So, I plugged the Zune in and fired up the software. I don’t have the external drive with all my music on it plugged in, but I want to see if I can make some playlists from the songs on the device. Dabble around a bit trying to figure out if this is possible – nope, it doesn’t seem to be. It would appear that the only way to do anything at all to what is on the device is to make that change to my music library and then sync the player. That sucks, but here’s what sucks more. The Zune software decided, since it couldn’t find my HDD with music on it, that I must have deleted all my music and it starts wiping the device. That is fucking ridiculous. I caught it before more than a few MB were deleted, but that would have been a sever downer to my skiing enjoyment.
I think I never should have strayed from my original claim that I would never buy a MP3 player that required proprietary software again. My debate now is should I sell the Zune, which is like new, or hold on to it in hopes that it becomes Rockbox supported?
Anyone with an iPod… does iTunes pull this shit??? Because really, that’s what Microsoft is competing with. Toshiba did a good job making a player, Microsoft is sucking ass on the Software end (which you’d think is where they’d excel).
