[MP3] Le Zune s’offre une très grosse mise à jour !

Microsoft vient de dévoiler une très grosse mise à jour pour le Zune et son logiciel, estampillée 2.5 ! Cette dernière rend encore plus intéressant le baladeur de Microsoft qui est déjà une bonne alternative.

Concernant le logiciel, cette mise à jour offre notamment la possibilité de télécharger des vidéos (émissions et séries TV) à partir du Zune Market Place grâce à un partenariat avec NBC, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central et Cartoon Network. Comptez 2$ ou 160 MSPoints pour les séries TV. Microsoft a également lancé les “Zune Cards”, qui permettent de partager des playlists, des morceaux ou des artistes avec ses amis. Il y a également la possibilité de laisser des critiques sur les fiches d’artistes ainsi qu’une meilleure intégration avec Windows Messenger…

Pour le baladeur, la nouveauté la plus importante est sans aucun doute l’ajout du Gapless ! On trouve également les Playlistes automatiques (smart playlists), la possibilité d’éditer des metatag, sans oublier le support XNA pour les futurs jeux développés par la communauté…

Liste des nouveautés (via anythingbutipod) :

• Synch Zune Cards: Members can sync other members Zune Cards that will act as a auto play list sharing your friends top artists and favorites.
• Search Friends By Real Name: The Zune Social now allows you to add your real name, location, and bio; becoming more of a social network.
• Instant Friends: Upon starting in the Zune social you will be able to pick one or a few of the Zune music editors to be on your friends list. Each editor will specialize in a particular genre of music so there is one for most listener’s taste. This will help you help you get accustom to the friend features until you add your own. If you already have friends you have the option of selecting none.
• User Reviews for Album and Artists: The Zune member will be able to post reviews on artist pages.
• Reputation Badges: In the Zune forums members will get badges for helping out in the community.
• Windows Live “Now Playing”: Windows live will now display what you are listening to on the Zune software.
• Auto Playlists: Dynamic playlists that can be filtered by Artist, Rating, Genre, Recently Added, Year, Composer, and Songs Played.
• Video Browsing: View your own collection by genre and series as well as preview them before full screen play.
• Gapless Playback: No skips or silence in between your favorite continuous mixes or albums.
• Sync Groups: Users can simultaneously sync multiple Zunes even when it’s not connected. Sync groups of music, pictures, and video can be created for each device.
• Genre Browsing: You can now browse by genre.
• Improved Metadata Editing: Meta data editing is much more powerful in that multiple simultaneous tracks can be edited, but also a really simple and intuitive drag and drop metadata editing.
• Zune Reminders: When capacity is nearing tools are available to remind you.
• Support for XNA: Xbox game developers will be able to load custom code using the XNA platform.
• More Seamless Social Integration: Software will show user profiles now without having to go to zune.net.

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