WD TV Live Media app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 3568 ratings )

Music Entertainment
Developer: ZappoTV, Inc.

2.99 USD

Current version: 2.6.4, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 07 Dec 2011
App size: 30.38 Mb

Unleash the power of your Western Digital TV Live.

It cant get any easier! Just bought your Western Digital TV Live product or already have one at home? Use your iPhone/iPod or iPad over Wi-Fi to control your WD TV Live media player. Simply download this app and access additional content, currently not available on the WD TV Live itself.

Enjoy millions of videos, images, and songs anywhere and share them with your friends. Easily search and find interesting content from many sources, including your mobile device and home network, and watch it a WD TV Live.

With this powerful app you can do the following:
• Easily search, find, and browse videos, photos, or music and watch on TV using your iPhone or iPod Touch.
• Discover new and featured videos every day.
• Stream music and videos from many sources straight to your TV or mobile device.
• Access your photo and social networking accounts to watch your own content on TV.
• Watch over WiFi and 3G (on your iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and 3G iPads).

SUPPORTED DEVICES
You can use this version of the WD TV Live Media application with any of the following Western Digital Media Players:
• WD TV Live (Old and New)
• WD TV Live Plus
• WD TV Live Hub
• WD TV Play

FEATURES
• Video search
• Add to favorites
• Watch on TV
• Create music playlist
• Sharing
• Continuous video and music play
• Upload videos and photos
• Access to your DLNA Home Media Servers
• Airplay Compatible

You will find the following sections in this app:

Devices
• Select the desired Western Digital Media Player you would like to use to play photos, videos, or music on your TV. Even if you have more than one WD TV Live player? No problem … Simply select the device you want to use … thats it.

Now Playing
• Viewing progress and information about the content you are watching.
• Music and Video player controls such as previous, pause, play, next, and volume (depending on the capabilities of your WD TV Live product).

Browse
• Search and find your content in the cloud, iOS devices, or on your local media server!
• Sharing via e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook
• Facebook videos and photos from you and your friends
• Picasa Web Album photos
• Flickr photos
• SHOUTcast radio stations
• YouTube videos
• Music, photos, and videos (only from Camera Roll) from your mobile device (great for on the go or if you have not yet synced your stuff).
• Music, photos, and videos from your home network.

MyZappoTV
• Change your personalized settings.
• Send application logs to ZappoTV.
• Manage your favorites.
• Access your viewing history.

THINGS TO KNOW
• The WD TV Live Media app lets you know when new content from a source or series that you have marked as “favorite” is available. Similar to new text messages, available updates, and unread emails.
• MyZappoTV > Favorites, lets you access and manage your viewing history. This list of your viewing activity may include content from multiple content sources that you watched on multiple devices.
• MyZappoTV > History makes it super easy to watch previous viewed photos or videos once again.
• Browse gives you easy access to media you like. More sources and content are added daily. If you dont see what you are looking for, please let us know.

REQUIREMENTS
What do you need to get started?
• iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4,iPhone 5, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5c, iPad, or iPod touch (4th generation) is required.
• iOS device (iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad) must have iOS 4.2 or later.
• A ZappoTV account is required to use the application.
• The streaming of music, images, and videos requires an active Wi-Fi or cellular data connection and a ZappoTV account. You will have limited functionality when you are not connected to a Wi-Fi network or when you dont have a cellular data connection.
• Some content may not be compatible with this app or your TV.

SUPPORT:
We love to hear from our customers. Please contact info@zappo.tv for any suggestions and improvements.

Pros and cons of WD TV Live Media app for iPhone and iPad

WD TV Live Media app good for

the original app from wd didnt work with my device, so I gave this one a shot and it went very well!

I downloaded the WD app and it doesnt work on my WD tv live plus.... this app was on the same page.... it works perfectly. took seconds to get working and I love it!! thank you

This is the best WD live app available. Finds my live tv plus way faster than the other apps, allows me to access all my network drives and even network shares on my pc quickly and easily. No more bothering with that lame remote WD gave us! Highly recommended!

Its working perfectly with wd tv live. Very easy to operate and search contents.

Worked great! Id like to see it stream media from safari and whatever you are currently viewing on your screen.. Thanks :)

Overall works great. Detected my wdtv immediately (obviously must be already turned on). Able to pull all media (music, vids, pics) from my NAS and play it on WDTV or iPhone 5. Remote control interface is basic but functional (would be nice to have power on/off function for wdtv). Streaming HD video over wifi to my phone is choppy, but this is a router issue (not app related). For a free app, Im impressed and content.

Some bad moments

I have 2 WDTV Live Plus HD consoles and this app will not detect either of them over my network. Being somewhat tech savvy I tried to troubleshoot this to no avail. So I contacted their support and they just said too bad

Since the upgrade this app that used to work great before stopped working. At this point its not even loading. A quick fix will be appreciated.

Just Bought this app, and there are indeed a few problems with it. The app first requires you to create an account and sign in, this is a BIG turn off.... After you sign in you can in fact find your media player and browse through your movies, pictures or songs, IF you can scroll past the online services to your wdtv live hub way at the bottom of the screen. (after you click source button on the HUGE page of online services. Another big turn off as this is supposed to be a wdtvlive media player first. Once I selected a video, if you choose to pause that video or click off the playing screen, there is no way to return to your movie. This is a big one for me. You CAN click play and watch a counter as your movie plays while you watch a big play logo, but you cant see or hear your movie, I didnt realise "pause" was such an effort to get back from. Then there is the sound issue. Sound only plays some of the time. The very first time you play a video, there is sound, after that it seems to be a roll of the dice. Sound that played on one video is no guarantee that it will again on the same video. I checked mute on both the wdtv and the app/phone. Restarting the phone allows the sound to play again for a while. (not a codec issue as the sound will play the first time.) Problems: Have to sign in (pointless) Not much configuration to remove services you DIDN"T ask for. Sound continuity issues.... Pause a movie and you CANNOT RETURN TO IT??? (this is a major issue) left side icon not the right side pause. There is no way to close the app. an EXIT button would really be a life saver here. Overall, I think this could be a GREAT app, just make it do the one thing its supposed to do. I dont care about picasa, you tube, podcasts, facebook, shoutcast or flickr or any of the other streaming services I didnt know would be included. I bought this to stream movies from my wdtv live hub just like the name says. I did not want an all purpose streaming media app that works part time. The app seems like it is a beta project that was rushed to the store. How can you not have a "close" or exit button? What could have been an awesome $2.99 now feels like a sad grope. If they fix it this app would be well worth the money, if they dont, be warned... its just not worth it.

Worked great until the last update. Now it still sees my HDTV Live but it wont control it anymore. To bad I used to love it.

Not a clean app. Why am I paying $3 for an app that is ad supported. Not happy.

Was just great until i updated to ios 7. Wont stream video from my windows shared drive connected to my WDLive . Plays 2-3 seconds then freezes. Please fix!

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