New Music Friday: Thirty-First Edition

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John in S.Florida — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:35:21 GMT

Joe Wilcox wrote a piece on Microsoft-watch that uncharacteristically gives Microsoft groups some praise for their fast development cycle. He includes Zune in his assessment. I think thats for the work he guys did to launch the product/service. :)

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/server/windows_home_server_is_golden.html

Btw, I've been a testing Windows Home Server for several months and I think it is a very cool product. One of the things I have suggest for the v2 team is to find more synergy between Windows Home Server/Media Center/XBox/Zune and #1 - to find a way to centralize/manage DRM for home entertainment network....that includes Zune. Hopefully each Zune team member GETS A WINDOWS HOME SERVER TO WORK/PLAY WITH!!!!

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jose — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:15:00 GMT

Cesar I'm coming next week to Seattle so maybe we can meet and share a couple of songs. Thanks for the clarification on the journal thing. Also a new update should include Podcast support.

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admin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:08:37 GMT

I love a good satire, and I think this site is kinda funny. :) iFanboys can be funny sometimes :)

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Mark — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:53:30 GMT

haha that hide-a-pod thing is pretty funny although I have to say the zune headphones beat the ipod headphones any day (since they are actually somewhat decent).

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Stephen R Gibson — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:19:00 GMT

Some nice tasty Zune news might make stuff like this disappear.

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Kabato — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:31:31 GMT

This is both sad, and funny.

http://hideapod.com/

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John in S.Florida — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:24:12 GMT

Cesar on on10.net? c'mon you know i wouldn't have missed...an interview by tina wood or laura foy. :)

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Stephen R Gibson — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:23:58 GMT

Thanks for responce. I didn't realise it did that. I assumed it would log me in when I started the program up or went into Marketplace.

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admin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:10:00 GMT

Jason sez: "The Journal was/is a feature that shows who you have shared songs with. This was demoed in 2006. I don't know if it ever came to light or not." Yep, it is. Except under a different name: Inbox. Also, Zune dev is all us.

Steve R - I'm not sure, but right before you download a song, it signs you in. I asked the dev team "why" and all I got was the cryptic: "that was the way it was designed."

John, right now J and Scott are some of the busiest guys I know, but I can see when they could meet up and talk to onten. You know I was on on10 once?

Ricardo, *I* don't think you're evil buddy :)

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Eddie — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:56:12 GMT

Heh, I thought it was a discarded feature. Turns out it was only Inbox.

Stephen, when you check "Sign Me In Automatically" it doesnt sign you in as soon as you open Zune software. It signs you in when you buy or preview something from the Marketplace.

And yes, Richardo was VERY VERY evil. >=(

Thanks for answering Cesar.

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DaveWorld — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:25:08 GMT

Ricardo that was very evil of you, playing with the emotions of the frustrated Zune owners like that. Insignia just answered its users requests with a nice firmware update, wink wink.

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John in S.Florida — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:20:11 GMT

Not sure you have seen my previous request but I think it would be really cool and invaluable for J Allard and Scott Erickson to be interviewed about Zune. Perhaps on on10.net. Possible?

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Jason — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:23:57 GMT

Cesar, does Microsoft have to wait on Toshiba for any/all updates to the Zune or was all development of software handed off to the Microsoft Zune team?

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Jason — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:19:08 GMT

Ricardo that was evil........

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Stephen R Gibson — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:11:37 GMT

A little off topic, but I have a quick question for you Cesar. Why doesn't the Zune software sign me automatically? I've checked the the box to tell it to, but it never does.