11-16-2006, 02:54 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Sounds like it was definitely not a Zen-like experience with your Zune? ( the install, at least?)
I must admit that this is discouraging - after all of the build-up to this launch, I really was expecting a better "initial experience". Given that you are a pretty experience person with this type of gadgetry, I hate to think of what the average consumer would think after the first five hours of their experience going this way. As someone else mentioned, this has the potential to drive some product returns due to dissatisfaction "out of the box".
This will probably sound like a dumb question, but humour me please, since I have never purchased a large capacity MP3 player in the past. Does the software assume that you will want your entire music collection installed? What does it pick as the default conversion rate? If you have 100GB of WMA lossless music, it is obviously going to have to downsample it - is the software going to give you any choices of bitrate, or ask you to choose which music to sync if it all can't fit?
Maybe sounds foolish, but I don't WANT all the music on my PC on my MP3 player - that is because it is the family jukebox - my music, my wife's music, my kid's music - it is all on my PC. I don't need my daughter's kiddy pop music, or my son's head-banging music. Why can't I choose what to sync?
I agree with you about the movies and pictures as well. I just checked My Pictures folder, and there are 8GB/4500+ photos there. I wouldn't need or want all of them there - I would want to select the pictures to sync, or maybe set up a dedicated folder to sync to, much like the PocketPC/ActiveSync software does. Video? 150+ files for over 18GB - again, I would not want all of them installed. Since most of them are in Divx format, maybe the Zune software would ignore them? (or maybe worse yet, it would attempt to reencode them all!)
Maybe this is the way all of the HD-based MP3 players act, but I personally don't care for it. Jason, I hate to say this, but this article has basically turned me off from being interested in the Zune to deciding that I maybe need to sit back and wait. I have enough frustration in my day to day job, without inflicting any more on myself with an ill-conceived install process.....
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