I'll save you having to read fifty paragraphs about how the Zune software blows. We all know this. But I'm holding out a desperate hope that there might be a solution to my particular problem.
Yes, latest ver of the software on both the PC and the Zune. Vista Business fully updated.
I've got a lot of multipart .MP3 podcast files that aren't downloadable via the software (don't bother; getting them on the podcast list won't solve this issue). I therefore have downoaded them to disk. But I can't add all of them to the collection list.
The files aren't corrupted. They are all 96kbps. They all play both in WMP11, Winamp, whatever the hell you want to play it in. Yes, even in the Zune player. If I associate mp3s with the Zune software and double-click the file plays in the actual Zune software. This is part of the reason why I want to do unspeakable things to those responsible for the software, preferrably with a #2 pencil and in a locked room.
So the mp3 files aren't corrupted and can be played on the Zune software. Great. So I try to add them to the collection so I can sync them with the Zune. You see, the Zune is a crippled piece of hardware. I can't just plug it in and copy my content over. No, that would be convenient. I first have to add the files to my "collection", which I guess is analogous to a bag of ***, and then sync this bag of *** with the player.
So I grab the filenames in Explorer. I select them using the superior click-shift-click method we all know and love. I then drag them over on top of the Zune software and release my mouse button. This is called a drag-drop operation. And, in a normal piece of software, would result in the application involved in the "drop" portion of this operation to add the files "dragged" from the originating application. This usually results in all of the items from application A showing up in application B, or in this case, all the files from Explorer showing up in the Zune software within the forementioned "bag of ***".
Again, all of these files were played previously in the Zune software. You would think that all files would show up in the Zune collection.
You would be wrong.
No, a few of the files show up. Maybe number 3, possibly number 7 as well. But not all of them. Why? Because Zune hates me. Hates me down to my toes. Deep, spiteful hate that usually manifests itself in rubbing the toothbrush of the object of one's hate along the inner thigh, where it meets the genital region. However, because the Zune software doesn't have a genital region (the ONLY thing we have to thank the developers for), it just spitefully refuses to add files to the collection that it obviously, demonstrably should.
A more detailed description of its hateful act: I do the drag drop thing. The Zune software says "Adding media... 12 items found". Awesome. I dragged and dropped 12 items. *** awesome. No, wait... Only five files were added! Numbers 2,7,9,11 and 12. So I delete them and try again. Exact same thing happens.
The really annoying thing is that there is ABSOLUTELY NO FEEDBACK AS TO WHY THIS HAPPENED. Not even a goddamn event in the log saying "this file suxorz lol". NOTHING.
Now, what I'd like to know is, why exactly shouldn't I delete this POS software and smash my Zune to bits on the carport? Is there any workarounds? ANYTHING? DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN ANYTHING AT ALL?????
