Like/Dislikes: Zune team seeking feedback!

Well I think that just summed it up. The defense rests. Thank you for coming out, god bless you, good night... :)

Really, I think that was probably the best said listing of wishlist features.

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Marques Lyons (tromboneforhire)
Zune MVP
Contributor, http://www.insidethecircle.net

As far as the Marketplace, I would like to see a VIDEO section.

I use the podcast section and would like to see more selections.

As far as the Zune device, I would like it to be audiobook capable AND have selections on the Marketplace.

I have a Zunepass, use it and love it.

Thanks,

TW

I only have one complaint, but it has seriously hampered how much I enjoy my Zune. (I'd post what I liked, but my original posting was more than 20,000 characters long)

Zune desperately needs to overhaul its software. It's ridiculous how much of a pain it is to edit my tracks. Case in point: Chef Aid. The track listing for this is as follows:

1.     South Park Theme - Primus

2.     Nowhere to Run - Ozzy Osbourne/DMX/Ol' Dirty ***/The Crystal Method/Fuzzbubble

3.     Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You) - Chef

4.     Brad Logan - Rancid

5.     Come Sail Away - Eric Cartman

6.     Kenny's Dead - Master P

7.     Simultaneous - Chef

8.     Will They Die 4 You? (Remix) – Ma$e/Puff Daddy/Lil' Kim/System of a Down

9.     Hot Lava - Perry Farrell and DVDA

10. Bubblegoose (Remix) - Wyclef Jeanwith Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman

11. No Substitute - Chef

etc. (continues on for ten more tracks)

 

Zune software will automatically create a different album for every different artist. This is crazy. To improve the software, the user should be able to edit everything about a song: the artist, the album, the genre, and even the track number. I used that German program “Mp3tag” to remove tags, but after I filled in the blanks using the Zune software to fill in artist, album, etc, the tracks went into different albums again.

Make an update of the software so that the user can edit the artist, the album, the track number, the genre, and make it so that all tracks listed under a certain album, regardless of whether or not the artists are the same, go under that album. If the user does not enter or deletes the track number, order the album alphabetically. Also, when the user edits tracks, make it so that he can edit groups of tracks all at the same time. In the current Zune software, if I click and hold my mouse down, scroll it over a few albums and then right-click, I cannot edit anything at all.

In short, improve the interface. The best interface I’ve come across as far as storing music was Yahoo! Jukebox. It’s easy to use, and it’s simple to edit your tracks with it.

I agree with most of the stuff that Jason Rasmussen said but the stuff I want is, A plug in for the zune software that shows what im listening to on Messenger (like WMP), A mini Toolbar on the taskbar (viva WMP) and have social more tied into LIVE When im on the zune software i should get all my messages on LIVE on Social, I get Friends Requests why not Messages? Also when your on xbox.com you can see if you got a zune message same on G4WL why not on the 360?

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There are over 25+ Million People on LIVE, Jump In!!!!

More DRM-free mp3s, and a way to filter them from the rest of the music...or a section featuring those albums and artists with mp3 offerings.

A single place that shows all of the current free downloads in the marketplace.

A video section.  Ultimately it would be great to have tv shows and movies, but in the meantime it would be great just to be able to search for music videos only, or browse through them. 

Not related to the marketplace or the pass, but it would be nice to have the option to save playlists in m3u or something else that can be played by another program other than the Zune software. 

That's all I've got right now, thanks for listening, and keep up the good work!

One small problem I've encountered a few times (and this may be more the software than the zune pass). Is that songs I download with my pass with sometimes seem to randomly lose their play rights. It's not too big a deal as I just delete the song/album and re download it with my pass. But it is a bug I've encountered.

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Oh Snap!

Well Cesar, like others there are few gripes with the marketplace itself.   More so the problems are with the gimped software, but that's for a different topic, and i'm sure you and your team have read them to death.  I just hope you are actually listening.

If there is one gripe I can think of at all for marketplace, it is audiobook support.  I don't know if it's liscensing issues or what have you but you guys should really jump on this.

As for the Zune Pass.  I have one and I don't know how i've owned a music player without one.  It has really opened up music for me, and I could never go back to purchasing by track unless of course it was an actual CD/DRM free MP3 (which I still quite frequently do).  Still, having so many albums at my immediate disposal is AMAZING, and I discover something new all the time. 

   - You guys really need to play up this important strength of the Zune.

   - If by any chance you guys for some weird reason or another ever consider removing it, DON'T!

I personally do not mind seeing ALL the albums released by an aritist, even the ones not available on marketplace if for nothing else more than discographical information.

 

- Thanks for listening.

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Memories don't live like people do.

I'm not going to lie. The only time I've used Zune Marketplace has been to subscribe to podcasts and to download the freebie tracks that pop up once in a while. Perhaps I'm the modern day equivalent of the vinyl elites during the rise of the compact disc, but I refuse to purchase music online because I want to have a tangible album to hold on to. I feel that the physical product is at least 25% of the music's value, and as such, online music should cost that much less than a CD.

Elitest rant over.

Merge Zune Marketplace and Xbox Live Marketplace

So, that said, the number one thing the Zune Marketplace needs immediately is video content. Microsoft needs to renegotiate whichever contracts it got into for the Xbox Live Marketplace to include Zune Marketplace. Secondly, one should be able to buy a season pass to their favorite television show, then have that show treated like a podcast (new episodes automatically synced to the Zune). Or better yet, perhaps Microsoft could offer a Zune Pass for movie and television content that allows users to pay a flat fee for all-you-can-eat movie and television content. This is not unlike what Netflix does, and if the Netflix/Xbox rumor doesn't pan out, could offer competition for Netflix. The end goal/result of all of this is the following scenario: A consumer with Xbox and Zune can use the shared Marketplace to watch movies or television on demand on the TV via the Xbox or on the Zune.

Open up the Social

Try your darnedest to buy Last.fm, or at least try and work something out with them to get a plugin for the Zune desktop software that reports your track data to Last.fm. They have made plugins for almost everything else out there, and I'm sure they would make one for the Zune were they able to. Help them do this. A lot of us have been part of the Last.fm community since before the Zune was even an inkling of an idea, and would love to bring the Zune into it. Taking a few pages out of Last.fm's playbook wouldn't be a bad idea either. Namely, connecting Zune users with similar tastes (on Last.fm, they're called neighbors).

Real Wireless Sharing

Everytime I turn on my laptop in class, I get a bunch messages notifying me of all the laptops broadcasting their presence via Windows Media Player 11, but no Zunes. Let's admit that we've still only got something like 10% of the PMP market at this point, and that the Zune to Zune sharing is not going to be useful until the Zune builds a lot more marketshare. If I could share with Zune desktop software users, or Windows Media Player 11 users, it would open up the peer-to-peer sharing capability dramatically, and really let the Zune shine.

Things I'd like to see Zune team add to Marketplace:

1. Ability to subscribe to 'premium' podcasts. I.E. paid subscriptions that require a username and password to download the content

2. Add audiobook content

3. Add a video section even if its only populated by music videos currently

Stuff I like:

1. I like the look and feel of the new software

2. there are more genres

3. podcast support

 

The only thing I don't like about my zunepass is it seems like all my content can't be shared zune to zune.

 Xplorer3 wrote:

I only have one complaint, but it has seriously hampered how much I enjoy my Zune. (I'd post what I liked, but my original posting was more than 20,000 characters long)

Zune desperately needs to overhaul its software. It's ridiculous how much of a pain it is to edit my tracks. Case in point: Chef Aid. The track listing for this is as follows:

1.     South Park Theme - Primus

2.     Nowhere to Run - Ozzy Osbourne/DMX/Ol' Dirty ***/The Crystal Method/Fuzzbubble

3.     Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You) - Chef

4.     Brad Logan - Rancid

5.     Come Sail Away - Eric Cartman

6.     Kenny's Dead - Master P

7.     Simultaneous - Chef

8.     Will They Die 4 You? (Remix) – Ma$e/Puff Daddy/Lil' Kim/System of a Down

9.     Hot Lava - Perry Farrell and DVDA

10. Bubblegoose (Remix) - Wyclef Jeanwith Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman

11. No Substitute - Chef

etc. (continues on for ten more tracks)

 

Zune software will automatically create a different album for every different artist. This is crazy. To improve the software, the user should be able to edit everything about a song: the artist, the album, the genre, and even the track number. I used that German program “Mp3tag” to remove tags, but after I filled in the blanks using the Zune software to fill in artist, album, etc, the tracks went into different albums again.

Make an update of the software so that the user can edit the artist, the album, the track number, the genre, and make it so that all tracks listed under a certain album, regardless of whether or not the artists are the same, go under that album. If the user does not enter or deletes the track number, order the album alphabetically. Also, when the user edits tracks, make it so that he can edit groups of tracks all at the same time. In the current Zune software, if I click and hold my mouse down, scroll it over a few albums and then right-click, I cannot edit anything at all.

My thoughts exactly.

Open the system to the world outside US.
I'd love to see what I've played on my zune card and I guess US cititzens being abroad would like it to be able to transmit their played-count too.

Merge Zune Marketplace and Xbox Live Marketplace - I need movies and TV shows on the go. I use my zune to keep me sane while my wife is shopping!