maybe Id care about Zune if it wasn't so ugly

I went to Walmart yesterday and got a close up live view of the Zune and my first thuoght was it's a little too big. I noticed the iPod Video in the next display and the iPods are smaller. It's the thickness of the Zune I noticed right off, the screen and front of the zune looks okay, but when you look at it from the side, bulky comes to mind. I guess I was just expecting smaller and the shock of seeing it for the first time made me think of the old iPods which were of similar thickness. The front video screen is larger than the iPod's and as a result video will probably be easier to watch on the Zune. It's just hard to get over the size of the thing. I think Microsofts point system for buying songs on their site sucks big time. It doesn't appear as if microsoft is going to do well with this as I thought they might from the beginning. I was hoping for something better I guess.

I dont mind bulky but tis functionally suxs ,so dose the Ipods *rolls eyes*

Anyone know if itll support crapy .m4a files? it says it supports acc and all but what about .m4a?

wo0dy
MP4?
you an always run it with win amp or what not and see what wrks.

nah zippy im talking about .m4a.
run it in win amp?

if you have m4a and winamp test it I do nots know,wait google says this

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=157572

i dont care about winamp.... i want to know if the zune will play the file format without reformating the file to say mp3.

need to remember what thread I am in *L*

I have no info on that google dose not give clear answers try looking thru acouple pages of google...

Wow!.... another awesome original idea from Microsoft. I love how Microsoft always comes up with new stuff. And it doesn't even look anything like an Apple Ipod...this is definitely the end of Apple's wave of success. I'm suprised they didn't name it iZunes. Aleast vista is nothing like OSX. Pheeew!

(Sarcasim is so sarcastic isn't it?)

Maybe Apple, in return, should come out with a game system... Perhaps the Ibox 360?..

it better play xvids. the codec is fucking open source for christs sake. the fact that all these new devises DONT suport XviD is a little questionable...

georgeluv
open source means free trade and you know the corperations hate free trade!

yeh i know. i have actualy found a few cheapo mp3 players that support AVI. i asked the sales person if they suported XviD and he was like "duuuuuhh im a big retard"

if the zune has a powerful enough procesor then it could be hacked to play them i supose.

georgeluv
I dout the main players will support open codecs,have you looked into creative they are a high brand yet dont submit to the media mafaa.

its creative or a off off china brand

3 words.

DEFECTIVE-BY-DESIGN!

AUDIOMIND
5 words
corporate protection from suing itself.

im sure everyone on this board knows about the nano clones they churn out in china that can be had for like 30 bucks right? man those are looking better every day.
if it wernt for the fact that they have 1/8 headphone jacks and cant suport XviD i might alreayd have one.

still no one knows about support for .m4a files?

I was looking at the zune and trying to dicide if i should get it or the video ipod but i still dont know if you can download from something like windows media player and if it has a buyable isurence for of it gets broken

Stoerte
It will work with vista when the consumer edition is publicly available in January and will also include 64bit vista support.

wo0dy
The zune player will load and play AAC/M4A natively.

http://www.zunmp3player.com

It is strange that many companies have already released Zune conversion tool, such as

Xilisoft Zune converter: www.xilisoft.com/zune-converter-suite.html
PQ zune converter: www.pqdvd.com/zune-video-converter.html
cucusoft: www.cucusoft.com
imtoo: www.imtoo.com
......

summerda
most of thos places churn out crappy conversation programs anyway...

just bought one of these things after much mindraking and research. i almost got an iaudio6 becuase i had an x5l and loved it. i sold it tho. hopefully this thing doesnt fucking suck or else microsoft is completey done with

I had buy one. Very nice! I'v tried some dvd converter softwares and prefer http://www.afterdawn.com/general/adprices.cfm

this thing is ok...better than any ipod but not some other mp3 players out there. best buy for the price tho i guess.