Hold off on upgrading your Zune!

Many of the first generation Zune owners are are downloading the latest version (v1.2) of the PC-based Zune software. They are regretting jumping to the new update. There has been some talk about this upgrade for some time now on the Microsoft support message boards.

The major problem on the forum seems that the new upgrade (for the PC-based software) is supposedly erasing library metadata (album art, ID3 tags, playlists, song ratings). The Zune support team has posted a seemingly viable solution to the problem, The problem with this solution is that the user has to do this manually by poking around on their computer’s Local Settings folder to rename and delete files. This is not making everyone happy by having to do this.

The problem many users are complaining about are the features that have been stripped out of the Zune PC software. Some of them being the smart playlists, the in-depth ID3 tag editing, drag-and-drop album art feature, and the five-star rating system have been scrapped in an effort to presumably make the software less complicated to new users of Microsoft’s Zune. I think they shouldn’t of taken the features out just because people who aren’t computer advanced won’t have any use for it. That just betrays the computer oriented users.

I have not had much experience with the Zune, but from what I can tell it has a very hard user interface. Me being an iPod owner for many years now has gotten me used to the touch turn wheel that iPod is well known for and probably copyrighted it as well. This makes it very difficult for me to use the Zune. I do like to see that Microsoft is trying to make competition for the Apple iPod market and this requires Apple to come up with new and original ideas, like the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Which these two haven’t been doing so well lately.

My recommendation is that you should just wait a while for the big businesses to get all of the bugs out of their software’s system before running out in upgrading or buying their product. This has been a issue with many new technologies that are in many products today. The big corporate businesses are just trying to rush their product so they can rake in the money and skipping on the quality of the product.

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