2old2play.com — Today, I had an opportunity to listen to a few songs and a radio station on the Zune here at the Microsoft Campus in Seattle. All Zune colors were present, brown, white (or off-white) and black. Check out what I thought of Microsoft 1st generation media player.
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lynnOct 21, 2006
You are wrong. You get the FULL song. You can play it 3 times or for 3 days.
codemonkey420Oct 21, 2006
The name was changed to protect the gamer's tag and such (i.e. he used his ms gamertag...and didn't want an ass ton of pm's). Sorry. (you can find the authors name if you search through enough of the comments above)
kimrulesOct 21, 2006
I realize only 1 out of 100 Diggers ever actually RTFA, but wow was that a poorly written article. 2old2play.com desperately needs an editor.
flag564Oct 21, 2006
Poorly written as in it wasn't negative enough?
cchanceOct 22, 2006
ya this is to compete against the 30gb ipod 5.5 ... the Zune vs Nano will come soon as they are planning a unit for that form factor as well but thats in 2k7
cchanceOct 22, 2006
why do people buy new gens of ipods when they ARE THE SAME EXACT THING!I mean really give me a frigging break, after the ipod went from black and white to color, what actual innovation has been made? The latest got a negligibly brighter screen (wow probably a software setting) and support for larger video files... ummm wasnt that software as well? But no apple fanboys keep dumpin 300$+ each time, Yes there have been small changes in the hardware from gen to gen they've gotten a little lighter, but give me a break its all a farse, unless u're also increasing the size of the unit and moving up to a larger category the entire generational upgrading for the ipod i think is crap, ipod needs to start doing what microsoft has said they will do with zune, which is frequent software updates to increase usability on the devices they sell.
iceblueOct 25, 2006
I think it's interesting how much people bitch at or block people that criticize this article. Have you even read the site? It's all Microsoft propaganda. This is so obviously astroturfing, it astounds me that people keep criticizing anyone that is a bit suspicious.
utjunkieNov 5, 2006
Maybe I'm just weird but I love players that let me browse by file/folders rather than an artist/album index. More-so, I like to be able to drag music onto my player using Explorer rather than having to "sync it up with some software" which is NEVER! as fast. Will the Zune allow this kind of view?Also, is the device recognized as a standard USB storage device? does it have a standard mini USB port? I ask this because I love using my MP3 player as an external hard drive as well (and don't like having to carry around a driver disc with me as well). If the player DOES come up as a removable device, but adding music requires software; that's somewhat okay because then I can put the Zune software on the device (which supports standard file transfer without drivers), and then install the Zune software (or use Media Player I suppose) if I want to transfer music.Also, my magic number is 60GB. When's a 60GB or greater model due out?