And this makes the entire Media Library mode unusable. I just go there to do a manual rescan (because auto rescan is also bugged) so I can get content info of newly copied stuff. Switching back and forth is very inconvenient. Also, sometimes I forget to go back to network share mode and watch the wrong episode of a series because of this.
Do you intentionally annoy your customers with this 2-year old bug? Do we need to start writing bad reviews on Amazon and other big webshops to make you listen and do something about it?
Do you intentionally annoy your customers with this 2-year old bug? Do we need to start writing bad reviews on Amazon and other big webshops to make you listen and do something about it?
If you want to write reviews about bugs that donât exist, well, thatâs up to you â but it was fixed a long time ago.
If you use the TV Show filter, the episodes sort numerically by epsiode.
If you donât want to use the TV Show filter, the files will be sorted alphabetically by title as defined in the metadata.
Though it may not do what you âwantâ it to do, it is working as WD intends, thus itâs not a bug. ⊠and there are myriad other ways to get what you want.
JamesBond007 wrote:
(because auto rescan is also bugged)
It is? Can you elaborate? (None of your former posts mention anything about it.)
The TV Show filter is useless to me, because it would just change the problem from switching source modes to switching filters every time I would want to watch a movie. If I could use the Media Library, I would always use the Folder filter and expect proper sorting there.
It would take about 3 seconds for somebody could replace that %d with %2d in the XML writing code to fix this issue. Or they could copy the fix from Network Share view where the sorting is correct.
Media Library rescan is set to 1 hour and I always cold start my WDTV. New files never appear until I explicitly clear media library or do a rescan. I think it worked about 3 firmwares ago, but canât remember when it went wrong. Deleting .wdtv folders didnât fix it either. Made the sorting problem even more a PITA but I wouldnât care if I could remain in Media Library mode so I can quicly rescan.
OK, so you think itâs normal to have to jump through hoops if I want to watch something. Unfortunately so does WD. My requirements are very simple: I want to turn on my player, select a movie or a TV show episode and start playing without changing modes, filters or bowing 3 times toward east. I guess itâs too much to ask for.
The player (is supposed to) update the Media Library on cold boot. The âUpdatingâŠâ  text does appear for a few secs but the new files do not appear. Probably some lazy programmer thought itâs enough to check the system uptime and not the last update of the database file.
And before you ask why the cold boot is, itâs because of a third bug that doesnât allow my NAS to spin down because the player constantly does something on the hard drive for hours and hours.
The player (is supposed to) update the Media Library on cold boot.
It hasnât been this way in probably a year or more.
The only thing done on a boot is an integrety check of the database. Content rescans arenât done on bootup. Probably due to the loads of complaints people had about how long it took to redo the library every time they started their player.
Not sure about your âsleepâ issue â I have four NASes on my network and two WDTVs in Standby â theyâre all happily sleeping as I type.
The great advantage of sorting being based off of the xml files is that xml files are easy to edit, so you can make your box sort things however you want (if it truly matters to you). I change names of lots of my movies, and yes, I âfixâ the episode numbering. Quickly wrote a (Linux) script to do it, but not that much work even by hand. I believe people have posted the name of a Windows program that makes it easy to select a group of files and use regexâs to change text (just change âSeason m - nâ to âSeason m - 0nâ in the xml files). That is all you need. Trivial.
Yes, I could put a cron job on my NAS that does this, but I also consider this a hoop I need to jump through. If the player would have been a free giveaway I wouldnât mind to do various hacks but this is a product, I have paid for it so I expect it to work properly.
Of course in the time you have spent complaining about this you could have had it fixed yourself multiple times over. Here is a news flash for you: manufacturers do not design products precisely to your specifications, and different people want different things. I am often very surprised by peopleâs complaints on here about how they want the SMP to work, as I find their proposals quite non-functional. I seldom think any piece of software or hardware works exactly as I would want it to. My solution is figure out how to make it work as I want or (in the case of software) make my own alternative. Such is the case with the sorting of TV shows on the SMP. Spent 10min writing/debugging script and have never had to spend more than another couple of minutes on the issue in the >two years I have owned the things. Problem 100% completely solved. I have a bunch of scripts for putting video rips and other things into the form that I want, another bunch for maintaining my digital photos as I want, and on and on. We have many appliances (e.g., coffee makers) and other pieces of hardware around the house that I have similarly re-engineered to make them work âproperlyâ (i.e., the way I want them to). I frankly cannot imagine continually using something that doesnât work as I want it to when I had the ability to âfixâ it, but hey, if thatâs how you want to liveâŠ
I seldom think any piece of software or hardware works exactly as I would want it to. My solution isâŠ
Yikes. I find apps all the time that are awesome just the way they are. If I visit their forums it is to say this product rocks.
Maybe you are expecting too much. Most end users (who ARE THE marketplace) donât want to have to hunt for solutions and certainly can not âmakeâ them.
News flash for you: manufacturers do design products precisely to my needs. aka âthe next killer appâ
I think 99% of the userâs are not IT professionals like you and me and donât have the necessary skills to implement hacks if something goes wrong. They expect to work it properly. And even if I could do what you suggest, I have better things to do with my free time than to fix a bad product.
I learned to live with this problem most of the time, but yesterday I accidentally watched half of episode 10 of a show after episode 3 before I realized Iâm watching the wrong episode. Now the whole season is spoiled and got pissed about the ignorance of the developers.
⊠yesterday I accidentally watched half of episode 10 of a show after episode 3 before I realized Iâm watching the wrong episode. Now the whole season is spoiled and got pissed about the ignorance of the developers.
I seldom think any piece of software or hardware works exactly as I would want it to. My solution isâŠ
Yikes. I find apps all the time that are awesome just the way they are. If I visit their forums it is to say this product rocks.
Maybe you are expecting too much. Most end users (who ARE THE marketplace) donât want to have to hunt for solutions and certainly can not âmakeâ them.
News flash for you: manufacturers do design products precisely to my needs. aka âthe next killer appâ
Glad to know who they design these things for!
But I am not expecting too much, since I do not expect what I buy to work exactly how I think it should. If it works well enough and I donât have the skills to improve it, then I will be OK with it. However, if I have the skills to improve it then I certainly will. I wonât just get on a forum and complain over and over about it. For the SMP, this has meant writing a bunch of scripts to process xml files and video files, hand editing some xml files, and playing with advanced Samba settings. For our digital cameras it has meant writing dozens of scripts to rename, resort, resize, and so forth, the photo files exactly how I want it done (and with one easy command/click). For most of our coffee makers, it has meant adding power diodes to reduce water flow rate (which greatly improves flavor for small pot sizes). For our cat water fountains it has meant changes to eliminate costly filters, reduce pump flow rates to reduce noise, etc. And on and on.
You say that most people donât want to do this sort of thing, and yet I see an awful lot of people on these forums who are developing and using things like thumbgen. So I am hardly alone in wanting things the way I want them. This is much easier to achieve with computer software of course, than with most things.
Unfortunately this attitude makes companies lazy. They can cut the cost by spending less on QA and rely on the community to fix the **bleep** they are releasing. I donât think you would like your car the same way, for example.
I donât think you would like your car the same way, for example.
Modding of cars isnât done??? Heck, even Walmart is full of add-on do-dads like extra storage bins, cup holders, etc., so you can make your car more the way you want it. These are the same level of âmodificationâ that we are talking about you having to do to get the SMP to sort TV shows the way you want: a few minutes of your time and minimal specialized skills.
OK, I give up. Please improve this âfeatureâ by displaying TV show episodes in random order in folder view, it would make finding the next episode even more fun.
