Zune Software 2.5 Available Now!

The Zune software also gets improvements and new features! My favorite ones? You can sync multiple players at once and the return of autoplaylists!

Here are short descriptions of what you will find in Zune software 2.5:

• Auto playlists. Users can create an auto playlist that updates itself automatically as new music is added.
• Browsing videos. Consumers can browse their video collection by genre and series, plus they can preview videos before they play them on full screen.
• Editing album and track information. Users are able to edit track or album information (metadata) quickly via multi-select and drag-and-drop. The advanced metadata editing features make it easy to edit multiple tracks or survey albums and artist information.
• Organizing collections. In addition to sorting by artist or album, consumers can now sort by genre. While browsing by genre they can further sort music by artist, album or release year.
• Gapless playback. Consumers will now be able to listen to an album without the brief gap between tracks, both on their Zune and in the Zune software. This is a must-have for live-concert recordings and compilation albums.
• Syncing groups. Zune software now syncs to multiple Zune players simultaneously. Users can prepare which content on their computer to sync even when their Zune isn’t connected. Consumers can create custom sync groups for music, pictures and videos.
• Zune reminders. Experience is improved when a Zune player’s memory is nearing capacity, via an easy-to-use tool.

Comments

[NateYNate]

This is a lot of help. I like haveing my music organized, and now I don't have to reley on another program to put my tags on my music. Genre is one thing that I was bugged about. I couldn't just listen to my music by genre. But now I can, keep on making new updates microsoft.

[Sean]

I am dead serious that I cheered with joy after I installed the update and saw that I could edit tags, sort playlists, make auto playlists, even he visualization screen had improved (you can make a sort of 'quick list' playlist right in your program!

Thank you Microsoft for listening to the consumer's concerns and responding in kind.

[Brian]

I really need some help, i just updated my zune software to 2.5 it told me to restart the comp to finish installation. But after that i tried connecting my zune to my comp and the zune software just didnt recognize the zune even though on the zune screen it said connected. I tried everything from the microsoft faq and still no luck.