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10 Tips for dropping level of Zune related stress

Started by Djohnson2284 at 12/28/2007 00:25:57. Topic has 26 replies.
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Join Date: 1/12/2008 22:48:01

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1/21/2008 22:33:38
re: 10 Tips for dropping level of Zune related stress
heres one im considering: 11) find bill gates and make him eat his your zune after you've spent 6 hours with tech support with problems youve never heard of with an ipod

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Join Date: 1/2/2008 10:19:55

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1/16/2008 09:24:06
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Thanks for the tips. I think that the first one is definately the most time consuming, but still necessary.
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Join Date: 12/27/2007 19:53:29

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1/16/2008 04:36:19
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Being new to Zune, I can't thank you enough for all your time and effort in putting this together. I do have question though, it takes forever to sync movies. I use Avec DVD to Zune software and not does it only convert in real time (almost) it seem like an eternity when I sync my zune. I had 4-5 movies and it took10 hrs +/- to sync. Any ideas?
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Join Date: 1/15/2008 01:54:21

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1/16/2008 04:22:15
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I changed my tags in Mp3tag, but how do I get it to change within the Zune programs? What am I supposed to do?
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Join Date: 12/22/2007 00:43:44

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1/14/2008 23:56:33
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Wow MediaMonkey works very well for me.  Thanks, man.

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Join Date: 12/3/2007 18:48:05

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1/13/2008 02:09:53
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thank you very much the video one helped me out.
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Join Date: 1/12/2008 21:52:46

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1/12/2008 21:56:22
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I do not understand how to convert a vob file to a format that zune will read. I am running Windows Vista and I have to be missing a step somewhere. I got an avi file converted using Windows Movie Maker and it synced up no problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Join Date: 11/14/2007 06:16:30

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12/29/2007 03:44:02
re: 10 Tips for dropping level of Zune related stress
very good read. bravo for taking the time to write it all out.

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Join Date: 11/28/2007 00:55:05

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12/29/2007 02:52:19
re: 10 Tips for dropping level of Zune related stress

Excellent tips. Can you please help someone who is not great on the computer..Step by step. How do you do this?

2.  Do not make your Podcast directory a subdirectory of your monitored music folders.  If you rescan, there is a chance you will see your Podcast on both the Podcast and music tabs.  Keeping your Podcast directory outside of your Music directory also makes it easier to find the casts if you want to make changes, delete, etc.

Thanks so much.
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Join Date: 12/19/2007 05:00:48

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12/28/2007 23:43:51
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Excellent post.  I hope people will read this before complaining.  Lot's of good info in here, especially on metadata. 

There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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Join Date: 11/13/2007 19:23:21

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12/28/2007 16:33:04
re: 10 Tips for dropping level of Zune related stress

Tagging WMA's:

Well I've tried numerous tagging applications, but some were trial only - I am looking for Open Source, because let's face it - we all love the free stuff. The only tagging tool for MP3 & WMA that I found was Entagged - TagEditor. It worked ok, but it was still buggy, abd every now and then it got fussy with MP3's for no reason.

However, if you are a Vista user this is the fastest and easiest method of tagging - just by opening the music folder and going through all of your artists and selecting an entire set of songs from one album at once and fix the genre. Sorry if this is a "no duh" tip, but this is the best way to fix MP3 & WMA tags, and check the album art too (disply in tile mode). Here's a screenshot:

http://tedborel.com/zune/batch-tag.jpg

Video:

Tagging WMV

I use dSharpie to tag all of my WMV files. It works great - again Open Source. I'm not sure where the download link is but Google it or try this forum link.

Commercial skipping - if you have Media Center and record non-HD TV content you will love Life Extender (Open Source) www.LifeExtender.com It runs silently in the background and starts to remove commercials as soon as the file is finished recording.  It saves me a ton of transcode time for the Zune!

 
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Join Date: 12/20/2007 21:39:54

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12/28/2007 00:25:57
re: 10 Tips for dropping level of Zune related stress

Can anyone help me with artist info for songs that were taken from a mix CD. I changed the info. using WMP and a couple of third party programs but when they are placed on the Zune, the still come up as "Unknown Album" or all listed under one of the several artists that were on the CD.

I've updated the song info. in the properties of each file and created correct artist and album files in my music folder, but no dice.

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