Skill’s are add-ons for the amazon alexa that add functionality and software support that is not included in the default build of the device, as well as adding new phrases and voice activated protocol to alexa.Īlthough Synology’s Audio Station Skill is a worthy effort once you go into the Synology Audio station NAS application settings and enable Alexa support, it is still very lacklustre and prone to failure. To their credit, Synology NAS have tried to resolve the issue by the release of their ‘Synology Audio Station Skill’ in the amazon skill store. You may well have decades of great music you have collected and stored, which now live in their own folders and albums on your NAS, but Amazon Echo does not support DLNA (which is a little ridiculous of Amazon to overlook this feature) and therefore you cannot access your own music for playback via the Amazon Alexa speaker without using a Bluetooth adapter or via a mobile application – thereby completely not using the voice functionality of the Alexa device – defeating the entire object!Īmazon Echo and the Synology Audio Station Skill The big downfall of all three (aside from additional costs per month for streaming content) is that you are not playing your own music, your own mp3 files or your own playlists. 2, subscribe to Spotify Premium (as the standard free version does not cover Alexa) or 3, let Alexa check with its catalogue of internet-based music radio stations.
1, subscribe to the Amazon Music or Amazon Music Unlimited cloud music streaming service. If you wanted to playback music from your Alexa AI device, you only had 3 real options. Whether by accident or on purpose, Amazon has made it exceptionally difficult to be able to playback your own music via the Amazon echo device. This is actually a lot harder than it sounds.
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