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Live and Learn with Zune Software

Background Information

For Christmas we got our kids (ages 8 and 11) each a Sandisk Sansa 1GB MP3 player.  So, first I’d like to give some impressions on this little player.

It’s very affordable, easy to use and set up and works great for someone not looking to put their whole library on it.  The instructions guide you to use “My Computer” to copy files to and from the player, but I soon learned that you can also use WMP 11, which I find much easier for these things.

The Problem

If you’ve used WMP you know that when you delete a file a dialogue box pops up and asks if you want to delete from the WMP library or from the whole PC.

Well, (1) I have a Zune, which runs on its own software.  (2) My kids subscribe to a podcast from which they are slowly building a library of shows.  (3) These podcasts are pulled over automatically into the Zune software and loaded onto my player.  (4) I don’t want these shows.  (5) I have gotten tired of deleting them from my Zune.  (6) The other day I decided to just delete the podcast from the Zune software.  (7) No box popped up asking if I wanted to delete them from the PC.  (8)  I obviously did NOT want them removed from the PC and didn’t know they would be.  (9) Today, “Dad where’s all of our shows?!”  (10) Here I sit re-downloading LOTS of episodes!  (11) Thanks Microsoft!

Yes, I know you can click show settings and choose to save them all and not Sync, but for some reason every once in a while it would sync them anyway..which is what lead to my deletion the other day.

Is it too much to ask for the same simple courtesy that WMP has given for years?!