in regards to the earlier posts that attack jason...
--jason freely admits to being biased in regards to many areas of the zune (and i believe does a good job trying to keep it affecting his reviews).
--you missed the point of the thread--update speed
shame on you.
although the zune software does not have access to my master collection (i maintain a drive specifically for the zune for several reasons) you are correct; the update speed of the software itself (especially across busy network drives) is really good. at 22K files it was no photo finish *several minutes between second for media monkey, closely followed by i-tunes....wmp might as well have been on a 56K modem for network access.
that's really sweet, unfortunately that is only available with perfect tags. i would easily trade that speed for readablility of incomplete tags. since the software advance reads the tags it creates issues for those of us with collections in transition (and countless others who don't realize it).....since none of the other software has issues reading the files why does zune's?
never once had an issue with any device using any software until now.
i've also noticed that is only good for the update speed, once you get your software completely hooked up to your a/v collection, watch how long it takes to change pages!