Zune Social: I didn't know that some folks still didn't know that this was possible, but here ya go: You can sync the Zune cards of your friends to your device. If you have a Zune Pass what happens is that full-length songs will get synced to your device and attached to your friend's Zune Card.
So, for example, I have Jetherealz card sync'd to my device -- I go to her for all of my electronic information. Whenever I connect my device to my PC (and I think this also works if you're in a wireless hotspot and select syncing -- friends from the settings menu), then I get a sampling of some of the music that Jessica is currently listening to. It's not a snapshot in real time, remember that the Zune card is updating every 15 minutes or so.
It's been noted that a typical friend card will take up 100MB worth of space on your device. If you have a Zune 120 that means you can take a lot of friends with you. If you don't have a Zune Pass, you can still sync friends except all you'll see is basically a listing of what they're listening to.
How to Sync:
- Open up the Zune Software. Your device doesn't have to be connected yet.
- Click on SOCIAL
- Click on FRIENDS
- After a few seconds the Zune Cards of your friends will populate on the screen.
- Click on one of those cards and hold the mouse button down
- Drag that card over to the bottom left corner and place it over the device icon
- When you connect your device you will see Syncing: [friend's zunetag] as part of the process
- To find it on the device, go to SOCIAL and then over to FRIENDS
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