Hi all.
Thanks for your answers.
What about doing it through a Virtual Machine?
Think that would work?
Thanks.
Take care,
fonzie
On Sep 22, 2008, at 3:34 PM, UCLA Bruins Fan wrote:
typical microsoft. I'm not surprised
On Sep 22, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Fonzie,
On Sep 22, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Alfonzo Cuellar wrote:
I had a question about other players like the windows zune.
a friend of mine has one, and was curious as to if I could
actually use the windows zune to sync on the mac, so that I could
take songs from the device, and or add songs to the device.
reason I ask is because, a friend of mine was thinking of getting
a mac, and she has a Windows Zune. She would rather keep the
player around if she can, and not purchase another device if
possible.
I heard there was windows zune software that was needed to both
use the device on your computer, and download stuff to it.
Unfortunately, for the Zune at least, the answer is that Microsoft
has included protection that does not allow file transfers with
computers that have not been authenticated with them.
In general, the situation of the Mac's compatibility with other
players runs all the way from certain Creative players that will
actually appear as recognized devices in iTunes (showing up under
the devices category of the Source Table, similar to the iPod) to
players that are just recognized as external devices in Finder (as
though they were attached memory sticks), to which you can transfer
music with VoiceOver's drag and drop as though you were moving
files in FInder.
Many MP3 players can be handled with a freeware program called
XNJB, which was developed by a Mac user who owned one of the
Creative Players that did not automatically get recognized in
iTunes, and the software has been extended to support other
players. This program is highly accessible, and is available from:
http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/
Here is their statement about support for the Zune:
<begin quote>
There has been much excitement recently about getting XNJB to work
with the Zune. Unfortunately Microsoft have put some protection on
file transfers so the Zune has to authenticate with the host
computer before files can be transferred. So currently XNJB will
only show a list of songs and files on your Zune. You cannot (yet)
upload or download anything. If anyone knows how to get around this
then please let me know. I will start working on this soon thanks
to linux.com who have kindly given their Zune to the project
<end quote>
Regular music files (without DRM copy protection) can be
transferred to non-iPod players and played. The newest Creative
player will play iTunes Plus tracks (non-DRM, higher bit rate music
purchased from the iTunes Store that uses AAC encoding). If you
have players that you authorized with Audible on a Windows machine,
I believe that any Audible audiobook tracks you transfer from your
Mac to that player will play. (The problem is that the non-iPod
players usually require firmware updates and an authentication
method that is only supplied under Windows, while for iPods the
Audible authorization is performed automatically through iTunes on
your Mac.)
IPods formatted on the Mac now let you transfer purchased music
from the iTunes Store from your player to iTunes, so you can take
an iPod synced to your iTunes library on a different machine, and
possibly with different content, and transfer these tracks into
your iTunes library on a second, new machine. As long as your
library is authorized to play your purchased music (up to 5
computers), these tracks will play. You may even be able to
transfer tracks from an iPod formatted for your Windows iTunes
account to one on your Mac (I don't know whether this is true, but
it's a possibility; it certainly wouldn't work in the other
direction since while Macs can read Windows formatting, Windows
cannot read Mac formatting).
Does anyone own a Windows Zune, and have used it on their mac?
If so, could you let me know how you went about it, in both
adding, subtracting, and downloading content to the device itself?
Hope this answers your question. Maybe someone owns a Zune and can
say more?
Cheers,
Esther
