Zune Insider : Zune Chipset

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

May 08, 2008

Jasmine at Crave got a peek inside the Zune innards, and posts a comprehensive, chip-by-chip slideshow, with technical details a-plenty.

For more on Zune guts, check this video from our buddies at on10. Rajeev, who heads up engineering, gives us a tour:

| Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:25 PM | 9 Comments

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# May 08, 2008 Phil J W (canada) Awsome DJ setup.....Id looooooooooove to get a tour of microsoft, or even the office in mississauga here.....just to see what kinda of machines there running, or how many zunes are playing thru out the floor on peoples desks, i work at a head office of a crazy huge canadian retailer and we have nothing like that DJ set up on any floor.


# May 08, 2008 Adam This looks like someone's high school science project.


# May 08, 2008 Velorium Satire I think I found a bug in the firmware. When there are 2 discs in one album it doesn't list them 1-10 then 1-12 or something like that, but instead, 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4 etc.


# May 08, 2008 Espiox Nice. Interesting article, in a nerdy sorta way. On a side note, what's the shipping time like from Zune Originals are the moment? Days, weeks?


# May 08, 2008 Phil J W(canada) I had mine shipped to my brother in law in NC. orderd LAUNCH day for the 80GB original. They gave me a day that was 2 weeks away. then it showed up a week early. So in my experiance days.


# May 08, 2008 Slurp Does the Zune 4/8 have a built in FM tuner? Anyone else see where it said that?


# May 08, 2008 Eddie 532 Mhz? Whoa thats pretty fast for such a small device.


# May 09, 2008 Nickker22 Hi Cesar, Here's just an user request for future updates.. It could be cool to be able to sort music/videos in a recently added list. Here's a user story you can use for your software requirements ;) I select music, I hit right a couple times to the "recently added" category,(or "recent") and I see a list of music that just recently got synced. I then can scroll through that list to find a song I recently added to my collection. Much like how the zune PC software works, its "home screen" shows a list of recently added albums to your collection. Some times its nice to be able to find music that you just put on your zune, especially if its a new artist and you don't exactly remember their name. I own both a zune 30 and 80, I like them both...I use the clunkier one when i run heh. I even started converting some of my ipod friends to it. One REALLY liked the idea of sharing friend's cards and having music from their playlists automatically synced to your zune. However she recently got an ipod as a gift, but perhaps her next purchase will be a zune 3? Keep up the good work! :) Nick


# May 12, 2008 Andrew wow. gotta love the openness of MS & the Zune insides.. You'd never see something like this from Apple! Then again.. Apple does not have one single solitary blog, but thats a whole other story.

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