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Just ordered a Zune 120 from the one UK supplier of Zunes.... bit of a markup compared to the US but what the hell, I'm feeling rich and have nothing else to spend my disposable income on :D

Pics and review when it arrives
 
Ahh, can't wait to see what you reckon of it. I'd like to know if it's worth the extra over the equivalent iPod 120Gb. Also I read that you don't get the same 'premium' earphones with the Zune 120 that were included with the Zune 80? That's a bit of a strange decision...
 
It is indeed an odd decision, but not one that bothers me a great deal; I'll be using my own anyway.
 
All I can say is: AWESOME!

If you are considering a Zune, have absolutely no hesitations; the player is fantastic. Responsive, powerful, and the screen is just excelent.

Sound is a little different to the Sony A818 I'm used to but it's very good nonetheless, I just need some new headphones (eyes set on Futuresonics Atrio M5/M8) and it'll shine.

Will get some pics up, although the 120gb glossy front definitely picks up fingerprints rather easily!
 
i thought youd love it the little things do it for me like when it tells you its change song when viewing pics. Btw are you on a custom firmware? and if not fif your currunt firmware come with games?
enjoy playing about with every single settin possible :D
 
Current firmware doesn't come with games no, that's due with Zune 3.0 in the next week or so :)
 
It doesn't seem a great deal different, a few new settings here and there, but it's mostly for the "social" stuff which I have not got into yet (need to US proxy myself an account). Hexic on the move is cool, though.
 
I've tried the Zune software before, and it was really good. It had two things missing I wanted though.

1) Minimize to the taskbar.
2) Live search, like WMP11 instead of taking me to a search page after I've pressed enter.

Have these been added at all in 3.0?

Edit: Nevermind actually, realised the biggest thing that was missing. Last.FM support. :(
 
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Both those two things have not been added, unfortunatly. Both bug me, but I use foobar for actually playing music on my PC so I don't really care.

Last.fm was never a big thing for me, so it's nothing major.
 
A couple of questions for you if you don't mind answering? What is the user interface like? How well does this handle large libraries? Can it have playlists? Can you have random tracks through a playlist and whole library? Does it recognise folder.jpg as album art? What is the syncing software like?

Thanks.

P.s. thanks for the link. :)
 
Eugh! Totally forgot about taking pics...my phone camera has just broken as well, so I'll have to dig up an old digicam from somewhere.

Trifid: User interface is great, you have a menu of Music, Video, Podcasts, Games, Radio etc, select one by scrolling up and down and you get to choose then by artist, album, song etc in audio by side to side. There's videos available on a few sites, go have a look.

Large libraries are perfect, got 5k songs on mine and it runs perfectly.

Playlists are fine, you can do a single on the go playlist "now playing", which you can just add songs to in order to queue them up.

Random within playlist is fine.

Folder.jpg as album art....unsure, all my album art has come up though.

Sync software is fine, just tell it some folders and it will scan and add them to it's library without problems, updating when new files are added. It does not lag, and is not a hassle at all to use. With wireless sync it's even better, just hit sync on the zune and it'll just pull all updated files accross without even being connected.

It does not play ogg files.
 
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