Nov 12th, 11:17 am

By:
Mike

Zune MarketPlace Run Down

As you know the software to go along with the Zune is the Zune MarketPlace, and this was unofficially released today by a BestBuy shopper. Well here is the run down on the Zune MarketPlace and how it all works:

After the install Its time to choose your Zune tag, seems “cooper” (my name) is already taken. People work fast these days…

And then you sign into your Live account, which can be several things like a Hotmail account. By the off chance you don’t have one, then it give you the option to go off and create a new one. A word of warning thought to people out side of the US, when you try to sign in to the MarketPlace you will not be able to, unless you selected “US” in your country when creating a Live account.

Signing in….

And welcome to the Zune MarketPlace! This is what you will be greeted with on starting the program.

There are 3 section on the left: Playlist, Library and MarketPlace. Pretty obvious, MarketPlace tab is the shop side of the program which is made up of several sub categories, first one being Playlist.

And then Charts, Which have several charts available, Top Albums, Top Songs, Billboard Carts, Zune Charts

Active Downloads, Nothing really here, but this is where your downloads in progress will be.

Artists, browse songs by artists

Albums, browse songs by albums

Songs, browse individual songs with in albums

Genre, browse by genre

Year, browse by year

This is now you private section of your own music. When the MarketPlace is installed it automatically starts scanning your folders in the background for your media. The abstract purple (purple is not the only color) album art is what goes there if no album art is available. This section will be pretty firmilure to users of Windows Media Player11.

Now we come to the video section of the Zune MarketPlace. Sadly it will scan your hard drive, but will only put in the videos that are supported on the Zune, and seeing as most of my video files are AVI, I have allot of video converting to do…

The happy snap picture sction.

This is the options to the way the files are displayed (just like WMP11)

And the options drop down menu

Now this thing is pretty cool. This is what pops up when you click the minimize button down in the right bottom corner. Its a little (actual size) remote looking device that can sit up the top of your screen and let you keep control of your beats that your rocking out to.

And as said before, the MarketPlace can be downloaded by going to this page.