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

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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

yeah i like band of horses

i will buy this zoon

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos/elementalzune/images/IMG_0152.jpg

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

who's blogging who?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Like Maura said, it's incredibly butt ugly.

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

funny that they chose brown as a color.

― tk (tk), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel so bad for The Thermals and CSS right now

― white heat (white heat), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

"I feel so bad for The Thermals and CSS right now"

Why? Don't you think they agreed to be included and are making some (but not much) money from this?

― Jimmy Floyd "Street" Hasslebaink (Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

everyone and everything associated with "welcome to the social" is deserving of some pity, i just happen to like those two

― white heat (white heat), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Songs wirelessly transferred from one Zune to another can only be played three times. After three days, the song expires – regardless of whether or not it has been played. Just playing half the song (or one minute, whichever comes first) counts as one “play.” You can never resend a song to the same friend, nor can a song received from someone else be passed on to a third person. These limitations apply to all files, including copyright-free self-recorded songs and similar. [2]

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/56/153174698_d2a4f2d4b8_o.jpg

Data: [in Chinese] That's okay daddy. You can't hug a photograph. ...

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

it's not available in Canada till Spring 07 because thats when the Canadian Zune store will be ready.

Because how else would I possibly fill my Zune with music to listen to without a store?

― pinder (pinder), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

after reading about this here and elsewhere online, the zune is borderline comical at this point.

― tk (tk), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

To be fair, Zune is informing me that I have something like 123 thousand media files and it's understandable that it would have some burps trying to figure out how to stow all of them.
That said, it's been about 24 hours and it still hasn't finished completely installing.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link

when is the 'microsoft edits' 12" coming out?

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

forks, you have obviously never had an unresponsive program before. does windows still do ctrl+alt+del?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link

no file manager takes 24 hrs to do anything

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course, I understand that. I'm taking into account the magical concept of REAL TIME; I've had to walk away multiple times over the past 24 hours. Restarted computer twice. It seems continuously unresponsive, but it IS processing tracks. Just very slowly and it keeps hitting a sticking point and then freezing at different times.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, my wife just told me that Zune (well, zyoon really) is the Hebrew word for a fuck (as in "a good fuck")

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - by the time it gets finished, you'll have to give it back!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Give what back, kemosabe?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link

heh, i thought they sent it to you on the condition you had to give it back!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

that's how they're doing the promos. two weeks.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link

If you don't send it back you get a visit from

http://www.areavoices.com/wrestling/images/thumbnail/zeus.jpg

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish ned would link to tech blogs covering the zune like he links to right-wing blogs

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link

ie generously

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.idolator.com

(Which is not a tech blog but that's the only site I'm reading regularly that's been talking about the damn thing.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Has Creative sued Microsoft yet?

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I've always liked this insane idea that Apple is cool and young and Microsoft is an old and evil.

That said it is distressing that the new way to hit on a girl will be two send her a file. Couple that with Match.com's definitive 32 point list or whatever of your perfect partner and within the year we can fall in love by just clicking "initiate romance" on the side of our cell phone.

― Period period period (Period period period), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, my wife just told me that Zune (well, zyoon really) is the Hebrew word for a fuck (as in "a good fuck")

-- A-ron Hubbard (Hurtingchie...), November 15th, 2006.

In French Canada, "zoune" means pee pee, wee wee, gigi, woo woo or "private"; whatever boys and girls have down in front.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:28 (seventeen years ago) link

luckily, zune doesn't mean anything in america, which is the only place you can buy one

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, it finished loading. I no longer have issues with the software.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:15 (seventeen years ago) link

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