After Show: That smaller Zune they also made.

[@adamrou12345]

The zune music subscription service was genuinely ahead of it's time and it worked rather well.

[@pandoranbias1622]

Aesthetically this thing was a decade ahead of its time. If Spotify was styled like Ubuntu.

[@Aliastrion]

I believe this is the Zune model that I remember from back in the day.. it’s crazy how the ads hyped up the design that it appeared way too stylish on magazines than it truly looks

[@Kdkjdjewerdnxa]

The zune hd actually had a beautiful design though and an oled screen years before that was common in smartphones and over a decade before Apple started using them in iPhones.

[@noodlelynoodle.]

​@@Kdkjdjewerdnxai honestly miss my zune 80 gb just as much if not more than my ipod mini

[@Yo-po8jt]

Not bad for the time at all

[@puthenveetilnoel]

Still waiting on the Zune HD video. Was the coolest looking Zune by far. And if we want weird nuggets. The Haier Ibiza Rhapsody was my favorite. Similar type of touch pad to the zune but super responsive. Buttons in all the cardinal directions so it made more intuitive sense to use. All around solid Ipod competitor that no one has hear of.

[@brandonf5558]

So I bought this 4gb model for $120 as a preteen. It had file sharing, store access, radio, and the zune subscription service, which was amazingly ahead of its time. The UI was also way ahead of its and very modern compared to the apple look. Sadly the Zune store sold drm locked music, so I think it didn’t attract the mp3 crowd at the price, and apple customers were dedicated. Not to mention the Zune software was horrendous. Their was a 3rd party software made just for removing it from your PC. Then a few years later I bought a iPod nano with the video camera. It had most of the same features, still lacked the cool factor imo, but it was an apple product, so it was trendy and worked well. Sadly I realized quickly you could not take pictures with it, which was probably the worst design decision made at apple imo. All that to say I still have both, the nano still holds a charge, the Zune needs a new battery but still operates.

[@CainXVII]

I heard about these but the subscription model definitely turned me off. I bought all my music on CD. Same with getting an iphone, they made it so hard to import my music to my phone that I quickly switched to android. Now I am trying to learn to live without Spotify again and my computer doesn't even recognize my phone anymore...

[@brandonf5558]

Zune also had a typical storefront like Itunes did, you could still purchase DRM protected music, but it also offered the subscription, which worked very well. Yeah, thinking back Itunes was just as bad with crashing, ipod not being recognized, trying to import your library.... fun times. @@CainXVII

[@XanthosAcanthus]

What a wonderful new year treat. Great video. I only had the first zune and the zune hd. I still use the HD every once in a while because it’s a legitimately nice device. It’s just a shame it was competing against the iPod touch with its App Store and what not.

[@RedGr33nBlue]

i had both of these as a kid. the big one and the "nano." space battle was a BANGER, that game was so fun. i didnt even use it to listen to music as a child, it wasnt mine so when i was gifted it i pretty much exclusively used it to play space battle

[@ozzyjordan8946]

came from a zune household. i had probably 7 or 8 minis, always got them broken cause we were poor, and the little fraken poo-nano lived till my last battery died. i was great at fixing issues! still have my first gen white 30 gig, now with bluetooth, a 128 gig ssd, and an upgraded battery. very rarely gets used nowadays with my phone having a 1tb sd card full of music. still a neat little nugget

[@mr_ice117]

Crazy to think i had half of those mp3 players. Including the big and small zune, the nano, the creative, the sansa

[@DesuVR]

I had all the Zunes and I liked each one, even the desktop music player was really nice.

[@TechBaffle]

I've got the same orange Nano! Still seems modern today and so slim! Great screen and navigation on it is so easy

[@gabrielchewy4134]

Crazy 48k views with like no comments, good on ya wade for doing all this for your fans. One of the best creators out there right now.

[@StucklnAWell]

When they were uploaded for patreon, the comments were disabled. So they accumulated all those views from Patreon

[@EEDGFE]

3:26 i legitimately thought that the screen cracked.

[@opraiderman904]

Zune nano was a great device to use, I wish I still had mine. The software wasn’t the worst, but it wasn’t the best either.

[@bennyboy27or]

I just dug out my Zune HD the other day, the screen still looks pretty good

[@TyRoberts]

The Zune software was ten times better than iTunes ever was.

[@khalilsstories]

Just finished watching ur zune video from 4 years ago lol

[@Aeterin]

Am i dreamin? Dankpods video on new year and i am only 1 minute late

[@RossComputerGuy]

He's making the After show free

[@puffingdragons]

the best creator on the TUBE thank you so much for all your videos! Sorry i didn't support on Patreon! Thank you so much for all these videos on YT! I appreciate the realism!!!!

[@ianism3]

I bought at least 5 or 6 of those 6th and 7th gen nanos (or whatever gen they were... can't be bothered to check) off ebay as each of them slowly succumbed to battery death (and once me wiping out while skiing down a toboggan run... #canada) I fucking loved how light and colourful and user-friendly they were.

[@flexcrazyfun5109]

I had the touch screen Zune HD, it was the perfect device back in 2012

[@rubenbest1]

I had one of these. I loved it sooo much. It was better than an ipod, it just came out too late.

[@kosmikme]

Oh god I just had flashbacks of watching the Simpsons on the bus with a friend on his Zune on our way to and back from school 😂

[@RNOP_hello]

I have an Orange Nano, the battery doesn't hold at all. Unplug, it dies immediately too. But otherwise, it's great.

[@adamcanterbury]

It wasn't the hardware that made it special but the service subscription of unlimited music vs apple's itunes where at the time was only purchasable audio....funny how later apple "came out" with apple music and took over the market...😊

[@LilyGamer-pm3uf]

4:05 I had that nano and it was great, used it for like 9 years or something and the batt actually lasted for quite some time but she was picky about cables. I'd plug them in and the screen would light up but not have a charging indicator, but would charge when the screen was asleep.

[@TarenWright]

you forgot na-no

[@codyball3329]

There are screen protectors that have a paper texture to them, really helps with glare, if the glare is really bothering you, you could potentially some sort of plastic that has that same texture

[@Kid15X]

I'd really love to see him do a video about the Zune HD, it was by far the best device in the whole line

[@Mr-Neven]

The earbuds for Zunes were so much better than all the iPods I had. I still have a HD sitting around.

[@velvi8359]

I had a 2nd gen Zune and I remember loving it!.... until the battery died not even 2 years later. If I remember correctly the battery life was a big issue with that model.

[@LockeTheCole]

I actually enjoyed this thing because it made it possible for me to listen to new music (because of their subscription service) before we had Spotify. I would go to work with both an iPod and this thing in my pockets... Then my spouse accidentally washed it... to make up for it he bought me a Zune HD... and that thing SUUUUUUCKS. The only good thing about it was the OLED screen, the lack of real controls made it impossible to actually use without constantly removing it from your pocket.

[@TechBaffle]

Microsoft did the pink to orange gradient before it was cool

[@Sunny-ju1lr]

Dank almost said pune 😂

[@JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski]

kids these days will never know the struggle of watching Apocalypse Now (the 3hr extended cut) on an ipod nano on a ferry ride.

[@patrickbones2909]

The 80gb zune was the best one. Im assuming yours didn't work and got the rock smash?

[@Snotnarok]

Creative Nomad Zen! I had that! It was cheaper, had more storage and I believe battery life vs the ipod and didn't require itunes (which, some consider a positive, some consider a negative). I loved that thing, I used it for ages. The buttons were annoying but it was worth it to me vs the ipod

[@JJsGA]

I had this and the Zune HD that came afterwards. Both were good! I had 2 ipod nanos ( a gen 2 and gen 3)

[@berniejo5307]

would love to get a zune, my dad and other family had some but the batts had a tendency to become a small gernade or just not work apparently....

[@user-lh3uz1cp7y]

You can use them while plugged in, that's something modern devices don't have going for them anymore since the manufacturer wants them to only last as long as the battery so they design them to only draw power from the battery to kill it quicker and people throw devices away not knowing the battery is all that's wrong. Acer did this to a laptop in 2004 that had desktop grade graphics and CPU but it was useless cause the battery didn't hold a charge.

[@RodiArslan]

Windows 8 ve Windows Phone kullanıcı arayüzünü ZuneOS'dan aldı.

[@coopercannella-joyner770]

This small one is what my step dad had

[@embasorangiratina36]

I think the key mistake of the Zune is they didnt make a big one.

[@JJsGA]

They did have a big one lol. The one in this video is the small one

[@T1zzle]

I still have my 80gb Zune somewhere, pretty sure the battery died because I couldn't turn it on back in the day. I loved that thing but looking back, it had some serious drawbacks. The scroll wheel is awful and wasn't at all precise 😂

[@noodlelynoodle.]

Huh I don't remember having any issues with the scrolling on my 80gb I loved that thing and was so bummed out when it died from getting dropped too many times

[@T1zzle]

@noodlelynoodle. it was never precise enough for me, it was fine actually pressing it and moving one song at a time, but that took too long. It was pretty tough though, I definitely dropped it a few too many times

[@noodlelynoodle.]

@@T1zzle I wish I hadn't ripped mine apart to see the guts once it died cause now I realize I probably could have just replace the hard drive and been fine but it is what it is, I may get another one at some point just for nostalgia same with the ipod mini second gen I loved em both but the zune was definitely my favorite player I've had

[@T1zzle]

@@noodlelynoodle. I didn't have another player like that, I moved to having music on my phone very soon after that but I miss the player days. Sorry to hear about your zune, hopefully you can find another 🤞

[@noodlelynoodle.]

@@T1zzle there's parts ones on eBay all the time so I'm sure I could get one going at some point if I try I just kinda hate working on electronics and it's never been a super pressing thing just one of those things that would be cool to have. I have a couple old ipod touches I got for free laying around and don't use them at all cause pretty much anything I want to listen to is here on KZbin anyhow but it would be a fun project someday. I lost my like 6k song music library when the computer hard drive died anyhow so I don't have much music saved anymore except a bit on one of my old micro sd cards from an old phone. That library was from back before I was torrenting stuff too so I was manually ripping songs from KZbin one by one so once it got lost I was discouraged and never really rebuilt the library

[@gameingdude2266]

Now you just need to make one on the Zune hd

[@MaleRainbowAction]

iPods were amazing but frankly I think the Zune had a pretty decent UI and functions. They were just too late to the party to make a difference or technically even hope to compete.

[@cujoedaman]

Microsoft COULD have made a comparable product, I mean, they frickin' made the X-Box...

[@cameroncorrosive925]

i have to say if you just want music without the streaming services the ipod classic (any gen), or a nano 3rd gen is the way to go.

[@GreeniestWingiest]

I love zune i think it should be awesome im excited

[@shanethrelfall416]

Even Sheldon Cooper bought a ZUNE

[@lashyndragon]

I had the 30gb original zune, then a friend of mime had the zune 2nd gen, whom I got to experience that from (MUCH better dirty buds than the ipod) and I later got a zune hd which was sadly stolen. The metro UI honestly had potential, but of course, microsoft gave up on it like everything else

[@dishmeup]

I think i had one of these as a kid ended up destroying it because amger issues were amger issues

[@mromutt]

I have a red one of these :D I also have a white zune 30 (og zune), just put a new hdd in it yesterday, ironically its the old hard drive out of my ipod 5th gen from when I flash modded it. The original battery in the zune 30 still works but its also the same battery that goes into the ipod 5th gen... just like the hdd 🤔the little red zune though the battery is 100% toast just like in the video but I will give them this, you can power it with usb and fully use the device still without a battery.

[@pokeman260]

You should explain why you don’t like the 4th and 5th Gen Nanos. I mean, you love the 2nd Gen nano, and they’re essentially the same thing with larger displays

[@894MUSIC]

He doesn’t like them since he says they look “weird”.

[@abram-green]

No it's because they're the most likely to get "the black spot" (battery explosion)

[@894MUSIC]

@@abram-green yeah, I was gonna say that too, but I didn’t I have enough time to type lol the black spot is so unfair, it stops people from being able to collect nanos properly 😭

[@894MUSIC]

…or should i say, na-nos!

[@meekomyachii]

this is the zune i had! it was my sisters boyfriends, she stole it from him and i stole it from her :^)

[@VortexBricks]

Wait so the 5th gen nano turns off when you take it out of the charger? I thought my nano was just bugged

[@TechSpec814]

That just means the battery doesn't work and needs replacing

[@VortexBricks]

@@TechSpec814 funny thing is my dad tried replacing the default battery and he did a good job actually, except that charger problem

[@PlutoTheSynth]

2:48 no way!! is that lips 106 fm :O

[@brumelite]

Hey, I know we're all, like, iPod friendly and stuff But do you guys have a plug for my Zune?

[@bernielomax4702]

It’s crazy that Microsoft didn’t learn their own lesson with the zune. If you’re going to be late to the party, you gotta do something the other guy can’t. The Xbox was super late to the party but it did so many things the ps2 couldn’t and even though it didn’t come anywhere near the ps2 in sales (no console period has) it did well enough to A. Cement itself in the game, and B. Out do Nintendo.

[@aeroworkstech]

for the games on the zune at about 3:00 i do have to say, if you had this, but no other games. no other form of entertainment... i'd be gaming on the zune honestly, its better then nothing at all.

[@bloodakoos]

BEZEL

[@skeedabapndadm2789]

After Show 14

[@derekw6811]

Everything about Zune was so premium except for the software lol

[@helterskelter416]

the creative zen mp3 players were better than either of those. creative had color screens, video, fm radio, mic recording, line in recording, better controls, better build quality, and was smaller than the nano... back before they released the nano in black and white screen. it was also significantly cheaper.

[@Maxwelltheallmighty]

And did the nano have the ability to download music straight from the internet I think nottttttt no iPod did tell the touch was released

[@9002craig]

I have a zoom and the screen is not cracked. I can’t boot it up because it’s stuck on the charging screen and I’ve gotten HP steam seven which works and it’s got Windows 10 it originally had Windows 8.1

[@PNP02089]

I had this one :D

[@aaronmonico8574]

1:53 That's what she said

[@danielwgk]

Zune Hache Dee, Mate. Get One.

[@ganymedeflowers8998]

I feel like the Zune had enough going for it that Microsoft actually could have had something special here. It seems like the main downsides all come from Microsoft not actually putting enough effort into making this nugget as could as it could possibly be like Apple did. Instead it just ended up being another cash grab with a moderately better budget than most. The drm locked music, almost but not quite good software, and the physical design that was just a little bit more fiddly than it needed to be. It seems like if Microsoft had copied less of the ipods design and more of the philosophy behind that design it could have actually succeeded.

[@WeAreMovieMakers]

Zoon was cool, other than the music store.

[@jamesgotman]

Love the content but the device is so bad I wish you closed your blinds 😂

[@Maxwelltheallmighty]

Do the zune hd

[@Aeduo]

I dunno what "welcome to the social" is trying to say but considering it was at the time when myspace was a thing and facebook was on its way up, it's very of its time. But cripes this couldn't've come out at a worse time. Apple were really hitting it out of the park at that time and their media devices were only getting way better by the year while everyone else's devices were similarly overpriced as apple and far more crap and the tools you had to use with them were universally awful (though so was itunes). But they kept insisting it was just as good and worth just as much (sometimes more) rather than doing what people wanted and making something similarly as good in specs and capability but maybe lacking in an app ecosystem but like 1/2 to 3/4 the price, and not needing a stupid app or special driver or something to put files on it. My nintendo DS could play mp3s and (specially encoded videos, but given the limitations of the system I'll give it to it) right off of an SD card without needing a stupid app.

[@botsnkats]

where na-no

[@olivepear_yt]

na-no

[@levinmiguelfernando6178]

Poor Microsoft, they never learn their lessons do they? Everyone already knew that Windows 11 is garbage on release, and the kicker for that too is they're getting rid of Control Panel. Thanks Microsoft for being crap as always.

[@billyarm4772]

zune was better !!!!!!

[@kadenrichard9416]

Eh

[@Mr.Pibb94]

Not an apple product this guy automatically thinks everything about it sucks. We get it, you’re obsessed with apple. It gets old lol

[@Rodrigo-ks6oc]

He made a video when his Studio Display died He made a video when his iPhone 12 Pro Max died.. He made a video about the iPhone 15 Pro Max, and how much it sucked “Obsessed with Apple”, yeah, sure..

[@Arlowe253]

Every large company makes unforgivable trash, and nothing is worth buying, from anyone. Ever. Nobody should care about any of them.

[@stopmotionadventures4812]

Early, again.

[@Angrytangerine735]

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[@ActualThreeDragoon712]

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[@Trump2024hzizo]

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[@Dingus_Tech]

poo

[@FireworkPlayz]

na-no