Updating Zune to the latest version is causing grief within the Windows 7 Zune community.
To upgrade without a hitch follow these steps:
Manually download the latest Zune software from the Zune website
Right click the installer (e.g. zunesetuppkg-x86.exe) within the download folder using Explorer and click Properties
From the Compatibility tab select Windows Vista Service Pack 2 from [...]
I’m back from my adventures in the United States and have brought back surplus Zune HD’s in Black (with a 16GB HDD) and Platinum Silver (with a 32GB HDD)!
The silver platinum looks the best and is the one I’m now using, with it’s glass screen and metal housing it looks shit hot but it’s the [...]
Here is my run through of the top audio podcasts and video podcasts for each category available within the Zune Marketplace as of April 21st, 2009. Here we go!
Video Podcast
The Feed
reason.tv
Best Ads on TV
Discovery News
CNET News
Best of Current TV
The Green Room
Audio Podcast
Onion Radio News
triple j’s Sunday Night Safran
triple j’s The Culture Club
bargrooves
Learn Japanese with Beb [...]
This week has marked another item off my Twenty-One list of to-do’s with an annual Zune Pass subscription! What makes this special is I’m an Australian so have put a lot on the line waiting for a regional release here in Oceania.
It’s been just over 24 hours and in this time I have subscribed and [...]
The Zune has a comprehensive library of free audio and video podcasts cataloged within the Zune Marketplace. I have easily subscribed to over 20 podcasts updated daily ranging from global news (e.g. The Onion Radio News), current affairs (e.g. The Feed Daily), popular radio shows (e.g. Triple J Hack) through to technical topics (CNET News) [...]
The latest Zune firmware includes a screen lock requiring a 4-character number code to be entered in order to use the media player, this is great for keeping casual browsers out.
Open Settings
Open Screen Lock
Select Screen Lock
Set your screen lock code by scrolling vertically on the directional pad from 0-9
Confirm your screen lock by providing your [...]
Over the weekend I visited the Triple J website and noticed they have made available RSS audio feeds of their featured shows – Sunday night Safran, Hack, Roy and HG and Robbie, Marieke and The Doctor – which are all now available on Zune Marketplace!
After the obstacle of converting my AVI-based video clip library into Zune-compatible formats I then set about categorising the videos indexed within Zune to take advantage of better playback support of TV shows (e.g. after an episode has been viewed it is dimmed and the latest episode made available).
By default all imported video clips show [...]
It just makes sense to have these basic features consistent across the Zune platform.
Playlist Creation
I love the “On The Go” feature of the iPod (hold down the common button when a track is selected for building quick playlists), a similar solution is available for the Zen and other players but the Zune has so far [...]
