The Zune Feature Request & Suggestion Thread

How about integrating Zune software to the Windows Vista / 7 RSS Feed Store?  I mean... c'mon guys.  If I can subscribe to a Podcast from IE or something like Windows Live or Outlook, I'd like to have it show up in Zune automagically.

I suppose I could set the content folder to be the same as the Zune folder somehow, but when I manually add podcasts there they either aren't marked as Podcast (genre) or have no subscription info and therefore don't show up properly in Zune.

Same goes for browsing via the Windows Phone 7 - I should be able to find an RSS link, subscribe, and next time Zune should sync a Podcast for me (or do it next time I hit a hotspot, but not require a Zune sync).  Basically sync that subscription info via the Windows Live cloud.

Would also like to see the following artist catalogs added

IQ

Transatlantic

Zuner since Nov 2006

I have both iPod Touch and Zune. I always thought that Zune was better until I discovered the Apple Remote that let me use iTunes on my PC from my iPod Touch. Since I have my PC connected to my stereo, this great functionality is making my Zune HD looking kind of obsolute. There is also a $0.99 App Called Tango the let you remotely control the iPod from another iPod or iPad, so you can connect your iPod to your stereo and leave it there, and then remotely manage it.

So please make this functionality available, the technology is already there. I also think that it will be great if the Zune HD could be a graphical remote control for the Media Center, showing which song is playing and stuff like that. And finally, if the Zune could be hooked to the PC as a seconday display, it will be really great.

So far this has been the only functionality that I found better on iPod touch than on Zune HD, to remotely control PC software and other mobile devices wirelessly.

I doubt this will ever happen for the Zune HD due to the totally closed development platform for apps.

However, the functionality exists on Windows Phone 7 (and in previous versions going back many years to before the iPod Touch existed, for what it's worth) to control Windows Media Player/Media Center via a phone over WiFi or the Internet.

However, personally I find these solutions to be less useful than simply using a regular remote control with Windows Media Center or using DLNA to stream content from Windows Media Player to a second PC/TV/Bluray player, etc. (most TVs and Bluray players these days are DLNA compliant).

There is also the option of the Zune HD dock, which lets you control a Zune HD with a little remote control while the Zune is docked and outputting sound/video to a hifi system or TV.

I have both iPod Touch and Zune. I always thought that Zune was better until I discovered the Apple Remote that let me use iTunes on my PC from my iPod Touch. Since I have my PC connected to my stereo, this great functionality is making my Zune HD looking kind of obsolute. There is also a $0.99 App Called Tango the let you remotely control the iPod from another iPod or iPad, so you can connect your iPod to your stereo and leave it there, and then remotely manage it.

So please make this functionality available, the technology is already there. I also think that it will be great if the Zune HD could be a graphical remote control for the Media Center, showing which song is playing and stuff like that. And finally, if the Zune could be hooked to the PC as a seconday display, it will be really great.

So far this has been the only functionality that I found better on iPod touch than on Zune HD, to remotely control PC software and other mobile devices wirelessly.

The Zune guys explained on their podcast that the reason you can't switch account locations is that the publishers of music/video don't allow Microsoft to sell some content to non-US customers, and changing the account location would make it appear as though Microsoft has allowed non-US customers to buy music/video. Stupid, but that seems to be the reason. I lost all of my Zune account history (20,000 plays, etc.) because I needed to chagne to another account to use my new Windows Phone.

I wish that they would at least give us the nuclear option of being able to delete our Zune accounts and start over. The Terms and Conditions make it quite clear that we can lose all our licensed content at any time, for any reason; so it's not as if we hadn't been warned.

I'm stuck with a Zune account, which I've never used, and which has the wrong country, tied to my primary Windows Live ID. Unless I can have the Zune account deleted, it's simply not worth my getting a Windows Phone 7, because the access to services and apps won't work.