Zune Software Panic

I’m not sure if I hit a button or selected too many things while working on my Zune 120, but I watched the player “sync” by deleting album…after album…after album.  I finally managed to get it to stop deleting the albums, but only after going in the complete opposite direction and trying to upload everything to the player in order to restore what was deleted.  And then the software balked again: since I was overfilling the player, it prevented me from uploading!  As it stands, I now have it on manual sync for the Zune 120.

What’s frustrating is that I don’t know how it happened, but I do blame it on the sluggishness of the Zune software application.  That was my one complaint from the first day I started using it: responsiveness is horrible.  You can click something and it might respond immediately.  Or maybe in a few seconds.  Or sometimes, never.  Whenever it feels like it.  I have the graphics setting in Zune set at their most basic level.

It’s not like my computer is top drawer, but it’s no slouch either: I can run other major applications (Vegas, Sound Forge, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) and it doesn’t flinch.  This reminds me of how bloated Microsoft Office 2007 and Vista have become.  And while I’m ranting, I can’t help but mention how unattractive I think the whole interface is to begin with.

I’m thinking that the software didn’t respond correctly to some mouse clicks I’d made, as I was deleting one album from my Zune 120 at the time this started.  I noticed that the sequence in which it was deleting albums was in the order I had uploaded them…so I’m guessing that somehow a whole group of albums got selected for removal from the 120.

I managed to go in, artist by artist, and restore everything deleted, so my player is back to its old self.  But now that I have it on manual sync (I’m afraid to try it any other way!), I will have to remember to upload ANY changes manually myself.   And that isn’t the best way to use the software…