Since I am currently without a music library device thingy I took a look based on your recommendation. Unfortunately, it only works with Windows machines. Microsoft, bunch of elitist bastards.
If you live in a polyoperational household, then Zune's not the player for you.
It's still a pretty slick piece of machinery, the 80gb deserves the good reviews its getting, and their 'all you can eat' service runs circles around similar offerings from Napster and Rhapsody.
Still sucks that they decided to come out with yet another new DRM scheme, but on a Vista computer, the ease of use of both the software and hardware for the Zune is hard to beat, and their servers are far more reliable than Real's were with Rhapsody. I downloaded over 2000 songs (basically replicating the subscription albums I had over at Rhapsody, a few albums are Rhapsody exclusives, and they'll be missed, but Zune has their own exclusives, too) over the course of a few hours, synced them to my Zune, all without a hitch. That was unthinkable with my previous Sansa/Rhapsody combination.
There are no OS X (or Linux) compatible monthly music subscription services, don't know why iTunes doesn't jump in that game, guess selling songs is still too lucrative.
When I want to keep an album, I still buy it on CD, purchased MP3s (even the non-DRM ones) just aren't the same, but having access to the latest crap (and catalogue stuff that I'd enjoy listening to for a month or two, but don't need to keep forever) for the price of one CD a month has really expanded my range of listening opportunities.
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Freebird!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where's my lighter.
Since I am currently without a music library device thingy I took a look based on your recommendation. Unfortunately, it only works with Windows machines. Microsoft, bunch of elitist bastards.
If you live in a polyoperational household, then Zune's not the player for you.
It's still a pretty slick piece of machinery, the 80gb deserves the good reviews its getting, and their 'all you can eat' service runs circles around similar offerings from Napster and Rhapsody.
Still sucks that they decided to come out with yet another new DRM scheme, but on a Vista computer, the ease of use of both the software and hardware for the Zune is hard to beat, and their servers are far more reliable than Real's were with Rhapsody. I downloaded over 2000 songs (basically replicating the subscription albums I had over at Rhapsody, a few albums are Rhapsody exclusives, and they'll be missed, but Zune has their own exclusives, too) over the course of a few hours, synced them to my Zune, all without a hitch. That was unthinkable with my previous Sansa/Rhapsody combination.
There are no OS X (or Linux) compatible monthly music subscription services, don't know why iTunes doesn't jump in that game, guess selling songs is still too lucrative.
When I want to keep an album, I still buy it on CD, purchased MP3s (even the non-DRM ones) just aren't the same, but having access to the latest crap (and catalogue stuff that I'd enjoy listening to for a month or two, but don't need to keep forever) for the price of one CD a month has really expanded my range of listening opportunities.
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