Seagate Media Software

I'm so glad I purchased the Wireless Plus. This is so cool! There's obviously very limited space on my iPad and iPhone, and I was looking to replace my old external (it started acting funny so I got scared I'd lose my stuff - still works though, just wanted peace of mind). Anyways, I'm a music freak. My iTunes library is perfect as I went through every single song added the "official" track numbers, album art, and all that good stuff. I also made sure all spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalizations were correct. I'm a neat freak so I wanted everything to be 100% uniform when I back it up. I highlighted my entire library in iTunes and dragged it to the external. It was fairly fast (less than 1.5 hour for 65gb). At first it listed only songs in random order. A few mins later, everything was indexed and sorted out! Perfect! Now everything looks great, works well, and sounds great! It did what I had hoped it'd do very quickly. Smooth streaming with no interruptions! 1 concern is that my iPhone connected to it automatically even though I set a password. I was able to play songs with no password approval. Maybe it needed to be reset after I set the password, who knows. I'm going to test this tomorrow to see if the password does work using a Kindle or family member's phone.

Top notch built quality. To be able to stream all of my media files from this device (1TB) is awesome! No more carrying around my 15" MBP on my trips, and no more limited syncing on my iPad or iPhone! Well, the App on the other hand needs a few improvements though, not to mention the lack of a comprehensive setup instructions. BTW, if you have a very large media compilation like me, prepare for a long wait before you can access the drive again, since it will take a while to index all your media files. UPDATE: Down to 4 Stars! The firmware is still really buggy and slow, and every time I connect it to the power charger it freezes and you really have to reset the unit. UPDATE2: I finally decided returning the unit to Seagate for replacement, because of the frequent disconnection and freezing issues. Looking forward for the replacement! Still 4 stars, still an awesome product! UPDATE3: It finally arrived! Everything's working as it should be (the firmware is still buggy though- freezes once in a while). BTW, DO NOT REFORMAT THE DRIVE! If you made this mistake, use NTFS format in Windows and make sure it's set to Master Boot Record (MBR) do a check disk if the unit crashes (which will eventually happen) just to make sure. CONCLUSION: This is the best wireless back up solution to beat. It's portable, connects to wifi as a hotspot, and does not rely on a router to work. It works but I won't recommend it for now.

Great idea, large enough to be useful, but the software leaves a bit to be desired. Besides the fact that it locks up constantly, it won't play iTunes music format and several other common media file types, when you hit the home button, or your screen goes to sleep it won't hold your spot in memory when paused (I listen to some audiobooks, and this happens all the time), album artwork is hard to get to work, the auto organizing feature works, but genres, playlists, and some media formats won't even display. It also is hit and miss as a media server for things like ps3 (I have 2 only one works with it), and apple tv can't use it except as a wifi relay. Having said all that, I do think it's great, I love the fact that it can be used as a wireless relay station, and a media server, and still leaves your Bluetooth free. It is very portable and pretty easy to use. The interface looks nice, and the USB 3.0 is pretty fast. I would recommend it definately, but don't forget to convert your library to a useable format before loading. I am looking foreward to software updates! With better software, I would give 5 stars.