On Firmware Updates

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James M — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:55:33 GMT

WHEN are we going to see support for foreign language such as Japanese! Having foreign language should just be a given! I have lots of Japanese music and I'm so sick of seeing little squares instead of characters!

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Angela — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:51:44 GMT

I am EXTREMELY disappointed at the lack of Asian language font support! It didn't even occur to me to check if the Zune had such support because... WHY WOULDN'T IT? Ugh. Had I known it wouldn't support the display of my Japanese, Korean, and Chinese songs, I would have stuck with Creative for my new player.

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Suzaku — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:01:01 GMT

Please fix the language problem. Me and my friends listen to a lot of Japanese music and are tired of seeing little rectangles.

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Jepuri — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:46:26 GMT

Ok so, i have had a zune or quiet a while now and you know, and i love it BUT there is one major flaw i have. i want to be able to read my music in a different language. i want japanese to appear, and korean. it is a bunch of crap that ipods can do it and you cant. this is the kind of little things that make people want to go to ipods

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D-Lilah — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:02:49 GMT

OMG I thought I was the only one with that skipping problem and the scilence but im glad I'm not alone that needs to be fixed. Serously though It shouldnt take all this work to listen to my music. All these updates are driving me INSANE and they take forever and a day!

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HiredN00bs — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:02:11 GMT

http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2007/07/31/at-all-day-offsite-meetings.aspx#9965

Why was this feature removed in the firmware updates? I greatly appreciated it in the old firmware. PLEASE FIX!

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Amoney323 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:34:39 GMT

Here are my suggestions:

1. Support .wav files.

2. Allow me to use Windows Media Player to sync the device.

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stian — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:07:54 GMT

HI! PLEASE AD A CLOCK FUNCTION.....I ALMOST BOUGHT A IPOD BEACAUSE THERE IS NO CLOCK FUNCTION THE ZUNE...I GUESS MANY PEOPLE FEEL THE SAME WAY....AD THE CLOCK!!! IT'S VERY IMPORTANT!!

THNX

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Imhotep — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:04:52 GMT

Anyone here realize that more people could have bought the Zune if there was better Firmware out?

Cause most people I know that want a Zune are waiting for that one badass firmware to come so they jump on the bandwagon with the rest of us.

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Garrett — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:42:26 GMT

I would love to see native support for the zune on the linux os. I very recently switched from XP to Ubuntu Edgy and am having a great deal of trouble getting my zune to work (as far as I know, nobody has). Virtual machines have also been giving me trouble, so they are not really an option. I havent been able to sync or update my zune in a while and it is bugging me greatly. Even a simple plugin for, say, rhythmbox (or another linux player) would be awesome. Thanks much.

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Guy — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:58:24 GMT

I would like to see a shuffle function on the quick list. I actually like the quick list a lot: I can add artists, albums, genres or whatever I'm in the mood for. I would just prefer not to listen to it in order.

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Andres — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:17:04 GMT

I am also a previous iPod user and I would like some of the functionality that I used daily to show up on my Zune. Here is my list (some repeats from above):

1) Dynamic smart playlist on the Zune. This is already happening on the PC software.

2) I would like the ability to shuffle full albums as well as individual songs

3) Of course, podcast and audio book bookmarking support

4) A quick "Now Playing" menu option

5) Not sure if it's possible, but I would like to be able to skip music during a picture slide show

6) If I am listening to a playlist and leave the Zune for awhile, when I come back and start my Zune again it's on the top level menu. I would like to have an option to come back to exactly where I was OR the top level menu after being away for awhile.

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Pierce — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:26:34 GMT

What would be REALLY cool would to allow programmers to program their own programs on the Zune. For example, as a VB8 programmer, allow me to program "Pong" and put it on my Zune, and have it be playable.

If I were allowed to do that, I'd be willing to spend another $250 on my Zune if needed.

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FirstZuner — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:00:40 GMT

Long play lists don't work - it would be nice to have fixed. I have a lot of stuff on my zune - audio books, music, even sound effects. I like to have a single long play list i can shuffle - about 3000 songs. It turns out the Zune software never syncs a playlist past a certain size so it just disappears.

I also do not buy anything from Zune Marketplace anymore and would not sign up for the $15 plan due to skipping. The limited number of downloads stinks, along with the type coupling of a Zune device with a specific computer. I just replaced my laptop and I had to re-download all the protected content (download 3 of 5 possible). No way I am going to buy anything else from Marketplace.

I find I am using my old iPod whenever I want to listen to DRM downloaded music - their limits are different and better.

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Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:43:37 GMT

Cesar, i love my zune and all, i love how it feels and the quality and everything but the zune could do SO much better. Help us out here man we payed money for this thing and it doesn't even have a clock? common.. also WiFi should be able to do something other than trade music with a zune for 3 days, is that even useful at all? if you made WiFi do something you'd have 10x more adopters from ipod. I decided to drop my ipod and get a zune and although i love it i am extremely dissapointed by tones of things you could have done.

Here are some things that'd would be very nice to see get updated in times to come.

- A clock, like common man, of ALL the things you DON'T have A CLOCK?! WHY A CLOCK?! thats so easy to put on..

- Let WiFi do something, MSN, AIM, even internet access would be nice, im not asking you to re-invent the zune just give us a virtual keyboard and let us work from there. the WiFi is such a useful thing to hvae, why not utilize it instead of making it do some stupid 3 day trade. waste of time.

- More EQ's would be nice, maybe more bass?

- The zune program should be able to convert videos before so we don't have to let our zune sit there while its just converting and coverting THAN adding the videos. why not let it convert before so it saves us time.

- thats my main concerns, some more stuff would be nice but those are the main things id liek to see get fixed.

The main thing i'd like to see though would be WiFi doing something. I have wifi sitting there doing nothing, and thats why this zune cost me 250+? A wifi that can't do anything useful and thats the reason it cost me an ipod video that could do and has more features than the zune.. wow. dude seriosly when you update it, give us the BASICS atleast.. i can almost garuntee you that if you were to let wifi access internet and chat online and stuff, you would actually become the "ipod killer" but right now your just another stomping ground for the ipod since the zune doesn't even have a clock.. when i go out i dont have my phone all the time so i rely on my zune WHCIH apparently DOES NOT have a clock. don't depress man, don't let us down, when you update and give us more firmware and stuff, make it GOOOD and worth our money, BECOME the "ipod killer" liek your supposed to be, not another mp3 player that gets crushed by apple, AGAIN..

Thanks for reading and please PLEASE take this into consideration, i don't want to feel liek i wasted my money on a zune that doesn't even compare to a ipod which costs the exact same..