KAD79 wrote:
if you also want to use the outdate version of MovieSheets including xml file for a slower display with 3-5 seconds delay then go into ThhumbGen options / general tab and check the box that says “movie information” on the right hand side, unless you are using an SMP there should be no good reason for that 
media library sort/search functions can be very usefull, and in some setups absolutely necessary
so far, it requires both some edits in the theme xml’s and some edits in the movie xml’s
basically remove items from both sets of xml’s that really slow things down
leaving only what’s needed for media library and linksheets to function
some new thumbgen options would be useful as well, maybe for thumbgen 2.0
I am sure TG will be happy to satisfy those needs until then editing every single xml can not be an option, but it’s totally awesome that you are working on a solution. They sent you straight from heaven didn’t they? 
For me the library had exactly 1 advantage and 20 disadvantages. The one advantage was to show the actual titles instead of the file names. This became obsolete when i removed the title bar in the Gallery View for me and I never listened Music on the hub because I stream it through a 3rd party software directly to my TV/Receiver from my phone or iPad from a library that I actually like and spent 1000’s of geek hours on rating every single track and creating playlists for cars and living room situations
The library at WD is at beta at best, and while i think the YouTube function is a good idea, there are so many work arounds from the community that people can even use it, I have located the library as the root of all evil on my device.
I have 2 external drives, none of them would be properly added to the hub without a device restart, Somehow it just reads the first level of folders but not the contents inside of them. I tested this with all sorts of drives including the WD Element drives and no matter what it always requires a restart once the external drives been powered off. Restarting the device with 2 external drives + library is a 5 minutes job. Without the library they just work and none of the above is a problem for me. I am using my hub for movies and my externals for TV Shows, i have never been in need of a sorting function or that I could not remember a movie. I will always remember “i, Robot” = GOOD “New Resident Evil” = worst piece of S§$%& ever" i keep the good ones and delete the bad ones and since all are in HD i won’t be able to have more than 130 movies at the same time anyways. New ones are in an assorted New Movie folder and the ones I have seen go to the bin or a genre folder. I want to see TED i go to Comedy… and watch it. I want to see Star Wars… i go to the Sci-Fi folder… I want to see Green Lantern… i should ask myself “WHY?”
I guess it is just how I am. When I have seen a movie my brain is the best functioning library in the world. I also never went through my files and asked myself what I want to see… I always know which movie I want to see before i power on my device.
Long story short, the library has caused me way too many problems that the few advantages weight up for the problems. In my eyes as a developer and user the library is a malfunction, it is alienating and I know for a fact that people have returned their device because of it. Sorting TV Shows by episode name and not by episode number is possibly the most dumbfaced thing a coder has ever released (and not corrected in 2 years), adding it’s own TV Show filter as a work around for this malfunction instead of making the library more flexible and logical is like taking a bike for swimming and a wet suit for the sauna. It’s not user friendly and they keep messing the the TV System and make it worse with every new release, like storing backdrops locally (record 53 backdrops for 1 episode… 11 MB)
It’s like they are sitting there and think…
“What do users like?”
“oh i know… they like switching library functions and they want you to eat up disk space”
“so lets save the top 4 favorite fan arts per episode?”
“No all of them!!!”
“you are so generous”
“oh look how nice it looks when you sort 200 episodes by their name”
“yes let’s do that and make sure that each title gets the whole TV Show Name, Season, Episode and Actual Episode name in the title tag”
“Two and a Half Men S06 - E10 He Smelled the Ham, He Got Excited”
“oh wow brilliant it’s almost like a book”
" awesome in the list view all you can read is Two and a Half Men S"
“yeah man… it’s like a guessing game”
“why guessing they already know it’s Two and a Half Men”
That must be how conversations go… and it is not meant to be funny at all… it is how they must think and that is really sad.
