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scifan · 07-03-2007, 11:01 AM

I bought a 5th gen Ipod last year... then took it back and exchanged it because of an irritiating pause bug that I thought was a malfunctioning unit. With the second unit I learned that if you didn't turn off the ipod before unplugging from headphones, car stereo, etc that it could cause the unit to hang in it's pause state...

I gave Apple a year to resolve this issue and then moved on.

I bought the Zune and all is not roses with it either. It plays music fine, but some of the functionality I was used to isn't provided by M$ out of the box.

I find humor in the fact that on the Apple I couldn't copy music off of the box but I could play it off of of the box with their software... the exact opposite is what I get with the Zune... easy to copy off, difficult if not impossible to play from the box...

I could use the IPOD as a USB attached drive and am not quit eso successfull with the Zune...

BUT it plays each time I press play... and it appears that others are carrying my above issue's forward and working towards work arounds... I think this would be an awesome little box with a micro linux kernel on it...

07-03-2007, 11:01 AM	#66 (permalink)
scifan Zewbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 4 Reputation: 10	I bought a 5th gen Ipod last year... then took it back and exchanged it because of an irritiating pause bug that I thought was a malfunctioning unit. With the second unit I learned that if you didn't turn off the ipod before unplugging from headphones, car stereo, etc that it could cause the unit to hang in it's pause state... I gave Apple a year to resolve this issue and then moved on. I bought the Zune and all is not roses with it either. It plays music fine, but some of the functionality I was used to isn't provided by M$ out of the box. I find humor in the fact that on the Apple I couldn't copy music off of the box but I could play it off of of the box with their software... the exact opposite is what I get with the Zune... easy to copy off, difficult if not impossible to play from the box... I could use the IPOD as a USB attached drive and am not quit eso successfull with the Zune... BUT it plays each time I press play... and it appears that others are carrying my above issue's forward and working towards work arounds... I think this would be an awesome little box with a micro linux kernel on it...