WD can we please have TV Shows as an option on the main menu and also have a TV folder on the root of the hard drive

I would like to suggest that a new forum be created for the purpose of beta testing new firmware prior to their release to general public. Having beta testing done by members of the community would greatly help reduce the amount of bugs introduce in new firmware and allow for a better quality firmware to be made available to the general public. Making firmware bugs known prior to release would help developers fix them on the spot and avoid issue like firmware installations failure or faulty language files.

The remote needs to be able to send volume control signals directly to the TV.

I would like a visualizer style screensaver. I listen to a lot of Pandora and would love something to look at instead of WD floating around or pictures. The example below is from iTunes and would be on the extreme side. Just something basic to start with would be awesome, then other people might have input. 

 

 

I am REALLY loving my WD hub, but I am not very happy with how it handles audio files....

 

I have a large collection of music... and a large collection of audio books.

 

I'd love it if the Hub would do a <Random Play All> from a selected folder, with the option of playing into subfolders as well...

 

As it stands now, if I select all, chapters of my audio books get played in with music... Until this gets fixed, or improved I have abandoned playing my music collection via my WD Hub.

 

Can we get a better audio player interface?  Pretty please with sugar on it??? 

Allow the use of Transparent png's for moviesheets , folder icons, thumbnails etc.  Default icons for for absent folder artwork are .png with transparent capability, ie video_browse_gallery_thumbnail_folder_f.png, please allow the use of them for user created work.

Allow the folder.jpg to be a folder.png  with the ability for it to be a tranparent png.

What I would like to see is the ability to have a top level filter set for pre-defined main menu selections , for example :

 

Movies / Television / Home Movies

 

From the root of the file system, anything placed in the Movies folder would only show when selecting Movies from the main menu and so on for the other choices.

 

 

 

I cannot speak for anyone else, but my media library is getting quite large - a problem exasperated by Television series. I accept the UI for what it is due to hardware limitations but using the search feature or manually applying filters is more time consuming than using Page Up/Down.

Make functions like the games and Internet services separate plug-ins, which could be downloaded separately or at least disabled. The advantage would be that the core firmware would be less complicated and could be made more robust. The core would only need to be updated to fix bugs. New features could be added through a plug-in. This would make development easier and give users more flexibility. You would only download the plug-ins you wanted.

The WD live hub fan is not 100% quiet - while it's not much, it's annoying and unexpected especially when the unit is not in use.

This has been a frequent complaint from customers - where some people even added resistors to the fan to make it run a tad slower (and less noisy).

I'm sure the criticism on this fantastic product you read in the forums will change dramatically. I understand there is nothing you can do about the fan noise when there is a fan that needs to run, but there is something you can do to make it much more bearable - and for it to become a non-issue.

 

A smarter solution to this problem could be "Auto Sleep"

When the WD is in a deep sleep - the fan makes no noise.  The time before the system goes into this sleep could be user configurable (very much like screensavers or sleep-mode is configured on laptops).

the power button for 3 seconds because of the noise from the fan is noticable (in bedrooms, or quiet living rooms). It would make more sense if the unit can decide do that automatically.

 

The fan would still run as movies are playing, but in that case the sound of the fan will not be noticed when compared to the sound of the movie - so hence this will be seen as a non-issue.

 

Another smart way of solving this is to "Turn of fan automatically"

Simply put, when the unit is not busy rendering movies, the CPU load of the machine will be small, and the passive cooling capabilities should be acceptable to keep the unit cool enough.

When movies are being rendered (USB, Network, HD), then of course the fan can be on, because the movie will produce a sound which is higher than the fan noise.

You would not need temperature sensors for a machine with this simple logic.  Basically you can say - Turn fan off when it's not operationally used.

 

Any solution that would improve fan noise would be greatly appreciated - while I find the noise reasonably acceptable, my wife strongly disagrees ...

 

 

Would be really good to have an "App Store" for the services on the WDTV live. Instead of having them all installed as default via the firmware - have the ability to pick what you'd like and install it. 

 

For example - out of all the services installed, I only really use Netflix and iplayer. Having the ability to pick and choose would clean up the interface and allow for it to be controlled by me!