Zune: Configure Your Online Privacy Settings

Rob Rogers

The Zune software can be set up to be very social by allowing everyone to send you messages, view what you are listening to and take a peek at your friends list. You can also limit some or all of these settings so that only your friends have this ability or block everyone from having any or all of these options.

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Zune Software: Display the Now Playing Interface While Listening to Music

Rob Rogers

If you use the Zune software to listen to music on your PC, the normal interface is rather boring to look at. There is an alternate interface that is much more pleasing to the eye. The Now Playing interface displays the album cover of the current song set on a backdrop of the album covers from your collection.

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Zune: Modify the Number of Current Podcast Episodes to Keep

Rob Rogers

By default, the Zune software is set to keep 3 episodes of each podcast (not counting items marked In Collection). You can set the software to keep 1 to 10 or even All of the podcast episodes. Here’s how:

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Zune: Speed Up Zune Software by Disabling the Marketplace Catalog Updates

Rob Rogers

There is a significant delay in the Zune software as it updates the Zune Marketplace Catalog. Since it is doubtful that you use the Marketplace each time you open the Zune software, you can eliminate this delay by disabling the Marketplace by renaming the dll file associated with it.

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Zune: Restore Display if TV Out is Accidentally Enabled

Rob Rogers

You’ve accidentally enabled the TV Out on your Zune and can no longer see the display. To make matters worse, you don’t have access to an A/V cable. What will you do? No need to panic, you can easily restore the display back to your device by following these steps:

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Zune: How to Block Another Zune

Rob Rogers

Are you getting tired of receiving media from a certain Zune but want to keep your wireless enabled? You can block other Zunes and prevent
them from sending you pictures and audio.

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Zune: Extend Battery Life by Shutting Down Device

Rob Rogers

Most people will either let their Zune go to “sleep” on its own or hold down the play/pause button to do so. This does not completely turn off the device and continues to drain the battery. To completely turn off the device, do the following:

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Zune to Zune Picture Sharing

Rob Rogers

Zune to Zune picture sharing should really start to increase as more people purchase the media player since sending pictures from your device to a friend’s is a simple process.

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Transfer iTunes Music to a Zune

Rob Rogers

If you have moved from Apple’s iPod to Microsoft’s Zune, you probably have some songs that you purchased from the iTunes Music Store that you would like to move to the new device. You will run into a hurdle if you try to transfer the files directly as Apple’s copy protection prevents the song from playing on another device. There is a workaround to this however…

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Re-Register WMDM if Zune Software Cannot Detect Your Zune

Rob Rogers

If the Zune software cannot detect your Zune and you’ve done the obvious (disconnect and reconnect the device, reset the device, and restart your Zune software) then you might need to re-register the Windows Media Device Manager. To do this . . .

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How To Prevent Zune Software From Sending Your Usage Data

Rob Rogers

By default, the Zune software sends the software usage data to Microsoft as part of their Customer Experience Improvement Program. If you want to keep your usage private, you can disable this by doing the following:

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Zune: How to Change Your Zune’s Device Name

Rob Rogers

To change the name that is displayed for your Zune, just follow this tech-recipe:

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By default, the Zune software is set to keep 3 episodes of each podcast (not counting items marked In Collection). You can set the software to keep 1 to 10 or even All of the podcast episodes. Here’s how:

There is a significant delay in the Zune software as it updates the Zune Marketplace Catalog. Since it is doubtful that you use the Marketplace each time you open the Zune software, you can eliminate this delay by disabling the Marketplace by renaming the dll file associated with it.

You’ve accidentally enabled the TV Out on your Zune and can no longer see the display. To make matters worse, you don’t have access to an A/V cable. What will you do? No need to panic, you can easily restore the display back to your device by following these steps:

Are you getting tired of receiving media from a certain Zune but want to keep your wireless enabled? You can block other Zunes and preventthem from sending you pictures and audio.

Most people will either let their Zune go to “sleep” on its own or hold down the play/pause button to do so. This does not completely turn off the device and continues to drain the battery. To completely turn off the device, do the following:

Zune to Zune picture sharing should really start to increase as more people purchase the media player since sending pictures from your device to a friend’s is a simple process.

If the Zune software cannot detect your Zune and you’ve done the obvious (disconnect and reconnect the device, reset the device, and restart your Zune software) then you might need to re-register the Windows Media Device Manager. To do this . . .

By default, the Zune software sends the software usage data to Microsoft as part of their Customer Experience Improvement Program. If you want to keep your usage private, you can disable this by doing the following:

To change the name that is displayed for your Zune, just follow this tech-recipe:

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Are you getting tired of receiving media from a certain Zune but want to keep your wireless enabled? You can block other Zunes and prevent
them from sending you pictures and audio.