Microsoft making sure new Zunes features works for their customers
Zune 3 and the new Zune 120GB music player is here, right in time to duke it out with the new Ipod nano and touch. The Zune has one really cool trick up its sleeve however, the ability to download new music you’ve just heard via the FM transmitter that comes built-in to your Zune. This new feature lets you tag a song you heard on the radio to be downloaded later from the Zune Marketplace store. This cool new feature is getting a lot of support from Microsoft to make sure it works properly the first time, maybe they saw the iPhone software debacle and wanted to avoid that happening to themselves.
Users of Microsoft’s Zune music device and the related service of the same name will be able to tag songs they hear on the radio and then purchase them via wireless hot spots.
Buy From FM, debuting this coming Tuesday, is the result of a partnership between Microsoft and stations from nine big radio groups: Beasley, Bonneville, CBS Radio, Citadel, Clear Channel, Cox, Emmis, Entercom, and Greater Media. Altogether, over 450 stations are participating.
Microsoft said the new service was designed to make it easier for Zune users to download new music they come across on the radio, citing a survey which found that 61% of the population discovers new music primarily through that medium.
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[Source: gotzune]
