Features Needed For Next Zune Update...

 BaroqueFan wrote:

At least an option for a 5 star rating system! I don't like to be in love-hate relationships with my music

Interestingly enough i find the rating system inconsequential in face of the other problems and I think they did that because they felt it was more user friendly to the "social" aspect of things........

In the end it almost seems like this over "social" bs buzzcrap has caused more problems. After all when do you even pass by another person with a Zune?

At least an option for a 5 star rating system! I don't like to be in love-hate relationships with my music

Taking Notes J Allard?

Lord knows he did a better job on the 360, this software is attrocious.

Umm, maybe you should contact your "car audio deck" manufacturer. They would be the ones to implement support for the Zune in their product.

As for things I would like updated:

Bring back everything you removed!!!! 5 star, Auto playlists, flagging, transcoding of files (changing bit rate so more items can be put on zune) and so on.......

Support for allowing car audio decks to read music from the device using the usb cable so that people that have a usb connection on their car audio deck can listen to music from the zune without having to buy any other "accessories" like the crappy zune fm transmitter.

The usb port in my car deck can currently charge the zune but indicates that the device has no support.

Thanks

May I suggest updating the first post with a (one-line) summary of all the good suggestions generated in this thread with a reference to corresponding post for looking up details on the suggestions?

A way to delete from the the zune itself.
a way to add/remove from the Zune without having to use the software.
batch meta editing.
and a way to bookmark audiobooks and podcasts so I can resume where they left off.
other than that what I want most is STABLE/usable software. mine always crashes and it doesn't get anything done before it does.

On the Zune device itself:

• Ability to 'go to artist' as well as 'go to album' when playing a song
• An option to 'shuffle this artist' and 'shuffle this album' in addition to 'play all'
• Ability to delete tracks from the quick-list
• Respect orientation tag in photos, and allow in-device rotation (with scaling), so I can view 320x240 images sideways as normal, and 240x320 images 'vertically' without losing resolution, as well as viewing them side-ways, scaled down

In the Zune Software on the PC:

• Paste Album Art
• Update Album Info (gets info from internet, lets you edit any and all tags)
• Allow specifying that when syncing music, it should be transcoded to a new (lower) bitrate
• Smart Playlists
• Option for 5-star system instead of heart system
• And of course, plain-old bug fixes for all the problems other people seem to be having (thankfully, I'm doing okay, knock on wood)

Both:

• Ability to tag, categorize, and organize videos into folders

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 A recently added list on the player.


Also when you are listening a song and press the center button, an option for "more from this artist" would be nice.

worthy bump

**HUGE OVERSITE ALERT**

I get my 80GB Zune two days ago.  I am very excited.  I get all of my music loaded at home and it is ready to go.  I am ready to take it to work and show it off to all of my buddies.  I get to work, I plug it in to my workstation, browse to Device > Collection and I get nothing but HUGE disappointment because I can't play the music directly off of my Zune when it is plugged into my PC.  I really hope that this gets addressed very quickly.

For all of you who are having issues with music being scatter all over the place, I use http://www.mp3-tag.com/ to verify all of my music before putting into my music directory.  My Zune is absolutely gorgeous with all album art and tags.  It is a very useful tool.  It has a gorgeous and very user friendly UI.

 MrZoglog wrote:

If only there was an indication the zune team was at least paying attention to the issues brought forth by users........

I wouldn't expect much to be done since these next 2 weeks are holiday season and everyone is off.

 

Yeah please let us in on what is being worked on. We are not going to hold you down to a time frame. It will just ease our minds and make us that much more at ease. I feel like the zune team is trying to act like there is no problems just so they can fix them and not have to address the current situation. That is not the way to do it. Tell us you hear us and say sorry.