Zune 30 GB Digital Media Player (Black)

This player is awesome . It was able to fit my entire library of music picture, and about 15 DVD's and still has room . I did upgrade to a better set of ear buds though . It's wireless link is easy to set up and the compatability with the XBOX 360 is a great fit for me . Highly recommend over IPOD .

I ordered the brown 30gb zune while stationed in Iraq. It came through the military mail system without a hitch, I believe largly in part to the label on the shipping container that said "computer parts". Very thoughtfull of the seller, if it had said MP3 player I would have never recieved it lol.
I loaded it up from my laptop with video clips, picture slide shows and thousands of songs, arranged playlist, the works. Used it everyday for hours, and even accidently closed it in an armored Hmmwv door resulting in a dent, not a crack. I destroyed the headphones it shipped with but no biggie.
The battery life is very good, 8-10 hours maybe off and on, charge time from my laptop usb port was super fast. No problems with the software or any user interface complexities. Now I'm home and lost the usb cord to it but ordered a new one and a bunch of other accesories, I use my zune daily at work while running around the site.

This was a very impressive item that was relatively easy to load via computer and downloads in a snap. Out plays Ipods easy.

I use an MP3 player to listen to audio books, music, speeches, and soundtracks. I find it really frustrating that I cannot bookmark places where I was listening. I should be able to have several bookmarks where I can pickup where I left off with whatever I was listening to before I was interrupted. (I have a Ceative Zen that had that feature & was smaller but storage and battery life pushed me upto Zune.)

The Zune PC software is a hog and poorly organized. I should be able to rearrange the view of the material and the menus on the Zune itself. What you see on the PC doesn't translate well to what you see on the Zune, so I constantly think I have good organization on the PC, only to find out while I am driving that I can't find stuff I know is on the Zune.

Had I to do all over again, I would have gone with iPOD, which isn't perfect either, but has better human factors engineering & designs.

My husband and I purchased the Zune 30GB digital media player almost two years ago. His Zune crashed and died on him a few months ago and mine died yesterday. We experienced very strange technical difficulties 6 month into having this brand new Zune in our possession. I am so disappointed in this product being that we spent $300 each and now they both don't work!!!! My husband purchased an extended warranty on his and Microsoft is doing little to nothing to replace these defective, poor imitation of an I Pod device. I am soooo disappointed in Microsoft!!! Microsoft should stand by the quality and integrity of their products. We are like the only ones left in our family that prefer PC products-- although our family has been telling us for years that MACs are more technically superior and more reliable -now who has egg on their face? I have family members that have had I Pods for almost five years and they have never had problems with their MP3 player. We should've have gotten an I Pod instead. I would NOT buy this product because you would be throwing your money out the window!!!!