Qnap HD Station Adds JRiver Media Center Support

QNAP Systems, Inc. has improved its HybridDesk Station (HD Station) 3.0 app by integrating the JRiver Media Center, providing users with better audio experience and greater choice to complete their home theater environment.

With the QvPC technology, QNAP NAS can be used as a PC and run multiple applications on the HD Station by connecting a keyboard, mouse and HDMI display.

“We are happy to work with QNAP to enrich the multimedia applications on their NAS devices. JRiver Media Center provides excellent media management and works perfectly in QNAP’s HD Station to provide users with greater flexibility in their multimedia experience,” said Jim Hillegass, CEO, JRiver.

“QNAP constantly strive to provide complete multimedia solutions for our users,” commented Bobby Chen, product manager, QNAP. “We are proud to add a renowned application like JRiver Media Center to HD Station to provide our users with greater choice and more high-quality applications for storing, managing and playing the multimedia on their NAS.“

With JRiver Media Center in the HD Station, users can manage a large library of media files and multiple media servers within the same network. The Media Center features cover art and metadata options to make media management easy. QNAP NAS can be used as a powerful media player that supports direct-streaming of every multimedia format as well as multi-zone multimedia streaming. Professional media functions including equalizer, tempo, pitch and sample rate further fulfill audiophiles’ tastes.

QNAP’s QvPC technology consolidates a number of technologies including HDMI output, multimedia transcoding, VM integration, cloud integration, NA connection technologies. It enables users to use their NAS as a PC by connecting it to a HDMI monitor and using HD Station to operate multiple applications, making the QNAP NAS a cost-efficient all-in-one NAS device.

HD Station 3.0 is supported by the following QNAP NAS models: TS-x51, TS-x51+, HS-251/251+, TS-x53 Pro, TVS-x63, TVS-x71, TVS-871T, TS/TVS-x80, TS-x70 and TS-x79 series (requires firmware QTS 4.2.0 or above)