Good workaround but i think Zune still seems to sync the data faster to the device than any other program out there. it took me about 2 hours to sync 13.6 gb's of music onto Zune using windows media player while only 45 minutes using Zune program lol but this is still amazing hack cuz this hacking takes skill and patience.
Hi Dizzy, this is the same nohitter151 from the Mediamonkey forums. I wanted to thank you again for making this guide available, and I hope you don't mind me "borrowing" some of it for the guide I've posted over there.
One thing that seemed to be missing from your guide was stating that the "Zune as an external hard drive" hack had to be enabled. (I couldn't get my Zune to sync without it.) Other than that, great guide. I'm not sure what the future holds for zAlternator, but I hope improvements continue to be made! This is the best thing for the Zune since the 2.0 software was released. Thanks!
Hi guys, I am certainly glad someone has put the effort into making the Zune work with MediaMonkey, great program.
I installed the HDD hack and followed the instructions, killing the Zune.exe during a sync, and my 30GB Zune says "Syncing..." and shows up in windows explorer as a browsable storage device (without a drive letter). Neither WMP11 nor MM3 will see the device at all. I am running Vista x64. I haven't tried running this with my 80GB Zune yet. Has anyone got this setup working on Vista64?
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Someone on the Mediamonkey boards wrote a little .exe to terminate the Zune process without using the taskbar, I just wanted to make it available here as well. Here is the link:
Thanks nohitter! If you don't mind, I'm going to upload it to the zB ftp server. Just so I get this right, all you've got to do is run this during a sync, right?
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hey dizzy when i try to do this i get up to the point where you sync everything from mm but my zune just randomly shuts down. now my zune software has the sync error also im really lost what to do or what happened?
Thanks nohitter! If you don't mind, I'm going to upload it to the zB ftp server. Just so I get this right, all you've got to do is run this during a sync, right?
Thats right, run the exe while a video is syncing - it just avoids using the task manager.
JoeyJoJo, the author, said "I will play around with trying to automate the whole process at some point," so I'll keep you guys updated if anything else develops. He also said to feel free to cross post here, so thanks for hosting it.
Last edited by nohitter151; 01-29-2008 at 07:33 PM.
