Zune Pass
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Zune Pass
You are now the proud owner of a microsoft zune and asking yourself ... what exactly is the Zune Pass?
The Zune Pass is your unlimited access ticket to Microsoft's Marketplace. By buying a Zune Pass you may download as many songs, movies, games, from the Zune Marketplace as you can handle.
The Zune Pass is $14.99 PER MONTH.
At first this sounds cheap, but in reality it is not. There is one big disadvantage. If you cancel your Microsoft Zune Pass you will lose every single song, every movie, every game you downloaded from the Microsoft Marketplace and transferred to your Zune.
So if you want to keep your Zune downloads you will have to stay a Microsoft Zune Pass owner for the rest of your life and pay $14.99 every single month.
This is ridiculous, don't you think so?
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Yeah that does sound a little ridiculous. I was just about to get it too. Is it possible to use an audio convertor or something on the files?
Use some brains. If you're a music fan, you will likely download 100s if not 1000s of albums. You will also take chances on new music (my cd collection is littered with crap I took a chance on at $15+ a pop). If I download 100 albums, it would cost approx. $1,000 to buy on iTunes or whatever other service. At $14.99/month, it would take over 5 years to fall behind. I was previously a member of Napster and downloaded 8,500 tracks. I would then put my player on random and it was better than paying for XM or Sirius. At $0.99/track, that's $8,500. It would take me 47 YEARS to buy that much music!! (and, do you seriously think the format won't change anyway in that time??)
Subscription services don't make sense for people who don't truly like music. But for anyone who really appreciates music, and likes to discover new music, a subscription service blows away a pay service. I just bought an 80Gb Zune because my old player was only 30GB which wasn't enough to hold my own cd collection, let alone downloaded tracks. I'm looking forward to signing up for Zune Pass and don't for a moment regret that I will lose my Napster tracks. I'll just download most of the same music on Zune Pass.
btw, lack of a subscription service is the reason I won't buy an iPod, even though it's a great player.
not really you can get a DRM Removal tool....
ok but if i download one cd a month what am i lossing. plus i would not have to rent movies anymore so im saving money there. i mean its really a deal. and if i really really like a cd i could by it and have it forever. but with this it would let me have new music for a party that i would not normally have so its really a money saver.
can you swap the files to a disk such as a flash drive, so when removed you can still keep the the files there and plug them back in.
not really. ever head of something called soundtaxi? lol if anything google it up. there is also movietaxie as well. and for free zune gmaes that don't expire go to zune board.
Hope i solved ur fustration lol.
Tunebite lets you keep them even after your pass is long gone.
I have a 30 gig. zune and i am a 13 year old male i bought it myself with my own money, and was hoping my mother would buy me zune pass. but i look at this and think it's a rip off, but then again it's not. i fucking love music. but i only have about 34o so songs. and i was hoping to get zune pass to download a ton more for my 7,500 song holder :) i was thinking, can you download videos with it?
Now you get 10 songs a month that you get to keep forever. So the subscription is essentially $5 a month for access to 3 million songs.
Explaining it to people is like when I got my Tivo the second day they came out. It is subscription based and everyone thought it was a waste of money. JUST USE A VCR! There is so much more to it that until you use it you will never understand why you will never be able to live without it.
That is how the Zune Pass has been for me.
My friend asks me if I heard the new Coldplay EP I said "no, but I can right now.. I took out my Zune and since we were in a wifi spot I looked it up in marketplace and streamed it (the whole Ep) Then I asked him if he heard about the lawsuit against Coldplay from guitarist Joe Satriani that they borrowed from his song "If I could Fly". So to compare I streamed that song (not the 30 seconds but the whole song).
This type of situational freedom keeps repeating and I have only had it 3 weeks!
To me one of the best parts is NO 30 sec clips for those 3 million songs. You stream the whole song and the next song on that album. I have discovered so many great songs I never would have by just streaming entire albums.
Even during the "free" Napster days it was just downloading songs you knew.
Comedy albums. George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor... you just stream the whole thing when you feel like having a laugh.
I work at my computer so this is so worth the 50 cents a day (16 cents a day for the subscription since I can keep $10 worth and even download MP3's)
It's hard to for someone to understand all the advantages until they use it.
(I thought I was going to cancel after the 14 day trial)
well I am off to finish my 100 song Christmas playlist for the party (and it is not costing me $100)
zune gives you 10 songs per month THAT YOU GET TO KEEP FOREVER!!!!
so thats really only 5$ a month that is "wasted"
btw there are services out there that will take off the drm so that u can use the music for as long as u like. (this is illegal, but easy to do)
the zune pass rocks.
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John F. says:
14 months ago
This isn't remotely ridiculous, it is how a subscription based service works. If you were allowed to keep the music you downloaded then we would all just buy a month and spend the entire time downloading all the music we want. Thousands of songs for 14.99 (american). Now that sounds ridiculous.
Lets do an overview of other subscription based services:
Netflix-Cancel subscription, you have to return the movies
Gamefly- Same as above, but with games.
MMOs- No money, no playing.
Gym Membership- If you stop paying, you can no longer get buff.
If it makes it easier, think of it like this....you are subscribing to music. Once you stop paying, the subscription is over.