On Listening to the Community

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livealittle247 — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:07:49 GMT

If you cancel your zune subscription can you still listen to the music on your Zune?

ANSWER SOON!

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Jacob — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:24:40 GMT

I was just thinking about this today I'm not sure if it has been suggested before, but a feature where if you're listening to the radio and you hear a song you like that you can put the ID tag in your inbox, so you can download it from the store later.

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Wes — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:05:16 GMT

Just add 3 things to the zune

1- Podcast support

2- add a clock

3- Internet capabilities for wireless networks

I dont know why these were not on the thing in the first place

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bix — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:06:01 GMT

I can't quite express how disappointed I am with my Zune. I want so badly to like it, but it never lived up to the promise. I mean seriously... a WiFi enabled MP3 Player made by the company that makes the Xbox360 and Media Center? The tie-ins (which were all implied by the dev team from the get go) were obvious. I should be buying TV shows and music on my 360 and having it sync up to my Zune by now. I should be able to stream content from my Media Center to my Zune wirelessly over the internet. I should be able to see gamerstats and messages from the 360 on my Zune. Heck, I should be able to wirelessly sync from my Zune to my PC. Wait... forget that... just give me podcast support! Or if even *that* is too complicated, how about some basic SmartPlaylists that actually update on the device, instead of just on the PC. It could have been so much fun... I want so badly to like it. But here I sit, getting far more value from my 30gig iPod photo instead. Forget colors and special branding. Just give me some features. I mean seriously... the only "feature" that has been added since I bought it (which was launch week) was "improved shuffle." Wow. Thanks guys. What happened to Zune being easy to update. What happened to updates often? What happened to all those sexy features you guys hinted at at launch? As far as I can tell, it was all just to sucker me in so you can get enough money to develop the second gen device. I know, I know... I shouldn't have bought a device on future features... but you guys made it sound so awesome. Instead, the hottest Zune rumors on the net are A) a blue zune (which was just bad color in an ad) and B) new hardware which runs the exact same feature barren software, but includes more space. Wow. More space. And even if you did update the OS, at this point I'm almost certain that you'll accompany the update with some little footnote that says that unfortunately due to the totally awesomeness of this ubercool update, 1st gen hardware really just won't work. And I'll be in the exact same spot I was with my Casiopea HandheldPC... and my Phillips Nano... and my MSNDirect Spot Watch... and the handful of MS created products that simply just don't live up to the hype. Sorry guys, but my Zune is taking the place in my abandoned gadgets drawer that I hoped would be held by my iPod for years to come. It's been fun... wait... no... it's been frustrating.

- bix (at) bixworld (dawt) com

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gljvd — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:41:00 GMT

I will be laving the zune fold if nothing changes this holiday season.

I've been waiting almost a year for podcast support. Its insane that some of the most basic features are still not in the software at this point in time.

Its really sad that you keep talking about second gen zunes when the first gen zune is far from a finished product. Releasing a zune 2 when zune 1 is such an incomplete product is only going to piss off zune 1 owners.

This is how i felt with the first gen ipod and I never bought another. Seems I wont be buying another zune. HOpefully after the holidays i can still get some money back from the zune investment evne if its not as much as I put in at least i can put that money to something that has podcast support or a friggen clock

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swanlee — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:09:45 GMT

No more Zune colors please!!!, the color of the Zune is not a big deal. What is a big deal is feature added to the current Zune to make it more competitive with the Ipod. No one cares about new colors!!.

Almost a year since the Zune came out, I bought mine on day one and still no LOSSLESS audio support!!!

The freakin Ipod Nano\Shuffle plays .wav files. Why on earth doesn't the Zune support at least ONE lossless audio format?

Would it kill your team to release one firmware update that added new features? Would it kill your team to ad at least one lossless audio format to device support?

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bernard — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:49:03 GMT

I like how you call it "the recent announcement." lol

Oh, and by saying "gen 1 Zunes" you've just indirectly confirmed the Zune 2 :-)

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tim — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:51:51 GMT

Long time MS fan boy, but

* Zune is step back relative to PMC. When can I really support drv-ms like your PMC SW?

* Wifi come on...........

* No realy features added thru firmware.

I am in same camp, no news by itouch launch, I am switches sides.

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Nathan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:31:53 GMT

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/blue-zune-leaked-via-target-ad/ - Comments Caesar?

If this is your big holiday plans and the update we have been asking for for over a year I'm buying an iPod. These color additions are ridiculous.

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Harry — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:45:17 GMT

From U2's website:

http://www.u2.com/news/?news_id=2151&PHPSESSID=f626c495dd85fcd8ef0fc1b5a551b257

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Zune Share Update, and Sandisk (TomT) — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:07:08 GMT

From today's Forbes.com:

"And while Apple's iPod accounted for 71% of U.S. unit sales during the first six months of this year, according to NPD Group, down from 76% during the same period last year, SanDisk was a very distant, but still impressive, second, with 10%, share, up from 9% a year earlier. Rounding out the rest of the top five were Creative Technology at 4%, Microsoft at 3% and Samsung with 2%. Market share for Sony wasn't immediately available, but clearly wasn't significant."

The article also notes that Sandisk "has also updated its product line continuously."

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Julio Angel Ortiz — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:36:08 GMT

Cesar, it's not just the "fans" that are seeing problems here:

http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2007/09/06/zunes-tired-tune.aspx

It's starting to feel like we're re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. The silence doesn't help.

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Nick — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:22:03 GMT

Why was there no update yesterday?

Is the Zune going to be at TGS???

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n00k — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:11:38 GMT

Well, my brother-in-law sold his Zune to get a new iPod, and I hate to say it people, but if I don't hear some good Zune 1 news by the time the new iPods are out, I will no longer be a Zune owner. I'm sorry but the whole ordeal with the Zune is just disgusting, crap firmware upgrades, crippled features, it's just not worth it anymore. Where is the gapless playback, on the fly playists, not to mention the severely lacking ability to edit track info within the Marketplace software. I hate it guys, but it doesn't look good for the Zune. I hope I'm wrong, but I bet I'm not. :0(

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JS — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:22:21 GMT

Just sold my Zune, however that does not mean that I will not get a Zune 2 if it warrants it. I am very disapointed in the feature velocity on the client side application, and I will think twice before getting a Zune 2 because of this.