Western Digital My Cloud EX2 User Manual - Manual (Page 106)

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PLAYING/STREAMING VIDEOS, PHOTOS, & MUSIC
101 WD MY CLOUD EX2 PERSONAL CLOUD STORAGE
USER MANUAL
Playing/Streaming Videos, Photos, & Music
Media Servers
Media Storage
Enabling DLNA and iTunes
Accessing Your Personal Cloud Using Media Players
Accessing Your Personal Cloud Using iTunes
Media Servers
WD My Cloud EX2 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 search 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, the media serving for the Public share is also
automatically enabled. For all other shares, the 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 “Making a Share Private” on page 48.)
Media Server Overview
The WD My Cloud EX2 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
EX2 device connected to your home network. After enabling media serving for the device
(see
“Enabling DLNA and iTunes” on page 103) , you can just transfer your multimedia content to
the Public share on your WD My Cloud EX2 device, and you are ready to stream and view
content on your home entertainment center, game consoles (for example, 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 EX2 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 EX2 device to
Windows or Mac computers running iTunes.
iTunes scans any shares that have the Media Serving setting enabled, including the Public
share by default.