05-12-2008, 04:33 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
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That'se of the things I realized once I went with the Zune Pass. I have been amazed at all the new music I have been exposed to. At 55  I'm far from being "hip", "cool", or today's equivalent term  and when I first purchased my Zune and loaded up the 14 day trial I went through checking out all the artists I grew up with. It is fun taking a trip down memory lane and quite a few of those artists have remained in my playlists. However, I then started checking out other artists and have been having a ball. Since I didn't really know where to start I came up with a simple idea. Every Sunday when the various ads come out with their "New Music Tuesday" lists, I'll go look for the artists in the Zune marketplace and check them out. That usually leads me to other artists in the same genre and then I'm off and running.
I have found only two drawbacks with the Zune pass and this approach. One, I find I have to get better at my time management or I'll look up and discover I have blown several hours cruising around the marketplace and two, I think I'm going to be looking at a Z80 soon as my Z30 just keeps sending me that "Enough Already" aka "I'm full" message. 
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05-12-2008, 04:47 AM
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Contributing Editor
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 519
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Originally Posted by bleeman
I have found only two drawbacks with the Zune pass and this approach. One, I find I have to get better at my time management or I'll look up and discover I have blown several hours cruising around the marketplace and two, I think I'm going to be looking at a Z80 soon as my Z30 just keeps sending me that "Enough Already" aka "I'm full" message. |
I know! There's so much music I want to check out that I feel like I sometimes go on music binges. Later I don't remember what I really want to keep or get rid of, and my collection just gets huge and out-of-control. This is when I start to miss the five-star rating system; sometimes I can't remember what my heart (or 5-star) values mean. I hope the Zune team can bring in a new rating system--one that is useful and reduces complexity.
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05-12-2008, 10:24 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 471
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"iTunes is for people who like certain musicians. Zune is for Americans who like music."
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Fixed for you. I do wish Microsoft would hurry up and release the Zune world-wide. Either that or Apple would hurry up and offer a similar scheme.
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05-12-2008, 03:57 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 10
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Well there is an opertunity there...
First of all let me start by saying how true the following statement is:
�iTunes is for people who like certain musicians. Zune is for people who like music.�
Sadly there are very few people who actually like music and most of them like �certain musicians�. However for MS to break into this space I think they are doing the right thing. First build the brand among music enthusiast. I am not sure how successful they have been with that. Anyway I do agree that music discoverability in Zune is much better than iTunes.
Secondly I too face the same problem with Zune pass. There is just so much that I end up downloading a lot of music and then some of them get lost. I think there is a great opportunity for the Zune team to innovate here. There has got to be some features or some way of discovering music from your own library. I would really hate to see them bring back the start rating system to solve this problem. I think there should be some sort of tagging system jut like we do with pictures. Maybe they should start to show �related artist� from ones own library. I really think they can innovate here by making discoverability of music from ones own collection easy and simple.
The Zune 2.5 update was good and I like it so far. It is also great to see two update cycle namely spring and fall. I am wondering what they will add in the next one considering a lot of missing features has been added.
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05-12-2008, 05:38 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 853
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Originally Posted by rohitharsh
Secondly I too face the same problem with Zune pass. There is just so much that I end up downloading a lot of music and then some of them get lost. I think there is a great opportunity for the Zune team to innovate here. There has got to be some features or some way of discovering music from your own library. I would really hate to see them bring back the start rating system to solve this problem. I think there should be some sort of tagging system jut like we do with pictures. Maybe they should start to show �related artist� from ones own library. I really think they can innovate here by making discoverability of music from ones own collection easy and simple.
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Those are great ideas! Hopefully someone here can get them into the hands of the Zune project leads.
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05-13-2008, 04:29 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 3
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Zune Pass!? Wow! Sounds great but it's really not that impressive. OK, I'm just a teenager and still using an MP3 player my dad gave me for Christmas... what 2 or 3 years ago. OK, I killed it once and he even sprang for a new one for me shortly after that.
OK, my dad is cheap... so I'm livin with a 1GB Sandisk Sansa player. Nothin fancy, but it just works great. And if it ever dies or I do lose it... so what - it has already given me a great ride.
Back to the Zune Pass thought... another thing my cheap old man did... he subscribed to Napster, specifically Napster to Go. Then he said, "You're on your own." It sounds a lot like the Zune Pass - all the music you can download - though there are occasionally a few titles that can only be had if you pay $0.99 to get them.
I have downloaded SO MANY tunes, it is cool - it is just about perfect.
Oh, yeah... the pricetag for this -- $15 per month - and you can have 3 players using the account. I split the deal with my big brother and my little sister.
I PAY $5 PER MONTH FOR ALL THE MUSIC I CAN DOWNLOAD !!!
(I to say it, but it turns out my dad isn't as dumb as I used to think)
When my Sansa finally bites the dust, I'll take a good look at the Zune and the Zune market... the Zune Pass. If I can get 1000s of songs for $5 a month, I'll join you in the Zune Zone.
TeamNinjaFanatic
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05-13-2008, 02:32 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 853
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Originally Posted by TeamNinja
Oh, yeah... the pricetag for this -- $15 per month - and you can have 3 players using the account. I split the deal with my big brother and my little sister.
I PAY $5 PER MONTH FOR ALL THE MUSIC I CAN DOWNLOAD !!!
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When my Sansa finally bites the dust, I'll take a good look at the Zune and the Zune market... the Zune Pass. If I can get 1000s of songs for $5 a month, I'll join you in the Zune Zone.
TeamNinjaFanatic
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You do realize that the pricetag is the same ($15/month, shareable with 3 players = $5/person)? And that your brother and sister can use their existing PFS devices with the files downloaded through the Zune software (just bring them into WMP and sync them to the device).
So, I'll expect you to be joining the "Zune Zone" today
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