Continue to use Zune for media sync in WP
The WP sync app/manual copy is inferior to Zune for syncing media. Return to Zune for syncing media, including playlists and play counts.
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685 comments
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Anonymous
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Com"n son, this ish is ridiculous, but what can you expect from a tax evading company like Microsoft...
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Anonymous
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It's really disappointing how you people removed Zune from supporting WP8> That was quite stupid.
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Anonymous
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I love my Lumia 920. I love my Zune! Wait A Minute, Where is my Zune. i hate you Microsoft for removing Zune
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Anonymous
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Sooooo disappointed!!! Loyal Zune and Zune pass user for years. Was so excited after waiting for a month to delete my Zune and add my new windows 8 phone. What a nightmare. Way to ***** up something that worked so well. This bites.
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Anonymous
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yes bring back zune! or give windows pc 7 people an option to use their windows 8 phone better. This is awful right now!! I wish it were exactly how it used to be. Used to love it and it was so easy to use!
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Antoine Prince commented
I still use 7.x and when I bought winp8 for another family member, it alerted me to download that sync app. does it even have a name? It's horrible. They need to bring back the zune and just rename it to windows media player.
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Anonymous
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At least tell us why zune is left out wp8 because there is no reason you should leave your loyal zune owners in the dust!
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Igor Petrushevskiy
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Yep... Zune was better - but it would be great if you continue to igonre lossless standard to integrate al least autoconvertation from flac to mp3 when copying music to phone. Of course this includes reading flac by Zune.
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Dave Glue
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Just upgraded to Windows Phone 8, and used the sync app - YIKES. Now more than ever, please bring back Zune - expect you to rebrand it with Xbox branding of course, but so little needs to be changed. It was the best media organizer out there, and you don't kneecap a platform that's struggling to gain traction by downgrading it. Just don't understand the reasoning.
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HawkeEye
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One other question for MSFT. How difficult would it be to focus on one media interface like Zune? We now have Media Center, Media Player, X-Box Music, X-Box Video, and thankfully partial use of Zune. The whole mess could have been solved by adding TV access to Zune. What a mess. Only the IRS is less organized or efficient.
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HawkeEye
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Unfortunately if you are over 30, have a job, and don't play games all day then X-Box music and Video are useless. Zune was a far superior product that needs to return for adults. The X-Box Music apps is disorganized, difficult to navigate, and the marketplace side of it is so inferior to Zune that it is laughable. PLEASE BRING BACK ZUNE!!!!!!!!
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Arya
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Guys, I am a Microsoft fan. Seriously, I am. I have supported their every move. But I really don't understand why zune software was taken away from us on WP8? The cloud sync isn't working. The songs sync and get saved to the phone but they don't link themselves to the playlists. That is, you have to always be online and stream the songs even though they're on your phone already. More over, why can't we even subscribe to podcasts even manually anymore?
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Anonymous
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Please make WP8 work with Zune! The new PC sync is just a step back several years. I love my Nokia 920, but Zune is far superior and so much easier. So. Much. Easier.
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Natalie
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Please make Lumia 920 work again with Zune!!! Can't be that every 2nd nokia you buy, you have to have some new software!!! I have all my musiklist on Zune.... I'm not using my 920. Thinking about selling it because that.
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Anonymous
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My girlfriend had a 900, so i said hey, why not buy the 928 instead of buying a new 32gb Zune. Little did i know, they weren't going to let me use Zune on the new ones like they did the old ones. I have 28gbs of music on Zune, all formatted through the software. Either we need a fix on the new software and a way to merge from Zune, or they need to allow us to use Zune. This is no upgrade as of current.
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Chris Snazell
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The desktop sync app's deleted of all the media on my 8X for the 3rd time this month. I've had enough so I'm off, I've ordered a Nexus 4 from Google.
When Microsoft can be bothered to taked Music & Podcasts seriously on their devices, I'll be back.
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Gaideah
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And Xbox music is not a feature!!!!!!
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Gaideah
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Please make it where we can sync our windows 8 phones with Zune. I like Zune. The Windows Phone App software is terrible. You cannot manage your music. You cannot sync a playlist that has DRM from Zune and get it to work. It takes a long time to sync with the phone. It can also turn Coke to Pepsi.
I have had a Windows phone from day 1. I have had a Samsung BlackJack II, Samsung Focus and now the Lumia 521. If I knew what I knew now, I would have just stuck with my Samsung Focus or got an Android based phone. This is inexcusable for software to be this bad. I had been telling people about Windows phones but until this issue is fixed (using the Zune player to sync) I will not be recommending a Windows phone for anything. -
ramon sosa
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if xbox music had the same ui and features i would be happy about using it w my wp8
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JD
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Microsoft - I was poised to move to WP8 until I discovered Zune was gone and only Xbox Music is available. Based on my terrifying less than 24 hour trial of Xbox Music, AND, the fact that even the new Lumia 928 has no option for SDcard storage, AND the fact that Xbox music cannot address network drives... you're keeping a potential customer away from your "ecosystem." Get it together. Rebrand Zune and put it back. It at least works.
