As previously mentioned: your first entry is (already) coming from the "Id and Synology alone" -- so I don't think that there is anything more that you need to learn. Or ??
Thanks for continuing help...and sorry for lack of clarity.
To access the Synology from the ID ala the 'first entry', I have to load my PC's library into the ID....the PC library that put the music on the Synology.
I cannot find a way, at the ID, to load or add the Synology files as a standalone library without turning on DLNA on the Synology.
I have wanted to do this so I could leave my Main Library on my PC, my mp3 library, as one that syncs and auto imports with itunes.
And I have a newly created Flac library with music files on Synology trying to stay apart from anything to do with mp3's/itunes.
I have hoped this Flac library could also feed several Gizmo controlled ID's, (preferably without a host PC involved).
I guess the ultimate goal is to be able to choose either the mp3 library, or the Flac library, from Gizmo at each ID.
Im very new to JR MC, NAS, and ID's all three !
Very Open to easiest way out...thx again