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The Microsoft Zune is a discontinued line of portable media players.

The Microsoft Zune is a discontinued line of portable media players.

On March 15, 2011, Microsoft announced that no new Zune hardware players would be developed, although existing models would remain for sale. The Zune had failed to capture significant market share after five years against the Apple iPod.

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Uploading / Simulating a Collection of Songs on the Windows Phone 7 Emulator

I am writing a windows phone 7 game that deals with extracting the spectrum out of a song and building the game level based on that. The only problem I have so far, though is that I cannot use any song out of the Zune media library, because there…
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Zune Player api

Is there the equivalent of the Windows Media Player SDK for the Zune Player software? I would like to be able to control the volume, play/pause state, and skip to next / previous track.
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XNA Zune HD application won't exit gracefully

I have and built and deployed the application created by the new project template for the zune hd. The problem is whenever the application exits, the Zune reboots. This happens when remotely debugging from the PC or when running it right from the…
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Running wp7 app on the device in Windows 8

I am developing a small windows phone application and it work fine when i run in the emulator. my problem is that i wanted to test in my device that. since am using windows 8. and in windows 8 zune cannot be installed ( each time it show an error…
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How do I load pictures in Zune XNA without running out of memory?

Im writing a XNA program that display pictures from a specific picture album on the Zune. The problem is when if I load the textures from all the pictures in the album, the program runs out of memory. I tried loading one by one and call Dispose on…
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Zune Software style animation Silverlight

I'm trying to see if someone can shed some light in helping me create a Zune style Silverlight animation. I want to recreate an effect just like the Zune Artist Background when the song is playing. I have figured out the Ken Burns style motion and…
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Programatically make changes to Zune tracks

Does anyone know of any APIs available for Microsoft's Zune application? I want to modify the ratings of the songs that are loaded in Zune without having to open the Zune app. There is a ZuneStore.sdf database sitting in my AppData folder, but I…
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How to create podcast for Zune using youtube?

I'm using Zune and I want to be able to add, as a podcast, all the videos from a youtube user. But after trying several scripts/services (PHP, Yahoo! Pipes, etc.) it turns that the different podcast generators work fine but when I try to download a…
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Construct a LPCWSTR on WinCE in C++ (Zune/ZDK)

What's a good way to construct an LPCWSTR on WinCE 6? I'd like to find something similar to String.Format() in C#. My attempt is: OSVERSIONINFO vi; memset (&vi, 0, sizeof vi); vi.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof vi; GetVersionEx (&vi); char…
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Zune HD development limitations

I'm wondering if I can write something like reading app (to turn my Zune HD into the Amazon Reader) Can I write applications? How am I limited with API? Can I use network and FS? Can I embed a browser to the app? Can I use XML parser, XSL, etc? Are…
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deploying appication, device is developer locked

I have deployed apps before to my window phone, but today when i try to deploy my new app something go wrong the zune is running my phone is unlocked, my windows live account is right, and when i enter the developer registration this is…
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why volume property doesn't work on ZUNE objects in WP7?

I'm facing a very odd problem here, it seems like reducing or any action taken on the Volume property of the MediaPlayer static class doesn't make any difference. I've heard somewhere that microsoft protected it but it doesn't make any sense that in…
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Zune Extensions can't be installed

I wanted to port my Game (XNA 4.0) from WP to Zune HD, so I downloaded the Zune Extensions installer. Unfortunately, Zune App were only supported until XNA 3.1, so I downloaded XNA Game Studio 3.1 and installed it without any errors or problems. But…
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how to code to stop/pause zune music in windowsphone7

Does anyone knows, how to code in c# to stop/pause the zune music in windowsphone7. I used background music in my application, if i launch my application, zune music stops. how to handle this? i use windowsphone7 version, so cant able to use…
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Adding tracks to Zune library using C#

Using C#, how do I programmatically add tracks to the Zune library?
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