Features Needed For Next Zune Update...

bump for justice

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.

Let me organize my photos more simply:  if I point at a folder, the CONTENTS of that folder should be at the top of the list.  Right now, it creates an extra level, and I have to drill down one level.

I like the new main menu... maybe they could have a display option about the font size, but I'd keep it the same.

How about the ability to REMOVE songs from the 'quick list'?  If you're actually browing the quick list, the option "Add to quick list" should be replaced by "remove from quick list".  There's no way to delete a song you've added by mistake, except to clear the list and start over.  Also, it'd be nice to convert the quick list to a 'permanent' play list, and to be able to edit play lists in the device itself (move songs around, add, delete, etc).

Add ability to organize vidoes.

WIth both photos and videos, let me create 'categories' for them, and manually assign videos and photos to those categories (basically, tagging for photos and videos, with user-defined categories that filter based on tags).  I'd like to do the same with songs, so I can go by 'mood' as well as the pre-defined categories.

Full smart-tag editing and batch tag editing capabilities.  And of course, fix the problem with the caching of bad album art, etc.  If I specify something (be it a tag, album art, etc) it should over-ride what Zune finds on the internet.  And of course, I should be able to 'reset' and go back to whatever it was, after applying my custom tags or art, etc. 

And yeah, PASTE ALBUM ART.  Don't make me save a file and store it on my file system somewhere, just so I can browse to it and open it.  Sheesh.

 

keeping the love

 boidannie wrote:

Must Have Features:

Zune Firmware

1. The ability to delete from the Zune Player
2. The ability to organize vides into categories eg. Music Videos, TV Shows, Movies etc
   
3. DivX and Xvid Support
4. Use the Zune Player as a Hard Drive
5. Ability to create playlists on the player including video playlists - add and delete items
   
6. Need the ability to rotate pics on the Zune and to choose what area of a pic to display as background. Certain pics don't display properly when the firmware rotates landscape pics to be displayed as portrait as background
7. Delete an item from the quicklist
   

Zune Software

1. The ability to remove items from the sync list
2. The ability to edit tags for songs and have it be updated in the player
3. Copy & Paste Album art
4. The ability to purchase videos and tv shows from the Marketplace
5. Forget the point system or I want to see dollar equivalent of what I am paying
   

Nice To Have Features

Zune Firmware

1. Display more tag info for currenly playing tracks, when you click the zune pad e.g Album, track, year etc
   
2. A Clock
3. An equilizer
4. Games
5. Wifi Music store
   

Bugs

Zune Software

1. Certain songs seem to keep resyncing
2. I have a folder with pictures that software refuses to put on my device. Gives an "unkown" error
3. Software keeps re-adding pics that i explicity removed from the device even tho I have chosen the option for pics "Let me choose". It should not be auto-syncing. It doesn't happen for every pic I remove. Just 1 folder
4. Why is the software converting some WMV video files before adding. Aren't WMV codec supported on the4 device?
5. Displays certain songs out of order when the disc number is not set for some songs...Songs are ordered fine in WMP11
   

Zune Firmware

1. Zune displays portrait pics up-side down when I set as background. It also rotates them,which is not neccesary (Since both the pic and the display are portrait)

All of the above + a option to find the album art / info / and lyrics for each song

To my dismay, I haven't liked the new update.

1. The main menu words are too big on the device.

2. I have multiple genres of the same name.

3. Some album art shows up on the PC, but not on my device.

4. I can't play my videos that i converted into .wmv format [from an online source]

5. The videos don't have subcategories.

6. My radio won't land on certain stations that I normally get.

7. I want a manual equalizer, not just presets.

8. Is it just me, or does the repeat tick other people off as well? Sometimes is want to repeat just ONE song. not the whole album, and i can't do that. i was really hoping the new update would cover that. obviously not.

9. A CLOCK.

10. To have an actual Shut Off button. because sometimes i don't hold play for long enough, and it ends of running all night. By the morning it's almost dead.

11. To have "Go to Album" along with "Go to Artist" on the shuffled albums menu.

12. The heart rating is pretty stupid. I like the stars.

I think that's it. For now, at least. x

1) Improve the efficiency of the list function w/ the ability to sort columns with priority. For example I want to be able to sort primarily by artist and THEN album.

2) Improve search pure and simple. Allow for dynamic searching in lists like Itunes does it and allow for the ability to manipulate data in the Search Screen for Browse. As it stands there is no search function for list view at ALL.

3) Make the software in general more drag and drop friendly. Allow for users to drag and drop album art/music/movies from Windows explorer into the Program.

4) Allow users to play music DIRECTLY off the Zune through the Zune program when it's connected to a PC. Making users copy them to collection defeats the purpose of portability

5) Allow users the ability to edit in batches. Nobody likes typing the same Album over and over

6) Fix the Bug that seperates Compilation albums into many seperate ones for no good reason. It shouldn't be that hard to offer users an option to Browse Albums only by ALBUM TITLE

7) Allow users to delete podcasts episodes directly.... it's amazing how we can't even do that.

8) Allow the Zune to double as a Portable HD. It's amazing how a restrictive company like apple lets you do this but the zune doesn't....

9) Talk to your USERS. Get a community manager out here that will get these items to the development team. You guys are fighting an uphill battle here, you need to get some real customer loyalty (not just crazy fanatics like st0icraven who scare off new users)

This is all they have to do to make this player an Ipod killer. It's upsetting how these relatively simple basic features turn the Zune from Hero to Zero.... so much so that I wish I bought an ipod instead. And I frickin hate Ipods....

I seriously hope the Zune team takes the time to read through this thread, otherwise they're going to lose a ton of customers and ebay is going to be flooded by tons of Zunes.

Must Have Features:

Zune Firmware

1. The ability to delete from the Zune Player
2. The ability to organize vides into categories eg. Music Videos, TV Shows, Movies etc
   
3. DivX and Xvid Support
4. Use the Zune Player as a Hard Drive
5. Ability to create playlists on the player including video playlists - add and delete items
   
6. Need the ability to rotate pics on the Zune and to choose what area of a pic to display as background. Certain pics don't display properly when the firmware rotates landscape pics to be displayed as portrait as background
7. Delete an item from the quicklist
   

Zune Software

1. The ability to remove items from the sync list
2. The ability to edit tags for songs and have it be updated in the player
3. Copy & Paste Album art
4. The ability to purchase videos and tv shows from the Marketplace
5. Forget the point system or I want to see dollar equivalent of what I am paying
   

Nice To Have Features

Zune Firmware

1. Display more tag info for currenly playing tracks, when you click the zune pad e.g Album, track, year etc
   
2. A Clock
3. An equilizer
4. Games
5. Wifi Music store
   

Bugs

Zune Software

1. Certain songs seem to keep resyncing
2. I have a folder with pictures that software refuses to put on my device. Gives an "unkown" error
3. Software keeps re-adding pics that i explicity removed from the device even tho I have chosen the option for pics "Let me choose". It should not be auto-syncing. It doesn't happen for every pic I remove. Just 1 folder
4. Why is the software converting some WMV video files before adding. Aren't WMV codec supported on the4 device?
5. Displays certain songs out of order when the disc number is not set for some songs...Songs are ordered fine in WMP11
   

Zune Firmware

1. Zune displays portrait pics up-side down when I set as background. It also rotates them,which is not neccesary (Since both the pic and the display are portrait)

Things I would like in the software.......

   Be able to right click on a song and see which playlists it's in...........

   How many songs in a playlist...........

   Total size (in bytes) all the songs are for each playlist (this is more important now that there is a 4 gig device)

How about releasing the Previous Version with a patch that makes it work with the new firmware.

The company has this new internal campaing... Microsoft change the world or stay home

Well the if the ZUNE TEAM keeps releasing this poor excuse for an upgrade then they SHOULD JUST STAY HOME!

Daveed

I want playlists for podcasts.  In 1.0, they registered as "music", so it didn't matter.  I use my Zune in my car a lot, and now I have to manually change to the next episode.  Makes for safe driving, no?  Since it is the main reason I bought my Zune to begin with, this is a big deal to me.

While we're at it, why not playlists for videos?  On the device?

I don't understand why MS has to have such a limited view of playlists.

 

Zune Device fixes

-Improved zune pad button presses and swipe recognition while in case

-sync status for wifi syncing

-wifi pc collection viewer on device to improve wifi sync

-add tag view for picture collection

-Zune Marketplace on device

-XBOX Marketplace on device (pics, theemes, etc)

 

Zune Syncing Fixes

-Stability for sync page with less headings dissappearing and song lists vanishing

-non-cryptic error codes, which alert the user to problems whille syncing

-faster syncing

-Option to not delete content from device if it was deleted from computer

 -improved inventory of what files are on your device, currently some files do not have icons but are in fact on device which interferes with ratings syncing to and from device

-add sync groups for videos

-fix 0% sync issue

-add more alerts for when syncing is stuck at a certain percentage

 

Zune Marketplace Browsing Features

 -"go to album" option on right-click of songs

-"go to artist" option on right-click of songs

-All song, artist, and album links (even on front page) shold be right-clickable to take you to page in marketplace

 

Zune Collection & Playlist Browsing Features 

-"go to album" option on right-click of songs

-"go to artist" option on right-click of songs

-All song, artist, and album links shold be right-clickable to take you to page in marketplace

-add sort by genre in browse view

-Ability to filter by categories in list view to reduce number of files and reduce load on PC when number of songs is large

-ability to choose columns in playlist view

-ability to sort in playlist view

-auto playlists

-add folder view for video collection

-add tags view for picture collection

 

Zune Media Playback and Editing Usage Fixes

-add ability to save now playing que as playlist

-add ability to see now playing que in normal playlist view

-ability to see and edit now playing list outside of album mosaic

  

General Zune Software Fixes

-fix number of sign-in errors and add appropriate, non-cryptic error messages when there are errors

-fix program freezing

 

Zune Social

-ability to customize what data shows on page

-groups

-option to display gamercard

-option to remove favorites

-more add-ins for page

-personal music charts

-ability to see friend status in zune software

-ability to see zune card within zune software

 

Zune integration in Medica Center

-Media Center needs to recognize zune playlist files

-Syncing from within media center

 

Zune integration into XBOX

-Zune cards in XBOX 360 Dashboard

-Zune marketplace on xbox 360

-zune album art montage on xbox 360

-rewind mp3 on xbox 360

-full 10' UI client for Zune marketplace

-Zune Pass on xbox 360

-Syncing Zune through xbox 360

-podcasts subscriptions on xbox 360

-Direct mp3 downloads through xbox 360 or send to PC

-see friends or players zune cards through dashboard and guide button

-See podcasts on xbox 360 from Zune Collection on PC

 

XBOX integration into Zune

-live gamercards on zune device with friend status

-a few small games on zune devices with achievements and wifi local and live multiplayer

-ability to sync select xbox live arcade game to zune