User manual

PLAYING/STREAMING VIDEOS, PHOTOS, & MUSIC

WD MY CLOUD USER MANUAL

Playing/Streaming Videos, Photos, & Music

Media Servers

Media Storage

Enabling DLNA and iTunes

Accessing Your My Cloud Device Using Media Players

Accessing Your My Cloud Device Using iTunes

Media Servers

The My Cloud device is designed to serve as your home's media server. It enables you to

stream photos, music, and videos to your DLNA-compatible devices and music to your

iTunes-compatible devices.

Both DLNA-compatible and iTunes-compatible devices sear

ch for media stored in any

Public share that has media serving enabled. By default, DLNA Media is disabled. Once you

enable it on the Settings > Media Server page, media serving for the Public share is also

automatically enabled. For all other shares, media serving remains off.

If you do not want DLNA to display specific media

files, place them in a private share that is

set to disable media sharing. (See “Editing Share Settings” on page 38.)

Media Server Overview

The WD My Cloud device uses TwonkyMedia as its DLNA media server. It streams your

music, photos, and videos to compatible devices in your home. Playing media on a

compatible device is easy.

The media server searches for all the media stored in the

Public share on the WD My Cloud

device connected to your home network. After enabling media serving for the device (see

“Enabling DLNA and iTunes” on page 69), you can just transfer your multimedia content to the

Public share on your WD My Cloud

device, and you are ready to stream and view content on

your home entertainment center, game consoles (such as Xbox 360

or PlayStation

3), 

WD TV Live™ media player, or DLNA

1.5 digital media adapters), and other PC computers

on your home or office network. Visit http://www.dlna.org for further information on DLNA.

iTunes Overview

You or anyone connected to the WD My Cloud device can use iTunes to play stored music

files. iTunes creates a virtual music library on the device and treats it as an iTunes repository,

making it possible to stream music files from the WD My Cloud device to Windows or Mac

computers running iTunes.

iTunes scans any shares that have the Media Serving setting enabled, including the Public

shar

e by default.