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Zune doesn't like my NAS?
I have done some troubleshooting on my problem importing music into my Zune, and have concluded that the problem is that Zune has a difficult time adding songs from a NAS hard drive.
Yesterday, I took a cd, Ennio Moricone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, and used Zune itself to rip this cd to a location on my NAS hard drive. Zune was able to successfully rip the CD and all mp3s were saved. If I double clicked on one of those files from Windows Explorer, Zune played the file just fine.
However, I could not ADD any of those files to my Zune library.
When I then used Zune to rip the same CD to my laptop’s hard-drive, the songs were added without any problem at all.
It isn’t that Zune doesn’t support music libraries on an NAS, because Zune DID manage to add 600 files from my NAS. The problem is that Zune is finding, but not adding 2400 files from my NAS. That ABBA CD I added was on my NAS and Zune was able to find and add 1 file from that networked location. But then it ignored all the other tracks in that same folder. This kind of inconsitancy seems like a bug, not user error.
The bottom line for me is that iTunes has no problem working with the library of music on my NAS, so therefore I am sticking to using iTunes.
For the record, I am not an Apple fanboy. I don’t own an iPod, and in general Apple’s marketing kind of annoys me. So this isn’t some sort of Apple fanboy bashing Microsoft. I really wanted to like Zune, because I have been very disappointed by iTunes 7. Instead, I have just re-installed iTunes 6 on my laptop and am going to hold off on any more Zune installs.
Thursday November 16, 2006
I had the same problem, but not on a NAS drive, just a second hard drive in my machine.
After much searching – one thing that seems to work is to open a Windows view of the folder(s), then drag them into the Zune Library view. After some processing (depending on how many files you added) it will say you added xx songs – if you dragged the whole library, it will give the entire number.
So if you want the rest of the ABBA CD – drag that folder from Windows into Zune library.
Or if you want to make sure it’s got all your songs – drag all your folders in.
You can compare that with how many files Windows shows to get some comfort that it brought in most of them.
btw, one way to count your songs in Zune is to switch to songs view, then ctrl-a to select them all – it shows the total number and size in GB.
— pilgrim Oct 16, 07:56 AM #
My sons Zune is very slow and will not completely play a song, there is plenty of memory left. Any ideas on what the problem might be or what happened to cause this.
— MJones Nov 13, 06:45 AM #
MJones, try cnnecting it and updating it’s firmware. If you don’t know how to do this, google it ;)
Aran, try making sure your songs are indexed for archiving/fast searching.
Right click > Properties > “Advanced” button in the attributes tab.
Make sure the first two boxes are checked, and while your at it make sure the files aren’t hidden or read-only.
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— Jake Dec 26, 10:12 AM #
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I was having the same problem with the Zune software and I found out it was the firmware on my NAS. I use a SimpleTech SimpleShare 250gb and I had no luck with fw 1.02, but Zune found all my music when I upgraded to 1.07. From other articles I read, most older NAS firmwares used a bad version of SAMBA. Try upgrading your NAS firmware and see if it helps you out. Good luck.
— jason Sep 26, 11:23 AM #