Dear all,
This short post to provide some tips and hints in order to have a working version of AS on your Syno.
1- Make sure you have the latest version of DSM.
Although there is no indication of the expected version, my first tentative was a failure (AS could not be started) due to wrong version of the C++ library.
2- Make sure you use the right Ethernet IF (In case you have a Syno with multiple Ethernet cards).
Strangely, this do not affect the discovery of devices on the network but will prevent AS to receive messages from the device, and thus will be unable to play music.
3- Make sure that the folders (and their subfolders) you would like to sync DO NOT contain any eaDir folders.
If it is the case, AS will refuse to start the sync process and will raise an request/query error.
This is actually rather strange as AS on a MAC does not care about those eaDir in the synced folders.
My assumption: a specific scan is performed to the folder before the syncing process starts, and that scan is not repeated again on that folder even if it is modified on the fly and requires another syncing.
4- You can sync with AS any folder (local or remote mounted by CIFS), provided of course you have read access to those folders.
That’s all!
Now, I will perform a test to see (or better, try to hear) a difference if any in terms of sound quality. If something is discovered, I will let our expert people to analyse the case and report any findings 