Haven’t played music for awhile but last night went to play some albums.
Obviously things have changed at some point because of firmware updates. In the past could go into an album, select a track and play it. Then whilst playing the track could look at all the other tracks in the album folder and switch to anyone.
Now when you select an album it starts playing the first song in the album and you can only go next track or previous track. You can’t seem to enter the album to choose tracks like the manual explains. Anyway round this? It’s a backward step and I cannot see any logical reason why they would do that.
WD changed the Music Playback Interface on the SMP in Firmware 2.0.2.32 (in 2015)
(to get the original interface operation SMP must be rolled back to 2.01.86)
As far as i know, the WD Media Player (2014) has always had this “new” interface
you could try rolling back to 1.00.42 … but i don’t think it will change
No way around it … it’s hardcoded into the Firmware.
Why did they change it ? nobody will ever know … yes, it is a step back, because that’s how the GEN 1 and GEN 2 wdtv’s displayed music playback
Anyways, i no longer use any wdtv’s … moved “forward”
Music Playback on my Raspberry Pi 3 running Kodi does exactly what you’re after
No I have an external hard drive connected to it via USB. Ok, tried a hard reset makes no difference. Latest firmware is 1.02.17. Haven’t updated to the very latest as everything is working fine and I don’t use those apps that are removed by it anyway.