Interesting Takes on Zune Social

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

Frank — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:30:51 GMT

Is there any way in which I can sign up to for Zune social in the UK?? My issue is that I have a problem with my premier earphones (the right side has really low volume). All I want to do is speak with someone to replace it as it is still under warranty! But only way to do this is to be part of Zune social. Please help or advise!!

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

AA — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:27:30 GMT

the Zune social is ok... Previous comments comparing it to www.last.fm are right on. The size of their community, integration with local events/performances, etc. put Last.FM miles ahead of the social...

Don't develop new ideas for the social. Steal the best ones from Last.FM and get back to work on fixing the software and firmware deficiencies with the Zune.

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

ChaosAngelic — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:47:08 GMT

I personally love Zune Social. It's a really nice idea that has great potential. However, I did see a few pictures and videos of Zune Social inside the Zune Software... I'd imagine that's in the works?

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

Talyn — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:55:15 GMT

I like The Social but I do think it would have been a wise decision to also support last.fm and pandora as well. Users like choices.

I do like that we can communicate directly with the users, almost like an auto-generated music blog in a sense, but I wish the Zune would recognize podcasts as well rather than just music. I realize that as a company MS wants to encourage purchases from the ZMP but as social users I want to explore and discover other content too.

Finally, the well-known dead horse of the extremely limited tag editing. It's past the point of ridiculous when I need a third-party application just to make simple tag edits and have to wonder if the day arrives when Winamp and other popular media software can directly interface with Zune devices if people will abandon the Zune software?

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

Olly Offord — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:36:56 GMT

Compatibility outside the US would be nice. I travel to Europe for extended periods and it's just a small hindrance that I can't access my favorite new social network.

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

ptath2 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:21:27 GMT

I love the idea, and the firt pass is pretty good. I like checking out others songs, someone suggested someplace playlist sharing would be fun, i liked being able to search others playlists (if they allowed it ofcourse)when I was on yahoo music before Zune.

Let me echo another comment

Audible.com support (wich means audio bookmarks as well)

Amazon unbox support

Please.

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

voghan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:30:46 GMT

I really like the zune card and social. I think it's a real innovative feature. I just wish it was easier to get the site to recognize your music. I have tons of MP3s but not all of them show up on my recent played. Zune shows the artwork so I don't know why it doesn't show up. I fixed some but it's annoying to have to fix 30 or 40 CDs. Especially considering most were ripped using Windows Media Player.

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

sportsunit — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:00:04 GMT

I have used it as a tool to fuel my mass downloading sprees. With the zune pass, I can download just about anything without paying per track. A cool way to choose what my next downloads will be is to see what others are playing on their Social pages. It's not something that I do often, but I have downloaded more than 10 or so albums in one day after checking out the pages of my friends.

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

John in S.Florida — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:20:38 GMT

Michael, #2 on your list seems abit odd considering that when you install Zune software, you go through a process that establishes a Zune/Live ID. As for #1, I tend to agree and assume some aspects of Zune Social site will eventually be included in the software.

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Espiox — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:57:35 GMT

Cesar, could you please tell me why UK users can't send Play data to the social? I'm logged in, but because I'm in the UK, my data doesn't send. What exactly is the big deal with me showing people what I'm listening to? Or are my interests region-restricted as well?

I can understand not accessing the marketplace, but uploading data to the social? Come ON.

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

EZRyder — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:41:12 GMT

I'd love to check out the Zune social....but as I'm in the UK, I'm pretty locked out of everything my Zune30 should let me access.

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

Eptin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:12:34 GMT

Wholeheartedly agree with Jaxim and Rockman87.

HAVE THE ZUNE BEEP WHEN SOMEONE WANTS TO SEND YOU A SONG.

It's all uppercase because this is a *vital* change in order to get music sharing to become successful on the Zune. Like they said, I too see a few people with Zunes nearby, but nobody is ever looking at the screen when they are listening to music! There must be a way for them to become aware of that someone wants to send them something. Also, don't just have the subtle click sound that's currently used in the menus.

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

Bo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:18:28 GMT

So I love the Zune 2 device. Slick, sexy, and much better than the iPod. However, Zune software is a different story. iTunes has a HUGEEE advantage in regards to software. Will the Zune software be updated soon so that it can be at least as user-friendly as the iTunes software? Things that I'd like to see are: Smart-playlists, easier metadata editting, when a song is playing the list mode will highlight the song, less glitches in organising songs, and album art displayed when song is playing. If you have time, a reply to danselikeglassx @ gmail.com would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

Shawn Oster — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:46:45 GMT

The Social is so elegant and simple that I don't believe people quite understand it yet, they still are trying to fall back on what they know vs. bringing themselves into the space. Personally it's taken me awhile to get into the groove of going from profile to profile, dropping comments and exploring, yet now that the light bulb has gone off I'm addicted.

Being able to listen to music directly from the web page without installing something or even having a profile is an amazing feature and makes discovering music much more accessible. The Social is like a bazaar, at first confusing but once you get to know it you love what you can discover and get addicted to all the little gems you can discover.

re: Interesting Takes on Zune Social

Mike — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:27:40 GMT

Hey Cesar, I thought you might be interested in featuring one of the things that my favorite Zune site is doing.

The folks over at ZuneBoards.com is giving away free, yes FREE accessories in exchange for posts. This is a great idea and really brings us Zuners together to create the 'social' feeling.

There's been thousands of discussion spurred by this new program. 7 people have gotten free accessories already, and it's been 48 since the program launch! I find that truly amazing.

www.ZuneBoards.com/forums/zunecentive.php

http://www.zuneboards.com/site-news/zunecentive-launched-earn-free-zune-accessories-easily.html

http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/zunecentive-167/

ZuneBoards completely changed since they left the 'warez' scene. I'm starting to like it more and more.