Got your Zune Pass Yet?

If you’ve got a Windows Phone and you haven’t checked out the Zune pass yet then you are missing out. Zune pass is an “all you can eat” deal which lets you download and store loads of music onto mobile devices and PCs. You pay a monthly fee to keep the music going and you can have as much of it with you as you can fit onto your Windows Phone or Zune. You can chop and change your tunes as much as you like and keep a different range of sounds on each platform. Of course the bad news is that if you stop paying, it stops playing but I think that for around nine quid a month it is actually a pretty good deal.

I really like the way that you can hear a tune you like and then have the whole album on your phone a few minutes later. Windows Phone even has the amazing Shazam application (one of the few programs that I reckon is actually powered by magic) that will put a name to tunes that you play to it, to make the process easier. I’ve been happily downloading content and listening to it. Current favourites is “Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter Plays the Hits”. Country music (and other stuff) done real well.

Comments

[Jack]

Shazam is pretty swell.
I found myself testing it's abilities by playing the most obscure tracks i could think of. I was impressed.

[Arjun]

The problem is, spotify is already here. I can use it on my ipod and my android phone and my pc. Zune pass seems a bit late to the game here. When it was first announced I couldnt wait for it, I thought it would be a great service but its limited in its uses and its still based on drag and drop. On spotify i can add a track on my pc and it will sync up with my ipod and my android phone and i find that much more convenient. Its a shame really.