I went all-out with the options, so my Zune got the all the best crap: a rare gunmetal blue case and custom laser etching across the back. I recently had to retire the old gal, with full honors, since she has provided me with literally years of daily use. I sensed she was on her way out, and I was fully aware that I still was not ready to adapt, which means that I had to hunt down a suitable replacement for one of my favorite electronics. Normal folks use their phones for stuff like music these days, and you can call me old fashioned, but I still enjoy being off the grid sometimes.
This quest to find a suitable replacement has been nothing but a journey full of stupid mistakes and endless waves of hucksters selling trash. But by being a little bit picky, and asking all the right questions, you can help ensure that you will get the right one for your needs that will provide you with years of glorious offline listening pleasure. Personally, I prefer to shop for Zune HDs on eBay, because interacting with the seller is absolutely crucial when purchasing outdated electronic devices.
Never hesitate to ask questions, and if someone is really confusing or fails to answer you directly, you should just automatically pass on it because returns and complaints on eBay are like intentionally fucking with the mafia. I carefully pulled one apart with tweezers to see what sort of guts I could salvage, and I ended up breaking both the microscopic battery ribbon and screen ribbon, instantly condemning it to nothing more than landfill fodder.
The Zune is great for listening and storing podcasts, and the upside to using it for that is that podcasts are mostly free, and everywhere. Back when Microsoft was still supporting the hardware and software, they offered a Zune Pass, which was basically Netflix for music.
For a monthly fee, you could load your player up with whatever the hell you wanted, and you got to keep an album for free permanently every month! Once you get your new but actually very old player, is that you are going to want to install the Zune software on the computer that houses all the content you want to add to your player.
The games they had were behind the times anyways, and were meh. No Zune Store game really stood out, with the exception of Tiki Towers , which was kinda fun for a while but absolutely chewed up and spit out the battery life. On that same note, since there is no marketplace, it is impossible to use the Zune software to actively search out current day podcasts to download.
Sure, this entire thing is kind of a massive pain in the ass for the basic ability to listen to music files, but trust me- you will definitely appear unique when you have that Zune HD hanging off your hip at the coffee shop, you lumberjack-looking motherfucker. Tehben is probably editing a mountain of copy at this very moment. He may be dead inside, but he still has a deep-seated passion for crafting homemade bottle rockets out of old lunchmeat and bootlegging Caillou DVDs.
Although Microsoft will "retire" Zune services on Nov. You'll also be able to transfer music to and from your Zune. But you won't be able to stream or download songs from the Zune service. Microsoft is turning off the spigot.
Of course, DRM content "may not play if the license can't be renewed," Microsoft says, and any Zune Music Pass subscriptions still out there will be converted to Groove Music Pass subscriptions. Of course, just how all of this unfolds depends upon your Zune account, and for the five or six of you reading this who might have one, Microsoft explains it all on its support page.
It's worth repeating that copyrighted music you've downloaded with Zune may not play with Groove if the licenses didn't renew, which is a very real possibility. And it's worth noting that although your Zune will continue playing all of your old music, anything you stream or download from Groove won't play on your Zune. To my surprise, my inbox was soon filled with emails from people who claim to still use, and love, their Zunes. So, I called them. Almost everybody had a different reason for getting one, and for hanging on to it.
For some, it was the features—you could share tunes with friends, subscribe to a Spotify-like music service, and it could be synced wirelessly all features the iPod lacked —and for others, it was simple hatred of Apple. Some kept their Zunes for those same reasons, or the connection is now sentimental.
For others, the app-less Zune is a sanctuary from endless smartphone notifications. I have [another] one in a dock in my room that has a remote. I use one for every need. I don't think I'll ever switch because I have the arsenal to future-proof myself. Like, oh, here's another Zune for cheap, so I might as well buy it just in case one breaks.
Gretchen Lilly 36, elementary school counselor Kirkland, Washington Sometimes I just want to listen to music and not be interrupted with things that are going on on my phone. It's unplugging, in a way. I like to go for long walks when the weather is nice.
There's something nice about, like, I'm just leaving my phone at home and I'm listening to music or a podcast on my Zune, and I'm not being interrupted by other aspects of technology. The thing is, with your phone, if you download an app like Spotify, they're asking for access to data on your phone, it's connected to the internet, and they track your location, which they sell to third-party vendors. But the Zune isn't connected to the internet at all, and what I like about the Zune is the privacy element.
Vanyel Harkema 23, game design student San Francisco, California I had a 40GB Zune back in high school, and it got eaten up by the chain of my motorcycle in a freak accident. When I graduated, I found out that they stopped making them, so I had to go to eBay and that's where I got my custom blue Zune.
I'm the only one [of my friends] who owns one now. Sometimes the reaction is, "What's a Zune? I vastly prefer the Zune device user interface to the iPod user interface in any iteration later than the original iPod nano.
I don't need it to be updated because a good interface for playing music continues to be a good interface for playing music.
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