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Zune software 2.5 is out, videos, auto playlists, and a crapload more.

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Companion Cube said:
I'm impressed!

Aside form the basic necessities they added and fixed, a few things off the bat I like:

-related artists/you might like type of thing
-seeing who else is listening to an artist
-seeing how you rank as a listener! It's like achievements for music! I checked my zune page and it told me I had the most plays for a certain album, and like bronze, silver etc. awards for albums or artists I've listened to a lot. Pretty cool!
Pretty damn cool. Glad this is integrated into the tool now. Have already started discovering new music.
 
I'm so confused, my albums are not in alphabetical order anymore. *scratches head* Also, it's screwing with some of my album pics.

Edit: Ok, I'm an idiot. :lol The first problem is fixed. Though, it took me a while to restore the album art. :\
 
Baker said:
Things I don't like, since I haven't got to actually use it yet.

1. It seems to be telling me the Zune Software is resyncing my entire music library. It's making me very paranoid.
I thought so too, but when I actually add tracks n stuff the usual just added stuff comes up. It might've been syncing updated album info... I kno I have a few random non-zune files that suddenly show album art and stuff now.
 
if there are duplicate videos on the Xbox and Zune marketplaces, does one purchase count for both services? Considering they share the same account information...

edit: bah, it doesn't
 
Green Shinobi said:
And I still can't get my copy of OK Computer to not have each song listed ~50 times. Fuck the Zune software.

Go to device, delete the files from there. Then go to collection and do the same. Close the program, open it. Do a sync. close program. Open it, drag the folder in, do a sync.

I had multiple copies of songs from In Rainbows on my Zune, this ended it
 
Are there any announcements or rumors of a 160GB Zune to match the iPod classic? I've got a 60GB Zen that's getting full and I've always liked the look of the Zune over the iPod, and the community features seem pretty cool.
 
Dice Man said:
Will the Zune software automagically update my Zune when I plug it in?

Once you update the software, it will automatically update the device the next time it's plugged in.
 
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
This works on first gen also right?
Yep yep.

Good update.

soul creator said:
sweet, you can "tag edit" video files also. Now I can separate my ripped movies from my tv shows
Just spent the last hour or two doing this. Makes everything nice and organized!
 
If the answer to this next question is a 'Yes", I'm getting a Zune (instead of an iPod) on Friday: Can you use the Zune as portable storage (a USB harddrive)?
 
Gattsu25 said:
If the answer to this next question is a 'Yes", I'm getting a Zune (instead of an iPod) on Friday: Can you use the Zune as portable storage (a USB harddrive)?

YES!

But it`ll require a little effort!

http://lifehacker.com/software/zune/use-your-zune-as-a-portable-hard-drive-217010.php

And you can only tansfer files while the zune is "Unlocked" (Syncing does that)
So what I do is that i start a sync, then kill the zune.exe process
then its unlocked until i unplug the zune! :D
 
Gattsu25 said:
If the answer to this next question is a 'Yes", I'm getting a Zune (instead of an iPod) on Friday: Can you use the Zune as portable storage (a USB harddrive)?

Not exactly. There are hacks to get Zune viewable in explorer and let you copy files form it, and so it may be possible for you to put files on it. I haven't tried. At the very least, it's not an official feature.

*edit* Ahh, I have been beaten with more information.
 
"YES!

But it`ll require a little effort!

http://lifehacker.com/software/zune/...ive-217010.php

And you can only tansfer files while the zune is "Unlocked" (Syncing does that)
So what I do is that i start a sync, then kill the zune.exe process
then its unlocked until i unplug the zune! "


Eh, unfortuantely that's not really a solution. One thing I did like about my ipod was i didnt need my flash drive for bringing files to school to work on. I do still prefer my zune over my ipod though.
 
Until the Zune Card stops sucking copious amounts of ass, I'll continue to be disappointed with my Zune 80.
 
VisionaryQuest0 said:
The Zune Software didn't give me an option for an update so I had to go to zune.net and redownload the program to get 2.5.

Nah I got the 2.5 I just cant find the Get Album Info option

EDIT: VICTORY, I HAVE FOUND IT

EDIT2: DAMNIT ZUNE YOU FUCKED UP MY CUSTOM ALBUM COVERS AGAIN
 
Meier said:
Until the Zune Card stops sucking copious amounts of ass, I'll continue to be disappointed with my Zune 80.

What were your expectations for it? Mine like...doesn't work, but it's hardly a feature I'm all that interested in.

On that note, if anybody wants to add me as a friend in Zune so we can send messages in the program (even though I have no songs on my recently played list because Microsoft hates people PAYING FOR THEIR PRODUCTS) then my username on Zune is ASTUPIDDAVE

Also, does anybody know if Microsoft sell subscription cards to their marketplace in the US? I've looked on eBay, I can't buy a subscription online because my card is based in the UK, but I would quite like to use the service, so a subscription card would be useful.
 
TheGreatDave said:
What were your expectations for it? Mine like...doesn't work, but it's hardly a feature I'm all that interested in.

On that note, if anybody wants to add me as a friend in Zune so we can send messages in the program (even though I have no songs on my recently played list because Microsoft hates people PAYING FOR THEIR PRODUCTS) then my username on Zune is ASTUPIDDAVE

Also, does anybody know if Microsoft sell subscription cards to their marketplace in the US? I've looked on eBay, I can't buy a subscription online because my card is based in the UK, but I would quite like to use the service, so a subscription card would be useful.
i sent a friend invite - scorcho1980. interested in seeing how this social works
 
scorcho said:
i sent a friend invite - scorcho1980. interested in seeing how this social works

Added you.

I like how I can play anything you've played recently thats in my library. I wish I had a Zune Pass for this kind of thing. It's actually a really cool idea.
 
Obviously it couldn't be Zune without some strange bug. I just updated the album info for Crooked Rain, and this happened:

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Now, maybe I'm dumb, but I see no option to get those tracks back in their correct, numerical order. I close down Zune, open it, and it's there, looking at me. It doesn't really matter, but it bugs me.

Not only that, a version of Range Life from the second disc won't show up, for some reason. So it goes 1-2-4-5 on that album. Grr.
 
jmdajr said:
so now that Zune is offering Tv content.... can I stream that to my xbox 360?


Don't think so, don't think you'd want to anyway it's formatted for Zune.

Most of it is NBC stuff which is free on Hulu anyway.
 
Ghost said:
Don't think so, don't think you'd want to anyway it's formatted for Zune.

Most of it is NBC stuff which is free on Hulu anyway.

well if you are using microsoft points they should let you.

you can stream all the music.
 
gapless playback uber alles



the other stuff is neat too, though



now If I can just get my software to stop recognizing ALL of the media on my home network. It is too much music for my 30gigs to handle.
 
jmdajr said:
well if you are using microsoft points they should let you.

you can stream all the music.

No arguments here, seems like all the ground work is there, they could get round DRM issues because both systems use your Live ID. Probably just a matter of time.
 
TheGreatDave said:
What were your expectations for it? Mine like...doesn't work, but it's hardly a feature I'm all that interested in.

I've been using last.fm/audioscrobbler for a number of years now and expected something as good or better. Instead, perhaps 5% of my plays... all correctly tagged and many that are available in the Zune Marketplace, have showed up on my Social card. The Zune Card was the main reason I bought one and it's been a colossal failure.
 
I did the update and for some stupid reason my Zune decided to update some album art that I had already fixed. I spent the next hour fixing all the incorrect updating it did. Also, it copied two of every podcast when it synced it.

Ugh.

I love my Zune, but the software is annoying.
 
Meier said:
The Zune Card was the main reason I bought one and it's been a colossal failure.

I will talk in percentages.

100% agreed.

25-40% of the time, my Card will be updated if I listen to music by Artist->Album

0% of the time, my Card will be updated if I listen to music by Song.
 
Mother fucker. All my custom album art is gone too. That'd wouldn't be a problem if:

1. Microsoft had the correct frickin' album art for smaller bands. Example: put in half of Leng T'che's albums and the cover of their newest CD will show up.

2. They didn't use the frickin' story-friendly cardboard cover for death metal album art. The picture underneath is the real cover people!!
 
It's not just smaller bands. I noticed that disc two of my Pearl Jam Rearviewmirror CD was wrong. Disc one was correct, but two was something extremely odd.
 
I do like the album art I got given for the new Weezer track

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I don't know who Willie "The Lion" Smith is, but he has an awesome album cover.
 
TheGreatDave said:
I do like the album art I got given for the new Weezer track

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I don't know who Willie "The Lion" Smith is, but he has an awesome album cover.


24BIT REMASTERED! SOLD!
 
TheGreatDave said:
Now, maybe I'm dumb, but I see no option to get those tracks back in their correct, numerical order. I close down Zune, open it, and it's there, looking at me. It doesn't really matter, but it bugs me.
Try Get Album Info.


But make sure you turn 'Automatically update details' off, I was fighting it for ages with my Guitar Hero albums. I LIKE THE ALBUM ART I MADE DAMN IT, I DON'T WANT THE ALBUM ART FOR EACH SONG IN IT.
 
TheGreatDave said:
Obviously it couldn't be Zune without some strange bug. I just updated the album info for Crooked Rain, and this happened:

2vba0qa.jpg


Now, maybe I'm dumb, but I see no option to get those tracks back in their correct, numerical order. I close down Zune, open it, and it's there, looking at me. It doesn't really matter, but it bugs me.

Not only that, a version of Range Life from the second disc won't show up, for some reason. So it goes 1-2-4-5 on that album. Grr.
check the disc numbers - the software did that to a couple of my tracks as well
 
JonathanEx said:
Try Get Album Info.


But make sure you turn 'Automatically update details' off, I was fighting it for ages with my Guitar Hero albums. I LIKE THE ALBUM ART I MADE DAMN IT, I DON'T WANT THE ALBUM ART FOR EACH SONG IN IT.

I KNOW. My Guitar Hero 2 soundtrack has Rush's album cover now, and Dragonforce for GH3 >:(

I'll try your advice when I get home, same for scorcho. I'm at work now, and the album isn't even on the Zune...
 
every update just keeps making my $99 30GB ZUNE better and better.. so glad I stood outside RadioShack at 3am on the day after thanksgiving.. I use my ZUNE every damn day !!
 
Hey somebody recommend me a good file converter? I have tons of anime and movies to put on my zune but they are all divix files so they won't play. :(
 
Not a Jellyfish said:
Hey somebody recommend me a good file converter? I have tons of anime and movies to put on my zune but they are all divix files so they won't play. :(

I always just use Windows Movie Maker. It converts most stuff fine for me. Just check the output ratio.
 
So I guess there still isn't unicode support.

Blah. I'm stuck with Version 1.4 + hacks until MS fixes this.

God damn it. Why is it so hard to include these tiny fonts?
 
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