I finally broke down and bought an mp3 player this week. I have been waiting until the mp3 players could fit a ton of albums on it. What the hell would I do with a 4 gig mp3 player? I can fit just all my Levellers music on that size mp3 player! So I have been debating with myself on which route to go. Become an elitist Mac snob and get an iPod or get a Zune? I haven’t been a fan of Apple since high school. I just don’t like Apple and their products. I prefer Microsoft stuff because I think it’s
easier to use. Sure it breaks down a lot but in my experience, so does Apple. Everyone and their mother has an iPod, so I looked into getting one of those first. I mainly wanted to get it because the latest one had 160 gigs. That’s a lot of music! But then I heard the Zune was coming out with an 80 gig model. I’d be willing to take half the space just so I can get a Microsoft product.
The first night of having the Zune 80 gig, it was great. I was putting all my stuff on there from my laptop computer. It didn’t take too long to figure out the software. I got an ID tag program called mp3tag that automatically fixes the ID tags and downloads album artwork from Amazon.com. I’ve been entering that crap in manually for years! So I was getting very anal with my ID tags and artwork so it looks nice and organized in my player.
The second night was a little bit different for me. I went absolutely insane trying to figure out the syncing for this effing thing. For some godly reason, if you have a monitor folder and even when you have the auto sync turned off; you still lose your files if you remove them from your collection via Windows Explorer. I was trying all these ways to work around this problem but couldn’t fine one. I was at the point of returning the Zune because I don’t want to keep every single mp3 on my computer. This is why I got an mp3 player to begin with. I’m just sick killing my laptop’s hard drive with playing music on it 18 hours a day.
So I started to look up Zune forums and lo and behold, I wasn’t the only one completely fed up with the Zune. Reading through all the complaints (and there was A LOT!); I found one method that actually works. You can have the monitored folder, and put the stuff you don’t want on the computer, into another folder that isn’t within the monitor folder. You then drag that album folder down to the taskbar, and open it with the Zune program. You then put that into the collection and then add it to the device. I deleted those folders within Windows Explorer and it works now. So we’ll see what happens after that. Besides all that crap, I really like the Zune 80 gig mp3 player.
(Yes I know the iPod “pwns” and is “teh awesome”) sigh….
I finally broke down and bought an mp3 player this week. I have been waiting until the mp3 players could fit a ton of albums on it. What the hell would I do with a 4 gig mp3 player? I can fit just all my Levellers music on that size mp3 player! So I have been debating with myself on which route to go. Become an elitist Mac snob and get an iPod or get a Zune? I haven’t been a fan of Apple since high school. I just don’t like Apple and their products. I prefer Microsoft stuff because I think it’s 
