Welcome to Zune Insider podcast #29 with your always awesome hosts Matt Akers ( skipdeez ) and Jessica Zahn ( jetherealz )! This week we sit down with our man from Zune business development Dave McLauchlan ( AussieDaveMS ) and talk Zune accessories, Ford Sync, processes for 3rd party partners, and answer some forum questions from anythingbutipod.com. Very insightful interview, check it! Of course we also talk music and videos where I call out some recent music that has been sent to me by our listeners...

Well, it's over! The Mixview contest is officially done. It was my first time running a contest - I've mentioned before, I actually work on one of the software development teams, so something like this was completely new for me. So thanks for participating! All of your paths from one artist to the other were shorter than the path I originally found when I created each challenge, so it was really fun to see how artists are remotely related to one another. So the final winner is Kaboomachu...

Well, this is it: our last Mixview contest. Hope you enjoyed it! Last week's contest - Depeche Mode to Bonnie Raitt - was won by beefyy, who got there in just four steps! Beefyy, send me (jetherealz) a Zune inbox message with your name and address and I'll get your prize sent out to you. For our finale, let's go from The Crystal Method (which I'm going to get to see in a couple of weeks - doing a live show, not a DJ set!) to The Beatles. As a reminder, here's what you have to...

Oooh, interesting! There were no winners for the "Rumors" edition last week, attempting to go from Lindsay Lohan to Fleetwood Mac! (And yes, it is possible; I always validate the path before posting the contest.) So we've got two weeks of the contest left, and two more Zune Home A/V Packs to give away. So this week, let's do Depeche Mode - they've got a new album out - to Bonnie Raitt - because they seem musically really far apart, and I want to see how close you can make them...