SPEAKER 1: The Zune was like such an
under appreciated, under loved.
It was just the best music player of the time.
I've got a Zune 30 here,
Zune HD, a tiny Zune.
It's 2023 and I want to get the Zune working on my PC.
Four different things. Is it up to date?
Doesn't need to be up to date.
Do you have the software installed?
Once you have the software installed,
does your computer see the Zune and then
can you get stuff onto the Zune?
All of those things add up
to a complicated problem in 2023.
First, when you want to update your Zune,
there is a Zuneupdate.com
website which is not run by Microsoft.
It's actually run by a very awesome community member.
When the Zune software phones home to say, hey,
"I'm a Zune, update my firmware",
there's nobody listening on the other side.
So it's like making a radio call and no one is listening.
What you do is you go to Zune update and you
change your DNS settings and you go into your hosts
file and you run
a local server so
then when your computer goes out to Zune.net,
it turns around and comes back and it's
talking back to itself so then you
can update the firmware on your Zune with
resources and tools at Zune update, which is really cool.
When you want to install the Zune software,
it comes in a file called Zunepackage.exe,
and you need to have.NET 3.5. installed,
and when you double-click on that,
Windows should go and say, hey,
you don't have.NET 3.5 and it'll go and install it.
You can also go to Windows features
and install it manually.
If you actually succeed in doing that,
you'll end up somewhere like this where we
actually have the Zune software installed.
Windows 11 right now doesn't work with the Zune,
when you plug it in, you'll hear it go and then it'll go.
Fortunately, there's some really cool people
on Reddit who can help you out.
You basically have to manually copy
a file into your System 32 folder and that will make
your Zune appear and it'll show up
automatically in your Zune software.
The deal is that when you copy the file in,
it's being copied into Windows System 32 into
a folder called en-US or English US.
Zune drivers, it
start in a file called a Zune.inf file,
and these are the list of all the different drivers.
Things go wrong when we get to this
ZuneCoinstaller.dll because there's a MUI file,
an MUI file that does not
have permissions to get into this folder.
This MUI file can be copied here,
but it can't be copied there.
Trying to figure out why this is,
but the solution is you get admin,
you take over that space and you
forcibly copy the file into there.
So we're trying to figure this out right now.
Usually you can go and run what's called a take on,
and I'll show you a video of what that looks like because
the issue that you're going to have will look like this.
We found the drivers but it
requires an interactive Windows station.
That means it's trying to pop up
a dialog and it's trying to let you do something,
so what I ended up doing is manually
copying that MUI file into that en-US folder.
Now, there is a tool on GitHub that I can't recommend,
but I can recommend if you know what I'm saying,
that's called the Zune Modding Helper,
and it will do a couple of different things,
including help set up these videos
sync issues by copying files over.
The challenge is here that you're going to be asking for
trouble because you're completely unsupported.
I would not do any of this stuff
on a machine that you cared about.
Pick a random machine.
I got this really old laptop and I put
Windows 8 on it and it was just easier. Here's the deal.
I could spend my entire
life trying to get this to work on
Windows 11 and I won't give up until I get it to work.
But in order to pull this off today,
old hardware, hurled hardware as
opposed to old hardware on new hardware.
This is an older machine that's running Windows 8,
and then I was able to copy Guardians
footage directly onto the Zune
using the Zune's software on an older computer,
plugged right in, installs,
works exactly as it should 100 percent.
Right here, I've got that running and working,
and then I can go and look at the Zune itself,
and we can see it's working just fine.