oldarney

bullet71792

quicksilver13091

getgreg

quit paying the music industry

After all, each Zune purchased, some money goes to Universal Music "just because" a Zune can be used to pirate music.

Then again, I suppose its why all the music companies want to bully Apple into giving them a cut of the iPod sales now. (Though, at least Apple is also a bully and can fight back...)

Worf

TurboFool

And a clock.

CrucialTK

Angus

eineins

This ability has been moronically omitted from both the iPod and the Zune since Day 1. Players like the Rio Karma and the Creative Zen Vision: M got it right, so why aren't the big boys playing along, too?

Bottom line: I don't want to sync my damn player every time I want to create a new mix. It's a complete waste of time.

J.T.

I'm definitely glad this isn't a touchscreen device. I want a music player, not a gadget. The Zune 1's biggest redeeming feature was that, IMO, it was more "music-y" than most DAPs, and felt like an audio device. Most DAPs (iPods included) feel like high-tech doodads, but the Zune feels very music-oriented and straightforward, and that's what I like about it.

Also, I really can't fathom the people criticizing the Zune 80's design. It's simple, functional, and minimal. It's actually more elegant than the iPod design. The flash players are a little less sleek looking, but still perfectly decent.

typoink

morganlh85

morganlh85

morganlh85

And playlist sharing through on-device wifi is currently supported and will continue to be in the next update, according to Zune team members. I do agree with you that tighter integration to the Xbox and dropping the restrictions would be a good thing, but just give them time.

But iTunes support? Blech! I wouldn't wish that on anyone, not even iPod owners. The new Zune software looks amazing, but I'm going to hold off on judgement until it comes out.

mysekurity

dangrossman

Really, though, compatibility with iTunes would be nice, but as it has been pointed out, it's an extremely long shot =_= I hope future Zunes can accept third-party codecs as well (it IS based on Windows CE, so it's plausible, right?).
Oh, and the Zune software could lose a few megabytes.

nanoalpha

willyboy

My Wish List is:

1. Mac support. At least Intel Mac support, darn it!!!

2. A FREE system where you can download a minimum number of songs (say 15) and there's a 15-30 second, non-skippable music ad after song 7. The ad would auto-update when in a wifi range after, say, 3 days. It'd be a customizable radio without the 2 minute-long ads. That'd be hot!!!

3. Beam your songs to multiple users at once. Musicians could use this to promote their new sing at a concert (obviously sponsored by Zune). It would probably be only indie artists, though, cuz the RIAA would NOT go for this idea.

DW

willyboy

willyboy

willyboy

jonb4more

I think MS needs to launch an ad campaign explaining the Zune Pass. 99% of people I talk to DON'T understand this. They think subscription services still require you to pay per track (and think that iTunes is the same thing, only without a subscription fee) or that sub services don't allow you to get much music or that the audio quality is bad or that you can't put it all on a DAP.

Subscription service can be fantastic and there's, I think, a lot of people who'd really like it (especially if they can lower the monthly fee by a couple bucks).

typoink

If you're techie enough to USE flac to begin with, you're techie enough to handle a batch transcoding.

Yeah, more standard support is better, but I can forgive MS for wanting to simplify things and steer people onto the WMA path. OGG support I DO think should be included, though, since lossy transcoding isn't a good option. But that's why ripping lossless is the way to go!

typoink

ConstyXIV

mrrobotanger

also it needs a better input device to be able to use Outlook and the browser
...perhaps touch screen

crunchwrapsupreme

DJQubic

2. OOG and FLAC support. This could push the Zune over the top in support. Audiophiles demand a good lossless compression standard and supporting FLAC is huge.

3. No one else has mentioned this, but I would like to see the Zune become iPod Dock compatible. There are hundreds of iPod compatible systems out there and giving the Zune the ability to take advantage of car hookups or 3rd party speaker systems will be HUGE.

However, Microsoft usually does not like to play nice with others so I do not expect any of my suggestions to go through. While they could give MS a marketing advantage over the iPod and expand its adoption, MS is too limited by their need to dominate a market and they only know one way to do it and unfortunately for us this means they have to keep things locked down.

- Roger

Roger Huston

2-Ability to sync movies and TV shows from both the zune marketplace and the xbox 360. Syncing with media center is great, because i already have a dual tuner working in media center for me, so 1.99 per show is no-go for me, but I can understand why many people want it. Music purchases should also be able to be made from your 360, because that would be a convenient feature.

3-Games. I know they already said they won't do this, but it would be awesome if you could either sync some xbox live arcade games or buy zune games on the zune marketplace, xbox 360 and the zune itself via wi-fi

4-a wi-fi store along with syncing with your zune software from any wi-fi hotspot, not just your home wi-fi. This wouldn't just be cool, it would also be convenient. Oh, and if they really want it to work well, they also need to make it so that the zune software will automatically download any new music downloaded over wi-fi. This would be another important feature, because it would make the zune an even easier to use product than the Ipod or Iphone, because with those products, after purchasing songs over wi-fi, to use them in itunes, you have to dock your Ipod/Iphone and download them off of your PMP, not off of a server, which can be slower and less convenient.

5-An accelerometer or another type of sensor to tilt pictures and video the right way. This can be kind of annoying when you have a picture that is landscape, but gets formatted in a weird way and ends up being portrait. If not that, then at least an option to rotate video and pictures from the center button options menu

6-Ability to view media center Live from your zune, this way you can watch tv and view content from your pc from any wi-fi hotspot. this would only need software, no hardware, so with some coding and a lot of testing, this can be done. It would be similar to products such as locationfree player for the PSP or slingbox for your PC

Crazysamz

Just wait until the third XBox!

robinandtami

Alfonzo

When sharing between 2 Zunes that are both subscribers, subscription tracks should be automatically unlimited!

Similarly, why not enable the Zune store for wireless downloading? If I'm a subscriber, then I could reload my 4 or 8 GB Zune with any available tracks from a Wi-Fi connection. It's the mythical jukebox in the sky!

That would be a feature set that goes above and beyond iPod/iTunes, since Apple's so keen on the pay-per-track model.

dotyoureyes

Usable as a Sideshow device.

Can play a select number of X BOX Live Arcade Games.

WiFi Connectivity to X BOX as secondary display (ala. PSP).

SD Card input, to use a portable photograph storage center for trips.

WiFi Store (Really, i thought it was coming).

720 or 640x480 screen (i don't think the current specs reveal res, but I'm not sure).

Sideshow device!!!

Lightweight web browser.

A second size option for the larger Zune 2 (80 and 120, for example).

A small number of controls on the side for in-pocket use.

A 16 gig Zune Slim right from the onset. I thought that was going to happen for Zune 2.

A Hybrid connector, which has USB in the center, and along the edge the proprietary connectors, so you can use a Zune dock, but when your away, you can use a standard USB connector.

Windows Media Center Internet TV Integration (I know its in beta, but by next year, it should be ready).

Media Center control. I have no idea how, but that would be awesome to use it as a controller for your media center. No reason at all, just a gimmick.

More codec support is needed, but considering PC's are getting pretty fast, converting will take less and less time, to the point that Movies take just as much time as song ripping, so that isnt too big of a deal.

Otherwise, the Zune 2 has everything i need right now.

But i still have to wait for Creative's Vision:M or Vision:W replacement before i make any player purchase.

diabolusunknown

MMFY

sublimnl

160GB hard drive, so I can carry all my tunes. I'll bet that's coming to Zune2, a few months after release...

Bluetooth 2.0 EDR A2DP, so I can listen wirelessly. That's gonna need new h/w...so Zune3...

Internet radio streaming over WiFi, so I can chill to Groove Salad while lounging around my pad.

NitroBobbo

wvv

I'd like my Pocket PC phone to gain an 80GB (or 16mb of flash memory) and Zune Wi-fi capabilities, and have its media player replaced with the Zune interface. It should have stereo Bluetooth and keep its Voice Command capabilities.

That there would be perfect for me.

burnblue

2-Ability to sync movies and TV shows from both the zune marketplace and the xbox 360. Syncing with media center is great, because i already have a dual tuner working in media center for me, so 1.99 per show is no-go for me, but I can understand why many people want it. Music purchases should also be able to be made from your 360, because that would be a convenient feature.

3-Games. I know they already said they won't do this, but it would be awesome if you could either sync some xbox live arcade games or buy zune games on the zune marketplace, xbox 360 and the zune itself via wi-fi

4-a wi-fi store along with syncing with your zune software from any wi-fi hotspot, not just your home wi-fi. This wouldn't just be cool, it would also be convenient. Oh, and if they really want it to work well, they also need to make it so that the zune software will automatically download any new music downloaded over wi-fi. This would be another important feature, because it would make the zune an even easier to use product than the Ipod or Iphone, because with those products, after purchasing songs over wi-fi, to use them in itunes, you have to dock your Ipod/Iphone and download them off of your PMP, not off of a server, which can be slower and less convenient.

5-An accelerometer or another type of sensor to tilt pictures and video the right way. This can be kind of annoying when you have a picture that is landscape, but gets formatted in a weird way and ends up being portrait. If not that, then at least an option to rotate video and pictures from the center button options menu

6-Ability to view media center Live from your zune, this way you can watch tv and view content from your pc from any wi-fi hotspot. this would only need software, no hardware, so with some coding and a lot of testing, this can be done. It would be similar to products such as locationfree player for the PSP or slingbox for your PC

Crazysamz

2-Ability to sync movies and TV shows from both the zune marketplace and the xbox 360. Syncing with media center is great, because i already have a dual tuner working in media center for me, so 1.99 per show is no-go for me, but I can understand why many people want it. Music purchases should also be able to be made from your 360, because that would be a convenient feature.

3-Games. I know they already said they won't do this, but it would be awesome if you could either sync some xbox live arcade games or buy zune games on the zune marketplace, xbox 360 and the zune itself via wi-fi

4-a wi-fi store along with syncing with your zune software from any wi-fi hotspot, not just your home wi-fi. This wouldn't just be cool, it would also be convenient. Oh, and if they really want it to work well, they also need to make it so that the zune software will automatically download any new music downloaded over wi-fi. This would be another important feature, because it would make the zune an even easier to use product than the Ipod or Iphone, because with those products, after purchasing songs over wi-fi, to use them in itunes, you have to dock your Ipod/Iphone and download them off of your PMP, not off of a server, which can be slower and less convenient.

5-An accelerometer or another type of sensor to tilt pictures and video the right way. This can be kind of annoying when you have a picture that is landscape, but gets formatted in a weird way and ends up being portrait. If not that, then at least an option to rotate video and pictures from the center button options menu

6-Ability to view media center Live from your zune, this way you can watch tv and view content from your pc from any wi-fi hotspot. this would only need software, no hardware, so with some coding and a lot of testing, this can be done. It would be similar to products such as locationfree player for the PSP or slingbox for your PC

Crazysamz

dle5

-flac support
-bigger then 80 gigs (but im fine with that for now)
-zune marketplace wifi access
-gapless playback
-play list sharing (wifi dj)
-more video codecs

otherwise looks fine, zune team is doing a pretty good job for being newly assembled team

djfoxx64

Also, when the Zune supports gaming (note that I say "when", not "if"), it'll probably be based on some form of the XNA framework, so it'd be nice if, like the Xbox 360, games that you've personally coded in XNA could be played on the device. That'd be sweet.

Finally, what about some sort of Media Search? Or has this been done before? (With an on screen keyboard navigated via Zune Pad, similar to the one on the PSP.)

Just a few thoughts.

jvd897

Kris

jlbellinger

2-Ability to sync movies and TV shows from both the zune marketplace and the xbox 360. Syncing with media center is great, because i already have a dual tuner working in media center for me, so 1.99 per show is no-go for me, but I can understand why many people want it. Music purchases should also be able to be made from your 360, because that would be a convenient feature.

3-Games. I know they already said they won't do this, but it would be awesome if you could either sync some xbox live arcade games or buy zune games on the zune marketplace, xbox 360 and the zune itself via wi-fi

4-a wi-fi store along with syncing with your zune software from any wi-fi hotspot, not just your home wi-fi. This wouldn't just be cool, it would also be convenient. Oh, and if they really want it to work well, they also need to make it so that the zune software will automatically download any new music downloaded over wi-fi. This would be another important feature, because it would make the zune an even easier to use product than the Ipod or Iphone, because with those products, after purchasing songs over wi-fi, to use them in itunes, you have to dock your Ipod/Iphone and download them off of your PMP, not off of a server, which can be slower and less convenient.

5-An accelerometer or another type of sensor to tilt pictures and video the right way. This can be kind of annoying when you have a picture that is landscape, but gets formatted in a weird way and ends up being portrait. If not that, then at least an option to rotate video and pictures from the center button options mnenu

Crazysamz

wtf. i dont understand how bluetooth is not standard on music players yet. what's the deal?

i realize apple needs to have silhouetted earbud cables for their ipod ads, but if microsoft wants to grab some marketshare, shouldn't BT be at the top of their list?

they give it wifi but no bluetooth? i guess i'll just keep using my crappy cell phone as a music player.

chocorua

amfullerton

As-disk support would be great, even as a separate partition. The reason for not doing that is controlling everything on the filesystem and obfuscation, exactly why the iPod does it too.

Hardware WiFi switch would be nice to have, by why? AFAIK, unless you specifically go to social, it shouldn't randomly try to find people, does it?

What I want is .mkv support and SOFT SUBTITLES. Forever I've been asking portable media players to support soft subtitles for those who like to watch movies from OTHER COUNTRIES. Seems like only the PMPs from Korea seem to have this as a standard feature.

fuzzycuffs

kabron

-Drag and drop mp3 management (disk access)
-250gb HDD (by the time it comes out, that'll be available)
-hardware wifi switch would be cool
-divx support :)
-full integration to Xbox Live and content

rainfever

I would say i have to agree, it seems they make it craptacular that when the third iteration of it comes out it will blow the competition away. Heres looking at you Xbox 3.

Totalfixation

I'd much rather see MS allow for Audioscrobbler support, also I'd love to see a (BIG) update to the Zune software so it doesn't fuck up in Windows Vista for me anymore (basically, it reads C:Users and C:Documents and Settings\Users essentially getting two of each track, and I've tried turning one or the other off and everything. Nothing helps)

MIKEAWESOME

Syncing is annoying when you have way more music than fits on a player, and browsing 80GB of albums all in one giant list is cumbersome. I like to split up my music collection by album genre (like classical, pop, soundtrack, etc.) and then browse whole albums of that genre.

For someone who has used a Zune before, when you search by genre, does it list whole albums or just single tracks? I can't imagine ever wanting to browse 80GB of tracks instead of albums.

Brandson

pagercam

LoopTrack

scorpicon

xxenclavexx

- Grab/sync podcasts over wifi...without having to use your PC like Zune2 initially will.
- Movie/TV Shows in Zune MarketPlace
- Wifi Store access to Zune MarketPlace
- High Resolution JPEG & PhotoHD support so that you don't have to transcode and create duplicates as much.
- MSN Direct data service that uses Zune's FM

johncz

utube2007

leadster618

A melted butter dispenser and a cinnamon shaker built-in wouldn't hurt either.

EQC

For the moment, however, I'd settle for Microsoft offering TV shows and movies. What the hell is that big screen for, anyway?

justrick

Apple TV Syncing
--why the hell doesn't it do that? Seriously.

Windows Media/"Insert Linux program" syncing.
--It's made by apple, why shouldn't it support other systems.

Any beaming of any content whatsoever to another Ipod.
--At least let it send photos....

Calendar Sharing
--Hey jim, Wanna go to the Indians ALDS game? sure send me the date on my ipod.

More codec support
--wmv,wma all that fun stuff

Free downloads at the Mythical Apple Stores
--I should just plug in my ipod/phone and be able to download the track of the day at the apple store right.

Wi-fi, damn got that. Fuck.
--fuck

Gaming
--no more pussy games...

iphone
--not some shit phone i can't unlock, that is called a touchscreen brick.

How about a bookstore on itunes
--I know its called iTUNES but the screen is now big enough to say this is legitimate. you're staring at the damn thing 19 hours a day anyway right.

No i'm not trying to prove a point.

Longshot

Jason Chen

Touch screen digital media player, flash based, combined with a PDA with WIFI, Bluetooth, with Internet browser, compact flash slot for expandibility, some VoIP program for making calls on Wifi. I mean how hard would it be to add an Internet browser to this?

iridius

Weihovah

DRive Genius

waterdrop

JasonC

Totalfixation

OMG! Ponies!

Cue Apple haters in 3...2...

Sqube

WD40

ANoel

Tw33kR

alin0steglinski

jrronimo