Who's Zoomin' Zune? (THE OFFICIAL MICROSOFT ZUNE THREAD)

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product launch this Tuesday, November 15th. who's excited?!
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-- Wrinklecause for Applause! (wrinklepaw...)

What's with the /RefID=Wrinklepaws at the Walmart site? Looks like spam more than anything.

ugh i hate this thread already

Well THANK GOD

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/five-zune-tv-spots-211801.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd-fMA0HFUE

they paid someone two whole dollars to make it if it is real.

They do have an advantage over the iPod: you can send songs and pictures from one to another. Granted, the chances of two Zune owners ever being in the same place together are probably slim, but I could see the fun-potential in sending goatse to random strangers.

Also, it's got a stupid name.

Yeah, three times and/or three days, which sort of sucks but it's probably MS' concession to the big record labels (in addition to paying Universal $1 per Zune sold). I guess it's fair though, to at least have the full song to hear like that. If it was good enough to own you could always buy it. If the song stinks, you're not going to care if it disappears. They didn't have a demo of the Zune software, so I don't know how that is, nor do I know how good the bundled headphones sound (most likely crappy).

Microsoft aren't even compatible with themselves...

double whammy/kiss of death.

saw Zune ad @ movie theatre Saturday. Trying so hard to be hip it was painful. "Welcome To The Social" = worst slogan of all time.

http://www.zune.net/en-us/social/launchparty.htm

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/11/13/business/13zune.1903.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/11/13/business/13zune.3951.jpg

As a side note, I never realized that Alanis Morissette had a song called "Doth I Protest Too Much?" - I'm surprised that this grammatically incorrect allusion to Shakespeare didn't provide even more fodder for the relentless mockers of "Ironic."

Digg This!

One of the key selling points of the iPod (I'd go as far as to say that it's the unique selling point) is that the iTunes store is easy to use. In fact, it's very simple to use. I'd hoped that Microsoft would follow suit with the Zune Marketplace. It didn't.

Apple Matters takes a look at how the Zune Marketplace works and here's how they summarize the process:

The 5 Step Plan To Fill Your Zune With Legal Music
1. Create a free Zune account
2. Register a valid credit card
3. Buy “points” from MS
4. Scratch your head as you try to figure out why you need to buy “points” to buy songs. Why can’t you just use standard American currency? Doesn’t Microsoft accept the Dollar anymore? 5. Say “screw it” and go buy an iPod

The Zune points system works as follows:

$5 = 400 points
$15 = 1200 points
$25 = 2000 points
$50 = 4000 points

For those just wanting to buy a few tracks, it's going to be an pain in the rearThis means that a Zune Point is worth 1.25 cents and a track is priced at 79 Zune points costing 98.75 cents (so ultimately it is cheaper than the iTunes store ;-). So you have to pay up $5 before you can buy a single song. From Microsoft's point of view, that's a good thing because it means that people keep on coming back, but from the point of view of the customer it means giving Microsoft a minimum of $5 for a single purchase.

The points system is also a clever way of hiding the real price of the tunes. It'll be easier for Microsoft to add one point to the cost of a tune that it will be for Apple to add a single cent to the price, even though both would take the price of a track up to the $1 psychological barrier. (Which sounds cheaper to you - 79 Zune Points or 99 cents? 80 Zune points or $1?). It also means that you almost always end up with spare points, spare points that you won't want to waste.

Microsoft's reason for using points is that they can also be used at both the Zune Marketplace and the Xbox Live Marketplace. That might be good for Xbox Live Marketplace users but for those just wanting to buy a few tracks, it's going to be an pain in the rear.

Looks like the band Secret Machines is doing a free show at Pine and 4th at 12pm, right when the worst weather this year in Seattle will start.. (heavy winds, heavy rains)... barely anything on top covering the stage. If you hear of members of the band Secret Machines getting electrified due to water/power shorts, you heard it here first.

It works both ways. Vertically for music, and horizontally for video. The controls (volume, etc.) reorient themselves accordingly.

My thoughts are that the Zune, while a passable iPod imitator, will suffer under the weight of MS' own ineptitude.

x-post

http://www.seattletimes.com right now.

Picture of Bill Gates digging his Zune while The Secret Machines are behind him in rock hair position.

I didn't know John Richards (KEXP) looked like a Beachwood Spark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irylEFW6KLs

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4217/alltheseub1.jpg

"I got new iPod and my neighbor only got iPod mini. Everyone know it for girls!"

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros/Developer/Zune

"As 'Black Friday' approaches and consumers line up for the Playstation 3 it looks like Zune has become an afterthought. Despite months of hype, opening Zune sales are only so-so. While Zune did reach the top 10 on Amazon's Top 25 list for electronic product sales on its first day, it quickly fell below the top 15 and continues to drop. Six separate iPod models now outsell it as well as SanDisk's e250 player. In-store sales are not much better."

SONED BY SANDISK!!!!

Bloggerati freebie moochers, STEP UP YOUR GAME

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Looks like SANDISK has left the Zune SANSDICK!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Yes it took me seven months to come up with that.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/first-zune-2-and-zune-flash-shots-295284.php

omg new Zune 2.0 pics have leaked

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This is worth a chuckle or two:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nRKIDdIaFyE

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1196/1413503036_c4a5b446e6.jpg?v=0

His face says "I was really drunk at the time"

product launch this Tuesday, November 15th. who's excited?!
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-- Wrinklecause for Applause! (wrinklepaw...)

What's with the /RefID=Wrinklepaws at the Walmart site? Looks like spam more than anything.

-- van igloo (van smack), Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:30 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link

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http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/zune-anus-thumb.png

HAH, that's made my day.

I agree that the Zune is kind of lame. My excuse for having one is that they were selling the brown ones (and only the brown ones) for $100 at Radio Shack. Much cheaper than the comparable 30GB player from Apple. The software kind of sucks - I use a LAME encoder to rip music and MP3Tag to edit the tags - but the player itself seems to work fine.

Oh, and I also disable that dumb wifi song-sharing feature, which only drains the batteries.

the software that comes with players always sucks tho, to be fair, up to and including itunes. creative's app is the worst, unless you count rhapsody (tied to sansa i think?).

i actually like itunes. it's very simple.

i subsscribe to rhapsody because i like hearing every piece of music ever but that app is a pos and wholly unfit for library type functions. forget customization, i'd settle for a cut + paste in the context menu.

i'm not even sure where I put this thing.

i went on a date with a proud zune owner last weekend

how'd the date go, and did she play any music on her zune for you?

Proud Zune Owner

he did not play any music on his zune for me, nor did he have a tattoo

apologies for gender-specificness in previous post, although the mixup is making me think I know someone who might do well with a zune

zune pride parade

met another zune owner today

over the internet?

nah irl! it was v weird

did you guys send each other songs over wifi?

m seeking m zune owner.

fyi j0rdan s i know a dude w/ a zune

i dont own a zune!! "another" was referring to my post upthread about going on a date with a zune owner

oh haha it really made u sound like you were one, ever yearning to make contact with a fellow zuner

uncrowned king of the zunes his lost kingdom his ppl scattered ever seeking to reunite the tattered remnants of his ppl and maybe share some music over wi-fi

ya

let's option that screenplay to max & lamp productions

i have a friend w a zune. i think hes trying to 'think different' (tm apple)

Microsoft Exec Slams Report of Zune Death

please remain calm

Ok, it's finally official.

I"m probably the only person here that has one of these and uses it regularly. It's an 80 gig Zune - the red one with the larger screen. Never used any of the wifi, video, radio, sharing, social bullshit or anything. As a basic mp3 player, it's good. The software is pretty bad, the tagging and all that stuff is slow as hell and doesn't work properly. The headphones were bad - the fabric coating on the wire used to rub against your clothes and send a scraping noise into your ears. I got rid of them almost immediately. The machine itself is nice, the screen and the interface is good, and I can't believe it's still working after 3 years. I'd rather have an ipod but this thing just keeps going.

My ratings
Software: Fail
Headphones: Fail
Features: who cares?
Unit: Pretty good

Software: Fail
Headphones: Fail
Features: who cares?
Unit: Pretty good

That's a beautiful epitaph

so this lives on in software form only.
you buy (or get given one !) a windows phone and suddenly you have no option to use windows media to x-fer music over onto the phone.
instead you have to install zune.
which after a few settling in issues, i have come to like ..
but still, why the break from windows media, as given i use an old school low spec xp laptop, i would much prefer to use wm as its easy on the memory ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44ly84e6EaM

I think about this thread title at least 3x/week

Surprised this didn't get a revive last year with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Just get you one of these.

http://www.superwarehouse.com/images/products/Sandisk_MP3.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:12 (eleven years ago) Bookmark

this is still otm.

Got myself a Zune today

Why (as opposed to getting a modern DAP)? Nostalgia?

It was at a yard sale, didn’t want to miss out on the zune craze