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Friday, November 30, 2007
Ever have an artist not show up where you expected in the Zune software? Ever swear it's correctly labeled 'Red Hot Chili Peppers' yet it's showing up under 'Unknown Artist' instead? How about this one, you can find it in the software but under the Zune it's in the wrong place? The culprit here is the Zune software's really weird use the artist and album artist metadata bundled inside the file. I consider this a huge and highly annoying bug. A lot of tracks out there only have the 'Artist' field filled out while a second, less-used field 'Album Artist',
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Black Friday, the perennial classic day of Christmas shopping and crowd control, is almost upon us which means I'll be battening down the hatches, pulling up a warm mug of spiked egg-nog and doing the bulk of my holiday shopping online. Amazon.com is usually my go-to retailer for everything purchased online but this year I'm going to do something slightly different, instead of first going to Amazon I'm going to start at giveness.com, which in turn gets me right back over to Amazon with a bit of giving along the way. Huh? The short version is that if you're
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Awhile back I wrote a wee little Delphi application to mimic WinAmp's Global Hotkeys in the Zune software, call ZuneKeys. With the new Zune software out I had to update ZuneKeys to work with it so if you're one of the three people that actually like global hotkeys go ahead and grab the new version from the above links. For nerds that care I had to change the window class I was searching for from "WMPlayerAppZune" to "UIX Render Window". Long Zheng over on istartedsomething has some more interesting bits about this whole "UIX" business.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Being both an early Zune adopter as well has having been critical of some of the v1 features it's only fair I weight in on the v2 firmware and software and see how it compares. Firmware / Device UI The new interface on the device is clean, stylish and functional and after a little readjustment it's definitely an improvement on what was already a great experience. The navigation sounds are a little different, the menu style has been brought in-line with the rest of the brand, podcasting has it's own little home and there are little improvements to navigation and