Clueless and need direction on downloads

[stefano_mbp]

@brad225 … which OS is running on Sonic Transporter i9?

ProStudioMaster Download Manager can be installed on macOS or Windows only, therefore if Sonic Transporter runs Linux there’s no way to install PDM on it, but it should be possible to use a virtual machine in Linux and install on it Windows (I run a Virtual Box VM on Ubuntu without issues).

It’s very easy to install Virtual Box on Linux and it’s not that difficult to create a Virtual Machine running Windows.

The Windows Virtual Machine can share folders with the host operating system and it should be easy to use PDM in the Windows VM, download your purchased albums and move them to the host OS in the Roon watched folder.

You can start the VM only if needed, no need to keep it always running.

[stefano_mbp]

2 hours ago, Norton said:

Hi Brad,

 

as I understand it, the issue here is that your synology NAS doesn’t have the ability, out of the box,  to run a web browser and thus download files direct to the NAS.  Plus you don’t want to also run a pc etc just to download and then transfer to NAS.

 

I know nothing about NAS (I just use a PC as my music server) but as I understand  it a NAS is just a specialised PC, so there should be a way to do what you want to do.  The link I posted above is to “Download Station” - a Synology  app  that would seem to allow you to do what you want.  What you want to do seems eminently reasonable to me and there’s got to  be a way.  You could try what I suggested or maybe there is a Synology forum you can ask at.

 - e.g “how do I  run a web browser on Synology NAS to download files and control this process from my iPad”

 

 

You cannot download purchased albums from ProStudioMaster without their Download Manager …

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5 hours ago, brad225 said:

Tried that, Andrew said to look on Google to find out how to download. 

It doesn’t seem a customer friendly answer at all …