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Yeah, a lot of people have told me that the Zune 2 is a pretty well refined devise. That said, I've yet to play with one.

You prefer the state of Steve's?

My argument on other MP3 players is: It's not so much the little box you plug your headphones into, It's the software that keeps all your stuff together, and makes it easy to get new stuff at one place, instead of going all over the internet, gettin' your geek on in different ways at different sites.
BTW:

mo' ron wrote:

Unfortunately, Zunes don't work on Macs, and don't sync with iTunes

Isn't the rest of the world, like, sueing Apple cause iTunes wont work with other players, or somethin?
What's the difference?
MS has zero mkt. share in the MP3 player biz.
(just guessin' here. It's late. don't make me research, k?)

what's a flac?

is that one of those elitist audio formats?

Last edited by SamGuy (2008-01-09 11:56 pm)

What Zune were you using?

The one I played with was HD based, and was mostly metal. Not one of the lame plastic ones from last-gen.

mo' ron wrote:

What Zune were you using?

The one I played with was HD based, and was mostly metal. Not one of the lame plastic ones from last-gen.

It was definitely a new one. I guess it just felt flimsy and I assumed it was plastic... it didn't feel sturdy at all.

I will sqaush this thread....

The hardware is as good if not better than the iPod.  I like my Zune but hate the software.  Zune software stinks in fact


THE SOFTWARE SUCKS BALLS!!!!!!

Last edited by Kurto2021 (2008-01-10 8:41 am)

I avoid buying Microsoft stuff as much as possible just to keep them humble. 

That said, the 2nd gen Zune is a much better looking and operating device that that smurf they first put out there.

If I wasn't so accustomed to the iPod already, I'd give it a shot.  There were some of the things as I was messing with it that just seemed odd to me.  Quirky stuff.  But it's a solid device overall.

Last edited by Former Windork (2008-01-10 9:42 am)

reece_james wrote:

As for the Zune, there's a 2.0? I thought the Zune was still in Alpha.

No the zune is a finalized product, its the Zune software you run on your PC that is in an alpha state. Get it right

The only Microsoft product I would ever feel comfortable buying would be an XBox.  Microsoft has no doubt improved the Zune, but it's not like it would take much to improve over their initial offering.

Good hardware isn't really worth much without good software to drive it.  None of the other "iPod competitors" offer a quality software product to interface with the device.  This is also the area where I trust Microsoft the least.

Of course, as the owner of an iPod Touch, I wouldn't consider any other mp3 player at this point.  While I wouldn't mind having a little more storage, there really isn't that many weaknesses with this device.  It does require you to be savvy about playlists though, which I can see being a drawback for some.

I don't think you guys really understand how awful the software truly is....I recommend downloading and installing it.  You will understand.  I had to spend hours fixing my ID3 tags because if they weren't exactly right it wouldn't import them correctly.

It would literally put all my Hannah Montana songs in my High School Musical Soundtrack album and my High School Musical Sountrack in my Vanilla Ice....I could go on with bad album references but you get the idea

Kurto2021 wrote:

I don't think you guys really understand how awful the software truly is....I recommend downloading and installing it.  You will understand.  I had to spend hours fixing my ID3 tags because if they weren't exactly right it wouldn't import them correctly.

It would literally put all my Hannah Montana songs in my High School Musical Soundtrack album and my High School Musical Sountrack in my Vanilla Ice....I could go on with bad album references but you get the idea

but dude.. did it screw up your Hanson albums? If not then I'd wager that you can live with a few issues.