Zune Community Brings New Shared Experience to Music

A few weeks ago a few members of the Zune community including myself took some time to explain why has Zune Social become such an important part of our music experience.

Redmond, Washington - Last November Zune launched “Zune Social,” a music community Web site where music fans can discover new music, browse each others’ playlists, and comment on their discoveries and tastes.

In just its first five months, more than two million users have joined the community. With enough members to populate a major city, the community is almost as diverse as the world of music itself, from hardcore audiophiles and passionate music fans to people who are just crazy about the Zune player.

Brian Seitz, a Group Marketing Manager for Zune, says it’s a core goal of his team to create an experience where the diversity and knowledge of all those music fans is tapped to inspire Zune listeners to explore new music. With that in mind, the Zune team worked to incorporate extensive customer feedback into a refresh of the online music community and Zune software, which is being launched this week.

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Zune Spring update 2.5!

You might think dancing to mariachi music while wearing a sombrero with a margarita in your hand is the epitome of awesome — but you could be wrong. Plan your Post-Cinco de Mayo festivities tonight, because 05.06.08 is the release date for the Zune Spring update 2.5!

What can you except to see tomorrow after your update?

Integrated expanded capabilities of the Zune Card with the convenience
of the PC software and the mobility of the Zune player.

Extended Zune Marketplace with greatly increased video selections,
featuring download-to-own TV episodes.

Added a number of customer-requested features and improvements to
the Zune PC software and the Zune Social.

Here is the break down on what your Marketplace and .NET will look like tomorrow. Hopefully after reading this, you’ll be just as glad as I am to be part of the Social. ;]

THE SOCIAL
The social is centered around one thing — The Zune Card. It’s our online musical identity that displays music played on Zune and the Software.

Get Card’d
Since Its release you’ve experience what the social is all about: you, your friends and sharing. The Spring update is here to build on this concept to make it more enjoyable than before.

Zune Cards are now integrated in the PC experience so you’ll be able to see and listen to the music your friends play from within the Zune software. Much like you are able to view what games your friends have played on your Xbox 360. Your friends’ Zune Cards are now part of the Zune software, so you can easily sync Zune cards to your Zune by dragging and dropping their Cards onto your Zune’s icon.

I am a HUGE advocate of the Zune Pass program and here is a new reason why I am not regretting my decision on becoming a subscriber. If you’re a Zune Pass subscriber, you automatically receive
the full tracks including your friends’ recent plays, their favorites and popular songs from their most played artists. Continue reading Zune Spring update 2.5!…