I have found the existing arrangement for use of thumbnails when setting up the WD Live Media Player, to be too restrictive and counter-intuitive. It appears that when it comes to the use of thumbnails, there is no choice as to the categories to which they are applied. I would like to view all organisational folders in list form, with thumbnails being applied only to the presentation of individual media files within those folders. But it seems one can only have a ‘global’ application of thumbnails. All users of our WD Live Media Player agree that while thumbnails are an enjoyable and effective way of reviewing the individual files within a given folder, selecting the folder one wants to review is most easily achieved by being able to view a list of available folders (all of which are labelled).
Labelling a limited number of folders is easy; labelling hundreds (in fact, thousands) of individual files is a daunting prospect.
Is there a reasonable chance of WD releasing a firmware upgrade that addresses this issue, OR is there any third party software that can provide the desired facility, OR is there a work-around?
You can check out B-Rad’s third party firmware to see if it offers anything like this. Other than that, I’d say the chances for what you want are slim and none (and Slim just left town).
Many thanks for the suggestion, Mike. At this stage I am trying out a ‘work-around’: By making a text only .jpg file that indicates an individual folders content, and giving it a “#” designation, I hope that as the first listed file in the folder it will appear as the thumbnail for the folder. I’ll find out later today or tomorrow if it works … I shalln’t be able to access the Media Player until then.
I used that to download my Star Trek covers (for all the series) and then used an ImageMagick script to generate, oh, about 300 “moviename.jpg” files based on those images.
