When all users of one networked product fail.
Reference: On December 31st, 2008 every single Zune user got a bsod due to a leap-year error in the audio-player's code.
Reference: On December 31st, 2008 every single Zune user got a bsod due to a leap-year error in the audio-player's code.
by MLx January 1, 2009
What people aren't aware of is the fact that Microsoft's Zune player is copyright protected.
You are forced to install the software, along with the Zune Marketplace, which is more expensive than iTunes.
Now, after you place all of your previous songs onto the Zune, 80% of them will not play because Zune will only recognize legally embedded songs.
So every song purchased from iTunes, Yahoo, Rhapsody, etc.. will work, but no songs from Limewire, Torrents, the Internet, etc. will!
That is the killing aspect of this crappy corporate product.
You can't share files with other people via WiFi because song tracks received from another person can only be played three times, after which it expires unless you buy it from an online music store.
And get this! Not all songs are eligible for sharing.
Record Companies can flag songs from the Zune Marketplace as non-distributal. These limits not only apply to Zune Marketplace music, but to ALL audio files loaded onto a Zune player, whether they have DMCA and RIAA protection or not.
Along with the fact that you can not play songs from a P2P Network or a BitTorrent site, you ALSO can not play songs ripped legally from your own CD that you bought, because most likely those songs are not embedded.
What you have here is a cheap product aimed at stopping the mass piracy of music, and because it's Microsoft, you can expect lots of young, mindless people with too much money buying into this product.
Go do research on other MP3 players before you jump on the bandwagon folks!
You are forced to install the software, along with the Zune Marketplace, which is more expensive than iTunes.
Now, after you place all of your previous songs onto the Zune, 80% of them will not play because Zune will only recognize legally embedded songs.
So every song purchased from iTunes, Yahoo, Rhapsody, etc.. will work, but no songs from Limewire, Torrents, the Internet, etc. will!
That is the killing aspect of this crappy corporate product.
You can't share files with other people via WiFi because song tracks received from another person can only be played three times, after which it expires unless you buy it from an online music store.
And get this! Not all songs are eligible for sharing.
Record Companies can flag songs from the Zune Marketplace as non-distributal. These limits not only apply to Zune Marketplace music, but to ALL audio files loaded onto a Zune player, whether they have DMCA and RIAA protection or not.
Along with the fact that you can not play songs from a P2P Network or a BitTorrent site, you ALSO can not play songs ripped legally from your own CD that you bought, because most likely those songs are not embedded.
What you have here is a cheap product aimed at stopping the mass piracy of music, and because it's Microsoft, you can expect lots of young, mindless people with too much money buying into this product.
Go do research on other MP3 players before you jump on the bandwagon folks!
Of course within the next few months some hacker will figure out how to play illegal songs on the Zune. It IS a Microsoft product after all, very easy to hack.
by DingleChips November 20, 2006
by sanitynow January 14, 2009
a shit, as in "to take a shit"
"I'm going to go take a zune"
by All other names are taken September 20, 2007
Microsoft's version of the Apple iPod. It's not bad; similar to the iPod only with a different interface and control scheme. It also has Wi-Fi sharing among other features, but being that it's by Microsoft, somehow it automatically sucks.
Should I get a Zune or an iPod? Ummm... well, everyone knows that the Zune is by Microsoft and the iPod is by Apple, soooo... I'm gonna go with the iPod. :)
by text of death March 16, 2008
The new MP3 player for trend followers, fad hags, and general 20-somethings with too much cash. Hopes to compete with the Apple iPod, although most intelligent people go with Creative's line of products.
The Zune can share music, movies, and photos wirelessly; but the trendy garbage most Zune owners listen to will break the eardrums of other people who have good taste in music.
You might also get hand cramps due to the controls on the side. You could also experiance the "iPod Cross-Eye Effect" in which your eyes start rolling around and around due to the circuler selection wheel.
The Zune can share music, movies, and photos wirelessly; but the trendy garbage most Zune owners listen to will break the eardrums of other people who have good taste in music.
You might also get hand cramps due to the controls on the side. You could also experiance the "iPod Cross-Eye Effect" in which your eyes start rolling around and around due to the circuler selection wheel.
Microsoft can't stand the fact that they don't own everything. So with Windows, the Xbox and the Zune, they can start WORLD DOMINATION!
by Lomia November 20, 2006
A product created by Microsoft in a (vain) attempt to compete with the iPod.
Too bad the world is full of consumer whores who want the apple logo stamped on their face.
The main 'selling point' (and I use the term loosely here) was that you could share songs with your friends.
Seriously though...just go buy a fucking iPod.
Too bad the world is full of consumer whores who want the apple logo stamped on their face.
The main 'selling point' (and I use the term loosely here) was that you could share songs with your friends.
Seriously though...just go buy a fucking iPod.
Zune owner: SwEeT!11!1 I've stuck it to the man and bought a Zune-now I can bash on how much apple sucks and share songs with my friends!
iPod owner: Yeah? You mean, like, the seven other people in the fucking world who actually own and use a Zune?
Zune owner: .....you just don't understand me! *goes into corner and cries*
iPod owner: Yeah? You mean, like, the seven other people in the fucking world who actually own and use a Zune?
Zune owner: .....you just don't understand me! *goes into corner and cries*
by wankah December 15, 2007