessment is based on 189 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.8/5.

Safety Analysis

34.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
18.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
47.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 189 App Store ratings for DS audio.

Is DS audio Legit?

DS audio appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for DS audio is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Skips through the queue rapidly

Works fine until your phone switches networks, or from WIFi to 5g and vice versa. Then, it will rapidly rip through your playlist without playing anything. Just song titles fleeting by. You then have to force quit the app or logout / in to your NAS. Like other Synology apps, it leaves me wanting.

Need Update

It has been over two years and there’s no update for the app and with the latest DSM version it is now breaking for units that are behind proxy or tunneling for security.

Be cautious upgrading to DSM 7.3 because the audio station app updates to 7.2.0.x and if you are either tunneling through Cloudflare or reverse proxy it will not let you authenticate and it will throw an error saying you’re unauthorized or your DSM version is 4.0 or below
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Seeking is broken

Seeking is broken

Outdated

Needs a huge update

Simple design, great to use

This is such a good app, i really like the design. At a time when design seems to be going backwards this keeps to simple user friendly design principles. The only things I'd like is to choose my own covers and shuffle all otherwise perfect.

Bugs

Lots of Connection issues on ios26. But no patches yet.

Skipping play randomly

Synology team please help: iOS 26 here on iPhone 13 / 15 and got a song being played randomly skipped, sometime only in for a minute, sometime in the middle or 10-15 seconds before end. Otherwise working nicely

Quality app

The app is sometimes fiddly and laggy but it WORKS playing music from my NAS while still managing to be far less annoying than the Apple music app and any streaming service.

Keeps logging me out

This app has just gone down in quality. First they stopped playing aac and MP4 audio files. Now can’t even play other music without getting following message

“Synology NAS is no longer connected. Please login again.”

Synology be removing this one soon too

Synology now removing its package away from free. Charges everything from ram to hd to software.

Works decently enough to replace streaming music services.

Having some issues. Some songs with just randomly skip, even mid song. I have to log into the app frequently, and none of my login info is saved so I have to retype it all to sign in.

Why no CarPlay?

Pleasantly surprised.. It installed it and it just sort of worked! Seems like it’s possible to import playlists and do all the things easily if I wanted to..

Two deal breakers though..

No CarPlay Support
No Dark Mode Support

If they could add those features.. it would be pretty solid.

Barely works

It works okay as long as you don’t use CarPlay features.

This SUCKS!

I don’t understand why Synology doesn’t update or make good apps! If you want people to buy your NASes, why don’t you invest some money and make some awesome applications for our tablets and phones and computers?? this app is ridiculous, you click on the song you expect it to bring it up instead it adds it to some list, where is the list? So now I have a list of 50,000 songs that I clicked trying to play the song. It’s the dumbest app I’ve ever seen.
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I don’t think Synology wants our business anymore

9 months without an update. And the music still cuts out to the next track for no reason at all. If you are in the market for a NAS, don’t make my mistake. Get another brand. Synology simply doesn’t want to be in the consumer market anymore.

Abandoned by Synology

Just needs an overhaul to bring it to 2025. So much is clunky or not intuitive.

When an update will be released?

The app gives you the ability to listen to your music stored in the NAS but it lacks of a lot of functionalities expected to have in 2025. App design is not good and lacks of smart playlists based on genre or mood. Please update

Synology be removing this one soon too

Synology now removing its package away from free. Charges everything from ram to hd to software.

Barely works

It can connect via quickconnect and play your library but that’s about it. Features like Car Play integration do not work and say sign in on iPhone despite being signed in and the app open.

Equalizer is needed

Equalizer would make this awesome