Roon runs on a Synology NAS latest DSM software with audio station installed. External access to the NAS is set up.
Installed Audio Station app on my iOS 18.1.1 iPhone and looged into audio station for remote access to my library. Hooked up carplay and to my surprise, audio station shows up on the carplay list of compatible apps. And it actually works.
Cool, no more messing with ARC. Just wanted to share that with the niche in the in niche people running Roon on a NAS.
Agreed, it works well, but there’s no access to Tidal of Qobuz streaming, only your local library files.
Just curious does the Synology solution give you access to your entire music catalog including playlists, artists, albums, and tracks?
Roon Arc and/or CarPlay have improved recently where I can see more of my catalog than the previous limitations. My understanding is that the limitation was within CarPlay and how music it allowed Arc to cache in for you to view.
John
but Tidal is a native Car Play app too… not sure about Qobuz showing up in car play - i think when i had Q it did show up…
@John_Klimaszewski , no Audio Station doesn’t give you access to anything other than your local files, listed alphabetically (you can sort). ARC is far superior, offering the ability to stream files that Audio Station chokes on. Nothing against this post; I used Audio Station frequently when I had access to WiFi. But now I’ve removed it now, and rely solely on ARC with all the features ARC offers. Cheers.
I stopped using ARC after it deleted my downloads for the 3rd time - this has also happened to friends. I now use the native streaming apps + audio station and I get by.
@Ciaran_Henry , agreed about the downloads. I no longer download with ARC… it’s just a waste of time. I recently bought a Lifetime Subscription for Plex, to solve the elimination of Video Station. I haven’t tried it with audio yet, but I understand it works pretty well. For now, I’ll stick with ARC, and hope I always have a connection to Server.
My primary goal was to have hassle-free access to my locally stored library. Playlists are on my Tidal sub available on carplay. Interestingly enough, the connection to my home servers appears to be more stable compared to Tidal.
Audio station does not appear on Apple’s official car play compatible apps list. Dunno what’s up with that.
DS Audio is the name of the mobile app, and it works splendidly. Audio Station is the web app that runs on DSM’s web interface.
Yes, you are right. DS Audio doesn’t show up either on Apple’s list
There are a lot of CarPlay apps that don’t show up on those lists. I think the vendors pay Apple to be featured on that list…
Haven’t checked, but interested in experiences…
Does Plex offer CarPlay?
How are people’s experiences of it?
Maybe this with 10 s of Google search answers it…
Nice! Maybe I’ll open a new topic in Plex forums to ask about ‘experiences’ 
I want to say that PlexAmp cannot read/play back all high resolution content (e.g., some DSD) perfectly, and if you have a lot of high resolution content, your album and track count in PlexAmp will not be the same as in Roon.
However, my Roon and Synology Audio Station track and album counts match perfectly:
And playback abilities are 100% consistent between the platforms.
