Zune Vs. Ipod

Whats your preference and why? What are the pros about each one and the cons?
Lastly, can you download songs on to a zune from itunes?

 

zune has it's own software so itunes won't work. I haven't tried a zune yet we just got them in Canada and I don't know anyone that has one. I am in the market for anew mp3 player i was drunk as fuck in the winter and slipped on the ice and broke it while it was in my jacket pocket. It still works but the screen is like 1/2 black diagonally and it's a real pain in the ass.

 

i set one up for my little sister... it seems alright.. has wifi.. can chat i believe.. i dunno all the features

 

Ok, so, for my first MP3 player, it was a ipod, which right off the bat I was disgusted with it. The blandness of everything, screen size, it just wasn't for me. (i returned it after 2 days) Now, About a year later, i bought a zune 1, which was sweet, the screen was big and the color was absolutely fantastic. Also, it has a radio, fuck yeah. But, after about 6 months of zune 1 I dropped it on solid stone, which caused it to freak out and die. So, lesson learned, don't drop your mp3 player! So, being very heartbroken using a cd player for a good month I discovered the zune 2, now this baby is what I want. Ok, so here we go:

ZUNE
Pros:
Large screen for easy viewing
Sleek style, white on the back, black on the front
Nice glass screen(had my zune 2 for a good year now, no scraches or dents)
No coverflow bull shit, every time you play a song the album cover comes up.
Radio
Abilitiy to use pictures as background images
Zune software allows for easy CD burning and data transfer between mp3 players(something unheard of in the eyes of Apple)
The itouch feature is used acting like a jukebox to scroll for your favorite artists(you can choose not to use this or simply turn it off)

Cons:
No internal CLOCK, what the fuck!?!?! With cell phones and labtops and PDAs, its hard to figure out why a clock wasn't put into this mp3 player...but oh well, I have a watch
No EQ, doesn't really matter considering the sound is always top notch
Every time a song is played, if you put your ear up to the zune, you will hear a bunch of shit rotating and clinking together, this is normal. The software is a little shitty but it gets the job done.

You can import songs from itunes to the zune, you'll just need to convert the file, go to www.zamzar.com and you should be able to figure it out there. With all the good things about this product, it still boggles me why people are so amazed by an ipod. Ignorance? I'd like to think so.

 

cool good review^.

I have had a creative zen micro 1st gen and waht a piece of crap...I won't get into it but my mom got last years edition for christmas and it was worse for the fact that the software didn't work on either of our computers...

I have also had an ipod nano 1st gen and the 30gb that came out about a month before the classic. my nanos battery burned out after a year and started lasting literally 7 minutes on a full charge. As I mentioned the 30gb works fine except for the screen which is my fault for forgetting to take it out of my pocket. It costs $150 for a new screen so I am probably better off buying something new and after reading that the zune looks worth looking into. The touch just does not appeal to me at all... a big screen that will get scratched in my pocket and I'll probably break by walking into the corner of a table or something.

 

i say a Sansa view by sandisk

 

I have the ipod and have had it for over a year. Works fine, but I still don't trust it. I got it because I couldn't afford the zune. I still don't know if I will buy a zune or an ipod next.

 

ive had my ipod for like two years i think, its never given me any problems (accept that the power dies fast when watching video's, but i have an older model) and it suits me well enough, im listen to it right now. so i guess ill get an ipod next time i get a new mp3, theres really no reason for me to want to get a zune over an ipod next time.

 

everyone i know who has had a zune, has replaced it with an ipod within 6 months

 

I have an iPod touch.

I really dont care about the fancy shit it can do, it looks cool and it plays music.

 

i have an ipod and i think apple has come a long way, and continues to create exceptional products.

 

exceptional eh? I don't know about that, looking at the itunes software... when you plug in another person's ipod you can't take the music off the ipod, you have to erase it or not connect it. Of course there are programs out there that you can download and after about 50 minutes of searching you'll find it, but with zune, nope, just plug it in and rip the entire mp3 player, badda bing.

People are still stuck to ipods, kind of like nintendo, for they were the first major video game company, ipods were really the first mp3 player. Whatever, zunes the way to go.

So some chick said everyone she knew who had a zune returned it, wow, good imput. I guess your friends don't like style. Too bad.

 

i have an ipod, and i probably wouldn't exchange it for anything else.

 

I should also mention I'm really pissed. 27gb of rare hardcore/metalcore gone because i accidentally turned on auto-sync. Thanks apple. Fortunately I had 3/4 of it burned to dvds and my buddy still has them so all I lost are the bands that are titled XYZ as their 1st letter.

 

Ok, first off, I ain't a chick brah, but that's not important.

I'm fairly certain you can set the ipod to allow it to pull files off of it. Sure there might a couple of extra steps but it isn't 50 minutes, we don't need more drama queens in here.

You're right my friends are not style queens. They are about functionality. They got rid of their zune, because they didn't find it as functional. I buy a product for its use; not style.

 

i listen to the radio. its free, until your little brother takes it apart and you have to buy a new one. hooray for radio.

on a different note, i smell cat piss. i hate this apartment.

 

i have a zune right now and its really nothing special but niether is an ipod. get a creative zen vision M. They are 80gb for 300 bucks, and you dont need any software, you can use folders for it. I had one but it broke and best buy stopped selling them so i had to get a zune.

 

radio is not free. It is full of advertising!!!

 

Zune is Microsoft's way of battling the iPod a long ass time after you could use it with Windows. I don't like the way it looks personally.

 

i have a zune. i like it a lot. the only thing i dont like about it is it has no custom EQ.

and i hate itunes... what the fuck is an m4p... i have an mp3 player... god damn!