Launched in 2006, gone by 2011 – the Zune was Microsoft’s valiant “me too” moment in the MP3 wars.
#RetroTech #Zune #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #2000sTech
Honestly the game-changer about the new Xune app for me is the on-the-fly conversion to WMA Lossless. My library of recent purchases and rips are almost all ALAC with a little FLAC and being able to have lossless files on the Zune without maintaining a second set of files -- especially as storage space is becoming more of a problem -- is a tremendous help.
Oooo, the Xune app for Zune actually fixes some functionality that's been broken in the original for ages, like the artist background images.
Tonight I've been messing around with this new open-source cross-platform rebuild of the Zune app, and it's working great on my MacBook! It's got built-in encoding to WMA Lossless (a format literally nobody but Zune freaks care about) and it's tackled my FLAC and ALAC files with no complaints.
Andrew Armstrong
Retro Techie
Trixter of the Moon Council
