Zune Desktop Software Update to 2.3 Released Today

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2008...ming-today.aspx' target='_blank'>http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2008...ming-today.aspx</a><br /><br /></div>There's not much to say here, because according to <a href="http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2008/01/22/software-update-2-3-coming-today.aspx" target="_blank">Zune Insider</a> there are no new features added to the Zune desktop software, just more <em>&quot;performance enhancements around set-up, sync and as always general reliability&quot;</em>. I was really hoping we'd see some improvements in the way of meta-data handling (their current system is what's causing some people problems with albums not being read properly).<br /><br />So basically, if you fire up the Zune desktop software today, you should be notified about the new 2.3 update. Myself, I'd report first-hand on any changed, but my Vista-based machine that's running the Zune software is completely trashed from a software perspective - I updated the system BIOS and nVIDIA nFORCE drivers and now Vista won't boot. &lt;sigh&gt;

[MarxMarvelous]

There is a complete list of the fixes in the Zune.net forums here:
http://forums.zune.net/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=125458

In short, the metadata fixes that you're looking for may just be in there, Jason. Just scanning over the list, I saw potential fixes for just about all the issues I've seen. Of course, I still need to verify that when I get home :)

Seems like reasonable turnaround for that volume of fixes, considering we also had a lot of holiday time since launch. Let's hope that they can get to some feature work for the next update.

[Sven Johannsen]

Didn't have to connect a Zune or fire up the software. The update offer was sitting in Windows Update for me when I got home. Mine is set to download stuff but let me decide when to install it.

[David Tucker]

Changes look great...I plan to try and fix my main PC this weekend and hopefully I can test the new update on there and see if it fixes my issues.

[onlydarksets]

Downloading now. For some reason it didn't show up automatically, so I had to go out to Windows Update to get it. Oh well - same net result!