I love the WD TV Live Gen 3 so much that I’ve bought 4 for my home, 2 for my parents. Also, more than 12 of my friends have purchased them after I demonstrated my units to them. That said, I have the following wishes for improvement of the product…
I’ve searched the internet for a solution to editing metadata and have found nothing that a non-programmer could use. Many movies have sequels that have different names and the WD TV live can’t keep them together and in sequence. In example, the movies: “The Transporter, Transporter 2, and Transporter 3.” The first movie begins with “The” and the other two sequels don’t. As a consequence of this, the WD unit places the first movie with every movie that begins with “The.” The other movies are then properly listed alphabetically & sequentially together.
This begs the second question…"Why the heck does the WD system organize the word “The,” when most filing systems don’t? Look at iTunes (for instance) as a guide.
Additionally, I’d like to edit the title so that I could add a numerical sequence or ID tag that all the movies in a series could share - in order to keep them together. For instance: Men in Black = MIB 1, MIB 2, MIB 3 or Lord of the rings 1, 2, 3, and etc, etc. Also, some series like “Silence of the lambs, Hannibal, and The Red Dragon,” have no name sharing at all. Editing into the title a common Id Tag, would help keep the movies in sequence. Think about this sequence: “Ocean’s Eleven, Oceans Thirteen, Ocean’s Twelve.” The supplied metadata list them by spelled out name, not the numerical sequence of 11, 12, 13.
Another issue is the inability to tie together a movie that covers two disk, as in a part 1 and part 2. This issue extends to no listings for director’s, extended, unrated, and etc. cuts of movies. The times wind up being completely wrong (amongst other things).
Next, I hate many of the cover-art photos that are provided. The original artwork is usually much better and descriptive. Why can’t I keep the original artwork that I’ve provided?
Lastly, the music feature is lacking in organizational ability far worse than any other feature of the device. It reads all of my iTunes library but scatters the songs from all the albums all over the place, and only displays some of the artwork. It’s a mess…totally. Again, use the look and feel of iTunes as a starting point.
It seems that many people want these features (based on the numerous queries on the internet). Why is satisfying these needs an impossibility? Most consumers avoid products that aren’t user friendly. I am not a programmer and neither do I want to be. Can anybody provide an easy solution…you know, something simple like clicking an edit metadata title name button or select cover-art photo button?
This product should dominate the home media market. The product is awesome! It allows a person to catalog all of their media in one central location. It takes up almost zero space and makes searching your libraries a snap! This is a product that should be in TV commercials every 15 minutes…the concept is that good. But it’s weakness is in it’s ease of use by the average consumer…meaning the 99% of consumers who’d never join a forum to operate their microwave oven, but yet own a microwave oven. That said, WD should stop treating it as a geek toy or computer nerd novelty - and improve the issues I’ve stated. Advanced user issues are great for forums, but us “99 percenters” are very satisfied with basic operating ease. Can anybody point me to EASY SOLUTIONS to the issues stated?
