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User Submitted Zune 30 GB Digital Media Player (Red) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-09-19 Continual updates make this thing awesome! A ridiculous amount of props to Microsoft for continually updating these first generation Zunes. New firmware and software updates make this device better and better as time goes on. New features are being added constantly. New Zune 3.0 software is infinitely better than iTunes. I couldn't be happier with my decision to get a Zune over an iPod. Date: 2008-09-18 What problems?? This works great!! I bought my zune 30gb used for $75 and I had no idea how to use it. It is my first multimedia player and I've never owned anything before this. I had problems at first getting the zune device to be reconized by the software, so I looked for some help on the internet and a website said that the front USB ports on a computer are generally weaker than the ports that are located in the back on the motherboard itself. So i connected the zune to one of the USB ports on the back of the computer. Since then, no problems. It's easy to sync songs, and it's easy to edit mp3 tags so you can organize the music the way you want to. The video and audio tracks sound great! My mp3's are all encoded at 192kbits-256kbits, so everything is high quality. I throw on my Bose Tri-port headphones and I'm set! Everything on it works great: 2,125 MP3's (no wma, or acc), 8 videos, 10 pictures, 2 games. and I've only used 13.11GB, leaving me with another 14.68GB to fill it up with! Date: 2008-09-16 My Opinion on the Zune So I've had the Zune for about a year now and I've liked it alot. It can stand up to my craziness on a bike(including my crashes witch have broken two ipods) and can withstand a drop and not have to be restarted unlike some other players. It also plays movies well and I enjoy watching them on it(though after I got my PSP it went second to that for movies). It plays all my music and I've never had a problem even with some of the DRMed music I had. The only problems I really have is the crappy software and the non-external hard-drive link-up, for it forces the software(though I will say the software has gotten alot better over the year). So atm the Zune would still be my top choice for player(though I dont think I would pay 200 for what I payed 100 for but i wouldnt pay 200 for a mp3 player anyway). So quick summary of Pros and Cons Pros = Can play most DRMed Music, Good size screen for movies, Picture Aulbum, and Durability Cons = Can't be hosted Externally, and the software still needs work(but it is getting better) Other notes = I've never had a problem with connection to my computer even when I ran Vista and the program worked just fine then. Now that its popular it costs twice as much new as when I bought it, I'm glad I got mine when I did since I would hate spending 200$ on this. Date: 2008-09-15 Zune the product delivers what i expected it to. very nice, i dont mind the color it took awhile though. it was the cheapest (and i am a cheap person). so i cant complain. amazon thanks Date: 2008-09-15 Zune vs Ipod There are two things I love about the Zune: #1 is the size of the screen. #2 is the radio which are 2 things that the ipod does not have. Sometimes when you are playing the raido it even tells you what song is playing and the artist which is great. The bad thing about this product is buying music online. It will not allow you to buy songs individually like itunes. You have to buy a $5 card and each song has different prices from 79 cents to 99 cents. So this means that after buying 4 songs you'll have a balance of 69 cents or so and won't have enought to buy a fifth song. Because the balance is so uneven, you'll always have something left on the card that you won't be able to use. Thats a rip-off. The other bad thing about the zune is that variety of music that you can buy online is not as extended as itunes. They have limited choices. I bought the zune for my husband but I am getting me an ipod. itunes allows me to buy as many songs I want for only 99 cents each with no additional fees.
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