In what can only be described as a piece of badly-timed news, it emerges today that if you have been buying music from Microsoft's MSN service and playing it on your "plays for sure" compatible music player, then you forget about trying to play that downloaded music on one of Microsoft's new Zune music players.
It's not compatible.
To quote a Microsoft spokesperson:
"Since Zune is a separate offering that is not part of the Plays For Sure ecosystem, Zune content is not supported on Plays For Sure devices."
Ahem.
And then she went on to say:
"We will not be performing compatibility testing for non-Zune devices, and we will not make changes to our software to ensure compatibility with non-Zune devices."
So basically if you've bought some music for your existing MP3 player and go off and buy a Zune (when it comes out) then you'll still need your old player to listen to the stuff you've already downloaded.
Oh no wait. According to Microsoft you can burn it onto a CD and listen to it that way.
How convenient.
Apple has 75%+ of the portable music market. Anybody like to guess why?
I'm sticking with my Nano.
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2 comments:
All I know is Zune is French-Canadian slag for Penis. Fitting name, it seems.
so funny. What's the betting that this won't be the last cock-up as they try and get this thing launched.
I'm guessing Steve Jobs is not losing too much sleep worrying about Zune.
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