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Personal Music Library
DSM admin or users belonging to the administrators group can enable personal library to allow DiskStation
users to have their own personal music library. Once users' personal library is enabled, they can choose to
browse and play either their own personal music or both shared and personal music.
To enable personal library for DiskStation users:
1 Click Settings and then click the
2 Tick Enable Personal Library
To browse and play music collection:
1 Select either of the following to browse and play music in the main area of Audio Station:

Shared (files stored in the music shared folder and any other indexed folders which contain music files)
and personal music

Personal music (files stored in the home/music folder)
2 Click OK. File indexing will be performed right away.
Note: Only personal music files will be indexed. You may click
files if you found files missing.
Change Views
By clicking the three buttons above the main section, you can browse your songs in different views.
There are three views to browse your songs:

List (the first button): Organize your items in a list.

Artwork (the second button): The icons or artwork (if any) of your songs or folders appear in the main section.

Cover Flow (the third button): All icons/artwork and song/directory names appear using Cover Flow, a fancy
way to flip through your library.
Note:

Cover flow is available only when browsing the library using
 Only when music files are in the following formats can their cover art be displayed in Audio Station: MP3, M4A.
See Your Current Location
You can use the Up icon (with an upward arrow) or any of the path names above the main area to go back to
previous directories.
To go back to a previous directory, do any of the following:
 Click the
Up button to go back to the last directory.
 Click any of the path names to the right of the
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Personal Library tab.
and click OK.
By Album
Up icon to go back to a previous directory.
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Re-index to re-construct the index structure of the
or By Artist.
Based on DSM 4.1