gHacks technology news » zune tips http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Share Unrestricted Music with your Zune http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/11/share-unrestricted-music-with-your-zune/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/11/share-unrestricted-music-with-your-zune/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:56:21 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/11/share-unrestricted-music-with-your-zune/ 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.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/11/share-unrestricted-music-with-your-zune/feed/ 0 Copy data from and to a Microsoft Zune http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/28/copy-data-from-and-to-a-microsoft-zune/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/28/copy-data-from-and-to-a-microsoft-zune/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:40:10 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/28/copy-data-from-and-to-a-microsoft-zune/ I do not own a Zune and will probably never own one but I know a few people who do own one, this article is for them. You can enable a hard drive mode in the Zune which is similar to the hard drive mode of the iPods. All you need to do is change some registry keys in windows which enables this.

Press Windows + R and enter regedit. Hit enter and go to the following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ ControlSet001 \ Enum \ USB \ . Search for “PortableDeviceNameSpace” and change the following registry keys to enable hard drive mode:

  • EnableLegacySupport to 1
  • PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell to 0
  • ShowInShell to 1

Plug in your Zune and make sure the Zune software starts. The Zune should now appear in My Computer

source: Phaleux

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