Like/Dislikes: Zune team seeking feedback!

 WBSobe wrote:

Previously I haven't written on here with praise towards the Electronica/Dance section of Zune Marketplace. I am a monthly subscriber to the Zune Pass. I have become dissatisfied with the quality of music on the Electronica/Dance section. I have found numerous gold old school house and dance tracks on there. Of which I have loaded up on my MP3 player. But I have found new Electronica/Dance content to be lacking. I will go out to a club over the weekend. Come home and try to locate the music on Zune Marketplace but with no luck. Suggestion what about partnering with the Billboard Dance Chart? I know you have partnered with Billboard on other charts. Please keep the Electronica/Dance section more current. It downgrading my Zune experience from an "A-" to a "C." Thanks.

As nice as it would be to keep current Electronic/Dance more then any other genre is handicapped by the media companies that own the product. The Zune Marketplace just enables you access to content that is licensed out for use by their respective media companies. Over the months the E & D section has seen a decline in availablity because of the Recording Labels who own the music. The record companies are literally able to add and subtract as they see fit without little to no say by MS. That is the price you pay for a subscription based service though.

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If "Channels" in the marketplace were more refined...meaning each channel had many more songs and the channel did not include mainly one artist/album that is popular at the time...I would be ready to sport the monthly fee for a zune pass.  Zune marketplace should review Rhapsody channels a little closer and model theirs identically.  I love channels as a way to discover music, but Zune's channels have a limited number of songs and many times are just the same artist's songs filling up the channel.  Other than that, Zune has done some great work.  Would also like to see a 10 foot remote control interface built in the Zune software.  Thanks for listening.

J

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 Thurbermingus wrote:

I would love it if there was a way to read the liner notes from cds. I miss being able to see who played on what, who was thanked, who guest artist were, etc. That is the only thing I miss from buying CDs.

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Before I got my first Zune I owned a Toshiba Gigabeat S and used it with MTV’s URGE.  Unfortunately, MTV decided to sell out URGE to Real Neworks (Yuck) and I was not gonna go down that road so lucky for me I just had to wait two months till Microsoft launched the second gen Zune. 

After reading initial reviews I was itching to get one so I hit my local Target store to find the new Zune 80 the day it launched.  As luck would have it, the Zune 80 was in short supply and I didn’t find one until the day after launch day at a Target store 30 miles away.  But I was that determined to get one.

Seems the reason for the shortage was Microsoft’s inability to properly gauge demand for the 80g device vice the smaller Zunes.

Today I’m eagerly awaiting the LONG overdue launch of the Zune HD but I have a problem.  I’ve been scouring the net to dig up info on the next gen Zunes and it appears the device won’t be offered in anything larger than 32g.

That’s a problem for me because at the current moment my Zune 80 looks like this:

5209 Songs, 271 Pictures & 117 Videos for a total of 33.45g of space.

If I were to purchase the Zune HD I’d have to remove my pics and videos to make more room for music but then I won’t have access to pics and videos when I wanted them.  In a time when everything is going digital it seems odd that Microsoft would not offer larger versions of the Zune HD at launch.

Please don’t make the mistake you guys made at the launch of the Zune 80.  As much as I want the Zune HD I’m not willing to buy the 32g device then have to turn around and buy a larger device a few years later.

I’m sure you are concerned about costs to the consumer, but I think its best to let the consumer choose the size that best fits their budget and I’m certainly willing to pay more if it means I’ll get to carry my entire library of content with me.  Anywho, I wish you guys the best and hope the launch of the Zune HD is the most successful Zune launch yet.

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I ABSOLUTELY agree!

My Zune 120 has 11,178 songs (805 albums), plus countless pics, lots of podcasts and a smattering of videos.  About 85 of the 120 GB are occupied.

For me it's a matter of simplicity.  I want all my music on the Zune... not because I just might want to listen to something arcane on a whim, but because I don't want to spend the time to somewhat randomly pare down my collection, separating wheat from unfortunate chaff.

My guess is that the Zune HD will use flash memory (vs miniature hard drive) and that this is driving the max size to 32 GB.  But why not add one or two MicroSD expansion slots?

Oh... and while I'm at it...

About a yr ago the hot topic in this discussion forum was whether the next Zune should have a clock.  How quaint that seems now.

I hope it hasn't escaped our friends in Redmond what a significant paradigm shifter the iPhone and the iPod Touch have been.  CONVERGENCE should remain the leitmotif for the Zune.  The iPhone's applet concept is fantastic.  I hope a future ver of the Zune allows something similar.  Those purists who want nothing but music on their Zunes can opt out... but those of us who want additional flexibility -- e.g. a weather applet; a calendar applet and a contacts applet (to synch with Outlook); addl games; etc -- could opt in.

Wow, a 11k music collection?  I thought I had a pretty eclectic taste in music but you just blew my little collection away.  Good for you.

I'm not entirely sure but I do belive the Zune HD (from what I have read) will have additional functionality outside of digital media.  Its suppsoed to run IE which will open the door for the little apps that have become so popular. 

I'm not much on having all that other stuff but I would love to have an app for a note pad that connected to the notepad on my Windows Sidebar.  I just think some of the functionality in my cellphone would be easer on my Zune.

I'm not sold on the expansion slot idea but if it can be integrated in a way that it doesn't even look like the slot is there then im cool with it.

Lets hope the Zune HD is more than what we've heard on the net.

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