Part of a 3 Zune (an 80 and two 8's) family. We love the Pass!
I can really appreciate what folks are pushing for here - the ability to "link" three identitys to the Pass, each with the ability to play different libraries. The scenario applies to my home as I have two teenagers who definitely shouldn't have their music applied to my identity. The recommended pics and like listeners would be horrendous. That aside, you have to realize that what we're asking for would allow one person to link two friends that aren't related, in effect providing two listeners free Pass access. This in effect would reduce the income from the venture by 66%, thereby killing the product we love so well. I'm sure this is the slowdown with fixing it.
The programmer's (Brooks) recommendation may be the most useful.
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I second your recommendation. Multiple .net accounts. Linked or whatever they my call it tommorrow.
Shame on me for not investigating this further. I would have never purchased the 2 HD zune for my kids(14 yr son, 12 yr daughter). 1 zune pass should suit me, but you have the complexity to force old technology on us. It's 2009 Microsoft. Your programmers need a reality check. Where do I send these things back fro my money back!
ErnieMColorado wrote:I think to make this more clear is me and my girlfriend BOTH want our own Zune devices and separate music collections that might differ. So when she signs on, she wants to be able to have a separate syncing for her device. We don't want the same music collection on each device, but we don't want to have to pay 14.95 for each person just to access two devices to be able to use our Zune pass. is it possible that we each can have our own separate music collection underneath the same sign in name connected to each Zune device? So when she signs in to my account and plugs in her Zune device, it will automatically sync ONLY her music.
Ernie Mink
Karl Essinger wrote: Duodecim wrote:Multiple people can access one zune pass, however, only one person can be signed into the account used to download at a time. I think the issue here is that since the account is now associated with a zune card -- that is the account is now much more associate with a person rather than a machine -- people will want to be logged into their own account when using the software. I just want my wife to be able to download what she wants, without logging into my account, and vice versa.
Duodecim wrote:Multiple people can access one zune pass, however, only one person can be signed into the account used to download at a time.
I think the issue here is that since the account is now associated with a zune card -- that is the account is now much more associate with a person rather than a machine -- people will want to be logged into their own account when using the software. I just want my wife to be able to download what she wants, without logging into my account, and vice versa.
TX T BON3 wrote:...and to add to that - to allow the device to download from the marketplace via WiFi, it has to be linked with the master account also. :( Therefore, my wife's Zune has the sam Zune card as mine.
Sure, that is possible. The problem is, when the other two Zune "cards" or "tags" log in with their username and password, they cannot download anything. To download, they need to log in with the "master" login info. Once downloaded to their computers, they can log back in with their login info, and play those songs.
The downside of that is that the "master" account can only be logged in one time simultaneously, so if you and two kids want to download, one has to get in, download, and log out to free up the slot for someone else.
What invariably happened to us was the kids would forget to logout and that blocks everyone else, not to mention their teen metal and pop was showing up on my Zune card.
Ultimately, I wound up getting two Zune passes.