Archive for March, 2008

almost full

Posted in zune on March 26, 2008 by Scott

i am almost finished filling my zune. i hit 4,072 songs. however, i am cheating. i have a large collection of beatles songs. i have a few beatle’s CDs including the red and blue CDs as well as beatles 1. i wanted to “recreate” as many of the original albums as i could. i managed to create 15 albums i did not already have. granted many of these albums are incomplete, but they look cool when scrolling through them on the zune. how does this effect my goal of 4,000 songs on my zune… because to create those albums i was putting songs on my zune twice, once for the CDs i own and again for the original albums i faked. i figure at lest 70 duplicates there.

i still have to do some clean up in other areas then i will start going through my wife’s music to see what i want to put on the zune. i should have no trouble hitting 4,000 unique songs on my zune, but these last few are going to take more time then it did to get my entire collection of classic rock on my zune.

monster FM transmitter

Posted in zune on March 7, 2008 by Scott

my wife got me a monster FM transmitter for my zune. it had the zune logo on the package, but i can’t find it on their web site. it is closest to this one that is for generic mp3 player, but it has the control/display of this one for the ipod. mine uses the mini headphone jack and allows you to select the FM frequency you want to use. because of this the device cannot power or charge the zune. darn! i would have liked that because i would set the screen on full time while plugged so i could always see the album art.

this unit performs extremely well. i have only heard some strange sound on a couple of songs. it has worked in three cars so far, so i don’t see any compatibility issues.

the price of mine was $29.99 at target. monster’s web site lists the two above at $49.95 and $79.95, respectively. i don’t know why that is. i just got a new car (07 335i) which has an auxiliary jack, so i will be looking for a mini headphone to auxiliary cable to leave in the bimmer, and i will leave the FM transmitter in our acura MDX.

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btw… i am still going through all my music. i am up to the r’s at the moment. i have been working a lot of overtime the last few weeks and it is hard to get time to play with the music. at least i have over 3,300 songs to listen to. still hoping to hit that magic 4,000 songs on my zune.