Question from Zuneinsider.com
Lobbed over the wall from Cesar at Zuneinsider.com:
"In terms of Zune and Vista - will the Zune Marketplace app take advantage of Vista's new shell features like tagging (metadata)? Will I easily be able to use Vista's Start Menu Search to find songs to play etc? Also: will Zune music be playable hrough Windows Media Center to extenders such as the Xbox 360? Has there been ny thought to doing perpahs Zune Marketplace Sidebar Gadgets which would alert users with the Gadget running to be alerted to new music etc?"
Many good questions. Zune Marketplace content will be compatible with all those scenarios. So, for Zune Marketplace songs:
- you'll be able to play it in Windows Media player
- you'll be able to search in vista, play from the shell
- you'll be able to connect to xbox 360 through media center extenders
- etc....
3 Comments:
What would happen if you tried to sync Zune songs to a PFS device via WMP? Would it refuse to sync? Sync, but then not play on the device?
Songs from Zune marketplace would probably sync (there will be no effort to prevent it), but I would stress that we're not testing against this scenario and it's many, many permutations (OS versions x wmp versions X p4s devices is a big matrix...)
How many times can I transfer a song between PCs before I have to buy it again?
On MSN Music you could share it among 5 PCs if I remember. After that, good luck if you wanted to try and deactivate an existing machine.
And I think it was 3 devices for the MS Ebook DRM. Again, forget it if you wanted to actually buy another device after this. Had to go back and rebuy all your content as MS abandoned the DRM.
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