Experience your music in a whole new way with Zune for PC

Tired of the standard Media Player look and feel, and want something new and innovative?

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Here’s a quick look at setting up and using Zune on your PC.

Getting Started

Download the installer (link below), and run it to begin setup.

Once your download is finished, launch the installer to setup Zune on your machine.

Accept the EULA when prompted.

If there are any updates available, they will automatically download and install during the setup.

Zune will proceed to install on your gear.

However, to be on the safe side, go ahead and reboot.

After rebooting, launch Zune.

Zune will now ask you if you want to keep the default tweaks or change them.

Choose Start to keep the defaults, or parameters to customize to your wishes.

hey note that this adds the location to your system-wide library, not just the Zune player.

There’s one last step.

Or, you’re able to click Skip if you don’t want to do this right now.

Using Zune for Windows

To access your media, nudge the Collection link on the top left.

Zune will show all the media you already have stored on your gear, organized by artist and album.

When playing media, you could view it in several unique ways.

First, the default Mix view will show related tracks to the music you’re playing from Smart DJ.

The information may range from history about the artist to the popularity of the song being played.

Zune also works as a nice viewer for the pictures on your machine.

Start a slideshow, and Zune will play your pictures with nice transition effects and music from your library.

Zune Store

The Zune Store offers a wide variety of music, TV shows, and videos for purchase.

In the future, this will also work with Windows Phone 7 devices.

If you have a Zune HD, you could also download and add apps to your rig.

Here’s the detailed information window for the weather app.

Click Download to add it to your gadget.

poke the Mini Player button near the window control buttons in the top right to activate it.

Now Zune will take up much less of your desktop.

This window will stay on top of other windows so you could still easily view and control it.

Click configs near the top left of the window.

you might also setup Zune to stream media to your XBOX 360 if you have one.

you’re able to also customize Zune’s look with a variety of modern backgrounds and gradients.

Conclusion

If you’re ready for a fresh way to enjoy your media, Zune is designed for you.

It’s innovative UI definitely sets it apart from standard media players, and is very pleasing to use.

Zune is definitely one of our favorite music apps.

Try it out, and get a fresh view of your music today!

Link

Download Zune for Windows