ipod or zune

[SK-1]

I have a Christmas gift card to use and I am looking at a 8mb Zune2 and the ipod nano. I have never even owned a media player and wanted some input from you guys before I use my gift card.
Thanks in advance.

[das müffin mann]

go for the ipod just because the zune is still kinda new to the market and microsoft doesnt get things right the first time around and the ipod is the most mature of the two and would be the better choice although the ipod does scratch easily but a case would fix that up

[mysticjon]

there both not sexy, there just harddrives with a headphone jack and screen. but i do have an ipod video the 30gb and zune 30gb i plan, i dont have a preference though i carry my ipod now since my cell phone got cancled, and the ipod has a clock on it..iphone is not worth the investment and i dont use att at al....i love zune dont get me wrong, my ipod just has time on it

[B1gg3stN00b]

I love my Zune but I wish it had more than 30gb

If they made a 160GB Zune I'd love it forever.

[Metal-Head]

lol. What the hell are you putting on it?
I got 10 gigs of music on my Zune and find it hard to listen to it all.

I prefer Zune over the ipod. :)

[das müffin mann]

id grab a next gen zune but if you cant wait get the ipod then sell it on ebay for the next zune

[B1gg3stN00b]

lol. What the hell are you putting on it?
I got 10 gigs of music on my Zune and find it hard to listen to it all.

I prefer Zune over the ipod. :)

Metal and other types of music.

I've got 158gb on my comp.

But my movies wouldn't fit.

Can't wait for 1TB mp3 players.

Incomplete music list I typed up for Myspace off the top of my head, I have the full discographies for most, some being more expansive than others (1 album by Vali to 40+ by Zappa):
Vali
Iron Maiden
Angra
Wintersun
Edguy
SRV
Agalloch
Symphony X
Strativarius
Rhapsody of Fire
Within Temptation
Venom
Manowar
The Doors
The Clash
Albert King
Rory Gallagher
FotC
Me
Empyrium
The Police
Coroner
Yes
David Lee Roth
Gustavo Cerati
Soda Stereo
Fito Paez
Blind Guardian
At Vance
Helloween
Blackfield
October Fall
Aerosmith
Dethklok
Deicide
Gamma Ray
Brujeria
Anathema
Arch Enemy
Kalmah
Ulver
Danzig
Primal Fear
Shaaman
Deicide
Opeth
Almah
Dr. Sin
Sepultura
Slayer
Pantera
Extreme
Yngwie Malmsteen
Alcatrazz
Paul Gilbert
Arkona
Ensiferum
The Grateful Dead
Honeycut
Frank Zappa
Lightyear
Journey
Leningrad
Living Colour
Guthrie Govan
Jeff Beck
Moonsorrow
Therion
Equilibrium
Quorthon
Bathory
Nokturnal Mortem
Godspeed
Gov't Mule
Korpiklaani
Lumsk
Galneryus
Shred for the Attack
Dokken
Lynch Mob
Autumnblaze
Meshuggah
Dream Theater
Between The Buried and Me
Pink Floyd
Necrophagist
Into Eternity
The Proclaimers
Racer X
Gnarls Barkley
Quiet Riot
Nanowar
Merciful Fate
Robert Fripp
Chuck Berry
Bob Dylan
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn
Mika
Grand Funk Railroad
Mick Jagger
Ravi Shankar
Iron and Wine
Dalaras
LA Guns
Zakir Hussein
John Williams
Frank Gambale
Sonata Arctica
Metaljonus
Nightwish
Tenhi
Apoptose
Neun Weltern
Dead Can Dance
Liquid Tension Experiment
Monster Magnet
Judas Priest
Running Wild
Megadeth
Heaven's Gate
Kiko Loureiro
Demons and Wizards
Iced Earth
Motley Crue
Motorhead
Modest Mouse
Edu Ardanuy
Porcupine Tree
Amon Amarth
All That Remains
Muse
Old Crow Medicine Show
Norman Blake
Ralph Stanley
Johnny Winter
Dark Tranquility
Death
Kreator
Planet X
Kamelot
Mad Season
Mad Caddies
Black Sabbath
Buckethead
X-Japan
Billy Joel
Takayoshi Ohmura
B'z
Skip James
Otis Rush
Robert Cray
Robert Johnson
Mississippi John Hurt
Serj Buss
Bumblefoot/Ron Thal
Cacophony
Jason Becker
Streetlight Manifesto
Dead Kennedys
B.B. King
Fourplay
The Rolling Stones
Ratt
Credence Clearwater Revival
Winger
Evergreen Terrace
Jaco Pastorious
Cream
Coolio
The Vines
Catch 22
Charly Garcia
Dropkick Murphys
Flogging Molly
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution
Capdown
Bad Manners
Desmond Dekker
RX Bandits
The Sex Pistols
Aesop Rock
NWA
Snoop Doggy Dog
Nena
Duran Duran
Miles Davis
Charlie Parker
John Coltrane
Thelonius Monk
Charles Mingus
Andrea Bocelli
Kate Bush
Allan Holdsworth
Kanye West
Karsh Kale
Joss Stone
James Brown
Solstheim
Kazuhito Yamashita
Explosions in the Sky
Arcana

[GLeN]

Must have been so much money for that lot ;)

I got a 60 gig 5g ipod video, love it to death lol I find it hard to get bored when i have it

[B1gg3stN00b]

I paid for every single song, hahahaha.

I got my Zune off of a website for $80, but they sent me a used instead of as advertised new one, so I got my money back.

Free Zune!

Or else I'd have the 160gb Ipod Classic

[btarunr]

Neither, I'd say Creative Zen Vision M 60 GB :p

http://www.itreviews.co.uk/graphics/normal/hardware/h910.jpg

It's the most durable player I've used, survived many falls without any errors, has seemless firmware upgrade to the X-Fi processing as promised by Creative. It uses a tiny perpendicular drive by Toshiba, it's software is intutive and so is the input.

[B1gg3stN00b]

I've dropped my Zune 4 or 5 times on the factory where I work's hard concrete floor.

I feel my Zune has the following advantages over the Ipod:
Easy to use interface
Quick charging
Durable
Great customer support
Much easier to use software
Much more attractive
Beautiful full color screen, bright, high resolution
Zune Social Features (4 or 5 other people at my work have Zunes, we trade off songs all the time from across the building)
Really nice framerates on video, no lag
Longer battery life
Badass magnetic stock earbuds that pump out highly balanced sound other than the annoying tinny-sounding Apple ones
Made by Microsoft
Not an Apple product
Much easier navigation, even on Zune 1s.
Recessed controls so you don't have to put it on hold every time you stick it in your pocket.

[WM Rebel]

The ZUNE kicks @$$ it is beast!!!!!!!!! the itunes software is too bland and is way out of zune's league...the 2nd generation zunes are also as slim if not slimer than the ipod nanos not mention a larger screen but with still less total surface area....so all and all the zune is the ultimate mp4 player and when microsoft comes out with the zune 3rd gen or zune phone all hell will break loose...microsoft will then rule the world

[Wile E]

The ZUNE kicks @$$ it is beast!!!!!!!!! the itunes software is too bland and is way out of zune's league...the 2nd generation zunes are also as slim if not slimer than the ipod nanos not mention a larger screen but with still less total surface area....so all and all the zune is the ultimate mp4 player and when microsoft comes out with the zune 3rd gen or zune phone all hell will break loose...microsoft will then rule the world

Despite all that, the iPod is still the most popular mp3/mp4 player on the planet. I don't think MS will be ruling the mp3/4 player market any time soon.

The iPod has a way larger aftermarket available to it, that's the reason I stick with it. Hell, my Pioneer head unit in my car, and my next home surround reciever both have built in iPod control. When is the last time you saw a head unit or receiver with Zune control built in?

[theJesus]

ipod for one reason: rockbox

check out http://www.rockbox.org and don't ask me questions about it lol since they're easily answered by looking around on the site

although, I'm not sure the latest nanos are supported . . . but whatever, I say get a 160gb ipod 5.5gen :)

edit: or buy my fuxx0r3d cowon iaudio x5 60gb . . . It just needs the battery soldered back on, and some buttons soldered (or you can be like me and control it by pressing a wire to the right joints :laugh:) Oh, and the hdd always ends up with at least one corrupted file that can't be copied from it, and the problem persists even after formatting. the line in/out doesn't work either, and neither does the remote port I think (don't have a remote to test with, but there's a wire that needs soldered back on to the pcb that I haven't figured out what it affected yet, but I think it has something to do with that) . . . I'll probably end up just hooking the battery back up and using it as an external drive for unimportant shit (mostly what i used it for in the first place) . . . maybe I'll get a new tip for my soldering iron and solder some buttons with extensions and enclose them in some plastic or some shit and make my own remote lol

[farlex85]

At the sizes you are talking about (I'm assuming you mean 8gb) a creative zen or sandisc or something would be a better choice, both the zune and ipod are overpriced in this section, and there's no reason to deal w/ their drm stuff w/ that little music. If you want to go higher, I prefer the ipod for a number of reasons, but I'm talking $250 for the 80gb. Anything under that, don't get either, go w/ something else.

[theJesus]

Actually, I agree with farlex85. If you want ~8gb, buy a Sansa e280 v1 on ebay and put rockbox on it :) Buying a brand new one will get you the v2 which isn't supported by rockbox, and probably won't be for a while, if at all. The only difference between the two is some internal hardware, which is why rockbox won't run on v2, but other than that they're exactly the same. I bought my gf a v1 e280 to put rockbox on and it's absolutely awesome. Very small and sleek and sexy looking ;)

[Wile E]

ipod for one reason: rockbox

check out http://www.rockbox.org and don't ask me questions about it lol since they're easily answered by looking around on the site

although, I'm not sure the latest nanos are supported . . . but whatever, I say get a 160gb ipod 5.5gen :)

edit: or buy my fuxx0r3d cowon iaudio x5 60gb . . . It just needs the battery soldered back on, and some buttons soldered (or you can be like me and control it by pressing a wire to the right joints :laugh:) Oh, and the hdd always ends up with at least one corrupted file that can't be copied from it, and the problem persists even after formatting. the line in/out doesn't work either, and neither does the remote port I think (don't have a remote to test with, but there's a wire that needs soldered back on to the pcb that I haven't figured out what it affected yet, but I think it has something to do with that) . . . I'll probably end up just hooking the battery back up and using it as an external drive for unimportant shit (mostly what i used it for in the first place) . . . maybe I'll get a new tip for my soldering iron and solder some buttons with extensions and enclose them in some plastic or some shit and make my own remote lolI agree, Rockbox is awesome. I run it on my 5.5gen 80GB Video.