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XBox 360 To Become Ultimate Zune Jukebox

Posted by Zealot on Jun 14, 2010

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xbox360logo In the midst of all the jumping and gyrating connected to the star-studded presentation at E3 of Kinect (formerly Project Natal) for the Xbox 360, another announcement was tossed out there as sort of an afterthought. However, to me it sounds like big, big news….namely that you don’t need to depend on services like Last.fm to play music on your XBox anymore. As of the new version you can access the Zune Music Catalog from the XBox 360, not just the movies and TV shows for sale in the Zune Store.

In other words, with your XBox 360 and a Zune Pass, you now have a Seven Million Song Zune Jukebox. Considering the fact that many modern TVs and media centers have excellent stereo speakers, you can now be on the receiving end of the biggest Shuffle in history.

Just another step in the Zune software becoming built in to all Microsoft products….and considering that I much prefer the Zune interface and SmartDJ over the iTunes interface and Genius, that makes me all kinds of happy.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, HP Mini 311, iPod Touch 3G, iPad 16G or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Wil Wheaton!).

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      When I read the headline, I thought they were renaming the XBox 360 to “Ultimate Zune Jukebox”. I guess that was a bit off-base. :D

      Steve

    • http://www.svpocketpc.com Pony99CA

      When I read the headline, I thought they were renaming the XBox 360 to “Ultimate Zune Jukebox”. I guess that was a bit off-base. :D

      Steve

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