Clueless and need direction on downloads

[Apollo]

I took a look at ProStudioMasters (even purchased an album overthere), but to be honest I only would buy there if they would have an album that I could not find anywhere else online.

2 reasons:

a) no other way to use their Download Manager to download your purchase.

b) even more important:  you can only download an album ONCE !

 

Alternative downloads online:

a) Qobuz (you do not need a streaming subscription to buy online albums) - they keep all your purchases available to you (even the album goes out of their catalog)

b) 7Digital.com

 

 

Coming back to the intial question of the TS, one can definitely download purchased albums/tracks on one's iPad and move it to a Synology NAS folder.  The app to install both on Synology and iPad is Synology Drive

(there is 1 small caveat : as this app synchronizes in both directions, you need to use an empty folder to download to, otherwise everything in the folder will be downloaded to your iPad)

If you are downloading individual tracks, that's all you need.  

 

If you are downloading a zipped album, you will need another app on your iPad to unzip the album (e.g. Synology DS File )

(sorry but screenshot is in Dutch)