Episode 54 dated Feb 5th, 2010 of the Zune Insider Audio Podcast is now live and is hosted by Matt Akers (skipdeez) and Jessica Zahn (jetherealz). Show notes: Jess and Matt talk about their online handles (00:00 to 1:30); Matt’s birthday and a weekend of celebrations! (1:40 – 4:40); Shout out to Phil and his listening party for BT’s new album (4:40 – 6:19); Interview with the Platform Biased team from Xbox (6:20 – 32:50); Matt’s gargantuan inbox and shout outs...

Zune and the Slamdance Film Festival are offering users an exclusive chance to rent some of the same films being shown at the festival on the same day they are being screened in Park City. The Zune team has always supported up-and-coming artists and we are continuing this tradition by working with Slamdance to make a select number of films from the festival available for rental on your PC, Zune HD or Xbox LIVE. Learn more about the films on Zune.net: American Jihadist Mind of the Demon: The Larry...

We know many of you are anxiously waiting for the Facebook for Zune HD app, and have been very patient. Thank you. However, we need to ask a small favor… just hold on a little longer. I know we said by the end of January, but we want to deliver the best app to you and it is going to take a little bit more time. Again thanks for understanding.

The team rocked it and got the maintenance finished well under the expected "up to 24 hours." If you run into any issues resulting from the update, contact Zune Support.