Archive for November, 2007

Kudos to the Zune community for taking the idea of “you make it you” to the next level – folks in the community have found a way to customize the Zune background on the Zune software.

Get the details at I Have a Zune dot com or at ‘thoughts.

The biggest issue with the Zune 80 since it was released two weeks ago is certainly its non-availability. But it looks like that the Zuneinsider was right and the Zune 80 will soon be available to all you, Zune fanboys….

I had meant to post about this a few weeks  back but with all the launching, posting, and Turkey I’m just getting around to it now.

You may have noticed that we’re able to feature the Jay-Z record American Gangster (both for purchase or for subscription download). To get the album, we had to respect the artist’s choice to offer only the full album (vs selling individual tracks).  In the case of American Gangster, the album stands as a unified piece of art, with all tracks weaving a cohesive narrative. It’s up to the artist how they want their work presented, and we respect their choices and offer the album how they’d like. Radiohead is another example – we offer Radiohead albums as complete works only (except, of course, In Rainbows).

Not all digital music retailers have opted for this – some won’t offer an album if the songs can’t be purchased as individual downloads. 

Interest in the Microsoft Zune continues to be a growing topic as we progess through the early days of holiday sales. As we earlier reported, the Zune saw a lot of sales and curiosity seekers on Black Friday. Now, come…

Zunescene is reporting that meetings have already begun involving the new Zunes, dubbed as Zune 3. I don’t know about this but I think Microsoft should focus more on what’s in the present, and improving the current Zune 2 line…