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Spencer Reeves
Приєднався 6 січ 2012
Hey I'm Spencer. I like 🖥 Tech, 💿 music, 📸 photography, 📐 design, and 🌱 sustainability.
I tried the "offline music" experience with a Zune HD ... is this really better than streaming?
Lately, I have seen so many people try opting out of streaming services for a more analogue and offline experience using dedicated music devices. iPods have seen a major resurgence in the past few years, which is a wild surprise considering that streaming has made music easier and more accessible than ever...
I decided to give the offline experience a try myself when I found this Zune HD mp3 player. This was a such a unique and fun music player to experience this with, but is it enough for me to completely give up the convenience of streaming?
Let me know if you think you would rather use streaming or try a more offline music experience and thanks for watching :)
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0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Streaming vs MP3 Players & Physical Media
3:28 - About the Zune HD
5:16 - Ripping music to the Zune from my CDs
6:36 - Overall Experience vs Streaming
I decided to give the offline experience a try myself when I found this Zune HD mp3 player. This was a such a unique and fun music player to experience this with, but is it enough for me to completely give up the convenience of streaming?
Let me know if you think you would rather use streaming or try a more offline music experience and thanks for watching :)
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0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Streaming vs MP3 Players & Physical Media
3:28 - About the Zune HD
5:16 - Ripping music to the Zune from my CDs
6:36 - Overall Experience vs Streaming
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If PS3 games don't look that bad its proof Sony is scamming us and the pRo is 1000 percent a scam
plz send the collection of mariachi music!!!!!!
Love my Zune HD even tho the DAC in the original Zune 30 GB I feel sounds so much better. But I got the Zune car kit that plugs into the cigarette lighter and uses the car AUX port. Still use my Zune HD daily. Found a Zune Discord group who keeps the Zune alive and does cool things like making a Bluetooth Zune with Bluetooth capabilities. For me the love of the Zune started out when I went out Black Friday to Staples in the early 2000's and got my first one.
Glad to see you back man. The album had me reacting the same way you did 😂
It looks like it just came out, I didn't know about it and thought it was a new product 😅
is the zune gen1 worth buying? I found a local offer for 30$ (aproximate conversion) for a 16gb model, but the battery is dead i can buy a replacement for about 25$, so in total it would be 55$
You play minecraft
Spotify give good remixes, only to take them away
I never stream music, ever. It's either I buy MP3s/CDs or nothing.
5:51 LIFE IS STRANGE MENTIONED RAHHHH
mariachi music goes crazy ngl 😭
this is like Gen Z's Vinyl craze
paying over 10 bucks a month doesn't even give you high quality ? HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you use a mac ? hahahahaha seriously though, why did make this vdieo ? again, you're only making a fool of yourself. only making very clear that you just went along with everything.
so you're spending money on the music itself AND spending money on the freakin' connection to use it. this is SICK. and oh my god, then also distractions.............
this is seriously so very strange. ok i'll take some time to imagine.. spending over 10 bucks per month on music, and then i would have to enable an internet connection on my phone AT ALL TIMES to be able to use it, while phones are actually officially adviced against to have in your pocket with such a connection on. and then i would also ofcourse have to spend more money on my internet contract on my phone. and you all seriously go along with this without thinking for yourselves.
even when i do enable wifi on my phone it doesn't draw my attention in any way. i do have apps like instagram and tiktok but i genuinely have no idea why anyone would ever spend time on those apps.
what ? people actually go back to using mp3 players while they can just put music on their phone ?
no, the huge trend for some strange reason is to have subscriptions to listen to music. i really don't get this. we can still put music on our phones for free but no, people pay for it monthly. just like people don't even seem to know that you can toggle off the internet connection.
You could sync wirelessly with a PC with the Zune and drag and drop with a simple mod file applied to you Windows XP SP3 machine. Even when it comes to the original Zune 30gb which I had. That was back in 2006. Zune Pass was like Spotify Premium just much better and it allowed you claim one album a month. All of the modern Android based music players and some Music Apps are heavily influenced by ZuneUi too. The Zune Line was truly incredible and way ahead of the curve. My Zune 30gb lasted a decade without issues.
sail the High Seas my friends😂
Streaming is better, you dont have to worry about keeping that data, and who the hell listen to music all the time lol
Very cool video, I'm a big Zune enthousiaste and it's always cool to see video of people testing Zune without knowing the device at first. I'm not using my Zunes so much now because the lack of Bluetooth is really a bad thing but on my Android phone I use Zplayer that mimic Zune design and allow me to listen to my musics onto it offline ! Also cool CD of Brat signed by Charli !
I own a Microsoft Zune 30GB, and I love using it when I travel.
The vibe is amazing
do want to sell it to me sir..
The difference between the zune and ipod was that the zune was essentially a phone you couldnt talk on. you were able to get on the internet, message people, watch videos, play games, listen to music, etc. The real reason it failed isn't because the iphone came out which sold less than 100 million units across the world in its first 3 years, its because apple is extremely good at making people think their inferior products are worth buying at a higher price than better products. i mean look, the video creator literally used all apple products in the video outside the zune.
Wait, "Alucin guys" on ps3 times?
Hey you got a good find
I gotta get me a ps3.
AirPods? Unless we are talking AirPods Max, take advantage of your youthful ears and get some decent headphones. Ears are going to eventually not be able to tell the difference someday. Enjoy iPods and Zunes to the fullest while you can, streaming isn't going anywhere anyway. When my ears can't tell the difference, then I'll be an AirPods compatible only kinda girl, but even then I have an iPod Touch 7th gen ready when I give up my iPod Video 5.5 to some lucky kid.
BROTHER IS HE PLAYING FOR THE PS4 MANNETE
bring the value back to music. people are more selective with what they purchase to hear and so on. Brings back to love and value for the music.
Here’s the thing, and I’m just giving one example. For those of us who are embedded in the Apple ecosystem, you’re already paying for Apple One and get everything in Apple Music included. And you can download the music to your iPhone in lossless format and then easily listen to that super high-quality music from any other device (including taking advantage of the lossless quality with capable headphones). And because I’ve been all-Apple for so long, all the CDs I’ve owned in the past are part of my Apple Music library and I always have access to them in a device I already own and carry with me all the time. It literally doesn’t make any sense to go and pay significantly more for the same high-quality music I already have access to, just to get it onto a different (additional) device.
I have been through the OG walkman, a discman, a couple of iPods, an NW-A25 walkman, and currently streaming... There are benefits to having offline music and there are benefits to streaming. Is it entirely better? I think it's entirely up to the user. It also wouldn't hurt if you have both, which I do.
Well said! What works best definitely depends on each person’s lifestyle, preference, equipment, etc. - there’s no clear “perfect” method of listening to music, but there are pros and cons for any method. I’m happy with the convenience of streaming while still enjoying and trying the benefits of other options
I miss my Zune HD. Best MP3 player I ever owned.
Are you gay? Just curious.
The UI of zune is just ahead of its time. That's why I fell in love with lumia windows os because of it...
I’ve been reaaally wanting to try out a Lumia phone to experience the fully-realized Windows Phone UI after playing with the Zune!
Zunes were elite I had a custom one they're honestly perfect
nigga why you listenin to lady gaga
I only use my own mp3s and never used streaming music services and I'm always not near any cell service
? why separate mp3, I never used any streaming service, all of my songs are in mp3 on my phones since ages
2:10 To try minimizing distractions of being on my phone and being more intentional with music listening
I just got a 60gb ps3 for 50€
WORKING PS3 FROM GOODWILL???
"Narco corridos" last owner was a low life scum bottom feeder, ill pay you to toss that junk in the bin
Im gooning
Damn, this makes me miss my Zune HD! I might have to go on eBay and buy another one now. It was how I listened to music at the gym. I still have an older 80gb Zune, but don't use it that much anymore 'cause the battery doesn't hold a charge for long. Other than that it still works fine, and I still have the software on my laptop.
As a spotify user, why would I buy those to listen to music when I listen to ads
Listening to ads is torture :/
narco corridos yayaiii
The answer is obviously yes imo. When you pay for services like Spotify you don't own the music and it can be removed from the service. Furthermore, paying for Spotify barely brings much to the artists. I've heard from several artists over the years that the money they make from Spotify doesn't even come close to the cost of recording their music. So they make most of their money from selling the music directly. One mistake I see a lot of youtubers make is making it seem like the only alternative is to use a dedicated music player (often one of the more expensive name brands) and go through the experience of ripping their cds one my one and putting it on there. That just isn't the case. Music can be bought in lossless digital formats like FLAC and DRM in sold music isn't very common now a days and hasn't been for year. Computers, and smartphones all have access to some music playing app. And these apps can usually play most if not all common music formats. What I do is I have all of my music on my computer (and I have backups as well if needed), I try to keep my music in wavpack format because it has a hybrid lossy mode that turns each song into two files, a lossy file that can be played on it's own, and a lossess correction file that makes the song lossless when in the same folder. Since I have less space on my phone (I have about 160GB of available space shared between the phone and it's micro sd card), I just copy the lossy files to the phone (their quality is set to about the same as a high end mp3). I use foobar2000 on both devices. I only had to copy the files once, File transfer just uses the standard file explorer when I connect the phone to my PC. This set up works for me because I only use the phone for music and the occasional text. I don't spend a lot of time looking at my phone and because I only focused on the necessities I have a phone plan that is cheap, but also quite limited in bandwidth. Upgrading to one with unlimited internet would multiply my monthly cost for it and to me it's just not worth it to stream music I already have. a cheap 30-40 dollar mp3 player. The sound on it is pretty good but it seems to not play nice with micro sd cards above 16GB, which can still hold quite a bit of music as long as it isn't lossless. It also can't play as many formats, so I just converted some songs to mp3 for it. If you don't want to use your (or any) phone, there are quite a few music players that can be bought from that price to any price point. You don't need to buy a Zune or an Ipod to get away from streaming services or even just to get away from your phone in genera. DACs tend to run Android (some can run Rockbox if you want to), which means the experience is similar to a phone and putting music on them doesn't usually require any sort of extra computer software. They also tend to have bluetooth if you want to use wireless headphones. Dacs also get more and more features targeted towards audiophiles the more expensive you go, like being able to drive higher quality headpones, support for hi-res audio.But if you don't care about that, there are options that are much cheaper that are affordable.