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The hardware is, hands-down, better than the iPod. I really liked my Zune device.

The software is a different question. It can only be described as, dumb. It just doesn’t work right. It’s maddening.

It’s annoying enough that I bought another iPod. The device is a bit boring, but the software does what it’s supposed to do. I like using a device that I don’t have to think about using.

Agreeing with Nate. I finally turned off auto-sync after a while just because it was add/delete/try to add but fail because it’s lame songs constantly. But manually sync works. I’ve never gotten to wireless sync to work…

My Zune headphones never really tangled, but my Sennheiser’s do…like crazy.

Agreed. I didn’t have a problem with anything hardware-wise. The headphones are fine.

When Microsoft works out the kinks with the software, I’ll get another Zune. Until then, it’s an iPod for me.

I like my Zune 30 better than my former iPod G5.5; however, I agree that the syncing has issues. If you thiunk it has issues on one machine, try using it as a guest on another PC. I recommend never trying this unless you enjoy reformatting to fix the sync with the primary PC. I actually love using the wireless sync. I leave my Zune in the car (plugged into power) and hit sync from there; it’s a great feature. I don’t have any DRM on my music, so I haven’t had some of the issues Molly has, and I have avoided the sync issues (after learning) so I acually believe, regardless of the sync, the interface and screen make it a better choice.

I actually never opened the headphones, as I use some Shures, so I can’t really comment there.

I agree. Molly is clueless. She’s also the most annoying personality on Cnet, which is saying a lot.

Ah, the good old “Nipple Ripper!” That’s usually right next to guy that can guess the size and weight of your… junk give or take an inch and ounce.

“She finds that the headphone cables tangle so horribly that it takes her 30 minutes to untangle them”

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I would never, ever, ever let the quality of headphones negatively influence my opinion of a mp3 player. Positively influence? Maybe. But, c’mon, most portable players come with crappy earphones and I can get better buying them separately.

Unless the box itself says ‘These headphones are the BEST EVAR!!!1!!1!!!!1!111!!!’, I could care less about the phones in the box.

Well, wait… She’s not totally hopeless.

“I don’t like sitting on a wiped Zune”

Me either. It’s too boxy. Let alone too small for my ginormous ass.

OMG I think I’m in love. She just put my life into words.

This lady obviously having some issues, that are not the zunes fault. 2 of my friends use the earbuds, and they work great. On top of that, I have yet to find a person who has managed to delete there entire library. She simply doesn’t understand tech. No one should listen to this when considering the purchase of a zune. Just check out the 80 gig review on CNET!

I read Molly’s original post and found her just annoying. First of all she is using a zune, but refuses to sign up for a zune tag. She also prolly refused to name her zune or do any of the other basic things that will make it work correctly. I’m guessing her iPod experience was much better because she faithfully did everything she was supposed to do, from signing up for iTunes to importing all her music into the software. She just being a whinny saboteur. And the thing with the headphones? That’s like saying she just won’t wear sneakers any more because it takes her 20 minutes to tie and untie them.

Hmm it seems pretty obvious to me that if you don’t have your music on your pc and you do have it on your zune and want to keep it that way, you should probably not have it sync automatically. She’s basically complaining that the software did exactly what she told it to do while setting it up. Also, I’m guessing she has one of the flash ones or something cause the headphones that come with the 80 are AWESOME. They almost never tangle and when they do, it takes like 2 seconds to untangle them. Without a doubt though any of the zune headphones are significantly better than the ipod ones. Also, what does the device do that assumes you’re stealing music? The only things I can think of is DRMing traded songs, which you can’t do at all on an ipod(the trading songs part) and having subscription music run out which again, you can’t have on an ipod. All in all I don’t really see anything valid in what she’s complaining about.

who the hell is Molly Wood? And who cares what she thinks?

Hehe! I love Molly on Buzz Out Loud, but she is a little cantankerous. She has a little hate in her heart for most things (don’t even start her to talking about Macs!)

Of course, the fact that she’s a ball of fire may be why I like her so much. She doesn’t discriminate based on company or brand: She’ll rip ANYONE a well-deserved (and sometimes not) new one.

She obviously doesn’t have the latest zune. since it comes with brand new fiber coted headphone wires so it untangles by shaking on the air. Yeah I am sure the white ipod cables don’t tangle as much, not even mentioning the fact that look like crap after using them for a couple of times. White stuff sucks. Good luck listening to your DRM loaded crap from itunes that by the way you won’t be able to hear in any other mp3 player. oh I forgot to tell you to have fun looking for radio stations for the latest music or even sharing your music through wireless sync. ha ha ha. I love old people that when don’t know how to use their devices blame the brand.

yeah I forgot the new headphones come magnetize so they don’t even tangle anyway. Good luck finding that in any other headphone brand. I think MS Zune has achieved huge mile stones that in two years of making mp3. Too bad I can’t say the same about apple that has been making ipods seems almost a decade and still doesn’t come out with a mp3 with a tuner for crying out loud. This chick just wants something is the same type of person that buys the Jitterbug (http://www.jitterbug.com) from the infomercials since she can’t use her cellphone cause it has too many buttons. ha ha ha ha!