Not able to play an album using Deezer

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live & Live Plus
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Hi… 

I bought a WD TV live today as i read Deezer was available.  I have a Deezer premium account.

However i have found the Deezer option is very limited:

  • i cannot find a way to play a whole album (i can just search for individual tracks and i do not want to manually create a play list for each album)

  • search is very poor - for example i tried to look for albums by the band James but i was unable to achieve this

Is the Deezer interface still being developed?

Am i missing something?

Droolian

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I made some further tests and post the following for anybody looking to use this device for Deezer.  Unfortunately the current functionality is very restricted - if i had known this before-hand I would not have bought the device.  

Device patch level  1.04.17_v

Working:

  • sign on using Deezer account
  • access to Playlists
  • access to Radios
  • access to Charts
  • basic search

NOT working

  • albums in your Deezer favourites are not shown
  • any folders in your favourites are not shown
  • most crucially, the ability to identify and play an album is missing
    example:  You can search for the band Arcade Fire.  When you choose the band you are shown a list of songs by the band - sorted in Deezer popularity.  Unlike the normal Deezer application, you cannot select the artist or album - you can only play the tracks in popularity order.
  • search by album is not working.   The results are the same as using the “All” option.
    example:  Search for the album Funeral.  You are shown a list of tracks with Funeral in the title - again sorted by Deezer  popularity - regardless of the album title.  e.g. the second track identified is Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath from the album Paranoid…

Hoping these issues are fixed in the next patch…

Droolian

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And what makes you think this a WDTV problem. The Deezer API is very limitted. See here-

http://www.deezer.com/en/developers/#developers/simpleapi/

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Interesting…   I had imagined that WD would have access to the full API.

When researching the device i did not find any mention that the Deezer functionality was so restricted.

Others can learn from my mistake.

Droolian