Zune 30 Firmware Update: Old is Made New

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEKUVebnxH4

What's going to happen when you install the new Zune software (which should come out tomorrow for general download) and you dock your old Zune 30? This video has all the details...let's just say you'll look at your Zune in a whole new way! I can't say enough about this: the Zune team did a great thing for Zune owners by allowing this firmware update to improve their old devices. I imagine many Zune owners will be interested in the new hardware, but this software updates the Zune in nearly every way - all for free. Would Apple do that for its customers? No way. Go Zune!

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEKUVebnxH4

What's going to happen when you install the new Zune software (which should come out tomorrow for general download) and you dock your old Zune 30? This video has all the details...let's just say you'll look at your Zune in a whole new way! I can't say enough about this: the Zune team did a great thing for Zune owners by allowing this firmware update to improve their old devices. I imagine many Zune owners will be interested in the new hardware, but this software updates the Zune in nearly every way - all for free. Would Apple do that for its customers? No way. Go Zune!

[Tevin]

dang gimmie gimmie more of it i want to see how the rating system in everything is lol THANKS ANYWAY!

[enjoythemusic]

Jason,

With the new firmware, is the Zune 30 also seen (and can be used) as a simple external HD by a computer or car radio with USB input?

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by enjoythemusic

With the new firmware, is the Zune 30 also seen (and can be used) as a simple external HD by a computer or car radio with USB input?

No, none of the Zunes can't connect to a PC and be seen as a hard drive. I'm working on a front-page post about this now. Nothing has changed there unfortunately. Not sure about the car radio with a USB input...I kind of doubt it if it's based upon a mass storage mount system.

[Ambush510]

lookin forward to the new firmware

[mrozema]

The current Zune 30 firmware hasn't let me access it with my car stereo system either. I guess just looks for a mass storage device as Jason guessed.

I can't wait for the new firmware to show itself publicly!

[Adam Krebs]

Why didn't your Zune30 show up as the correct picture on the software? It seems to think your Zune30 is a Zune80...

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Adam Krebs

Why didn't your Zune30 show up as the correct picture on the software? It seems to think your Zune30 is a Zune80...

Not sure. Just connected it again and it comes up with the correct picture for the Zune 30. I miss the double-shot effect actually.

[Invisiblemoose]

Hey, nice vid. A question about the new software...

Does the registry hack still work, that allows the software to handle .AVI files? Or are they now natively supported, and thus the hack isn't needed?

Oh, and is auto-sync enabled by default? Because I no longer have the 200gigs of uncompressed .avi's on my hard-drive, so the auto-sync would remove everything off my Zune, and I'd be spending days re-encoding everything. (Yes, this has happened, just not on such a catastrophic scale.)

THANKS!

[mrozema]

Do the new Zunes have the double shot effect, or are they a solid plastic now?
Sounds like maybe they don't...