In today’s world, owning a cell phone and/or a portable media player has practically become a necessity. The thing is I don’t own either. No, I do not live in a cave, I just took a conscious decision not to own one.
Recently though, I’ve decided to invest in an mp3 player. I knew about the [...]
Ask the Readers: Which MP3 Player Should I Buy?
The Zune: A Review
Yesterday I finally got my Zune 120, all the way to Australia from America through Ebay thanks to Microsoft’s failure to release the Zune internationally at this point.
All I can say is it was completely worth it.
The bad thing for Microsoft is it’s taken 3 years to get the Zune to meet it’s initial expectations, [...]
New Zune Won’t be an iPod Killer but it’s Just as Good
Microsoft announced it’s latest lineup of Zune products to a fairly underwhelming response, which was frankly also fairly well expected.
It’s easy to get cynical about the Zune, especially considering Microsoft’s promises about delivering an amazing iPod killing device three years back.
The original Zune was pretty ugly, far too bulky and came in an attractive poo-brown. [...]
Complete Media Player Reviews (Part 4)
Joshua is a regular gHacks author, if you like the type of posts you see here then check out his own blog; Extendably – a site dedicated to everything extensions related.
So far in this series of posts I’ve taken a look at Windows Media Player, iTunes, Media Monkey and Helium Music Manager. Today [...]
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.
Bypass Zune Guest Syncing
If you want to connect a Zune to a computer that is not its home zone you receive a popup asking if you want to connect the Zune as a guest or “sync with your library on this pc.” The second option would remove all content on the Zune and sync it with the library on the new computer. I suppose this is another feature to please the Music Industry by making it harder to add music from your friends computer to your own Zune. This spells troubles. Imagine if you have purchase a new pc or something gets messed up on your old computer.
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.
