Will this play music from a nas and if so is there a file type and size limitation? How would it connect to this nas
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This speaker supports DLNA protocol but not robust. It is a hit and missed so it is not guarantee that it would detect your NAS. If it detects your NAS and your NAS is also DLNA compliance, you will be able to stream music from the NAS to this speaker. I have 5 different NAS devices and only two were detected. The Sony does a much better job at this. Sony is even better as it is also Airplay, BT, DLNA and also has more music services.I tend to use the Sony more than this device due to compatibility and better speaker.
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Yeah it supports DLNA. But Airplay is better. Try Airplay if your NAS supports. I have Synology and I can stream from DS Audio to these speakers easily.
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the Play-fi app that comes with the Phorus speaker will play music from a dlna server so if your NAS acts as a DLNA server, then you can play music to the Phorus.
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Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far including dedicated windows machines. I probably have about 800 movies. Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far... » Read More Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far including dedicated windows machines. I probably have about 800 movies. « Show Less
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As a network attached storage device (NAS), it will function as a Sonos library. I have a Buffalo NAS on which I keep all my digital music, and my Sonos system accesses that drive to play my music.
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No , will play any music ,even from a drag and drop . Don't know the max , but I 've found the larger the drive , the more time it takes to go thru the files
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With the most recent update, I can now access music on my Western Digital My Cloud. So yes, it will stream from certain NAS drives. Check first with Bose to see which are compatible as not all are.
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No, this is not a NAS (network attached storage). It doesn't run on its own. It needs to be connected to your laptop to work. Try the QNAP and the Synology products. Those are standalone NAS units that can run Plex.
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I have an external USB hard drive connected and it works fine. You can even play back files from the USB drive. I have a 1 TB external drive.
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Scott, I don't have an NAS so I don't have any experience with them. I suspect that it should be possible to use files on an NAS, but I don't think you can stream from one. You would need to tell the HAPZ1 music transfer program to look on the NAS drive for music files (wav, flac, etc). The files will need to be transferred to the HAPZ1 internal (or a dedicated USB connected external) hard drive. I would suggest that you call Sony support for a definitive answer. It will take a few minutes to get through the various departments to get connected with the ES support staff. My experience with them is that they are very knowledgeable. Scott, I don't have an NAS so I don't have any experience with them. I suspect that it should be possible to use files on an NAS, but I don't think you can stream from one. You would need to tell the HAPZ1 music transfer program to look on the NAS drive for music files (wav, flac, etc). The files will need to be transferred to the HAPZ1 internal (or a dedicated USB connected external) hard drive. I would suggest that you call Sony support for a definitive answer. It will take a few minutes to get through the various departments to get connected with the ES support staff. My experience with... » Read More Scott, I don't have an NAS so I don't have any experience with them. I suspect that it should be possible to use files on an NAS, but I don't think you can stream from one. You would need to tell the HAPZ1 music transfer program to look on the NAS drive for music files (wav, flac, etc). The files will need to be transferred to the HAPZ1 internal (or a dedicated USB connected external) hard drive. I would suggest that you call Sony support for a definitive answer. It will take a few minutes to get through the various departments to get connected with the ES support staff. My experience with them is that they are very knowledgeable. « Show Less
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This unit does have USB input so it should be fairly easy to connect your computer. Instead of reading music files from your phone or thumb drive it would be taking the information directly from your computer. It should work just fine.
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I do exactly this with a Synology NAS. There are a few caveats with the library but I can watch or listen to my library on 2 Apple TVs and audio with some Airport Expresses. Should work the same with this.
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As a storage device it doesn't play anything. It would be good for CD &/o DVD storage.
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I dont believe this enclosure is meant to be use as NAS. It can be configured while connoted to a computer.
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I have been checking all over and I have not been able to find out if this can play FLAC audio files over DLNA. Does anyone know the answer?
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I have this system and am able to play 24-bit/192KHz flac files through the USB interface just fine (running on linux). I suppose it's possible the software or hardware is downgrading them first but I would have expected no sound at all if the unit really didn't support it.
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I work for an audio visual company and I bought one for my house and I works great. Wonderful sound and works great with the NAS I have on my network. Hope this helps
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I bought it and yes it will play music. the only problem i saw is if you have them in different folders then it wont jump folder to folder.
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Yes it streams from a NAS drive with no computer as long as the drive supports DLNA. I have had this about a year and it works fine. One note on your question, I run Windows so I can not speak for Apple. I would assume as long as the NAS supports DLNA it will work.