- Music App To Play Files From Sandisk Media Drive Attached To Ipad Screen
- Music App To Play Files From Sandisk Media Drive Attached To Ipad To Tv
This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
Description
Access your My Cloud and My Passport Wireless drives, including : My Cloud, My Cloud Expert series, My Cloud Pro series, My Passport Wireless Pro, and My Passport Wireless.
My Cloud Home users please download the My Cloud Home app.
The My Cloud app makes accessing and sharing from anywhere easy. And with automatic photo and video backup to your personal cloud storage, it helps reliably store your irreplaceable moments so you can free up space on your tablet or smartphone. The My Cloud app also integrates with other cloud services, providing a centralized location for all your content.
Note: The My Cloud app requires a WD My Cloud product or My Passport Wireless product to work (sold separately).
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My Cloud Home users please download the My Cloud Home app.
The My Cloud app makes accessing and sharing from anywhere easy. And with automatic photo and video backup to your personal cloud storage, it helps reliably store your irreplaceable moments so you can free up space on your tablet or smartphone. The My Cloud app also integrates with other cloud services, providing a centralized location for all your content.
Note: The My Cloud app requires a WD My Cloud product or My Passport Wireless product to work (sold separately).
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What’s New
- Fixed screen compatibility issue with iPad Pro 11 inch
- Fixed image captured date issue with camera roll backup
- Other minor bug fixes
- Fixed image captured date issue with camera roll backup
- Other minor bug fixes
532 Ratings
Feedback
I can’t find anywhere to provide feedback so here it goes. great app but could do with some tweaks. I use it a lot to access my photos when away from home but a few things could be improved. If photos are numbered in a collection then they aren’t displayed in the correct way when sorted A-Z.. eg. 1,10,100,101,102,103. Another annoying thing, when you scroll through a list of photos and click on one to view it - when you click back, you lose your scroll and it goes back to the top of the list. Another suggestion would be that when you click to copy the photo, it downloads the whole file. if the photo is 4mb+ it can take a while to get it. the suggestion would be to give an option to download the file as a small file (100kb perhaps), medium, large, full size. hope that feedback can be incorporated somewhere
Does What it Says in the Box
I'm no tech but it does exactly what I want. I have amongst other things; my music stored. I can listen to it when I'm at work via Wifi. I can listen to my music when I'm abroad. Perfect. The only problem I have experienced is getting all my music copied over. I think I was a little too ambitious and tried to send too many files with the result that the copying process fell over. Patience is needed but is worth it. The other downside is every time you go back to your album or artist list, it doesn’t go back to where you were, but resets the list to “A”. This is extremely annoying. So to sum up it works well but there is room for improvements
Disappointing
It does not appear to be possible to move photo albums from my iPad and if date order is selected photos are shown in the order they were copied and time stamped as such. This means that to maintain chronological sequence photos have to be copied one at a time. If a block copy is requested the precise order cannot be predetermined. The original time stamp is retained in the metadata, as discovered by copying files back to the iPad to test just that. The sum of the above is that My Cloud is fine for saving data but not using it.
Since writing the above all three devices attached to MyCloud have had their access revoked for no known reason and I am having problems reattaching them. Using the internet access it also looks as though the more recent photos I migrated over are missing. As they were migrated and not copied that is very concerning.
Since writing the above all three devices attached to MyCloud have had their access revoked for no known reason and I am having problems reattaching them. Using the internet access it also looks as though the more recent photos I migrated over are missing. As they were migrated and not copied that is very concerning.
Information
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
Supports
Family Sharing
Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.
This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
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Description
Quick Overview
Enjoy the freedom to wirelessly share and stream high definition content across iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, smartphones and tablets with the SanDisk Connect™ Wireless Media Drive app. This app requires a SanDisk Connect™ Wireless Media Drive device in order to work.
Simply connect wirelessly from your mobile device to the media drive and instantly stream your HD movies, browse photos and listen to music from around-the-house or on-the-go while avoiding the common hassles of cables, attachment limits or Internet availability.
Key Features:
Wireless Media Drive App
•Wirelessly access your movies, photos, music and documents stored on the media drive from your mobile device. No Internet or router required
•Automatically categorize your content into photos, videos, music and other documents and view it within the App
•Upload photos, videos and other files from your mobile device to the drive and free up space on your mobile device
•Download files from the drive to the mobile device for offline access
•Edit photos, play slideshows and auto-play all music files
•Use the iOS native document previewer to view PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
•Connect the media drive to your local Wi-Fi access point to connect to the Internet
•Set up a WEP/WPA password for the Media Drive WiFi network and secure your connection
•Use the App to easily upgrade the Media Drive’s firmware whenever there is an update available
About the SanDisk Connect™ Wireless Media Drive Device (sold separately)
•Works wirelessly via Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n), no Internet or router required
•Expandable storage capacity via the SD™ card expansion slot
•Simultaneously connect up to 8 devices and stream up to 5 HD video stream
•Up to 8 hours of continuous streaming on a single charge1
•Accessible up to 150 feet away
•Optional Wi-Fi password protection (WPA)2
•To learn more about the Wireless Media Drive go to www.sandiskconnect.com
Note: The media drive can store any file type. However, streaming content such as movies and music is dependent on the file support provided by your mobile device.
1 Based on streaming 720p content at 2mbps to one device; actual life and performance may vary depending upon usage and settings; battery not replaceable.
2 iOS ver. 6.0 or higher or Mac OS 10.6 or higher required
Support
For questions, please consult the SanDisk support page at www.sandisk.com/mediadrive
iTunes is for legal or rightholder-authorized copying only. Don’t steal music.
Company Info
www.sandisk.com
Legal
http://www.sandisk.com/products/connect/disclaimer/
iTunes, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch are trademarks of Apple Inc.
SanDisk is a trademark of Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates, registered in the United States and other countries.
©2016 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Enjoy the freedom to wirelessly share and stream high definition content across iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, smartphones and tablets with the SanDisk Connect™ Wireless Media Drive app. This app requires a SanDisk Connect™ Wireless Media Drive device in order to work.
Simply connect wirelessly from your mobile device to the media drive and instantly stream your HD movies, browse photos and listen to music from around-the-house or on-the-go while avoiding the common hassles of cables, attachment limits or Internet availability.
Key Features:
Wireless Media Drive App
•Wirelessly access your movies, photos, music and documents stored on the media drive from your mobile device. No Internet or router required
•Automatically categorize your content into photos, videos, music and other documents and view it within the App
•Upload photos, videos and other files from your mobile device to the drive and free up space on your mobile device
•Download files from the drive to the mobile device for offline access
•Edit photos, play slideshows and auto-play all music files
•Use the iOS native document previewer to view PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
•Connect the media drive to your local Wi-Fi access point to connect to the Internet
•Set up a WEP/WPA password for the Media Drive WiFi network and secure your connection
•Use the App to easily upgrade the Media Drive’s firmware whenever there is an update available
About the SanDisk Connect™ Wireless Media Drive Device (sold separately)
•Works wirelessly via Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n), no Internet or router required
•Expandable storage capacity via the SD™ card expansion slot
•Simultaneously connect up to 8 devices and stream up to 5 HD video stream
•Up to 8 hours of continuous streaming on a single charge1
•Accessible up to 150 feet away
•Optional Wi-Fi password protection (WPA)2
•To learn more about the Wireless Media Drive go to www.sandiskconnect.com
Note: The media drive can store any file type. However, streaming content such as movies and music is dependent on the file support provided by your mobile device.
1 Based on streaming 720p content at 2mbps to one device; actual life and performance may vary depending upon usage and settings; battery not replaceable.
2 iOS ver. 6.0 or higher or Mac OS 10.6 or higher required
Support
For questions, please consult the SanDisk support page at www.sandisk.com/mediadrive
iTunes is for legal or rightholder-authorized copying only. Don’t steal music.
Company Info
www.sandisk.com
Legal
http://www.sandisk.com/products/connect/disclaimer/
iTunes, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch are trademarks of Apple Inc.
SanDisk is a trademark of Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates, registered in the United States and other countries.
©2016 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
What’s New
Ratings and Reviews
19 Ratings
Why horizontal view removed
When file folder names are too long does not fit to screen. Then it crops text from ridiculous places. Why did you removed horizontal view????
I got stiffed!
My setup, IPhone 6 with latest version iOS 9.3.2, this app, and latest firmware installed 3.04. Fully updated. Thumbnails are jacked. iPhone music is not seen through this app. Pictures cannot be zoomed. 1080 videos made by my iPhone lags and stops.
I believe this was working with older phones and iOS. Why advertise this product as working for all iOS? Waste my time and now I'll have to refund this and all the accessories that I bought!
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I believe this was working with older phones and iOS. Why advertise this product as working for all iOS? Waste my time and now I'll have to refund this and all the accessories that I bought!
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Beware
The good: nice to have extra storage to free space on your phone.
The bad: I have an iPhone 6, and after installing this App, my Touch ID stopped working. The error presented made it appear I had a hardware issue. But after completing resets, Touch ID was working intermittently. So I decided to remove this App. After removing, Touch ID worked normally. I'm an IT guy, so I re-installed the App to see if the issue could be duplicated, bingo. This App broke the Touch ID as soon as I re-installed it.
The bad: I have an iPhone 6, and after installing this App, my Touch ID stopped working. The error presented made it appear I had a hardware issue. But after completing resets, Touch ID was working intermittently. So I decided to remove this App. After removing, Touch ID worked normally. I'm an IT guy, so I re-installed the App to see if the issue could be duplicated, bingo. This App broke the Touch ID as soon as I re-installed it.
Information
Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
Supports
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
As computers have become more affordable and taken on increasingly important tasks in our lives, it’s common to have more than one of them on the premises. While it’s terrific that family members and co-housers needn’t line up to use a single computer, things can get confusing when you have media scattered among a group of computers that everyone would like access to.
This is exactly the situation I faced. Many computers; dabs of media here, larger dollops there; and no really solid scheme for making it available to all the devices I own. Having finally had enough of the frustration, I resolved to do something about it. This is that story.
Gather and organize
Job One was to grab all the digital media I owned and put it on a single hard drive. For this I purchased a 2TB FireWire drive and moved from computer to computer, copying any music, video, podcasts, audiobooks, and ebooks I could find. I wasn’t particularly careful about what went where nor did I care about playlists or play counts. I wanted a fresh start and I was willing to lose the playlists I’d created for the greater good of taming my media. To ensure that I didn’t lose any media I didn’t trash any of the files on my computer. I simply created a Media folder on the drive and copied my media files and folders to the new drive.
I then attached that drive to my Mac Pro, held down the Option key, and launched iTunes. When you do this, iTunes prompts you to either choose a library or create a new one. I then followed these steps:
1. Choose Create Library, name the library, and save it to the Music folder within your user account (~/Music).
2. From iTunes’ Preferences click Advanced, click Change, and then navigate to the Media folder you created on the external hard drive. Leave the Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized option enabled but disable the Copy Files To iTunes Media Folder When Adding To Library option. Click OK to dismiss the Preferences window.
3. Choose File -> Add To Library and navigate to the Media folder on the external drive and click Open. iTunes will add the names of all the media files on your external drive to the iTunes Library window but it leaves the files where they are. This can take a long time, depending on how much media you have. As iTunes does this, it will organize files into the folder structure that the application uses.
Depending on where you acquired your media, it’s possible (likely, even) that some of your media will be misfiled. Some podcasts and audiobooks may get mixed in with your music files. TV Shows and music videos may appear in the Movies window. Look through your media and refile it. The proper way to do this is to select a file or group of files and press Command-I to bring up the Info window. Within this window click the Options tab, select the kind of media you’re refiling from the Media Kind pop-up menu—TV Show, for example—and click OK. iTunes will properly tag the media and move it to the correct folder within the iTunes Source list.
Cull it
You may be lucky enough to have completely different media on every Mac you own. I’m not. Once I pulled together this central library I found that I had duplicates everywhere. Before I created my “real” library, I needed to do something with the duplicate cruft.
Movies and TV shows I could deal with by simply scanning through the list and deleting duplicates as I found them—my video library is small enough that this isn’t terribly wearing. However, music was a completely different matter. I had duplicates and even triplicates of some tracks.
iTunes includes a Display Duplicates command that isn’t, in its default form, terribly helpful. Choose File -> Display Duplicates and it’s likely you’ll find studio tracks mixed in with their live and out-take counterparts. However, if you hold down the Option key, you find that this command changes to Find Exact Duplicates. That’s closer to the mark, but some of these duplicates aren’t exact. For example, you might find that one version is an MP3 file and an AAC-encoded version of the same track. Audiobook files are often identified as duplicates when they aren’t.
If you don’t have a lot of duplicates, you can cull the files by hand—selecting those files you don’t want, pressing the Delete key, and choosing to toss them out. But I had a load of duplicates and iTunes wasn’t entirely correct when identifying them.
I’ve used a variety of tools in the past to clean up a messy iTunes library. The one I chose for this job was Doug Adams’ $15 Dupin. I did so for its straightforward design and flexibility.
Presented in an iTunes-like interface, Dupin seeks out duplicate files in your entire iTunes library or within specific areas—Music, Movies, and TV Shows among them. Unlike with iTunes, you can search for files using a variety of criteria including Name, Artist, Album, Time, Size, Track Number, Disk Number, Sample Rate, Bit Rate, and Kind. You can choose multiple criteria—Name, Artist, Album, and Time, for example. Click Get Dupes and you’re presented with a list of duplicates.
Once you have that list, click a Filter button and then choose the factor you’ll use to identify the “keepers.” This can be Oldest Date Added, Highest Bit Rate, Largest File Size, and so on. You can also choose to always keep a particular kind of file—Apple Lossless or AAC files, for instance. Within this Dupin Filter Controls window you can choose to automatically delete any tracks that don’t match the filter. Or, you can allow Dupin to do its job and then purge your duplicate tracks.
I conducted a couple of searches using a variety of factors and eventually settled on searching by Name, Artist, Album, and Time. I then chose to filter by Highest Bit Rate as well as always keep Apple Lossless files. When I finished, I purged the duplicates in order to get them out of my iTunes library, but then retrieved them from the Trash and placed them in a Duplicates folder that I created. I probably didn’t need to as I had copies on my Macs, but should I miss something that was inadvertently deleted I reckoned it would be easier to locate it in this folder, which I could later archive or throw out.
Making it available
My media library was finally in decent shape. It was now time to put it in a place where I could easily access it from any computer. I chose to do this via a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. Specifically, I purchased Synology’s DS111 (around $200 retail) and filled its single bay with a fast 2TB hard drive. I chose the DS111 after reading a variety of positive reviews. I wanted a NAS that supported gigabit ethernet, which this one does. I also wanted a flexible NAS, and it is. You can use the thing to perform a variety of jobs including setting it up as a Web, FTP, mail, and media server—all controlled through a browser interface. How to use icons plugin in adobe xd.
Installing the hard drive was a snap—completed in about two minutes. Setup was likewise simple enough once I downloaded the most recent Synology tools. Leaving its more advanced features for later, I set about moving my media to it.
This I did by mounting the NAS’s drive and creating a Music folder on it. I then repeated some of my previous steps—launched iTunes with the Option key held down, created a new library within my ~/Music folder on my startup drive, and pointed iTunes Advanced preference to the Music folder on the NAS’s drive. This time I enabled the Copy Files To iTunes Media Folder When Adding To Library option as I wanted to be sure that when I added files to my iTunes library, those files would be placed on the NAS. I then chose File -> Add To Library, selected my now-organized and culled media files on the external FireWire drive, and went to bed rather than wait several hours while the files were copied over. The next morning, there they were in iTunes, ready to play.
I could have now left things exactly as they were. One of the features of this particular NAS is that it offers an iTunes Server. When this is switched on, the NAS will appear under the Shared entry in iTunes’ Source list. Simply select it and the music the NAS holds appears, just as if the songs were on your local hard drive. However, if you want to create playlists, you must do so within the NAS’s interface inside your Web browser. I prefer to manage this kind of thing just as I would if my media files were stored on my Mac. Plus, using this scheme, you can create different playlists on each Mac. So, dad can have his playlist full of Jimi Hendrix hits, mom can rock out to Zep, and child can ignore mom and dad’s old tunes and tune into Adele.
I then went to each Mac and performed these same steps save one. Now that the files were on the NAS, all I had to do was mount the NAS on that particular Mac, choose File -> Add To Library, and navigate to the Music folder on the NAS. No files were copied to the Mac. Rather iTunes simply added the tracks and video file names to the iTunes library. Over a wired ethernet connection this can take an hour or more for a large library. Over a wireless network, it takes significantly longer.
The final piece of this particular puzzle was to ensure that the NAS mounted each time I restarted my Mac. This I did by launching System Preferences, selecting the Users & Groups preference (choose Accounts if running a version of OS X prior to Lion), unlocking my Administrator's account, and clicking on the Login Items tab. I then mounted the Music folder on the NAS and dragged it to my list of login items. On restart the NAS mounted (I was prompted for its password before it did so, which occurs with each restart).
Syncing
At this point, all my Macs could play media from the NAS. The next problem I faced was being able to access media added to each Mac. Suppose, for example, I ripped a CD on my Mac Pro. That Mac would be aware of it, but my wife’s iMac wouldn’t because her library file wouldn’t be updated to include it. The solution is to synchronize the database files between the two computers.
I use (and am a fan of) Econ Technologies’ $40 ChronoSync, a synchronization utility that supports scheduling. Using ChronoSync I created a schedule on my Mac Pro that, at the end of each day, synchronizes iTunes’ database files (found in the iTunes folder)—Extras.itdb, iTunes Library Genius.itdb, iTunes Library.itl, and iTunes Library.xml—between the Mac Pro and the other Macs scattered around the house. In order for this scheme to work, I determined that new media would be added only to the Mac Pro. With this done, at day’s end, all my Macs were fully aware of the complete media content of the NAS. To avoid permissions issues, I changed the permissions on each file so that the Everyone permission was set to Read/Write.
There’s a hitch here. And that hitch is that when you replace these files on other Macs, you lose any playlists, ratings, and playcounts created on those other Macs. Instead, they’re replaced by the playlists, ratings, and playcounts from the master Mac—the one you’ve synchronized from. This isn’t a big deal to me as I manage and sync all my music from my Mac Pro, but it may be a concern to you.
ChronoSync is only one of many sync solutions. It’s one I own and like but if you prefer a different utility, have at it.
Playing on other devices
I play media on more devices than just my Macs. There are multiple iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads in the house as well as a couple of Apple TVs and a Sonos Multi-Room Music System. I wanted to grant access to these devices as well.
Sonos The Sonos gear was the first and easiest setup. Within the Sharing system preference I had to ensure that SMB file sharing was switched on. To do that, select File Sharing in the Sharing system preference, click the Options button, and enable Share Files And Folders Using SMB (Windows). I then mounted the NAS on my Mac Pro’s desktop. With this done I launched the Sonos Desktop Controller application on my Mac, chose Music -> Set Up Music Library, clicked the Add button in the resulting Music Setup window, selected the NAS option, clicked Continue, entered a path to the NAS along with its username and password (so that Sonos would always have access to it), and clicked a couple of buttons to allow the job to be done. After several minutes, the audio files on the NAS were accessible to my Sonos gear.
Music App To Play Files From Sandisk Media Drive Attached To Ipad Screen
iPhone, iPod touch, iPad Gaining access to the media on the NAS from an iOS device is straightforward provided that you’ve enabled Home Sharing on the device and one of your Macs is switched on (and also has Home Sharing enabled). Under such circumstances, you simply access the content by tapping More within the Music app, tapping Shared, waiting for the list of content to load, and tapping Play to play it. (Videos works similarly, though there’s no More button. Just tap Shared, select the iTunes library you’ve shared from your Mac, and play the video.)
Music App To Play Files From Sandisk Media Drive Attached To Ipad To Tv
That’s all well and good, but one of the reasons for storing media on an NAS is so you don’t have to have your Mac running whenever you want to play that media. Fortunately, there are tools you can use to access that media directly.