Correctly link albums to the zune social!

Scenario: You buy a new album thats just been released in the shops, take it home, rip it and add it to the zune software. You use find album info to link it to your social page but it doesn't find it! You check the zune marketplace to see that the album you just bought is on there but why isnt it linking to this album? This has frustrated me for months and many plays of albums ive bought have gone unlinked. I hoped that the latest release of the zune software would change this but it didnt.

Wow.  Let me just start off by saying, you are amazing for developing this. =)

I just tested this out with an album that was not linkable via Find Album Info (Stereo MC's - Double Bubble), but present in the Zune Marketplace, and this WORKS.  I also tested with about 5 single songs that previously couldn't link, and it fixed those as well.  This tool changes everything, and will quite possibly fix the linking issues members (including myself) have experienced with Marketplace album linking.  It goes right for the Marketplace song IDs, circumventing Find Album Info completely.

There was only one issue I experienced:  I can't see the bottom of the scroll list box after searching for album info.  It seems like the scroll box simply needs a height adjustment.  Here is a screengrab to further demonstrate.  I understand the program is in beta, so I'm sure this can be fixed later down the road.

Thank you once again, and please do continue developing this!

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Corey Shuster
2009 Microsoft Zune MVP

My responses come only from personal experience.

Thank you so much, this is amazing and so far seems to work perfectly!

The program is now hosted at: http://github.com/leetreveil/Zune-Social-Tagger/downloads , fixes the problem corey mentioned and some other miscellaneous issues.

Awesome, thank you once again.

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Corey Shuster
2009 Microsoft Zune MVP

My responses come only from personal experience.

Bumping this thread, because it deserves more attention.

Jessica or another mod:  Could we possibly make this a pinned topic?

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Corey Shuster
2009 Microsoft Zune MVP

My responses come only from personal experience.

Sure, that's a good idea - so long as people understand they're using this tool at their own risk. But it does remind people to back their stuff up first...

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Jessica Zahn, Zune Social Program Manager ~ This posting is provided as-is with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Version 1.0 has been released, get it at http://github.com/leetreveil/Zune-Social-Tagger/downloads. I've created an FAQ and walkthrough, they might explain things a bit better for some people. Read them at http://wiki.github.com/leetreveil/Zune-Social-Tagger

this is a really effective tool!

clearly you did what a whole division of ms employees cannot. they should hire and pay you for this.

thank you so much!