I had my second gen Zune with me at work one day and someone walked in with his, and he sent me some songs. It was the greatest day of Microsoft's life.
I traded my creative Zen with a friend for his zune.....I got iphone a d few days later. The zune ended up literally in the trash compactor that I didn't even know we had until I asked my mom what the button did and realized it would be a perfect place for the zune. Crushed with the trash.
I owned a zune and the ONLY thing that I miss about it was being able to load offensive tracks from my zune onto the display ones at best buy and other electronics stores
That's because Groove Music is an upgraded version of the program Zune, developed to sync music to Zune devices. The Zune HD (the 3rd model) is actually one of my go-to MP3 players, but the lack of uncompressed audio is still a pain.
It’s just zune with a disguise, I mean where Microsoft left the media players they had in xp and 7 pretty much simple. Not another fucking copy o iTunes
This reminds me of what happened to Windows Phones. As soon as they were getting a bit of traction Microsoft goes like "yea nah this isn't an instant boom we're done"
Such a shame, I had a Microsoft phone that I loved (the square one), i really liked the UI but I was so sad that the newer models weren't square anymore :(
.wavs are like 10 mb per minute of audio. Virtually nobody buying a MP3 player was buying them to play that format, especially considering these thing generally came with 8 to sub 100 GB of storage. MP3s were the entire point of MP3 players.
There was _literally_ no benefit. Zune had *the* *best* mobile DAC at the time, and even _it_ couldn't take advantage of lossless formatted media. If you uploaded .wav files to your iPod, you were _wasting_ storage space.
It really says something about MS's opinion on the Zune that they completely ejected it from their ecosystem, when their philosophy everywhere else is compatibility at all costs. You can still access the old menu for setting up a Dial-Up internet connection in modern versions of Windows. You still *can't* name files things like CON, PRN, AUX, or NUL because **MS-DOS** used those filenames to output data to certain software or peripherals (like a printer). Every new version of Windows is built on the zombified corpse of the last, leaving behind all of the old protocols JUST IN CASE something old and antiquated comes along and expects things to work a certain way. And then there's Zune which can't even run it's management software anymore.
Yeah I found out telnet was still burried in Windows 10 activated it and found the gateway for an old mud mmorpg and joined in I had alot of fun doing that before the hdd on the computer took a shit maybe I should see if its still in Windows 11 somewhere also you can find all kinds of random odds and ends from ms-dos 5.1 in there
That Steve Ballmer “Developers, developers, developers” clip will forever be burned into my brain because i was curious what the default link on youtube to mp3 led to
"Welcome to the social" sounds more like a phrase that would be slapped on some sort of Chinese bootleg and not a cool catchphrase that would get me all hyped up.. this is not epic.
I loved mine, too! Especially loved that I could stream and download music via Wi-Fi and didn't need to plug it into the computer just to get some new tunes. Pretty sure iPod wasn't about that life yet. And I REALLY loved the look and feel of the Zune HD
"Hey bro, wanna SQUIRT?" "Hell yeah, let's SQUIRT some SONGS to each other. That doesn't sound awful at all!" "I love SQUIRTING SONGS together." ok that's too far.
The same person who though "Critical Update Notification Tool" was a good name, "Prepare to Fly" was a good motto for an OS released in 2001, and "Bang" was a great name for a search engine especially when used as a verb.
@phdfloppa9397 I personally love bamg for information. When I am doing homework late at night sometimes I just need something captivating to put into my paper, so I bang all night long until I find a good fit. 😂
I really admire the overall visual design of the UI, user manual, and packaging. They aged really well, doesn't seem like they'd look out of place at all today - especially considering how oh so 2000s Windows Aero and Apple UIs of the time looked.
Absolutely. It was the predecessor of the Windows Phone, which was a great OS (felt more mobile-native than iOS and less fickly than Android). But of course it is another whole story of Microsoft messing up in consumer electronics.
My dad used to work for Microsoft, and when the smaller Zune's came out (the one at the end of the video) he got one each for my brother and I. I did really enjoy them. The 'squirting' feature was cool, but yeah, sucked that I would have to plug into my brothers computer to get the mp3 if I liked it, but still cool. The BIGGEST problem with them.. at least with mine, was it would just freeze. Completely. Like in the middle of a song. The song and playlist would keep going. Buttons didn't work. No force restart. Not even the screen would turn off. And I would have to wait for the battery to die, so I could charge it and use it again. Did it like once a week. So dad got us iPods haha.
I babysat instead of hanging out with friends for one back in 2009 or 2010 and got it engraved and everything. That thing never left my side. I was playing games on it and everything. In seventh grade my mom got me one of the smaller ones for Christmas and I still liked it but I LOVED my hd
As a contrarian, I was really into the Zune around the time this came out. Fortunately I was also a very lazy contrarian so I never actually got around to buying one. I eventually was gifted an iPod by my company as part of a bonus, so that's how my choice in the Player Wars was made.
Hearing someone talk about a Microsoft product as the alternative product for contrarians, circa mid-2000s, is really funny to me. :-D It just goes to show how thoroughly the iPod annihilated the PMP market at the time.
13:14 - I remember the day I discovered Pandora. A guy at work created a station for us to listen to while we worked. I thought it was cool, so I got it to listen to while studying. I made a station based on one relaxing song to listen to at bedtime, and I've been listening to that one station every night for almost 15 years now.
@@Alex-wp5lx you have to buy coins to buy a song, instead of it being a direct transaction, just like how rocket league uses credits to buy items from the item shop instead of just directly purchasing items
Honestly, back in like 06-07 when they launched, I got one bc it looked pretty decent, had a radio that didn't completely suck for that time, and it held as much as the ipods and on sale, I got mine for like $150, maybe a little less. It worked for what I wanted until it was stolen..... 1 week before an article about how they sucked came out and even pawn shops didn't really want them. Also, apparently they touted DRM but um........ that obviously didn't work at all, lol
It worked really well on the sharing feature (3 plays only). It was never meant to prevent you from adding media to your own device. It was actually incredibly open-ended compared to the iPod, even accepting additional media formats.
How milk works: 1) Data comes from the cow 2) We LOL 3) Put a zune and a PC into the milk 4) Add the onion bot anime theme to the zune 5) MOOOOOOOOO Btw I subscribed to you :3
@@atlasnetwork7855 Haven't had to change my battery, its been what, 15 years? still lasts days without needing to charge. Do you even have a zune from personal experience?
Man. I remember in school all the cool alternative kids had a zune for a while. I was a very uncool alternative kid and wanted one soooo bad, but my family couldn't afford one so I got the $15 mp3 players from walmart. Turns out I didn't miss much.
The Zune was actually a great MP3 player. Combined with the Music Pass, it was one hell of a way to discover and download music. The Zune HD was even better! I miss my Zune.
Never fret. I had a late Sharp walkman when everyone was into Discmans (or Discmen?). When I could finally afford a portable CD player, iPods were over a year into the market. It was not until 2005 that I could (at last) own a 1st gen iPod Nano... still have it, still works.
I’ve been putting off this episode.. I had an old friend that got hooked on drugs and stole my Zune. Sold it for 1, maybe 2 pills. But I had that thing for a few years and absolutely loved that thing. And despite having an iPhone, AirPods, Apple Watch, iPad, etc.. I might have to grab me a Zune again.
Brian Nichols that sucks man, my father was addicted to heroin. they dont call black tar for no reason, I hope for his sake he gets better but the slope only gets more slippery from here
12:00 the best part about the wifi was (as I recall) wireless syncing. Drop the Zune in the charger, it'd connect to your pc on the network and automatically sync music that'd been dropped in the music folder, etc
@Zain Rafiq i totally forgot about windows phones! Thanks for reminding me. Im suprised those didnt last long. I have even managed to run windows 7 on a nokia lumia before windows 7 was discontinued
It's still ironic looking at this video because the Groove music player software (meant to replace Media Player) has Zune as it's internal name in windows
7:44 Ahh I remember when a kid back in school pulled out his iPod Shuffle, teacher cracked it until he plugged it in and used it as a Flash Drive and I just remember thinking, "Damnnnnnnnnnn we really are living in a future" ahh the good ol' days
@@aterack833 Haha sorry it's probably an Australian/ NZ thing, it's basically slang for getting angry, like the breaking point. So in this case the teacher got angry cause the kid had pulled an iPod out in class
These weren't bad devices at all, they just didn't receive the support that they should've. Not to mention by the time that they launched them, Apple already had the market share and millions of iTunes customers.
I might have been one of the few folks who actually loved their zune. The large clear screen made it great to watch movies on the go. The operating system was clean and easy to use. It just came out at a weird time and everyone was too focused on apple.
I mean the ps1 classic was great once it was modded and the price drops. 30$ and a thumb drive for a decent looking ps1 emulator box and 2 usb gamepads? Yes please
You aren't far off with that actually, I'd say it was almost as big of a flop as the PlayStation Classic just simply due to poor timing on Microsoft's part, but back when the iPhone 5 was new, the Zune HD was all I had, and it's a damn good music player in my opinion. Can't really do anything else, but it plays music pretty well, in fact I'd go as far to say that the sound quality there is better than it is on my Moto G7
I still got my 80gb and still love it despite the fact that Spotify dethroned it really bad. The earphones that came in the box were the most luxurious thing coming as standard pack at the time
@prod_normz It came in 120. I still have a black 120. There were other improvements too. The screen was better, pictures looked great on it. Plus, if I remember correctly, it DID function as an external drive. Or maybe you had to get the songs into zune first, then transfer. Idk, I was about 17 years old and I loved it.
I remember this era. It was wild, that first Zune was indeed absolutely underwhelming. The second generation, THAT thing genuinely impressed me. As ya mentioned excellent feel in the hand, the combo touch/d-pad was brilliant to use. Can't speak to any of the sync side since I was fully Mac/iPod but at least the hardware was nice.
This is going to sound aincient. But a long long long long time ago when Microsoft Phones were actually somewhat common over here in UK I had a HTC Mozart for a while. The software HTC Provided actually worked better for syncing music to phones and Zunes than the Microsoft made stuff. I remember seeing alot of people using a fork of the software from a random forum, to sync to their Zunes. This was back in the Windows 7 days so not sure all too relevant. But completely puts into perspective how poor MS was with their support... When HTC can do it better, and it's meant for phones.
Oh heck I might have to look into that then! Maybe it was just arrogance from MS around this time as they really didn’t seem to be taking things very seriously!
@@DankPods The files might still be out there somewhere. I remember the HTC Suite by default having a heavy Zune Infuence. Best of luck with it mate. Hope you can stick some more CASIOPEA on there like that.
I'm going to make note of this for myself, just in case I ever replace the hard disk on my Zune (a brown 30 gb just like this one, lol). They made huge hard drives in the weird 1.5 inch form factor this uses. imagine stuffing 200gb into one of these!
I had a zune and fun fact one of my favorite songs is from the sonic youth titled “diamond sea” and on the zune market place it was removed from the album cause the track was too big 😔
Man, I had an Archos 504... That thing was great! I was an early cable-cutter and I used the Archos (with the dock and remote) as my entertainment center. Between all the free TV/Movie apps and the ability to go online, I never felt I was lacking in entertainment media. They were extremely thin on the ground in the US, though. I bought mine off ebay (after doing some research into the unit), and I didn't know anybody who ever even heard of it, let alone owned one.
I got one a few months ago (stole it from the recycling bin after my neighbor put it there at my Staples store) and found she had porn preloaded on it😂
*"It's basically a modern triple a game"* That line aged perfectly. Edit:- to all the braindead people crying in replies, it was specifically meant for cyberpunk.
Yeah looking into the gen 2 Zune looks like it was amazing, but it’s just that it’s predecessor sucked, also I have to wonder what the Zune Nano was like
I used to love my zune hd player the problem was not enough apps to compete with iPod touch and the zune music pass was 14$ a month then went down to 10$ a month and the other bad thing is not every song was available with a music pass subscription
I had the original Zune brown and The Zune HD. I kinda loved them. More than anything the software was better at making good playlists than most of the current services. Literally just the fact that you could sort music by play count.
It was genuinely great software. Everything was drag-and-drop; plus, it would typically update your media automatically (album art, track names, etc). It didn't bother you about DRM or anything. It was so unobtrusive. All you had to do was ensure you had the right file type and *bam* ! Synced.
"Microsoft rushed the Zune; 's basically a modern AAA game" Okay, Jim Sterling ps you have my subscription edit: after seeing those vintage Ballmer clips, wish I could offer you a second sub ;)
I have never seen software as good as Zune. We had the Zune HD. With the size of storage, was nice to be able to manage what was synced to the device without having to build a playlist. You just scroll through your library and easily see what was and wasn't on your device. I long for that functionality on my phone.
After a long day of work, Kanye West goes to his Kanye Nest to take his Kanye Rest. He wakes up feeling his Kanye Best. Then he’ll get Kanye Dressed on his Kanye Vest to go on a Kanye Quest. He goes to church and becomes Kanye Blessed, then to a hotel room to be a Kanye Guest. Then to school to take his Kanye Test. He forgot to brush his teeth. Did he run out of Kanye Crest? His neighbor stole it, what a Kanye Pest...
I gotta be honest, I missed my Zune 30GB for AGES. I even had the video out cable to play movies on a TV. As a budding tech enthusiast, I bulled through the headaches of set ups and absolutely PACKED my zune with my dad's MASSIVE CD collection and also packed it with a few movies. Mine was stolen. Never got it back.
Most likely not, but I may still have the video out cable somewhere. Not sure I would need to dig through my adapters. The main problem with the CD is it was basically useless almost immediately. Even by that time they had started internet based updates. The problem was you had to manually download them and there wasn't much reason you would know to do that at the time besides nothing working properly. If I find the disk I will reply promptly
I had a Zune 30 and loved it, but then the date glitch hit it and bricked it. Luckily I had bought the 2 year protection plan, but when I took it in to get replaced they didn't have the Zune 30 in stock. They did have the Zune 120 and they offered me that as a replacement as long as I was willing to pay the difference in price, which I did. That player lasted me a good couple years. I used it daily until the battery started not to hold a charge as long as it use to. Then the hard drive stopped working. I would power it on and the hard drive spun up made a few clicks then nothing. It wouldn't go past the Zune logo after power up. At that point there was nothing I could do. My protection plan was long expired, and they were recently discontinued when it died and I couldn't find it anymore. I still have it, but it makes me sad because it reminds me of better times when I would just listen to my music all day long.
I missed my Zune as well, I had one of the smaller ones that looked like one of the old ipod nanos and I ended up losing it in high school and never got it back. Not gunna lie I still miss it
I pretty much owned every version of the Zune, including the beautiful Zune HD. I was burning my CDs in mp3 and also ripping movies into files compatible with the Zune. I didn’t much care about the music store and in my vague memory, it was actually super easy. Like I don’t remember struggling with it at all. I use to travel for work and I remember taking my Zune along with all the movies and music I like without having to lug CDs or a portable DVD player. I loved it.
Dude! Love the AvE shoutout! I've been watching him for years, so when I see people like DankPods and William Osmond shout him out it makes it feel like I'm part of a friend circle of TH-camrs I love watching also that enjoy the same other content I like!
I owned a Zune HD but my real found memories come from the 120gb brick (gen 2) I owned in middle school. I pirated 100% of my music back then and had a collection exceeding 60gb, it was a pain to add everything to itunes at that time. The lack of app support was a serious drawback but it did everything I wanted and was sturdy. I think I just enjoyed having a brick in my pocket.
@@reeepingk ummm no. Nice try with the insult but you obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. iTunes locked up on windows with that large of libraries.
The brown was freaking awesome compared the every other silver/grey player out there. I worked at a retailer here in the states and they had one of these loaded with music on a display - I loved going to playing different tracks on it. We had it hooked up to a good stereo and the sound (at the time) was amazing. I really liked it compared to the ipod which I found somewhat confusing to navigate and load tracks onto.
I forgot the Zune existed until that scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 2:Electric Boogaloo, where at the end of the movie, Peter has lost his trademark 70's Walkman, and his space pirate friend hands him an MP3 player he found in the trash and tells him that it's called a "Zune". Forgot that entire movie and only remember that bit.
I was gifted a black Zune right when it came out. I still have it. Still use it. I love it. The other day it fell out of my pocket when I was biking. Straight on to the concrete. It survived! Granted, I had a case around it but still. I think it looks really cool and feels high-end. The PC software for it could have been better :D
That Zune UI looks straight out of Windows 10. I’m surprised how many bridges Microsoft burned both before introducing the zoom and after discontinuing it. Just a colossal failure on most levels
Zune and Zune HD were great. I still have a Zune HD but idk where my charge cord is. I vastly preferred it to the ipod. The drag and drop nature of the Zune software was superior to the iTunes sync crap. My mum had an ipod and we had nothing but trouble with it every time she had to sync music to it.
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You missed the best thing that came in the box! the Zoon-branded anti-slip pad for your car! You could place your Zoon on the dash where it would be quickly killed by the sun, and the first time you had to brake hard it would FLY out the window. Good times. (full disclosure: I still have mine.)
yeah that was the one I had. I remember really liking it but I had not context of its competitors to really say whether or not it was good, it played music in my ears which was really cool.
@@stofio to be honest, who needs a zune of 30gb in 2023??? Cheap android smartphones support exfat or micro SD xc which can go up to 2tb . Get a galaxy a03 or something, put a 512 gb micro SD card and you can put your entire music collection on it
I feel I stand as the lone remaining Zune fan. Back in the day I bought my first 20 gb model from Woot (back when the site still operated on the single item per day format) for $20. There was a lot it couldn't do, but it did what I needed, music and podcasts, very well. What I possibly loved most about it and the OG IPod, was the click wheel. I could navigate my Zune without taking it out of my pocket, which is something you just can't do with touchscreen devices. I collect Zune devices and peripherals now because I have a soft spot for failed hardware. 🙃
I grew up with multiple zunes, actually never owned an apple product in my life. the "2nd gen" that you were looking at were great. What was great about zune at the time, at least for a broke kid in middle school, was it had no problem with pirated music/movies, which if i remember was/is a pain to get to work on itunes. Also the "zune hd" that was to compete with the itouch was pretty neat too. I remember the one i wanted the most (and never got) was the original design Halo 3 Special Edition. Much better design than the poo brown
My first and last experience with Apple was the iPod Touch 3G. The fact that it had a touch screen blew me away, but the locked-down nature of it disgusted me. I used it until it suddenly bricked itself one night. My next multimedia device was the web browser on a Nintendo 3DS, and eventually I got a proper (tiny) android smartphone. I loved the customizability and freedom. The cheap device did wear out its touch screen to the point of unusability after ~2 years. At this point, I decided to try a Microsoft smartphone so that I could confidently say I had tried all 3. Big mistake. The thing was hopelessly fragile and Microsoft's "Windows Phone Store" had just about half of the major apps and almost none of the more obscure ones. It wasn't useful for much more than the basic stuff, though that was most of my usage. The UI looked fairly slick at least, and the device was easy enough to repair that I could replace my shattered screen as an inexperienced teen with parts off alibaba. I moved back to an Android device when the charging port became too challenging to use. Meanwhile on the computer side of things, I had also always been a Windows user and Windows 8 was a major disappointment, phone-ifying things and also heading in that direction in terms of ignoring basic privacy. I just stuck to Windows 7 until Windows 10 had matured enough to be mostly a drop-in replacement, with shutup10 alleviating most of my privacy concerns. I never considered Apple anymore because I like menus, freedom and interoperability. Windows 11 is just more of that privacy-disregarding BS, and Apple is only marginally better in that regard, so I made the switch to Linux (OpenSUSE TW). Not a single regret. Freedom is here. I'm dual booting for now just in case I run into anything, but I haven't needed Win10 in a while. Getting set up took some figuring out because I did it on a brand new device of which the hardware wasn't fully supported, but due to some experience troubleshooting Windows stuff, it was very managable through web searches and politely asking questions in Discord. Getting some stuff like my fingerprint scanner to work is still a WIP, but I'm okay with that. The trustworthiness and dedication to freedom and accessibility that I find in the world of Linux is well worth it.
That's good. I wasn't going to say anything about the thumbnail but, "hot mess" in the US typically refers to a good looking woman that's had to much to drink.
I had a Creative Zen Vision M 30gb, enjoyed it a ton, but I wanted more storage. I ended up with a Zune 80gb 2nd gen in black, and I actually loved it. I loved the large screen, the wifi syncing, the touch pad, the entire experience honestly. I just replaced the battery today. Unfortunately the play button stuck a lot because of the shape, when twisted. Not being able to use it as an external drive was quite annoying, as well. I don't care, I still love it.
Man I have the Metal Zune with touchpad and vibration feedback, I loved that thing! The games were fun and the UI was awesome with custom backgrounds haha, I had to get that out and charge it after watching this, too many memories!!!
@@Silver_wind_1987_ Yeah, it does. :) By the way, I am a brown guy. Sadly, a former family friend's father when I was age 8 said a racist comment (which I didn't know at the time), when I told him my favorite color was brown. He said "You must like brown cos that is your skin color". My parents and I broke up friendship due to that, and the fact that his kid is a spoiled brat who wanted to steal like 50 rocks out of our old home's backyard in 2009.
@@thatguyalex2835 50 rocks!??! That's like a few thousand dollars depending on how big they are! I'd be so angry. Brown is very soothing heck 90% of our house is different shades of brown...our dog is brown and black!
@@Silver_wind_1987_ Nah, they were small rocks (0.5 inches across), boring ones, but he wanted to find an agate, cos he was a 9 year old geology head in 2009. Don't get me wrong, I have a small rock collection, cos I like science also, but I don't steal rocks from someone else's landscaping.
Ah man this video makes me miss my childhood. Early 2000s... Ah the good old times. PS2, iPod Classic, Xbox, super slow internet, no Snapchat or Messenger. Oh those were the days.
I had a Zune 2 or whatever it was called, with the touch/dpad, and it really was the greatest pocket music player ever made from the old days. It just missed the boat in a big way, as you pointed out. I used that thing deep into the years when most kids were rocking with iphones and ipod touches, and I genuinely loved it and loved using it. I would still use it just for pure satisfying nostalgia, if it wasn't broken. And therein lies another problem. I dropped it ONE TIME from about 2' off the ground, and it got some major disk/screen malfunction after that. There shouldn't have been a disk drive inside of that thing. They had so much potential with that stinking thing, but they shot themselves in the foot over and over. I am now an Apple ecosystem guy through and through, because all of that seamless system cooperation is more important to me personally than anything else. I love not having to think about/troubleshoot simple things. Every time I go "hey I wonder if I can use my iphone and MacBook in conjunction with each other to accomplish _______," it's like Apple has already thought of that and made it so.
I had my second gen Zune with me at work one day and someone walked in with his, and he sent me some songs. It was the greatest day of Microsoft's life.
I’d like but you’re on the nice number
I traded my creative Zen with a friend for his zune.....I got iphone a d few days later. The zune ended up literally in the trash compactor that I didn't even know we had until I asked my mom what the button did and realized it would be a perfect place for the zune. Crushed with the trash.
did he ask you if you wanted to “squirt” with him?
oi mate no squirting in the workplace
@Fox Davani 🤣 zune go crunch crunch.
I owned a zune and the ONLY thing that I miss about it was being able to load offensive tracks from my zune onto the display ones at best buy and other electronics stores
Imagine if they had Ram Ranch on the Zune.
Devilish. I like it
Nah you use perfectly appropriate ones that are just really annoying (so it stays longer)
@@bradleypearl2986 or blast radius
Connecting to several wireless speakers and blasting All Star at full volume is funnier in my opinion.
quick fact
groove music is called: microsoft Zune Music in the windows files
Not only that, but the new icon for the Groove Music app literally has the Zune gradient in it. That's fuckin *wired*
Not Droidbot 🤔
That's because Groove Music is an upgraded version of the program Zune, developed to sync music to Zune devices. The Zune HD (the 3rd model) is actually one of my go-to MP3 players, but the lack of uncompressed audio is still a pain.
It’s just zune with a disguise, I mean where Microsoft left the media players they had in xp and 7 pretty much simple. Not another fucking copy o iTunes
I still use Windows Media Player over Groove Music. The Battery visualisations 😍
Steve Balmer was the best thing to have ever happened to Microsoft,
guy broke an ankle on stage and the cocaine in his nose was like "keep going"
Wait, what I've gotta find that
@@kyle_mk17 "steve ballmer i love this company". find it and watch his ankle
@@RC-nj1by pretty sure he just really loved that company
shame he made Vista and got ousted
@@alecjahnI'd love my company too if they paid me enough to afford a cocaine habit
This reminds me of what happened to Windows Phones. As soon as they were getting a bit of traction Microsoft goes like "yea nah this isn't an instant boom we're done"
Such a shame, I had a Microsoft phone that I loved (the square one), i really liked the UI but I was so sad that the newer models weren't square anymore :(
Lack of 3rd party app support killed it.
@dingus nugget And Microsoft REALLY didn't wanted to go that extra two miles to make the WP a thing.
same with mixer, thinking about it
wii phone
When you realize that this Microsoft-made product doesn't support the .wav format, a format developed by Microsoft
Rip.
Now that's ironic
It feels like they didn't even make it themselves.
.wavs are like 10 mb per minute of audio. Virtually nobody buying a MP3 player was buying them to play that format, especially considering these thing generally came with 8 to sub 100 GB of storage. MP3s were the entire point of MP3 players.
There was _literally_ no benefit.
Zune had *the* *best* mobile DAC at the time, and even _it_ couldn't take advantage of lossless formatted media.
If you uploaded .wav files to your iPod, you were _wasting_ storage space.
“You can wirelessly send content, we’re gonna call it sharting”
"Aww man, you're good."
lol
you can transfer data with a cable, we call it penetrating.
@@Sungblox lmao
Samsung's Quick sharing: not creative but good
Apple's AirDrop: Makes sense to me
Zunе's sharing: wat mate it not make sens at ol helb!
It really says something about MS's opinion on the Zune that they completely ejected it from their ecosystem, when their philosophy everywhere else is compatibility at all costs. You can still access the old menu for setting up a Dial-Up internet connection in modern versions of Windows. You still *can't* name files things like CON, PRN, AUX, or NUL because **MS-DOS** used those filenames to output data to certain software or peripherals (like a printer). Every new version of Windows is built on the zombified corpse of the last, leaving behind all of the old protocols JUST IN CASE something old and antiquated comes along and expects things to work a certain way.
And then there's Zune which can't even run it's management software anymore.
Yeah I found out telnet was still burried in Windows 10 activated it and found the gateway for an old mud mmorpg and joined in I had alot of fun doing that before the hdd on the computer took a shit maybe I should see if its still in Windows 11 somewhere also you can find all kinds of random odds and ends from ms-dos 5.1 in there
😊. Well said
With the exception of safedisc :))
That Steve Ballmer “Developers, developers, developers” clip will forever be burned into my brain because i was curious what the default link on youtube to mp3 led to
classic song tbh
rip that one converter site i used for years in 2014
"Welcome to the social" sounds more like a phrase that would be slapped on some sort of Chinese bootleg and not a cool catchphrase that would get me all hyped up.. this is not epic.
I never knew you watched this stuff
Baked Potonion not epic indeed.
Game time started
@@CookieCrumbAJ same
For me it sounds like a line from a cyberpunk movie
I loved my Zune. Thought it was heaps better than my friends iPods. Showing them Halo 3 ViDocs from my Zune when they couldn't was great.
Still have mine, and it still works as far as I know. Still have a bunch of classic youtube videos on that baby.
@@theoriginalemim Classic Japanese tech.
Agreed! I loved my Zune and felt like it could do so much more than early iPods.
I loved mine, too! Especially loved that I could stream and download music via Wi-Fi and didn't need to plug it into the computer just to get some new tunes.
Pretty sure iPod wasn't about that life yet. And I REALLY loved the look and feel of the Zune HD
"Halo 3 ViDocs on my Zune" has got to be the most 2007 sentence in existence
I will never be able to get over them calling the music sharing feature "Squirting"
Who at Micro$oft thought that was a good idea...?
"Hey bro, wanna SQUIRT?"
"Hell yeah, let's SQUIRT some SONGS to each other. That doesn't sound awful at all!"
"I love SQUIRTING SONGS together." ok that's too far.
The same person who though "Critical Update Notification Tool" was a good name, "Prepare to Fly" was a good motto for an OS released in 2001, and "Bang" was a great name for a search engine especially when used as a verb.
Steve Balmer probably lol
@@phdfloppa9397 bang or bing?
@phdfloppa9397 I personally love bamg for information. When I am doing homework late at night sometimes I just need something captivating to put into my paper, so I bang all night long until I find a good fit. 😂
I really admire the overall visual design of the UI, user manual, and packaging. They aged really well, doesn't seem like they'd look out of place at all today - especially considering how oh so 2000s Windows Aero and Apple UIs of the time looked.
Yes, the Zune HD had a superbe design and UI.
It makes sense, since the Zune's UI is basically Metro before Metro was actually a thing.
Which font are they using on it? Looks nice. But then I'm more of a Tahoma guy over Segoe
Absolutely. It was the predecessor of the Windows Phone, which was a great OS (felt more mobile-native than iOS and less fickly than Android). But of course it is another whole story of Microsoft messing up in consumer electronics.
Honestly I find the iPod looking much better than this
My dad used to work for Microsoft, and when the smaller Zune's came out (the one at the end of the video) he got one each for my brother and I. I did really enjoy them. The 'squirting' feature was cool, but yeah, sucked that I would have to plug into my brothers computer to get the mp3 if I liked it, but still cool.
The BIGGEST problem with them.. at least with mine, was it would just freeze. Completely. Like in the middle of a song. The song and playlist would keep going. Buttons didn't work. No force restart. Not even the screen would turn off. And I would have to wait for the battery to die, so I could charge it and use it again. Did it like once a week.
So dad got us iPods haha.
You know it's golden when your dad who WORKS FOR THE COMPETITION gets you ipods anyway. I love that sad irony.
Love the end, how ironic
@@darbylynch9391 yes
i mean at least you can pull the "my dad worked for microsoft" line
@@Cat-ki3hy yes 😂
I used to want a Zune when I was younger, particularly the Zune HD. I still like the minimalist design of the UI.
I babysat instead of hanging out with friends for one back in 2009 or 2010 and got it engraved and everything. That thing never left my side. I was playing games on it and everything. In seventh grade my mom got me one of the smaller ones for Christmas and I still liked it but I LOVED my hd
The Zune HD was amazing. That OLED screen still looks good. I loved that interface.
I always wanted one but they never arrived to my country... So I bought a Classic 160gb instead ($420 back in 2009)
Still have mine, still works. Bit beat up but i love it.
@@PepsT the zunehd was awesome
"rushed out the door in time for christams"
the bane of any developers existence
Yet it still keeps happening...
christams
@@olivercharles2930 did they stutter?
@@SpindlyJohnnyWell, yeah... Because the ones who make that decision most likely aren't the devs.
@@NaNa_W4NT5_F3MNM5prey for our hard working developers
As a contrarian, I was really into the Zune around the time this came out. Fortunately I was also a very lazy contrarian so I never actually got around to buying one. I eventually was gifted an iPod by my company as part of a bonus, so that's how my choice in the Player Wars was made.
Hearing someone talk about a Microsoft product as the alternative product for contrarians, circa mid-2000s, is really funny to me. :-D It just goes to show how thoroughly the iPod annihilated the PMP market at the time.
You lazy bum
13:14 - I remember the day I discovered Pandora. A guy at work created a station for us to listen to while we worked. I thought it was cool, so I got it to listen to while studying. I made a station based on one relaxing song to listen to at bedtime, and I've been listening to that one station every night for almost 15 years now.
Pandora is the tits
@PittThis is fairly sad to read tbh
@Pitt stolen* :troll:
@Pitt Bozo forgor 💀
@Pitt you said his story was stolen
7:16 "They basically turned music into buying animated decals for Rocket League"
this cuts very, very deep.
same
Yeah I get ya, epic games way of getting stuff sorta sucks, actually just battle pass type games in my opinion suck
Can someone explain the joke please? I'm a rocket league player and I still don't get it
@@Alex-wp5lx you have to buy coins to buy a song, instead of it being a direct transaction, just like how rocket league uses credits to buy items from the item shop instead of just directly purchasing items
Man the zune was the only competitor qgainst ipod classic
Honestly, back in like 06-07 when they launched, I got one bc it looked pretty decent, had a radio that didn't completely suck for that time, and it held as much as the ipods and on sale, I got mine for like $150, maybe a little less. It worked for what I wanted until it was stolen..... 1 week before an article about how they sucked came out and even pawn shops didn't really want them. Also, apparently they touted DRM but um........ that obviously didn't work at all, lol
Lmao, that robber got instant karma
"Awww man, all I could find was a brick"
It worked really well on the sharing feature (3 plays only). It was never meant to prevent you from adding media to your own device. It was actually incredibly open-ended compared to the iPod, even accepting additional media formats.
"That is..." please say egg bag, please say egg bag, "A quality egg bag." Success.
Egg
Lol
It would've been really funny if actually put an egg in the egg bag in the video lol
@Matyáš Waldhans Same
DECEARING EGG
'Aged like a fine milk' is a sentance I didn't know I needed
Check out the sub reddit
@@JDMOON55555 LOL
How milk works:
1) Data comes from the cow
2) We LOL
3) Put a zune and a PC into the milk
4) Add the onion bot anime theme to the zune
5) MOOOOOOOOO
Btw I subscribed to you :3
sentence
I read ur comment as he was saying it
That clip of Steve Ballmer absolutely losing his shit with the "Actual CEO of Microsoft" caption was perfect
Holy shit I saw this comment right when that showed up
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
@@glitchedoom DEVELOPER DEVELOPER DEVELOPER
One thing is certain: Apple may have great dev conferences but you will never see Tim Cook yell developers for minutes on end
@@swiftrealm DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
The Zune 80 actually had a killer DAC, which is why it sounded really good. I can see this thing coming back as a Hi-Fi Walkman competitor.
It actually has the Wolfson DAC.
the zune 30 also uses a Wolfson chipset, so both were good.
@@atlasnetwork7855 Haven't had to change my battery, its been what, 15 years? still lasts days without needing to charge. Do you even have a zune from personal experience?
"I subscribe to AvE and he's taught me that not all plastics are the same" I felt that
That’s a skookum channel.
I wonder how many canadian copacks thos would go for
Absolutely did not expect this name drop either
Man. I remember in school all the cool alternative kids had a zune for a while. I was a very uncool alternative kid and wanted one soooo bad, but my family couldn't afford one so I got the $15 mp3 players from walmart. Turns out I didn't miss much.
Don't worry man, I was rocking a Panasonic cd player when all the cool kids already had ipods.
@@Qce-i6d damn. I want a CD player now just for shits & giggles.
Of my little group of alternative kids I ran with, only one had a Zune lol. And we all teased him for it.
The Zune was actually a great MP3 player. Combined with the Music Pass, it was one hell of a way to discover and download music. The Zune HD was even better! I miss my Zune.
Never fret. I had a late Sharp walkman when everyone was into Discmans (or Discmen?). When I could finally afford a portable CD player, iPods were over a year into the market. It was not until 2005 that I could (at last) own a 1st gen iPod Nano... still have it, still works.
I’ve been putting off this episode.. I had an old friend that got hooked on drugs and stole my Zune. Sold it for 1, maybe 2 pills. But I had that thing for a few years and absolutely loved that thing. And despite having an iPhone, AirPods, Apple Watch, iPad, etc.. I might have to grab me a Zune again.
Brian Nichols
(If you are telling the truth)
I hope your friend got treatment and stopped doing the drugs and I hope they're living a stable life now
Meme Lord876 last time I saw him, he graduated from opioid pills to heroin. That stuff is a slippery slope 😕
My brother had one. I "borrowed" it all the time. He got mad.
Brian Nichols that sucks man, my father was addicted to heroin. they dont call black tar for no reason, I hope for his sake he gets better but the slope only gets more slippery from here
I loved my Time 30 in high school. Then I grabbed the Zine HD and was in heaven until I lost it. I still think about it. Solid devices.
12:00 the best part about the wifi was (as I recall) wireless syncing. Drop the Zune in the charger, it'd connect to your pc on the network and automatically sync music that'd been dropped in the music folder, etc
Dankpods: “This is the worst Microsoft failure”
Microsoft Kin: *b o n j o u r*
Microsoft what?
@@itsTyrion there was this twitter bot that learned from responses, but people made it say racial slurs.
@@gabrielgarcia9822 oh that thing xDD
There is no such thing as a worst Microsoft failure
@@wesleymays1931 👌
The best part of my Zune was that i got a full refund.
eBay?
Circuit City when they first came out.
Wish ?
Idk
You bought a doomed product from a doomed store.
When the zune ui looks like the windows 8 ui
It feels like a prediction of windows 8.
Also windows phones
@Zain Rafiq i totally forgot about windows phones! Thanks for reminding me. Im suprised those didnt last long.
I have even managed to run windows 7 on a nokia lumia before windows 7 was discontinued
That UI was a bad omen from day one
I was thinking the same thing
Or it looks like windows media interface on windows 7
It's still ironic looking at this video because the Groove music player software (meant to replace Media Player) has Zune as it's internal name in windows
Wow, no wonder Groove kind of sucks 💀
@@jewelxiat Which is why they replaced it with “Media Player” in the recent Windows update.
Microsoft's front page says "Protect yourself from tech scams"
Are you telling me to close my browser?
Yes immediately throw your hard drive out the window and remove internet explorer from your computer in whatever way possible
7:44 Ahh I remember when a kid back in school pulled out his iPod Shuffle, teacher cracked it until he plugged it in and used it as a Flash Drive and I just remember thinking, "Damnnnnnnnnnn we really are living in a future" ahh the good ol' days
Utkarsh Anand cracked it? Like damaged? Or is that some slang?
@@aterack833 Haha sorry it's probably an Australian/ NZ thing, it's basically slang for getting angry, like the breaking point. So in this case the teacher got angry cause the kid had pulled an iPod out in class
I used my ipod nano as a flashdrive
@@LULU1422__ I use my computer as a flash drive for my iPod Nano Gen.7
When he said "They basically turned buying music into buying animated decals for Rocket League"
I felt that.
These weren't bad devices at all, they just didn't receive the support that they should've. Not to mention by the time that they launched them, Apple already had the market share and millions of iTunes customers.
I might have been one of the few folks who actually loved their zune. The large clear screen made it great to watch movies on the go. The operating system was clean and easy to use. It just came out at a weird time and everyone was too focused on apple.
Just imagine living in 2020 and we “squirt” our music to other people.
11:48 mmm, I love my poo
*that's what she said-*
DON"T MAKE ME SQUIRT YOU BOY !
@@energyvampire1672 *THAT'S WHAT SHE SA-*
It sounds straight outta GTA
“To rush it out the door in time for Christmas”, gave me PlayStation Classic PTSD
gave me Sonic '06 PTSD
I mean the ps1 classic was great once it was modded and the price drops. 30$ and a thumb drive for a decent looking ps1 emulator box and 2 usb gamepads? Yes please
@@TorutheRedFox I KNEW I'D SEE SUCH COMMENT
You aren't far off with that actually, I'd say it was almost as big of a flop as the PlayStation Classic just simply due to poor timing on Microsoft's part, but back when the iPhone 5 was new, the Zune HD was all I had, and it's a damn good music player in my opinion. Can't really do anything else, but it plays music pretty well, in fact I'd go as far to say that the sound quality there is better than it is on my Moto G7
Gave me Xbox 360 PTSD
Microsoft guy definitely coked out of his mind.... hence the sweat.
That Microsoft clip makes E3 and Minecon cringe compilations look quiet and reserved.
@Kurt ohneGurt that would explain the god complex xD
he had the drip goin if u watch
@@kaosbc silly Steve Ballmer, he can't have the drip
God love him. He was an absolute madlad but it worked. For the most part he was a successful ceo.
I still got my 80gb and still love it despite the fact that Spotify dethroned it really bad. The earphones that came in the box were the most luxurious thing coming as standard pack at the time
Honestly, this has the packaging of a flagship smartphone in 2019
Daniel Chapman I see nothing wrong lol
@@someidiot4311 ik. Its just spartphone is better.
I love spartphones, so do I spazphones, and spunkphones.
_1 Smart Fella, he Felt Smart........2 Fart Smellas, they Smelt Fart._
The 80gb second gen Zune was perfection. The squircle felt so much nicer to use than the 30gb's d-pad and even the click wheel
@thenormz1n I thought so too, but I loaded it with movies and TV shows, plus about 20gb of music so it filled up quick haha
@thenormz1n you'd think so but i have 57gb of mp3s
Dude I absolutely loved mine, I still have it but no charging cable, I had alot of funny stuff from the old channel frederator.
Touch squircle master race. The small zune was a fantastic device. Sad day when the battery balooned 😢
@prod_normz It came in 120. I still have a black 120. There were other improvements too. The screen was better, pictures looked great on it. Plus, if I remember correctly, it DID function as an external drive. Or maybe you had to get the songs into zune first, then transfer. Idk, I was about 17 years old and I loved it.
My dad had two. He still has one of them. The other one apparently was prone to failure.
*D U N G U S*
Correction: The entire Zune brand was prone to failure. (Cool he still has it though.)
@@jefferyt5125 It works still. The other one had a broken "clickwheel" (idk the name)
Hardwired to selfdistruct
I remember this era. It was wild, that first Zune was indeed absolutely underwhelming. The second generation, THAT thing genuinely impressed me. As ya mentioned excellent feel in the hand, the combo touch/d-pad was brilliant to use. Can't speak to any of the sync side since I was fully Mac/iPod but at least the hardware was nice.
This is going to sound aincient. But a long long long long time ago when Microsoft Phones were actually somewhat common over here in UK I had a HTC Mozart for a while.
The software HTC Provided actually worked better for syncing music to phones and Zunes than the Microsoft made stuff.
I remember seeing alot of people using a fork of the software from a random forum, to sync to their Zunes.
This was back in the Windows 7 days so not sure all too relevant. But completely puts into perspective how poor MS was with their support... When HTC can do it better, and it's meant for phones.
Oh heck I might have to look into that then! Maybe it was just arrogance from MS around this time as they really didn’t seem to be taking things very seriously!
@@DankPods The files might still be out there somewhere. I remember the HTC Suite by default having a heavy Zune Infuence.
Best of luck with it mate. Hope you can stick some more CASIOPEA on there like that.
I'm going to make note of this for myself, just in case I ever replace the hard disk on my Zune (a brown 30 gb just like this one, lol). They made huge hard drives in the weird 1.5 inch form factor this uses. imagine stuffing 200gb into one of these!
@@DankPods try windows 8 with the zune
My two favorite youtubers, talking no way this is epic
The interface looks like a really early, hasn't-made-it-off-the-inspiration-napkin version of windows 10.
Really reminds me of the Lumia phones' UI. And that thing is from 2006!
It’s like the Windows 8 of media players
To me it looks more like a proto version of the list of apps for the windows phone
@@semirmohamedov200 Segoe UI era
Yes! The Metro Design Language was introduced with Windows Phone 7, it was av evolution of what they did with Zune.
I had a zune and fun fact one of my favorite songs is from the sonic youth titled “diamond sea” and on the zune market place it was removed from the album cause the track was too big 😔
Man, I had an Archos 504... That thing was great! I was an early cable-cutter and I used the Archos (with the dock and remote) as my entertainment center. Between all the free TV/Movie apps and the ability to go online, I never felt I was lacking in entertainment media. They were extremely thin on the ground in the US, though. I bought mine off ebay (after doing some research into the unit), and I didn't know anybody who ever even heard of it, let alone owned one.
I remember those now!!! I wanted one so bad too >.
I got one a few months ago (stole it from the recycling bin after my neighbor put it there at my Staples store) and found she had porn preloaded on it😂
*"It's basically a modern triple a game"*
That line aged perfectly.
Edit:- to all the braindead people crying in replies, it was specifically meant for cyberpunk.
The line needed no aging, we've been in that age for 7 years now
Like fine wine
It didn't age to begin with
*laughs in old games*
@@WatcherKoops4677 laugh in indie
"This is by far my favorite failure of all time."
Sounds like my dad talking to me
At least u are his favorite failure :(
At least you fuckers have a dad
@@idcHedumpedme im my dads greatest failure and im grateful everyday
@@idcHedumpedme wish you all the best
The Zune was actually pretty damn good, after the first gen. The Zune HD was my favorite MP3 player.
Yeah looking into the gen 2 Zune looks like it was amazing, but it’s just that it’s predecessor sucked, also I have to wonder what the Zune Nano was like
I still have and use my Zune (the last non-touchscreen version.) Meanwhile my wife regularly gripes about how hard it is to put music on her iPod.
My stepson stole my zune hd it was actually a really nice mp3 player with a good ui
I used to love my zune hd player the problem was not enough apps to compete with iPod touch and the zune music pass was 14$ a month then went down to 10$ a month and the other bad thing is not every song was available with a music pass subscription
I loved my Zune HD
I had the original Zune brown and The Zune HD. I kinda loved them. More than anything the software was better at making good playlists than most of the current services. Literally just the fact that you could sort music by play count.
Me too. I actually grew to love that ugly brown/green iridescent color lol
It was genuinely great software. Everything was drag-and-drop; plus, it would typically update your media automatically (album art, track names, etc).
It didn't bother you about DRM or anything. It was so unobtrusive. All you had to do was ensure you had the right file type and *bam* ! Synced.
Steve Ballmer lookin like a pyramid scheme CEO
imagining 12 year olds back then searching up "how to squirt" but getting WAY different results
Oh no
Don't put that image in my head.
I'm a 100th liker but nobody cares anyway lol-
@@aileenp.5218 Yeah dipshit, we don't!
@@styxscrumbs6198 yep...
"Microsoft rushed the Zune; 's basically a modern AAA game"
Okay, Jim Sterling
ps you have my subscription
edit: after seeing those vintage Ballmer clips, wish I could offer you a second sub ;)
@TH-cam Official thanks ;D
@@charliethecockatoo2159 you talking to yourself there mate? Also yeah I get what you mean, I wish I could sub twice
I have never seen software as good as Zune. We had the Zune HD. With the size of storage, was nice to be able to manage what was synced to the device without having to build a playlist. You just scroll through your library and easily see what was and wasn't on your device. I long for that functionality on my phone.
I learned about these from the simpsons and guardians of the galaxy 2.
That’s bad are you like 9
@@bcouch9886 no i just have never needed a portable music player of any kind.
@@hunternelson3018 ok
@@Cooe. bud it’s a FRICKIN ZOONE
I don’t think anyone knew about this
@@Cooe. acting as if he had any choice in the year he would be born LMfAOO
After a long day of work, Kanye West goes to his Kanye Nest to take his Kanye Rest. He wakes up feeling his Kanye Best. Then he’ll get Kanye Dressed on his Kanye Vest to go on a Kanye Quest. He goes to church and becomes Kanye Blessed, then to a hotel room to be a Kanye Guest. Then to school to take his Kanye Test. He forgot to brush his teeth. Did he run out of Kanye Crest? His neighbor stole it, what a Kanye Pest...
T
Thank you Kanye, very cool
@@CorredorDigital_ I think he is in his Kanye pool
What
Why?
I gotta be honest, I missed my Zune 30GB for AGES. I even had the video out cable to play movies on a TV. As a budding tech enthusiast, I bulled through the headaches of set ups and absolutely PACKED my zune with my dad's MASSIVE CD collection and also packed it with a few movies. Mine was stolen. Never got it back.
RIP Zune.... Do you still have the CDs at least?
Most likely not, but I may still have the video out cable somewhere.
Not sure I would need to dig through my adapters. The main problem with the CD is it was basically useless almost immediately.
Even by that time they had started internet based updates. The problem was you had to manually download them and there wasn't much reason you would know to do that at the time besides nothing working properly.
If I find the disk I will reply promptly
Hey, what do you know?
I found the install CD.
I had a Zune 30 and loved it, but then the date glitch hit it and bricked it. Luckily I had bought the 2 year protection plan, but when I took it in to get replaced they didn't have the Zune 30 in stock. They did have the Zune 120 and they offered me that as a replacement as long as I was willing to pay the difference in price, which I did. That player lasted me a good couple years. I used it daily until the battery started not to hold a charge as long as it use to. Then the hard drive stopped working. I would power it on and the hard drive spun up made a few clicks then nothing. It wouldn't go past the Zune logo after power up. At that point there was nothing I could do. My protection plan was long expired, and they were recently discontinued when it died and I couldn't find it anymore. I still have it, but it makes me sad because it reminds me of better times when I would just listen to my music all day long.
I missed my Zune as well, I had one of the smaller ones that looked like one of the old ipod nanos and I ended up losing it in high school and never got it back. Not gunna lie I still miss it
I pretty much owned every version of the Zune, including the beautiful Zune HD. I was burning my CDs in mp3 and also ripping movies into files compatible with the Zune. I didn’t much care about the music store and in my vague memory, it was actually super easy. Like I don’t remember struggling with it at all. I use to travel for work and I remember taking my Zune along with all the movies and music I like without having to lug CDs or a portable DVD player. I loved it.
Dude! Love the AvE shoutout! I've been watching him for years, so when I see people like DankPods and William Osmond shout him out it makes it feel like I'm part of a friend circle of TH-camrs I love watching also that enjoy the same other content I like!
"Its basically a modern triple a game" Cries in *BFV*
Cries in Anthem
@@DankPods hey!?!?
Hi
How's it goin
Cries playing anything from ea and Ubisoft
I owned a Zune HD but my real found memories come from the 120gb brick (gen 2) I owned in middle school. I pirated 100% of my music back then and had a collection exceeding 60gb, it was a pain to add everything to itunes at that time. The lack of app support was a serious drawback but it did everything I wanted and was sturdy. I think I just enjoyed having a brick in my pocket.
A pain to add everything to itunes? What was clicking and dragging too much effort for you?
@@reeepingk ummm no. Nice try with the insult but you obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. iTunes locked up on windows with that large of libraries.
It was Christmas 2009. This was the gift. It was ok but always a hassle. Robot chicken came out with a skit that hit closed to home.
Man I forgot that the Zune even existed.
Zune more like snooze
Same
pepperidge farm remembers
@@skyw4tch hahaha best comeback
The only reason I know what it is is Guardians of the Galaxy
"It really has aged like a fine milk."
I personally loved the Zune. Plus their subscription service was far ahead of it's time.
Being ahead of of your time for how to get people to pay for things only really works if you actually get any money out of it
@fntTheSmth pandora was a big thing at the time too so more and more people stopped paying for music.
The brown was freaking awesome compared the every other silver/grey player out there. I worked at a retailer here in the states and they had one of these loaded with music on a display - I loved going to playing different tracks on it. We had it hooked up to a good stereo and the sound (at the time) was amazing. I really liked it compared to the ipod which I found somewhat confusing to navigate and load tracks onto.
I first thought the zune charger was the apple one
i think we all did
The old Apple charger is shorter and wider.
Then there’s the lightning port used on the iNano 7.
Him complaining about squirting and the “Have a poo” joke is a lot of talk from someone who comes from the same part of the world as Golden gaytimes
The gibster Presents in my defense they are AMAZING
@@somerandomguy2546 I wanna try a golden gaytime sometine
mate you gotta try a golden gaytime, legendary
@@mrinternet4800 golden gaytimes are Australian icecreams
Mr Internet how is he a homophobe? to be fair if the golden gaytime was released today it wouldnt be called that
I forgot the Zune existed until that scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 2:Electric Boogaloo, where at the end of the movie, Peter has lost his trademark 70's Walkman, and his space pirate friend hands him an MP3 player he found in the trash and tells him that it's called a "Zune".
Forgot that entire movie and only remember that bit.
I was gifted a black Zune right when it came out. I still have it. Still use it. I love it. The other day it fell out of my pocket when I was biking. Straight on to the concrete. It survived!
Granted, I had a case around it but still. I think it looks really cool and feels high-end. The PC software for it could have been better :D
"Pushing it out in time for Christmas"
Hello ET for Atari
In that regard ET really was ahead of its time.
Hello Sonic 2006 for PS3 and XBOX360
Lots of stuff is pushed out for the holidays not just ET
@@zafuro was that the one with the copies of ot found in the desert ?
And it came out 2006 so yeah this zune came out right after sonic 06 😂
That Zune UI looks straight out of Windows 10. I’m surprised how many bridges Microsoft burned both before introducing the zoom and after discontinuing it. Just a colossal failure on most levels
Fun fact, the UI elements for windows 8/10 ACTUALLY started with the fonts from the Zune/Kin phone.
@@Simk1d Yup
Looks exactly like an windows 8 phone
Honestly, that metro design with the black background and OLED display looked excellent! It was fluid, light, and (relatively) uncomplicated.
Metro was supposed to be the design renaissance for MS but it never quite took on windows imo
The Zune was my favorite media player. I still use my Zune HD when doing house work and such.
Me too!
Zune HD was a great product I don't care what anyone says. The interface was much more slick than the iPods at the time.
Yep, mine is still running
Super thin and durable
Battery still holds up too
Zune and Zune HD were great. I still have a Zune HD but idk where my charge cord is. I vastly preferred it to the ipod. The drag and drop nature of the Zune software was superior to the iTunes sync crap. My mum had an ipod and we had nothing but trouble with it every time she had to sync music to it.
I love my Zune HD! It stopped syncing its music :(
Unholy fact:The Bluetooth file transfer in windows xp is called fsquirt in the system32 folder
If there was a chocolate bar called "the poo" I'm buying it no matter had bad it tastes
Even if it tastes like poo?
@@rudimentaryganglia Especialy if it test like poo.
f you're a ZUNE LOVER, and a enthusiast for music creation, here's a NEW music roulette style series called, "WHAT ARE YOU ZUNE!". Watch a music producer samples 3 tracks, at random, from a ZUNE , and recreates a whole new music piece. enjoy!
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You’re the person Nathan Fielder was marketing to when he made poo flavored froyo
Imma say it, this man is the soul reason why I ordered myself an iPod
bus driver lol yeah
A hot mess is a SEVERE understatement! Its more like a Volcanic mess
Im proud to announce that i noticed there was a zune in guardian of the galaxy thanks to this
you beat me to it lol
@@IJTiger HAHAHA lol
You missed the best thing that came in the box! the Zoon-branded anti-slip pad for your car! You could place your Zoon on the dash where it would be quickly killed by the sun, and the first time you had to brake hard it would FLY out the window. Good times. (full disclosure: I still have mine.)
Frank better be in this vid
Update: no frank and I’m disappointed
*D U N G U S*
*d i n g u s*
DINGUS!!!!
It’s a hella weird dog tho, nice shrek color tho
I’m here DINGUS
The Zune had it’s own little Y2K
I didn't expect to see CASIOPEA here, such a great band
Not like they're obscure. It's not 1988. They're bigger than ever now because of the internet
Was the “Have a poop” a reference to Aids chocolate? You know, the dietary chocolate snack that was really successful until...
Get thin, get ayds
*also, these were outlawed in Canada due to excessive sweating, drying up of mucus glands, and even strokes
Yes
Please review the entire SanDisk Sansa lineup. The later versions like the Sansa View were great media machines for the discounted prices
I had a Sanaa after having had iPods and I honestly loved it. They could also run rockbox which was fun.
My first mp3 was a Sansa e260.
I had a 4gb Sansa with an SD card slot and it was the best MP3 player I ever had.
@@angy8yury I think that was the model I had too. It had a blue clickwheel.
I remember my moms SanDisk Sansa, I don't know how it broke but it did, it was a good little machine
I would love to see a perspective on the zune HD since it really felt like a much better sequel
The hd was solid wish I still had mine
yeah that was the one I had. I remember really liking it but I had not context of its competitors to really say whether or not it was good, it played music in my ears which was really cool.
Yeah, I'd like to see a video on the HD too. Great little player. Limited, but it had a gorgeous design and UI, and had a ton of potential.
If I could get a new one today I would in a second. Loved mine and used it happily until the day it died
@@stofio to be honest, who needs a zune of 30gb in 2023??? Cheap android smartphones support exfat or micro SD xc which can go up to 2tb . Get a galaxy a03 or something, put a 512 gb micro SD card and you can put your entire music collection on it
I feel I stand as the lone remaining Zune fan. Back in the day I bought my first 20 gb model from Woot (back when the site still operated on the single item per day format) for $20. There was a lot it couldn't do, but it did what I needed, music and podcasts, very well. What I possibly loved most about it and the OG IPod, was the click wheel. I could navigate my Zune without taking it out of my pocket, which is something you just can't do with touchscreen devices. I collect Zune devices and peripherals now because I have a soft spot for failed hardware. 🙃
I loved my zune... up until I lost it one drunken new years :(
I never bought anything from the store though
Yeahh, I was never into buying digital music back in the day..probably because I was a filthy pirate without a job.
I grew up with multiple zunes, actually never owned an apple product in my life. the "2nd gen" that you were looking at were great. What was great about zune at the time, at least for a broke kid in middle school, was it had no problem with pirated music/movies, which if i remember was/is a pain to get to work on itunes. Also the "zune hd" that was to compete with the itouch was pretty neat too. I remember the one i wanted the most (and never got) was the original design Halo 3 Special Edition. Much better design than the poo brown
got the blue with a custom engraving, I could of should of gotten one of the art engravings.
My first and last experience with Apple was the iPod Touch 3G. The fact that it had a touch screen blew me away, but the locked-down nature of it disgusted me. I used it until it suddenly bricked itself one night. My next multimedia device was the web browser on a Nintendo 3DS, and eventually I got a proper (tiny) android smartphone. I loved the customizability and freedom. The cheap device did wear out its touch screen to the point of unusability after ~2 years. At this point, I decided to try a Microsoft smartphone so that I could confidently say I had tried all 3. Big mistake. The thing was hopelessly fragile and Microsoft's "Windows Phone Store" had just about half of the major apps and almost none of the more obscure ones. It wasn't useful for much more than the basic stuff, though that was most of my usage. The UI looked fairly slick at least, and the device was easy enough to repair that I could replace my shattered screen as an inexperienced teen with parts off alibaba. I moved back to an Android device when the charging port became too challenging to use.
Meanwhile on the computer side of things, I had also always been a Windows user and Windows 8 was a major disappointment, phone-ifying things and also heading in that direction in terms of ignoring basic privacy. I just stuck to Windows 7 until Windows 10 had matured enough to be mostly a drop-in replacement, with shutup10 alleviating most of my privacy concerns. I never considered Apple anymore because I like menus, freedom and interoperability.
Windows 11 is just more of that privacy-disregarding BS, and Apple is only marginally better in that regard, so I made the switch to Linux (OpenSUSE TW). Not a single regret. Freedom is here. I'm dual booting for now just in case I run into anything, but I haven't needed Win10 in a while.
Getting set up took some figuring out because I did it on a brand new device of which the hardware wasn't fully supported, but due to some experience troubleshooting Windows stuff, it was very managable through web searches and politely asking questions in Discord. Getting some stuff like my fingerprint scanner to work is still a WIP, but I'm okay with that.
The trustworthiness and dedication to freedom and accessibility that I find in the world of Linux is well worth it.
Ironic that a company carrying the anti-pirating industry on its back at the time didn't have problems with pirated stuff lmao
the tittle should've been "buying a zune in june"
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That's good. I wasn't going to say anything about the thumbnail but, "hot mess" in the US typically refers to a good looking woman that's had to much to drink.
*zoon
Too zune
Good one joke
I had a Creative Zen Vision M 30gb, enjoyed it a ton, but I wanted more storage. I ended up with a Zune 80gb 2nd gen in black, and I actually loved it. I loved the large screen, the wifi syncing, the touch pad, the entire experience honestly. I just replaced the battery today. Unfortunately the play button stuck a lot because of the shape, when twisted. Not being able to use it as an external drive was quite annoying, as well. I don't care, I still love it.
I laughed SO hard at Steve Ballmer. I completely forgot about him.
I knew about the DEVELOPERS one but the autistic scream is even better holy shit
Bruhh is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers now if you didn't know 🤣
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know you either
One word.... Cocaine, lots and lots of cocaine.
OMG *GET ON YOUR FEET* WAS PLAYING AT THE MICROSOFT CONFERENCE CLIP.
FROM PARKS AND REC???
GETTING STRONG LESLIE KNOPE VIBES
Smile and wave.
HOLY SHIT! I HAD AN M-ROBE... it has to be at my parents house somewhere. I'm devoting all of tomorrow to finding it
Find it?
Did you find it?
I looked for 2 hours with no luck. I did find an old Samsung rant cellphone though. That brought back some serious memories.
playstationRLZ sorry you couldn’t find it but at least you got that nostalgia trip
Did u finally find it😩?
Man I have the Metal Zune with touchpad and vibration feedback, I loved that thing! The games were fun and the UI was awesome with custom backgrounds haha, I had to get that out and charge it after watching this, too many memories!!!
I actually really dig the brown color with the silver accent. It'd not the easiest thing to do but if done right brown can be a pretty color.
Brown is actually one of my favorite colors. :)
@@thatguyalex2835 brown with a lighter silver looks....OK
@@Silver_wind_1987_ Yeah, it does. :) By the way, I am a brown guy. Sadly, a former family friend's father when I was age 8 said a racist comment (which I didn't know at the time), when I told him my favorite color was brown. He said "You must like brown cos that is your skin color". My parents and I broke up friendship due to that, and the fact that his kid is a spoiled brat who wanted to steal like 50 rocks out of our old home's backyard in 2009.
@@thatguyalex2835 50 rocks!??! That's like a few thousand dollars depending on how big they are! I'd be so angry. Brown is very soothing heck 90% of our house is different shades of brown...our dog is brown and black!
@@Silver_wind_1987_ Nah, they were small rocks (0.5 inches across), boring ones, but he wanted to find an agate, cos he was a 9 year old geology head in 2009. Don't get me wrong, I have a small rock collection, cos I like science also, but I don't steal rocks from someone else's landscaping.
Ah man this video makes me miss my childhood. Early 2000s... Ah the good old times. PS2, iPod Classic, Xbox, super slow internet, no Snapchat or Messenger. Oh those were the days.
Yo, Casiopea slaps. You’re a man of good taste.
A$AP Rocky as well. Dude confirmed lit
I noticed that in an older video, and suddenly I feel *SLIGHTLY* less niche
Sicko album
mint jams best album of the 1980s
I thought you meant cassie0pia*, our overweight goddess. my bad.
I had a Zune 2 or whatever it was called, with the touch/dpad, and it really was the greatest pocket music player ever made from the old days. It just missed the boat in a big way, as you pointed out. I used that thing deep into the years when most kids were rocking with iphones and ipod touches, and I genuinely loved it and loved using it. I would still use it just for pure satisfying nostalgia, if it wasn't broken. And therein lies another problem. I dropped it ONE TIME from about 2' off the ground, and it got some major disk/screen malfunction after that. There shouldn't have been a disk drive inside of that thing. They had so much potential with that stinking thing, but they shot themselves in the foot over and over. I am now an Apple ecosystem guy through and through, because all of that seamless system cooperation is more important to me personally than anything else. I love not having to think about/troubleshoot simple things. Every time I go "hey I wonder if I can use my iphone and MacBook in conjunction with each other to accomplish _______," it's like Apple has already thought of that and made it so.