NAS Setup + Cover Art

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Just got a WDTV Live and a D-Link 320 NAS and have 2 questions:

  1. I’m browsing the NAS via Videos, then selecting Network Share. Is there a way to view just certain folders? I have to select Volume_1, then I see a list of all the folders, not just my movies folder.

  2. When a USB drive is plugged in, I can select options and grab cover art etc. This option does not appear for files on the NAS. How can I enable that option?

Many thanks!

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Add the shares you want to the media library via SETUP / SYSTEM / MEDIA LIBRARY / MEDIA LIBRARY MANAGER / …

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OK, now viewing NAS content via Videos > My Library Media, gives me the option to Get Content info. However:

  1. In this view, it seems if I add or remove videos, the library doesn’t update. How can I update the library automatically?

  2. Although some titles seem to have automatically got covers + info, lots haven’t and I have to individually select ‘Get Content info’. How can I force it to go through each video and grab covers etc?

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  1.  Make sure you’ve set the Content Source to “My Media Library” via the Red Button.   If you need to rescan a folder, just highlight the folder, hit OPTIONS / then RESCAN.

  2. If it can’t find a match based on the filename, it’s not going to get the info.   This often happens if the files are named awkwardly, or of the name causes multiple matches;  it’s not going to guess which of the multiple matches is the correct one.

Give me some examples of file names (exact file name, please) that it’s not matching.

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Thanks for the reply:

  1. So I can’t make the box auto-update and I have to manually re-scan?

  2. OK, lets say The Towering Inferno.mkv - no attempt has been made to get the info but I can force it with the get content info and it picks the correct title. Oddly enough, I added a bunch of new MKVs this morning and its mostly these its refusing to get.

Its the same with TV shows, lets say Awake.s01e02.mkv - its refusing to automatically get any of my TVShow info.

Is there any PC software that can populate covers + info?

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  1. Well, if you power it off and back on, it will do a full rescan.     But otherwise, the box would have to constantly monitor the file system for changes, and that has a tendency to keep things like NAS devices from ever idling their disks – I wouldn’t want that.

There are plenty of tools to out-board your content collection.  HubGen, ThumbGen, XML Fetcher, etc. etc…

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Thanks. I deleted the libary and had the box re-index. Seems to have picked up most of whats missing. Seems odd it can’t seem to properlet detect new or re-named content without doing that. For example, just renamed The Terminal.mkv and did a manual re-scan and no info or artwork appeared.

Whats the option to ‘set auto scan schedule’?

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So, the WDTV still isn’t scanning the NAS every hour as I set. If it is, its not adding the content it finds to the libary. Should it be doing this or have I missunderstood the function?