A site dedicated to the best MP3 player and the most underrated piece of hardware ever made, the Microsoft Zune HD. It came out September 2009, and was officially (although the process in its entirety was quite gradual) discontinued October 3, 2011. This however was to make the transition to Microsoft's new Windows Phone, which still exists and is a great phone.
What about Zune today?
It's the year .
Microsoft obviously doesn't make, distribute, or even has customer support for Zune HDs anymore. Naturally, however, many can still be found by sellers all over the world on Amazon (where I scored the black one) or eBay or anywhere else on the net. Microsoft actually still hosts the download link for the latest Zune software on the Xbox site.
To those of you who don't know, the Zune software was split up into Xbox Music and Xbox Video when it went under, and those were great services and were available on Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbox. Xbox Music even had a web player, which worked the same way as the Windows 8 version and was similar to Spotify and iTunes. Believe it or not, Zune's music database actually just fed from Xbox Music for a while, so it was always updating. Better yet, an Xbox Music pass actually used to work with the Zune software and Zune players for a while! Buying music directly from the Zune device, however, stopped working around the same time the devices were discontinued, as with the apps in the marketplace.
Xbox Music was changed to Groove Music with the release of Windows 10, and then eventually Microsoft gave up with the music subscription service market altogether and pointed everyone in the direction of Spotify. Groove Music still exists but functions just like Windows Media Player (which also still exists) and only works with local files on your computer.
For a quality and in-depth look into this device and it's UI, I recommend heading over to Anything But iPod's review done by Grahm Skee. It's the best Zune HD Review I've seen on the net and all questions you may have about the player will be answered.
Luckily, fellow Zune owner Anthony Hernandez has shared most of the .zcp marketplace apps with me, and they're being hosted on the 'Zune and XNA' page. The five missing apps are Reversi, Windows Live Messanger, Facebook, Twitter, and Fan Prediction. Put the Applications folder in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Zune. After that, run regedit.exe to edit your registry. Find Zune and add the value 'US' to Games and Apps. Ignore the message telling you to restart the software when you launch it, and the apps should appear under Collection>Apps.
So take a look at the gallery and my game/ports Flow and 2048, as well as the other XNA games on ZuneBoards. Enjoy the site!
To those of you who don't know, the Zune software was split up into Xbox Music and Xbox Video when it went under, and those were great services and were available on Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbox. Xbox Music even had a web player, which worked the same way as the Windows 8 version and was similar to Spotify and iTunes. Believe it or not, Zune's music database actually just fed from Xbox Music for a while, so it was always updating. Better yet, an Xbox Music pass actually used to work with the Zune software and Zune players for a while! Buying music directly from the Zune device, however, stopped working around the same time the devices were discontinued, as with the apps in the marketplace.
Xbox Music was changed to Groove Music with the release of Windows 10, and then eventually Microsoft gave up with the music subscription service market altogether and pointed everyone in the direction of Spotify. Groove Music still exists but functions just like Windows Media Player (which also still exists) and only works with local files on your computer.
For a quality and in-depth look into this device and it's UI, I recommend heading over to Anything But iPod's review done by Grahm Skee. It's the best Zune HD Review I've seen on the net and all questions you may have about the player will be answered.
Luckily, fellow Zune owner Anthony Hernandez has shared most of the .zcp marketplace apps with me, and they're being hosted on the 'Zune and XNA' page. The five missing apps are Reversi, Windows Live Messanger, Facebook, Twitter, and Fan Prediction. Put the Applications folder in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Zune. After that, run regedit.exe to edit your registry. Find Zune and add the value 'US' to Games and Apps. Ignore the message telling you to restart the software when you launch it, and the apps should appear under Collection>Apps.
So take a look at the gallery and my game/ports Flow and 2048, as well as the other XNA games on ZuneBoards. Enjoy the site!