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

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wait a second, isn't urge playsforsure? playsforsure is not compatible with the zune.

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link

that's not what it says in the very first post

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

(second post sorry)

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

that post is wrong. the only purchased songs that are compatible with the zune are those bought via the zune marketplace.

Microsoft says the device won't play tracks or albums bought through existing music services affiliated with its own Windows Media "PlaysForSure" initiative. Those services -- such as Napster, MTV's Urge and Yahoo Music Unlimited -- have been partnering with Microsoft and device makers to try to challenge Apple Computer's iPod and iTunes juggernaut.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/285407_software18.html

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i cannot believe urge is still going on. does anyone have subscription statistics?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

who would okay an idea to take something that usually sucks and works only because it is free and make people pay for it and then restrict to one type of computer?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

um, microsoft?

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

the zune is butt ugly btw. and its little dial doesn't spin, it's just a way of aping the ipod's look, but not its functionality.

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, but who in particular?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link

also, the ipod dial doesn't spin either, does it?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:29 (seventeen years ago) link

well, it doesn't physically spin, but you can trace over it in a circle to navigate. on the zune, the dial just covers your normal up-down-left-right arrow navigation.

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Even if you're a big iPod fanboy, the Zune's entrance in the market is a great thing. Competition for market share drives down prices, spurs innovation, and benefits the consumer overall. So unless your last name is Jobs, I can't imagine why you'd want the Zune to fail.

― musically (musically), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:09 (seventeen years ago) link

we are all steve jobs

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link

but seriously mary, wanting a crappy product to succeed solely for competitive effects is missing the point of a competitive market

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:26 (seventeen years ago) link

You're assuming that 1) I think the Zune is crappy and 2) the Zune is crappy. Didn't it just come out today? I have no idea what it's like. If it's crap then word of mouth will kill it and it will fade into obscurity. But if it is a quality product that sells well then I repeat what I said before.

― musically (musically), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i would put money on it being crappy (1 and 2) although the crappy definition process seems like a big turnoff. i wonder what the odds are on it failing. anyone know any internet bookmakers?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link

It's isn't rackmount, and there's no FDDI option. Completely useless.

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link

it gave my friend gastrointestinal distress as well

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:51 (seventeen years ago) link

who's trollin' zune

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link

We Zoom Zune
We die soon

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Steve Jobs:

"I've seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left! You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you're connected with about two feet of headphone cable"

LOL

― carlos en santiago (El Carlo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.moviehabit.com/photos/lady_and_the_tramp_150.jpg

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Nothing like walking right up to a girl on the bus and just stickin' it in her ear.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

You've got a lust for life.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://youflow.net/needzune/brokenzen6.jpg

LOL ZUNE IS HUEG

― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Microsoft: I am writing from Israel. Zune me.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

You're assuming that 1) I think the Zune is crappy and 2) the Zune is crappy.

I don't really understand why this is an unsafe assumption. It's a Microsoft product that almost rivals a Sony product in terms of its gimmickiness, ugliness, and utter uselessness in performing anything other than lining the pockets of MS.

(Which it won't do. Cuz anyone with a brain knows it is teh suck).

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha that is astounding the Microsoft's competitor to the iPod won't play tech it has developed and propagandized under the moniker "PlaysForSure". amazing.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

"seattle mary of the ayn rand insitute, washington chapter"

Hi Dave Fischer!

Anyway, it took Microsoft 5 years to catch up with the iPod and they couldn't even launch the product with a working video store?

Also, did any bloggers get a "free" Zune with instructions to return it in 2 weeks. Fuck writing free good PR for someone who won't even give you a free fucking toy.

The "features" of the Zune only seem to impress neophiles and 17 year old boys who think the PSP is better than the DS.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't care about the Zune and I normally don't get worked up about these sorts of things but the paying a license fee to Uni per hardware unit is a bad bad bad bad bad thing. Like I kind of feel someone should take them to court over this bad thing.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Well its their own fucking fault, but I think the Zune and iPod's exclusive DRM schemes are going to push smaller players out of the mp3 player market eventually as the record companies are not going to want to deal with every company out there.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

It's obvious even to me (a computer/tech LAMER) that this thing is laughably crap.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Reason enough to hate this P.O.S. - the preloaded tracks:

* Band of Horses, “Wicked Gil” (Sub Pop)
* Bitter:Sweet, “The Mating Game” (Quango Music Group)
* CSS, “Alala (Microsoft edit)” (Sub Pop)
* Darkel, “At The End of The Sky (edit)” (Astralwerks)
* Every Move A Picture, “Signs of Life” (V2 Records)
* Small Sins, “Stay” (Astralwerks)
* The Adored, “Tell Me Tell Me” (V2 Records)
* The Rakes, “Open Book” (V2 Records)
* The Thermals, “A Pillar of Salt” (Sub Pop)

[Courtesy of Wikipedia]

― Jimmy Floyd "Street" Hasslebaink (Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't really care about the Zune either so much as I'm just fascinated by the ineptitude of one of the world's most successful corporations.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

DRM schemes are doomed in general.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

CSS, “Alala (Microsoft edit)”

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Why make it look like the iPod click wheel if it doesn't work the same way and only serves to remind people that they bought the player without a click wheel?

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That is a very good question. I'm starting to wonder that, too. Zune could definitely live without the circular buttons. Maybe it's to make the transition easier?

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

What I'm seeing thus far: the hardware is great; bright and large screen, very pretty and vivid colors. In spite of myself, I'm really impressed with the built in radio; stations come in verra verra clear and it displays call signs, format and song names if the station encodes in that way. The visuals on the software are pleasant and the general control scheme on the machine is simple and reasonably efficient. It feels somehow less blocky and heavy than the pod, maybe because of the lack of metal on the case.

The software is fucking horrible. I've been trying to install it for hours and it won't work at all. It's not transferring the album cover jpegs that I put on tracks. The software is having an impossible time collating all my media and is locking up and freezing my computer. I've had to restart the machine at least three times. I've yet to be able to put a single video file on either the player or the machine. The software is about as counterintuitive and useless as can be.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

CSS, “Alala (Microsoft edit)”

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), Today 12:52 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

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Daft Punk Is Playing at My House (Wieden + Kennedy Remix)

-- manute lol (mikeoptin...) (webmail), November 2nd, 2006 9:42 PM. (sanskrit) (link)

― songs and ballads of the bituminous miners (sanskrit), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

IS IT CMAPTIBLE WITH MAC

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

what do you think?

― songs and ballads of the bituminous miners (sanskrit), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

It is contemptible with Mac.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

ned raggett strikes again

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Slow day.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

\/0o\/

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

that Thermals song is actually good, yo

― bernard snowy (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

The visuals on the software are pleasant

I've heard that the alpha blended gui is shit because it tries to look pretty instead of providing feedback....

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

IS IT CMAPTIBLE WITH MAC

might be on the new core 2 duos

― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

that band of horses song is actually good, yo

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― JoeStork, Sunday, 14 April 2024 04:48 (two weeks ago) link

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