I thought you could subscribe to the marketplace for 14.99 a month with unlimited downloads for that month. Why would you pay 50$ for up to 50 songs when you could just buy the subscription and get unlimited for cheaper.

Hence the page here. http://www.zune.net/en-us/meetzune/zunepass.htm

Where can i find the Zune art stuff that will be on the Zune Will it be on google? OH you might want to fix your spell check thing cause it shows that the zune is misspelled.

There's also the fact that if you cancel your monthly subscription that you lose all rights to play anything you downloaded during your subscription, and you're basically screwed.

I wonder what other kinds of perks there will be for being a subscriber. If it's just the music, then yeah...you might want to unsubscribe at some point, but all your music would then go into a black hole somewhere. Doesn't sound like a good proposition.

The subscription plan is really good for those people (especially young kids) who don't really look to build a music library. This would've been really good during the late 1990s when Bubblegum Pop was the Sound of the Year. That's because it drives me crazy that I sunk so much cash on albums that I will absolutely NEVER listen to again. :~)

Hey Cesar. I was checking out the speck armband on zune.net but there's a bug with the pictures. It says undefined and won't display them. Just giving you guys the heads up...

I would fire the guy in charge of zune and xbox360 Everybody is gonna want a Wii and PS3 this christmas. The 360 and zune are gonna be the lame christmas gifts this year

It's a shame they've gone the Napster route and made it utterly pointless doing the whole subscription thing - deactivating tunes if you stop subscribing? That's weak man, in my opinion it should be illegal, you're basically paying a repeat fee for things you should already own. I just wish whoever has made XBox 360 and XBox Live such a great experience would try and do the same for the Zune, right nbow it looks like its potential is being deliberately and inexplicably newtered.

@Blake: Because all the songs you rented under a Zune Pass become unusable the moment you cancel your subscription, whereas the a la carte songs will continue to be playable for as long as you have your Zune and the Zune Marketplace (or its proxy, in case it tanks) still exists.

dudes: that's the beauty of choice. say if you're putting together a mix for a party, you can get all the millions of songs via a subscription. or you can buy the songs individually. don't like subscription? go with download. and vice versa.

I actually like the subscription model. I enjoy aol musicnow to this day. I was just wondering if it's a suite of perks like XBOX Live (i.e., online matchmaking, downlaods, friends list) or if it's just unlimited music and it stops at that.

Nice head fake with the convoluted point system 79 == 99.

I will never buy an iPod, because iTunes doesn't offer the option of a subscription music service. (Yes, a subscription service, like cable television or satellite radio.) That sounds like a great (legal) way of exploring thousands of new-to-the-listener songs. In addition, iPod owners don't "own" the music they purchase on iTunes. If they change brands of music players, they lose their collection of purchased songs. At least, that's Apple's proprietary intent. In any event, the bottom line is that Zune has two music purchase options, and iPod/iTunes only has one.

@johnj Actually, you can export the music you buy from iTunes store to Audio CD. There is only one option to buy music at Zune Marketplace. Renting != buying.

Yeah, I have thought it through a bit more. The whole subscription thing wouldn't work financially if it didn't lock you out I guess, if it's for one off or short term things (Like the party cesar suggested) then I reckon it's worth it. *cough*Uk launch*cough!*

Can you tell me who to contact regarding independent content creators getting short films into the Zune Marketplace so that ... like... Zune owners could purchase 'em??