Music, culture, and the inside scoop from Cesar Menendez,
a Microsoft employee working on Zune - Microsoft's new music project.

December 13, 2007

Check Out the Zune Gadgets Page

I noted this in my post last night, but I this is cool enough to drop into its own post, I think. Check out the Zune gadgets page on Zune.net. There you'll find some the code to drop your Zune card on other community sites (Windows Live Space, your personal blogsite, your page on the Myspace, or your facebook profile page).
 
Check out my card:
 
 |  Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:45 PM  |  19 Comments

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Fabio

How do you actually add the zune card code to your Facebook Profile?

Telekinetyk

"the Myspace" lol :-)

Thomas Johnson

There is also an image-based .png generator that a n xbox person put here -

http://card.mygamercard.net/apps/zune/YOURTAG.png

That app creates a simple image - it isn't an interactive widget.

Oh, something fun to do for your friends - when they away from their computer for an extended period of time, put Kelly Clarkson on repeat if they are signed in. Eventually that lands in their top-played artists.

Uh, yeah. Awesome.

http://social.zune.net/member/TomAtTheBelay

Kevo

What about WordPress? This is horse puckey if it won't work with Wordpress.

zshashi

the peole who saw my zune said

I heard the software sucks , I dont yet want to go online telling everyone.

Zshashi

My card btw, None of the albums show UP!!

<div><div id="zunecard_small" class="zunecard"></div><div><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://zcards.zune.net/xweb/lx/swf/zunecardmedium.swf" style="" id="flashUserCard" name="flashUserCard" bgcolor="#FFF" wmode="opaque" salign="tl" flashvars="baseURL=http%3a%2f%2fzcards.zune.net%2fzcard%2fusercardservice.ashx%3fsrc%3dexternal%26zunetag%3dZShashi" height="135" width="250"></div><div></div></div>

Mikeo

Thats really cool

Josh Groben?

Dude...

I mean, really.

Hoiser

What happened to the EQ functionality in Zune 2 80 GB. Use to change that all the time in my Zune 30. bummer it's gone.

mikeo

Hey Ceaser if i put it up on my myspace will it automatically update?

Ryan Wood

Seriously, it's not possible to add this to your Facebook profile. Facebook doesn't allow direct embedding.

Other than that, this is a cool feature that was much needed.

paul chu

apologies for going on a rant, but here are some ideas (i know this probably isn't the forum to go on about it, but....)

1. when listening to shuffle all, when you turn shuffle off, it reverts to songlist by track name. how about sorting by albums? kind of annoying when you're on shuffle and you hear an artist you want to hear a specific song from and having to go through the entire list of 8000+ songs to find it. The software does it, why not the player?

2. I understand that perhaps you don't want to give a user too much power over editing id3 tags cuz it'll just confuse everyone. However, if you want the zune player viable as a playback application, insert something that will normalize id3 tags. i have files that i have edited in winamp, mp3tag and windows media player that still show out of order in Zune. iTunes does it, why not you?

3. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS! why do i have to reach for my mouse if i just want to fast forward to the next song?

4. "Play Count" needs to be fixed. I found the best one to be last.fm's "play more than 50% of the song and it counts" to be the most effective. if that's not possible, at least more than 60 seconds to count as a play. i have a lot of "interlude" or "intro" tracks that list highly though weren't really listened to. also, in zune player, if i scan a song (with my mouse, over tracker), it still registers as a play. COME ON!

5. A way to force album information downloads via mouse click. I've reset my zune database several times and some albums will get updated only to have it not get updated the next time. Even if i name it the exact same way it is in the zune marketplace.

That's all for now. I hope you guys are listening. Or at least bring this list to the next zune meeting and present it, you can take credit for it if you want.

Scott Koprowski

Hi Ceasar,

I sure hope you guys are aware of some of the Quality issues with the current Zune 80 players. I have had a Zune 30 since launch last year and it has been flawless for me- build quality has been great. I have now went through 3 different Zune 80s and could not find one without some hardware flaw (stuck/recessed buttons, crooked squircle and loose metal antenna cover). It was very disappointing. I am a big fan of the Zune and I hope these issues are short lived. It has been very frustrating. I was looking forward to upgrading to the Zune 80- I really need the room.  Unfortunately, I'm not so sure about trying again. Please make people aware of these issues.

http://www.zunescene.mobi/forums/index.php?topic=28774.0

Thanks,

Scott Koprowski

scottkoprowski@yahoo.com

The Baker

I just went on the site to check my gadget and saw a ton of lame music I don't listen to... I was confused until I remembered I let my younger brother use my Zune pass for his Zune.

It's too bad you can't assign other live IDs to use your Zune Pass so that the social could thrive for people sharing Zune Passes across multiple Zunes.

DavidMx8

hey cesar, I finally got my Z80 :) and I must said, it's great! just two things, I really hate that the ZSoftware doesn't show the progress, and I feel it a lot slower, you should let people keep the old software with the new firmware.

and another thing.. the product guide, in the spanish section, the ZTeam made a copy paste from the xbox 360 booklet?? :S because I found 2 parts (page 59 & 60) that you mention the xbox 360 in zune stuff

ok that's all :)

Saludos Desde México x)

The real Nick

Dude, it would be so cool if the zune could transmit songs to jukeboxes in bars. They play mp3's nowadays. I think it would get more use than the radio transmitter.

Sin Nombre

Yo tengo un pregunta muy simple cesar, cuando va a haber una version en Silverlight de las ZuneCards?

ACE

why would you want a silverlight version of the ZuneCard?

But Cesar - I noticed you had over 11,000 plays the other day and now you're back to around 9,000 - the same is happening to me - my playcount is jumping up and down.  Is anyone else experiencing this?

The real Nick

Mine updated completely wrong and said I listened to songs I really haven't for months.

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