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Zune Reviewed by Xbox Launch Member
Ozymandias is a member of the Xbox team.  Oz bought his brother a Zune, and has some pretty valid nit-picks on the device. He notes that the Zune had a lot of bugs when installing on Vista, and tried to sync all of his 500 gigs of music automatically on setup. There’s also various sync issues, crashes, and other stuff that’s basically focused on the PC-side of the Zune experience. He did like the actual device itself, save for the fact that there aren’t nearly as many car adapters as there are for the iPod.
On the positive side, the player itself is pretty slick. The screen is large, bright, and quite frankly, gorgeous. UI is simple and easy to use, and the included FM tuner is a nice bonus. It feels a tich bigger than the same 30 GB iPod, but I like the feel a bit better - the case is made of that textured plastic you sometimes find on high-end home theater remote controls. Nice “grippability”, to make up a term. Note that I didn’t use (nor care to) use it to playback videos, so I can’t comment on that. Also didn’t play with the wireless capability.
On the negative side, actually hooking it up to a Vista PC and getting it synced had some issues. It may be that the early version of the Zune software for Vista has issues - I don’t know - but it shouldn’t have been as painful as it was.
To start, the Zune decided it wanted to try and sync all of my music library automatically. This may be a good scenario for most people, but since my library is a half-terabyte of lossless WMA tracks stored on a basement media server, it was pretty obvious it would never all fit (even transcoding on the fly as it does). Even worse, there was no option to tell the Zune software to not automatically sync to the entire library - you had to go ahead, cancel the sync, turn off automatic syncing, and then reset/erase the Zune to have any control over what tracks you want on the device. Bah.
We also had some weird issues with stability - the sync crashed several times, we’d get half-albums moved over and then have to start again, and once the whole PC froze. Again, this may just be due to early Vista support, but it was a pain.
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