Zune Software's Speed of Updating Music = Awesome
<p>It's a small, but beautiful thing, when software impresses me - and today the Zune software impressed the heck out of me. I always knew it was quite fast at finding new music in a monitored folder, but I didn't realize <em>how </em>fast it was until today. I purchased and downloaded six tracks from the new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fist-of-God/dp/B001V8N5AC/ref=sr_f3_4?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1237325693&sr=103-4" target="_blank">Mstrkrft album</a> for my wife (she digs electronic music) and after tweaking the metadata and fixing the file names using the always-awesome <a href="http://www.mediamonkey.com" target="_blank">MediaMonkey</a>, I moved the files up to my Windows Home Server and swung over to my media editing computer. The Zune software was already running on it, and I was amazed to see it pick up the new tracks on the network-shared drive - we're talking less than three seconds before it found the music. That's a beautiful thing. Compare that with Windows Media Center, which seems to not even find my new music half the time unless I kick off a manual update scan in Windows Media Player, and you can see why I use the Zune software on all my computers for listening to music. Good job Zune team! Even if you don't have a Zune, I honestly reccomend <a href="http://www.zune.net/en-us/software/download/default.htm" target="_blank">giving the Zune software a try</a> - it's a great piece of software.</p>
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