Entries tagged with “mp3 player”

A nice treat from the folks at Zune: 30-odd free unDRMed MP3s ready for download, including tracks from Wierd Al, Barenaked Ladies and the Shins. Perfect for your iPod, Zune or other MP3 player....... read more

Yeah, yeah. The Zune may be a miserable failure according to some, but there are definitely some positive points about the Zune that Apple should take note of and consider emulating. Here is my list of six lessons Apple might...... read more

Fresh from the press release: Getting a Zune for Xmas? For only $7.99, you can get the real scoop on Zune in "Eight Great Ways to Get The Most Out Of Your Zune" by Erica Sadun in a 70-page PDF...... read more

Zune is now Vista Friendly The 1.2 firmware update now plays nicely in Vista's sandbox. Leo Laporte on Zune Let's just say that he's not a big fan. Zune Games on the way? Microsoft may be considering the Zune as...... read more

I'm slogging through these terms, trying to figure out what you can and cannot do with your Zune and stumbled across a few What-the-Heck?! moments. Here is one of my favorites: "In using the service, you may not...create a Zunetag...... read more

Is there anyone out there in reader-land who has a PC, a Zune, a USB Sniffer and some development experience? I'm dying to see what's going on during a Zune sync so that I can figure out how to simulate...... read more

Device Certificate after the jump....... read more

Here are the folder and device properties specifically for my Zune, plus its supported filetypes. I'm guessing the Sync partner is the one computer that my Zune hosts to. Biff is the meta-syntactic name I selected as my Zune ID....... read more

This one is really long, so I've hidden most of it behind the jump. Here are the Playable File/Object Types and the object properties supported for each one....... read more

Supported operations: 1001: Get device info 1002: Open session 1003: Close session 1004: Get storage IDs 1005: Get storage info 1006: Get number of objects 1007: Get object handles 1008: Get object info 1009: Get object 100b: Delete object 100c:...... read more

USB low-level info: bcdUSB: 512 bDeviceClass: 255 bDeviceSubClass: 0 bDeviceProtocol: 0 idVendor: 045e idProduct: 0710 IN endpoint maxpacket: 512 bytes OUT endpoint maxpacket: 512 bytes Device flags: 0x00000000 Device info: Manufacturer: Microsoft Model: Zune Device version: 01.01.00322.00-00309 Serial number:...... read more

I just uploaded a post over at the Mac Blog about using XNJB to see the contents of your Zune from a Macintosh....... read more

For some reason, a lot of the Zune documentation is striking me as unintentionally but hilariously salacious. Under Play with Zune, I found the following list of options that made me laugh out loud, particularly the differential between the first...... read more

According to online Zune docs, it is not. Given that Vista is supposed to ship any second, this seems like bad planning to say the least on Microsoft's part....... read more

According to a Bloomberg.com report, Microsoft plans to "eventually" add video-sharing to the Zune and may add a Zunephone model to the line. "The race is on," CEO Steve Ballmer reportedly said. "I'm confident we can keep up. They have...... read more

Zune Disection [GearLive]Taking the Zune apart and putting it back together. Zune Marketplace Walkthough Video [ZuneDashOnline]10 minute walkthrough of the new software. Promote Zune? Rocketboom says "no". [DemBot]Why use a Zune logo on your site if you can't contractually say...... read more

According to the Zune Insider website, Universal Music Group will receive a device royalty on every Zune sold. Specifics of the deal are not forthcoming from either Microsoft or Universal, but the article suggests that a portion of the royalty...... read more

Zune Website Zunerama put together a nifty graphic of the Zune menu structure. It based its tree on the various reviews, demo videos and so forth floating around the net. As you'd expect, Music, Video and Picture playback functions...... read more