Did you know that the Zune, the mp3 player from Microsoft, has a filesharing feature that is probably one of the best ever implemented in mp3 players ? Did you also know that Microsoft restricted playback of song shared using that filesharing option to three playbacks in the new Zune players ? The old players had an even tougher restriction set in place, their restriction was three plays or three days.
Songs would expire when they reached either limit which made the wonderful filesharing function less attractive and more or less unusable. Users over at the Zune Scene website have found a way to bypass the 3 play rule limit of the Zune by changing the genre of the song to Podcast.
Yes, that is all, change it to Podcast, send it to another Zune and witness for yourself that music exchanged that way can be played indefinitely. It requires some work though because each and every song has to be declared a podcast. The user of the second Zune can naturally change the genre back without imposing the playback restrictions.
