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a Microsoft employee working on Zune - Microsoft's new music project.

November 28, 2007

Kudos, Zune Community (Or “Changing the Background Image on your Desktop Software”)

Kudos to the Zune community for taking the idea of “you make it you” to the next level – folks in the community have found a way to customize the Zune background on the Zune software.

Get the details at I Have a Zune dot com or at ‘thoughts.

<Edit Thursday AM> - There's some back and forth in the comments as to where this trick came from, but I think it's safe to give credit to 'Boards for this one.

 |  Wednesday, November 28, 2007 7:50 PM  |  29 Comments

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kingp

I changed mine to reflect the Vista Home Premium theme. Its awesome!

Michael

So if YOU think it's ok, does that mean the whole Zune team will add this feature also in the next update to the Zune software?

Because that would be really neat you know, for it to be officially added.

jeff

cesar needs to update the post to reflect where the hack came from, zuneboards.com. im not part of the team but needs to give credit where it is do.

Tom

let me answer for u, Ceasar. "uh Michael, we don't comment on rumor and speculation"

Jonathan Broderick

So this doesn't violate any software laws for the zune? do as i say not as i do? whats that all about?

nightryder21

Het Cesar,

   Can we get some "allow posting pictures in the zune.net forums" love. Who can I instant message to get an answer? I started a thread but haven't gotten an official or semi-official answer. Thanks

http://forums.zune.net/23860/ShowPost.aspx

Twenty5

yea i agree

If you think is OK so why not make it a REAL feature instead of a hack that not everyone is aware of.

Im just confused by your response and reaction...

I mean..... WTH?!

Twenty5

and yea, ZuneBoard users/hackers were the first ones to find that out

Mitch

Jeff if you are gonna go to where it came from you need to go a little further than zuneboards.com it originally came from darkzune.com which is a spinoff of zB. Darkzune has had it since nov 15th, zuneboards just made it a little more customizable based on what darkzune did.

Carlos

Yeah it's from ZuneBoards and I myself am part of the ZB Team. Just not the Hacks & Mods Area =]

Zunululu

Beat that itunes! ^_^

Sri

@Tom,

LOL

But as the Zune team said, there'll be updates to the zune software more frequently. I hope they add this feature :)

Wootmasta

loveandhatejw

I am pretty sure it was us who made this hack first, but why not just give credit to copy websites.

ACE

UUUMMMMM....you need to do your homework a little better next time cesar...even ZuneThoughts referenced where this came from - http://www.zuneboards.com/content/view/187/2/

HK

When's the Zune party at CES and how do we get tix?

Fred

Seems to me like an obvious oversight <sigh>

Mark

nice... I did this when zuneboards first posted it, what I was saying "nice" to was Cesar's reaction. I mean, how often do you hear someone from a company commending people for hacking their software to make it more useable? (I never have, with the exception of open source stuff, but thats not really from a company)

Chris Hammond

I hate forums that make you register just to view posts! :)

Ricardo Dawkins

you ppl complain and whine about everything...God!

Kris

Looks pretty cool but I refuse to be put into a position where I am forced to register for a forum just to view one post.

Maybe someone else will post up the instructions somewhere else... oh well

Tablet PC User

So Cesar...when are you going to change the background on your website? You had that same background for a while now.

Adrian

Cesar it looks like you have a Black Zune 4/8?

DarkZune Zune Forums

You are aware that DarkZune's Hacker "White Rabbit" released the original hack which was later derived by ZuneBoards..

Just wondering if you had taken this into account.

Great Blog.

Dark Zuners and Tuners

Zune

Actually, ZuneBoards figured it out before DarkZune, so I wouldn't say they "derived" from DarkZune. However, we can say that DarkZune itself  did derive from ZuneBoards.

Guest User

@ Ricardo Dawkins (from ZuneScene?)

What do you mean by "you ppl"?

Aren't we all part of the social?

apathymusic

Being able to change the background should be a simple preference that we should be able to change without a 'hack.'  

LoveSound

The Background hack does work and very well might I add. I made a custom background for it that I like a lot, if you would like it here it is.

http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/7282/zune2bw9.jpg

The Fez

Hey,

I am Fez, I worked on the background hack with

WhiteRabbit. We(Darkzune.com) created the original zThemes hack way before Zuneboards did. Although, props to them for making the customizable version. They can say that they had thought it up all along, but hey, its doing it that matters the most.

Good Job

Berdon (Nurta didn't and can't do jack squat his name is just there because he is an Admin)

Peace Fellas

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