http://blogs.msdn.com/jcurrier/archive/tags/Zune+Music/default.aspxTags: Zune Musicen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/jcurrier/archive/2007/12/04/my-zune-review.aspxWed, 05 Dec 2007 07:31:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6662163jcurrier1http://blogs.msdn.com/jcurrier/comments/6662163.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jcurrier/commentrss.aspx?PostID=6662163http://blogs.msdn.com/jcurrier/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=6662163<P>I couldn't wait for the company store to stock up on the Zune 80 units (they presently only have the 4 &amp; 8GB models) so I went out and picked up one retail.&nbsp; I guess that makes me impatient :-)&nbsp; Anyway, so I bought it over Thanksgiving but due to a brief delay in shipping I finally recieved it yesterday evening and I have to tell you I'm very impressed....&nbsp; Here's my a quick run down of my likes/dislikes.</P> <P>Like:</P> <P>1) I <STRONG>love</STRONG> the Zune pass.&nbsp; This is the all you can eat subscription service for your Zune.&nbsp; This is now my best friend.&nbsp; I used to have the Urge service (and prior to that Rhapsody) but neither of these worked particuarly well with whatever&nbsp;MP3 player I had at the time&nbsp;(be that one from Apple or some of the other manufacturers).&nbsp; Additionally, I listen to a lot of music while I'm coding and the intranet here at MSFT has the horrible side effect of closing my connection frequently in the Rhapsody case (yes, I looked at the proxy settings for those of you who are wondering)...</P> <P>2) Quick Lists are sweet!&nbsp; I'm not sure if this was present in the older Zune's but this is really nice feature that my old IPod didn't have.&nbsp; Nice touch.&nbsp; Now, if only it had a shuffle feature when playing the quick list (perhaps this is there and I just haven't determined how to use it yet).</P> <P>3) Presentation.&nbsp; The UI on this thing is quite nice.&nbsp; Nice, huge album art which is pretty cool and I love the way that if I have multiple albums from a given artist the album cover is nicely displayed for me..&nbsp; I don't do a lot of video but the few videos that are included play quite nice.&nbsp; </P> <P>Dislike:</P> <P>1) So, navigation can be kind of funky at times.&nbsp; It only takes a second to get used to using the pad to move quickly through a list of artists, albums or songs but several times I've found myself accidently scrolling down instead of going down to the next level in the navigation hierarchy.</P> <P>&nbsp;That's all I have for now.&nbsp; All in alll I'm pleased with the purchase and very happy with it.&nbsp; Congrats to the Zune team for delivering what feels like a pretty awesome product.</P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6662163" width="1" height="1">Zune Musichttp://blogs.msdn.com/jcurrier/archive/2007/11/23/zune-on-slashdot.aspxSat, 24 Nov 2007 04:04:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6493309jcurrier1http://blogs.msdn.com/jcurrier/comments/6493309.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jcurrier/commentrss.aspx?PostID=6493309http://blogs.msdn.com/jcurrier/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=6493309Slashdot's already calling the Zune a <A class="" title=failure. href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/23/187218&amp;from=rss" mce_href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/23/187218&amp;from=rss">failure</A>&nbsp; Boy, seems like having a sold out product is called failure these days...<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6493309" width="1" height="1">Zune Music