Zune 3 Software is OUT

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Discover music everywhere ... as long as your definition of everywhere is .. america.

stevo_ said:

Discover music everywhere ... as long as your definition of everywhere is .. america.

Dovella said:

stevo_ said:

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Installing now, I've used the zune software since launch.. it lets me pretend I own a zune + I think its a really nice music player.

stevo_ said:

Dovella said:

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Installing now, I've used the zune software since launch.. it lets me pretend I own a zune + I think its a really nice music player.

ok, now I also feel 

stevo_ said:

Dovella said:

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Installing now, I've used the zune software since launch.. it lets me pretend I own a zune + I think its a really nice music player.

Wow, is very very cool , i try 64 bit version is superfast.
PS this is WPF??

Dovella said:

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Wow, is very very cool , i try 64 bit version is superfast.
PS this is WPF??

No, its a variation of the markup designed for media center.

stevo_ said:

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No, its a variation of the markup designed for media center.

Dovella said:

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in fact resembles to a mini media center , very very cool!!
congratulation Microsoft

@Microsoft

PLS ZUNE IN EUROPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The main menu is smaller now, suddenly the world is out of sync!!!! I already had games on it and the menu retained it's size...oh well, Ill live. 

mikexkearney said:

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The main menu is smaller now, suddenly the world is out of sync!!!! I already had games on it and the menu retained it's size...oh well, Ill live. 

It's a nice looking media player, but I can't seem to find an EQ. Does it have one?

Also has a 115MB RAM footprint which is a big OUCH. Maybe it's just high because it's adding my music to it's library since the CPU is up there too.

Harlequin said:

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It's a nice looking media player, but I can't seem to find an EQ. Does it have one?

Also has a 115MB RAM footprint which is a big OUCH. Maybe it's just high because it's adding my music to it's library since the CPU is up there too.

The Zune software has never had an EQ.

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The Zune software has never had an EQ.

Probably why it sounds like crap with my headphones on

Not a fan of the rating system with the hearts either. Seems to be love/like/hate, instead of the 5 star system everywhere else(and I guess in the mp3's ID tag). Unless love/like/hate translates to 5/3/1 stars respectively.

It is nice looking software. Looks like it would be sweet as a touchscreen media center.

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The Zune software has never had an EQ.

The 1.0 software did.

Harlequin said:

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Probably why it sounds like crap with my headphones on

Not a fan of the rating system with the hearts either. Seems to be love/like/hate, instead of the 5 star system everywhere else(and I guess in the mp3's ID tag). Unless love/like/hate translates to 5/3/1 stars respectively.

It is nice looking software. Looks like it would be sweet as a touchscreen media center.

I don't really understand why a music player needs a rating system anyway. Why would I have any music I don't like in my library?

Sven Groot said:

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I don't really understand why a music player needs a rating system anyway. Why would I have any music I don't like in my library?

Very true, but if you share your library and one song in an album has 1 star whilst the other 13 songs have 5, you might skip that one song, or at least listen to it, agree, and not waste time listening to the whole thing.

Sven Groot said:

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I don't really understand why a music player needs a rating system anyway. Why would I have any music I don't like in my library?

IMO, everything after the ability to play music is just fluff.

I've been a zune user since the first gen devices came out and I picked up a 120gb zune last weekend in Target to replace my old 30gb device. The zune device really is a nice piece of equipment and so far hasn't really been getting the recognition it deserves.
This does seem to be slowly changing though - even Gizmodo (or Applemodo as I like to call them ) says that Microsoft beats Apple Genius with Mixview here http://gizmodo.com/5050410/microsoft-beats-apples-itunes-genius-with-mixview Wow, hell hath frozen over!

I use the zune desktop software on one of these as a touchscreen jukebox at home and it's works out pretty good.

The new updates are pretty nice.
The ONE thing I wish the zune hardware device could do that it currently doesn't would be the ability to browse/filter music by year (or decade). Having a large collection of tunes on it, sometimes I want to browse/listen to the newer albums I've put on there and it's hard to do so without having to remember what they are. For now, I create playlists for each year/decade and that helps, but it sure would be nice if they had browse by year in there.