5 reasons I hate my Zune

I got a Zune for Christmas, from my employer. Here are a few reasons I hate it.

#5 - It's really cool looking, and people keep wanting to touch it.

#4 - It holds WAY more music than I can possibly listen to. I've downloaded everything in sight and it's still not full.

#3 - My Zune Pass gives me way too many choices. There's so much stuff on there I just can't download it all fast enough.

#2 - The video screen is so big, when I'm travelling, other people keep looking at it to see what I'm watching.

and the #1 reason I hate my Zune...

The sound is so good it drowns out everything around me. I miss phone calls, conversations, etc...

posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:08 PM

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# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 1/3/2007 3:49 PM Zune-less wonder

You like yours? Wow, that's a surprise. Given the negative reviews, I've been reluctant to seriously consider one. If you like it, however, must be pretty good....much better than I've read, in any event.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 1/3/2007 4:05 PM Blogus Maximus

loveit.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 1/3/2007 4:24 PM D'Arcy from Winnipeg

Yeah well mine is cool looking and people keep wanting to touch it too...although I didn't call mine "Zune", and my employer sure didn't name it.

Um...what are we talkinga about again?

D

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 1/3/2007 4:58 PM Stefan

The Zune is dope. Don't believe all the negativity!

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 1/4/2007 1:04 PM Heartless

ROFL @ the other night when "you know who" tried to pick it up. Classic.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 1/12/2007 3:46 PM malfunct

What I've found is that I can't tell much of a difference between the higher end music players. I do like the bigger screen on my zune and the dpad (vs the touchpad wierdness on the Creative Zen Vision:M).

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 1/12/2007 4:06 PM captain knievel

I found out this morning that I now hate mine because my children have discoverd Weird Al Yankovich (Thanks a lot, Marketplace. Curse you subscription!). Hearing 'Eat It' four times on the way to dropping them off at school was a tad bit much to face before my first Starbucks.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 1/12/2007 4:30 PM Jimmy Peandragon

Why I hate my Zune:

5.) It holds way too many movies, causing me to convert already seen movies just so I can watch them while "trying" to go to sleep.

4.) KidzBop -- nuff said

3.) My kids discovered you can "listen" to dvd's in the car instead of music.

2.) It attracts too much attention. I can't walk in a place, headphones in ears and such and just enjoy my music without someone asking "what is that..." or "can I see..."

1.) Crazy Frog is available on the Zune subscription and my kids no this........

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 1/17/2007 9:44 PM jenny canada

love it love it love it

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 1/21/2007 6:06 PM Robert

My friend let me play around with his Zune and i love it! ill probably buy one some time soon...(gotta love custom background!)

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 2/9/2007 2:26 PM chris

C'est ok. Robert tu est ... obsesed en English... avec la Zune.

Aurevoir

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 2/9/2007 2:31 PM Robert

ur stupid

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 3/8/2007 6:50 PM Steve

How much money did microsoft pay you to post this?

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 3/8/2007 9:50 PM Blogus Maximus

not a cent

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 5/6/2007 9:56 AM primecutbeef

I just ordered one today and I'm hesitant because of the negative reviews. How can people say that the zune sucks if it's basically an ipod with more stuff?

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 5/8/2007 11:12 PM monty

I'm thinking about buying one. They look freaking awesome (brown), but my one concern is the searching. When you have a few songs it's fine to press the button a couple of times to get to the disired song, but what about when you have thousands of songs? Will you have to press the button 692 times to get to the song you want, or is there and easier way?

IN NO WAY AM I DISSING ON THE ZUNE, i kinda like it. My problem is that i don't know much about it so if someone could fill me in. PLEASE.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 6/15/2007 8:24 PM Some Chick

Eh, Im sticking with my ipod, because it kicks ass.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 8/20/2007 5:58 AM yrmomismywhore

Ya how you like that touch sensitive click wheel and nice hard metal case of your Zune?
Oh thats right Zune is cheep-o plastic and fake push button wanna be click wheel

Well then how do you like running linux and playing games like ines and iDoom and all the other game *.wads on your Zune?
What you say, you cant do that OMG..

How about change the theme on your Zune and not just the background image....
Ipod wizard can and there are hundreds of themes to download for your iPod.

Five real reasons to hate zune.

1. the case is like a 1980's plastic TV remote control.

2.no touch sensitive click wheel.

3. no games for them long trips

4.no themes besides a background picture change

5. no linux or rockbox and no mods

If your one of the ten people that actually bought a Zune you should return it as fast as you can and get a real MP3 player.
If you say you like Zune you probably never had a iPod.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 8/25/2007 1:17 AM iglowblueinthedark

It looks like 'me' is the right one here... the 80's rocked. The click wheel blows ass. If i want to play games i will use my psp. The zune theme can be changed. Rockbox is hardly even usable in its current state. I have a 20 gig ipod and i still want a zune.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 12/10/2007 5:01 PM Gene

Just bought a Zune (2 weeks old)

You cannot see the BIGGGG screen outdoors.

The volume does not get loud enough on most songs.

The supplied ear phones are trash.

Does not come with a charger. You have to hook it to a live USB This is a laptop problem if you top goes off after so many minutes.

The only reason it gets hours of use is because the screen has a default to go of in 15 seconds.

The Main screen is a black and white. What happen to color.

The FM radio sound is normal. The Screen is a simple a boring black and white.

The equalizer has to be set after clicking through till you get to setting click music. So, say your listening to music you have to click about 4 to 5 times to change the equalizer. (sad but true).

The software is very very very poor. It is almost like driving your car with one eye covered. Very un-stable like.Sometimes it recognizes my Zune, Sometimes not.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 12/26/2007 11:12 AM Blogus Maximus

Gene & 504: sure thing. Thanks for stopping by.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 2/4/2008 7:30 PM Heath

I have a zune30 and i hate it. biggest waste of money ever. If the zune is so great then answer these questions so I can bask in the awesomeness as well. How the hell do you create a playlist? It lets me on my software, but never syncs to my zune. How the hell do you put videos on there? I tried every yahoo answer, but none of them knew what the hell they were talking about. My videos ARE in the correct format, but still no sync. I'm not trying to be negative, but when something says it is suppose to do something and then it doesn't it becomes hard to sing it's praises. If any one can help i would be most thankful.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 2/4/2008 7:41 PM Blogus Maximus

Well, I'm sorry you hate it. I like mine and haven't experienced the problems you mention. You do realize this isn't the Microsoft support site, right? Thanks for stopping by.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 4/12/2008 4:20 AM polo79

anyone that doesn't know how to put videos/playlists on their mp3 player doesn't need to be giving out their judgments.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 6/11/2008 1:22 PM Huntsman

lol, awesome post

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 6/12/2008 7:02 PM SaaFaa

Its a piece of awful.
Enough said.
Sorry. But it converts terribly.
And only WMV..?
Come on.
I had an Ipod stolen so I got it
And I seriously hate it so much. The things you talked about make sense...but it screws up my computer and I see no logic in the way.
I'm seriously putting videos on it now and its not working. Like I really don't get the whole "lets all bask in the glory of our Zunes" thing. Like I seriously don't get it.

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 8/15/2008 6:36 PM tim

Omg why so many haters on here
i zune is frecking awesome
dont listen 2 these ipod user's
be different and go buy a zune
5 reasons 2 but a zune
Only a few people have them
The sound is awesome
The social is kick ass
the back of it if u choose (design) is fuckin awesome
and when u r on the train people look

# re: 5 reasons I hate my Zune 9/4/2008 3:00 PM dissatisfied

I actually dont like my zune, it frustrates me to no end but not for stupid reasons like not having a touch sensitive wheel, games (after all it is an mp3 player and I didnt buy it for the games), and bad headphones (go buy real ones, obviously.) But a few things bother me:

#1. no sleep timer.

something I really use an mp3 player a lot for is trying to go to sleep, and if theres no timer to turn it off, its likely to loose a lot of battery power.

#2. the volume is not loud enough.

#3. you can play the zune music when its hooked up through the USB... i would have thought that was an obvious thing. i can understand not being able to transfer the music.. but playback should be allowed.

#4. the software works... now. on my other computer it would take me an hour just to upload a few songs.

But I'd take a Zune over the ipod any day.

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