10
June
2008
June
2008
Cool Zune scenario
I was listening to the DL.tv podcast on my Zune in my car on my way back from work today and got to the final 5 mins of the episode. I unplugged my Zune (which automatically paused the device), got to my desktop and plugged it into my PC. The Zune software automatically opened and started to sync.
I wanted to listen to those last 5 minutes I had left, so I selected the episode within the Zune software and hit play. Amazingly, the podcast resumed exactly where I left off in my car!
Not sure why I was surprised by this, or if any other portable music player does this, but I definitely was impressed! Nice fit and finish feature that made the whole experience seem really polished. Kudos to the Zune team.
iPod has always done this, but yes, I agree it’s nice that the zune does this.
Two other nice Zune things:
* If you subscribe to a song-a-day podcast (e.g. KEXP’s), you can “Play All” rather than having to start them individually.
* If you record live TV, you can get Zune to monitor the video folder, and simply right clicking on the video and saying synch to device will convert and copy the video. Try that on an iPod without having to use some grey-market shareware.