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So many of the things in this comment section are things that were solved by Zune very well (e.g. the social features were great, if you knew anyone else who us

by n8cpdx 5y ago

So many of the things in this comment section are things that were solved by Zune very well (e.g. the social features were great, if you knew anyone else who used Zune - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune_Social https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune_Social) Zune had the Channels concept - essentially what Spotify-owned playlists are nowadays - but they partnered with radio stations and Billboard (among others) to provide content. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UmUU3R-Y21I https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UmUU3R-Y21I (Notice how 10 years later that UI is still largely fresh and modern; I miss Zune)

officeplant 5y ago
Was an original Zune adopter from the earliest days (30GB Brown Fat Zune). I ran into two people on my college campus with Zune's and each time we shared a song to each other. After a month I never used the song sharing feature ever again and never really had anyone bring it up. I really loved my Zune, the desktop software was some of the worst ever created. It helped pushed me towards eventually just getting an iPod to flash with Rockbox so I could just use common lightweight sane software on my desktop to manage the library on my devices. Things are so much better now that I can just load up 200GB of music on my android phone, manage it via a normal file explorer on desktop, and use the VLC app to listen and create/manage playlists.
- meepmorp 5y ago
  Please help if you can - I seem to remember reading that the preferred verb for the song sharing on zunes, per MS marketing, was "squirt," as in, "to squirt a song." I doubt myself in this, of course, because it's patently idiotic. Is this anything you have the slightest recollection of?
  - officeplant 5y ago
    https://www.newsweek.com/zune-should-go-beyond-squirting-107255 https://www.newsweek.com/zune-should-go-beyond-squirting-107... I really didn't remember it being called that, but reading this makes me vaguely remember my assistant manager making fun of the feature name because she also had a Zune.
    - meepmorp 5y ago
      Thank you. I didn't mean to make you play LMGTFY, but I appreciate it.
  - NateEag 5y ago
    I remember that too, FWIW.

by n8cpdx 5y ago

officeplant 5y ago

Was an original Zune adopter from the earliest days (30GB Brown Fat Zune). I ran into two people on my college campus with Zune's and each time we shared a song to each other. After a month I never used the song sharing feature ever again and never really had anyone bring it up. I really loved my Zune, the desktop software was some of the worst ever created. It helped pushed me towards eventually just getting an iPod to flash with Rockbox so I could just use common lightweight sane software on my desktop to manage the library on my devices. Things are so much better now that I can just load up 200GB of music on my android phone, manage it via a normal file explorer on desktop, and use the VLC app to listen and create/manage playlists.

meepmorp 5y ago
Please help if you can - I seem to remember reading that the preferred verb for the song sharing on zunes, per MS marketing, was "squirt," as in, "to squirt a song." I doubt myself in this, of course, because it's patently idiotic. Is this anything you have the slightest recollection of?
- officeplant 5y ago
  https://www.newsweek.com/zune-should-go-beyond-squirting-107255 https://www.newsweek.com/zune-should-go-beyond-squirting-107... I really didn't remember it being called that, but reading this makes me vaguely remember my assistant manager making fun of the feature name because she also had a Zune.
  - meepmorp 5y ago
    Thank you. I didn't mean to make you play LMGTFY, but I appreciate it.
- NateEag 5y ago
  I remember that too, FWIW.