On the Latest Zune Story Making the Rounds. . .

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Aayush — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:24:31 GMT

Songs with Lyrics that would be so ausome ausome... Please Zune bring that possible.

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Andre — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:01:10 GMT

I just had my zune It's 30 gb and I'm pretty happy with it BUT as we all know there is many things in the software can be done ..I really don't know why there is not an internet browser for example in it using the WiFi ??!!!

Anyway ...

I just wanna know If the 1.4 update was the last update for the 30 gb Zune OR there will be a 1.5 update for the Zune .. So please anyone knows about that tell me ... I'M ON FIRE !!!

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Dave — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:45:59 GMT

I've been using my Zune a lot over the past few days. Here are a couple of features that would be really sweet:

* EQ Access from the song details.

When the button is pressed one time (while song is playing) we have access to Shuffle, Repeat, Send, Flag. Please add the ability to change the EQ from here. It is really a waste of time to have to exit to the main menu and then goto settings to change the EQ. It should be linked right there on the song details.

* Allow Custom EQ

The default EQ's work ok for some songs/headphones. It would be much better to have a 5 band eq that we can tweak to our own liking.

I don't see a place on the Zune site or support site that allows for user suggestions. It would be nice to have the option right there to give feedback to the Zune Team. Oh well. Keep up the good work. Get out those updates!!

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Philippe Majerus — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:52:52 GMT

I'm using a Zune v1, and have to admit it is disturbing to see 6 months later we still don't get all the features found even in first-gen Microsoft Portable Media Center.

I really like the work done on the user interface since the PMC days, but...

- Where are japanese fonts ?! why does even a PMCv1 and every other player on the market display titles for asian songs just fine and the Zune still displays rectangles like we're still in Windows 95 days ? It already is Unicode and has plenty of space, adding some fonts should not be that difficult. I understand Zune v1 was designed for USA only, but keep in mind even if you restrict your device market for some reason, music on the other hand is worldwide, selling only in the US doesn't mean your customers listen only to north american music!

- Where is support for Media Center recorded TV ? Portable Media Center could sync these from day 1, why does the current Microsoft portable media device ignore the current Microsoft home media system ?

- Windows Vista, Xbox 360, and several network audio players can stream music, pictures and video directly from a PC through Windows Media Player sharing (pka Windows Media Connect)... Zune has Wi-Fi, why can't it connect to that network source (main scenario would be people listening to music in-home or in garden, away from their PC).

- Why no Wi-Fi sync ? Xbox 360 made a lot of noise about being finally wireless, why not keeping consistant and actually using the Zune hardware to get rid of wires too ?

Now don't even speak about cool features introduced in PMCv2, being able to download pictures directly from a digital camera onto the Zune hard disk would make a lot of sense while travelling, and it seems the code is ready as it looks like that feature was included in Toshiba's PMCv2.

Finally, even the sync still has issues, adding videos to "Files You Added" while the device is full, with "Files You Added" set at higher priority than "All Music" still result in an error 9 times out of 10... and Pictures folders architecture still get messed up during sync for some reason.

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DaveWorld — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:50:41 GMT

Show of hands - If you knew that you wouldn't be getting major updates close to a year after purchase (if ever), would you have bought the Zune? This is clearly a disappointment that should immediately be addressed. Early adopters should be joyful at this point, and an extension of your marketing with 'Word-of-Mouth' advertising, not disappointed. I remember all the sales people around Christmas as telling every potential customer that MS was a software company so there will be updates if you buy the Zune. Gates himself even said it! Where are the updates?

Least the team can do is put out a teaser that shows the direction of the Zune project, something that show MS is committed, not just words Cesar. I want to see the Zune go someplace, competition is good for us all.

Thanks!

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swanlee — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:42:06 GMT

Still waiting for some type of lossless audio support on the device. Come on guys the freakin ipod shuffle even supports .wav files. Why on earth can't the Zune support wma lossless on the device?

These little no feature firmware updates are not going to cut it anymore. We better gets some REAL feature updates soon.

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Subtledisastr — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:20:43 GMT

Okay, I'm not going to repeat what every has been posting months and months on end about adding certain features. If the team reads what we write about improving the device, then why are we still waiting for these updates. Its almost like being ignored. I think that the developers would have more to show for, being that they read our reviews.

Also, about firmware, it has been being released roughly every three months. Are we even still expecting the next firmware update this September or are we going to be out of luck?

Lastly, I hate to say it but I almost guarantee that majority of the sites viewers could care less about BBQ's and parties that more than half of us can't attend to. I just think it is pointless to promote a device that gets almost no sort of updates. Let's not be so mum on the news... Welcome to the Social!

I hope your comrads are reading these posts Cesar.

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Byron Hinson — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:08:55 GMT

I admit I'm very disappointed in the way the Zune has panned out as well. No firmware updates that add any features to a device that was behind the times when it was launched is never a good way to help boost both sales and good word of mouth, no one who has seen my Zune has shown any interest other than saying it has a nice screen.

Don't get me wrong, for music it is good, its just for anything else it is below average and the Wi-Fi has turned out as useless as most people predicted...a year on and I certainly wouldn't consider buying a "next gen" Zune.

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kp — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:33:14 GMT

Here's another one for the dev team on what I'd like to see added (in addition to Podcasts but if you haven't gotten the message on that you're all plain DEAF!).

How about lyrics? I can click while song is playing and I can rate, flag, send, etc. Would be oh so simple to add an option to display the lyrics!

Oh - and yes I now have a Zune (brown). I just got it a few weeks ago so I must have pushed you over that million mark ;) I figured finally breaking down and getting one would bring out the next gen announcement!

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Rom — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:08:08 GMT

I'm kinda disappointed at the slow pace (or lack) of updates...even simple features found on the iPod are not present on the zune! how in the world will you surpass iPod that way... ;( sniff!

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Crystal3 — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:48:18 GMT

They can do what Apple can do PLUS more. Why not match the iPod and at the same time, surpass it. All this emphasis on the "music experience" is a waste of time. The music part is fine. It needs to open up and/or incorporate all the features that were expected at launch, and those features should at the very least match what the iPod offers, if not more.

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Rhett — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:39:22 GMT

@ Kris

Zune didn't reinvent the wheel. They copied a broken wheel... poorly.

Many of us hope they will straighten it out, though.

@ Cesar

Your a pro, dude. The ability to post an update that has no information at all and at the same time it sounds sorta like big news on the Zune feature front... That's skill :)

At least I'm not the only restless native anymore.

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Kris — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:08:01 GMT

I have to say that my experience with my Zune thus far has been very disappointing. We were promised additional features through updates and yet we haven't heard anything for almost an entire year.

I don't understand why Microsoft isn't playing to their strenghts rather than trying to be just like the iPod. Examples:

-Microsoft makes one of the best DVR like applications out there (Windows Media Center). Why is there no integration so we can record a show and load it onto our Zune?

-The Zune has wireless built in but yet, it's not utilized by most, if not, all Zune users as almost no one else has a Zune. Why can't we use this to do something the iPod can't that will actually benefit the current amount of Zune users? Something like downloading from the Marketplace directly to the Zune, steaming music or video from the web, or even a way to stream music from the Zune to PCs/XBox 360 or vice versa?

Microsoft has some great resources and they have access to do things Apple cannot. Why they seem to be only focusing on what the iPod already does seemed like a doomed tactic, IMO.

Why re-invent the wheel can you can do oh-so-much-more

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Stephen R Gibson — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:41:23 GMT

Hey, I use the Zune software as my default media player on my PC. Is it possible to add Audioscrobbler (aka Last.fm) support to the software, either officially or via a third-party plugin? Or better yet, some kind of GamerCard-style way of presenting that info would be great.