deep
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I have bought two ipods
and recently one ZUNE.
I prefer the ZUNE, hands down.
and recently one ZUNE.
I prefer the ZUNE, hands down.
partygirlvox said:To be honest, nothing can compete with my ipod. It may freeze ALL the time, refuse to work for hours at a time and randomly loose songs off it.. but it looks just so damn cool!
Justin24 said:Will it convert itunes purchases over to it's format? I heard it can, is it true?
Lara Mullen said:I own one of those big fancy devices that you pop a cd into and you can carry it along with you wherever you go!!!
GibsonGirl said:
Same. Though not entirely by choice. It's big, it's bulky, and it's a bitch taking all my CDs along with me. Although, on the plus side, it forces me to listen to my albums the whole way through (which is how it should be.)
i wonder if this will get answered i mean shit i can convert unprotected mp4s via itunes and play those wherever if i wanted to. but protected ones is a whole different story.GibsonGirl said:So wait, deep, this Zune thing can convert PROTECTED MP4s?
Originally posted by GibsonGirl
So wait, deep, this Zune thing can convert PROTECTED MP4s?
Originally posted by KhanadaRhodes
i wonder if this will get answered i mean shit i can convert unprotected mp4s via itunes and play those wherever if i wanted to. but protected ones is a whole different story.
downloading a third party program or burning to a cd and ripping to mp3 would be a pain in the ass and not worth it imo.
KhanadaRhodes said:
i wonder if this will get answered i mean shit i can convert unprotected mp4s via itunes and play those wherever if i wanted to. but protected ones is a whole different story.
downloading a third party program or burning to a cd and ripping to mp3 would be a pain in the ass and not worth it imo.
Canadiens1160 said:and frankly any MP3 player that trys to slap its own Digital Rights Management onto my own unprotected MP3s deserves to burn in electronics department hell.
Lara Mullen said:
My sister gave me an mp3 player she got free for opening a bank account. I can put songs on it. I don't need to put thousands on it. I've only used about 5% of the space on it. I can listen to songs at the gym. That's all I really use it for.
This is true.deep said:
competition is good and prevents one supplier from getting lazy and not innovating
Early reviews are in on the Microsoft Zune, which debuts today. The consensus is….the Zune zucks.
The Zune has benefited from a tremendous amount of buzz. Unfortunately, it appears that Microsoft’s second attempt at an iPod/iTunes killer suffers seriously in comparision to its 5th generation competition.
* Engadget has a blow-by-blow walkthrough of installing the Zune software, saying that “Installing the Zune sucked.”
* PC World says it’s a good first effort, but “the Zune’s features don’t seem compelling enough to make it a serious threat to take a big chunk out of iPod sales.”
* Popular Mechanics calls the Zune “the husky, ugly cousin of the iPod”.
* Gizmodo says the brown Zune looks like it’s made of swamp water jello. We’re not sure what that means, but it sounds ugly.
* USA Today says “it’s no iPod.” Reviewer Edward C. Baig adds “I’d like to see more offerings in the store, and less stringent wireless restrictions. And Microsoft should rethink the silly points system. For now, I’m sticking with iPod.”
* The New York Times review, by David Pogue, agrees, noting that a list of things that iPods do that Zunes don’t could stretch to Steve Ballmer’s house and back 10 times.
* SeattlePI’s review is one of more the positive reviews, but concludes “We hate to send a Dear Zune after such a brief courtship, but at the end of the night there is no doubt who we’re going to go home with” (an iPod).
* WSJ’s Walt Mossberg liked several aspects of the Zune, but concludes that the “first Zune has too many compromises and missing features to be as good a choice as the iPod for most users.”
* Business Week calls the Zune “a dismal failure“.
While the first generation Zune has failed to impress most reviewers, Microsoft is already talking about updates to the Zune software and upgraded Zune hardware. It’s likely that Microsoft will make frequent updates to the Zune system in the next year, until it has a platform that has mass-market potential.