MyBookLIve working via phone use - but not at pc or network

My original reason for the mybooklive was to be able to play my huge collection of music via the MBL on my phone… I can still do this…

However at the pc … its not reconnecting… Ive tried diffferent things. But I prefer not to hook it up direct to pc… the main reason for it being on the router was so that all my other devices could use it too. thats the main reason to have MBL for me…

I bet its gone defective… but its out of warranty… So if I replace it… Im not sure WD will be the choice.
Any suggestions as to what all possible steps can I try?

Forgot… almost from the start - it would occasionally lose connection but as soon as I click on the drive in windows explorer it would wake up