Are firmware/software updates next? Soon? I hope.

:-)

woo, some improvements very early are good to see.

well done.  I like the tweaks.

anyone else think the time spent improving the social could of been time spent improving the zune software/firmware? just think the energy should of been focused away from the zune social pet project and into the device itself, imo.

That's great to hear Cesar. I'd like to suggest something for the social. Can you guys add a easy way to search for friends? Like myspace; be able to find them by searching their email, name, or anything revolving around that. Or search by their favorite artists or currently favorite songs.

Some nice enhancements here. I dig having recently played tracks and top artists seperated.

How do you remove a favorite?

For some reason, the software and Social have lost all my Combichrist and Cocteau Twins plays. I've gone from hundreds of plays of each to _zero_. maybe this is a meta data corruption issue on my end, because the other people who were mentioned before for those artists are still there.

Other than that, looks cool. The extra info in the zune card is a step forward.

is there any way that zune social we'll be open for anyone around the world..i can't show my recently played songs on my zune card..

I have one question -- my total number of plays for my top artist has dropped from over 1500 to approximately half that (758 or so, but my Zune software is playing even as I type so that number will probably be incremented).

I had a Gremlin crop up on my Zune a day or two ago, whereby it wouldn't play anything and kept giving me "item not available or has been removed" errors on every song. To fix it, I renamed my Zune folders on the PC, synced (which cleared the Zune of all music), restored the Zune folders to their proper names, and synced again (all my music was restored to the Zune).

Now, my question: did my actions affect my total number of artist plays appearing on my Zune card, or did the updates on Zune's side make the difference? Or both?

sweet, glad to see you're updating it :D

uuuuuu. I woke up with morning like.."What the...I'm I crazy or is this different?" I like!! (Borat voice)

Looks really good! Now I want even more though, how about the ability to download complete statistics including least played, then I know what to delete.

Also would like recommendations based on my listening history.

Zune Social looking much better now, thanks Zune Team!

If you are listening, then... Still waiting for the advanced features (enhanced rating for songs, DJ features, Clock?, Device item removal, auto playlists, EQ on the new v2 Zunes and others...)

Zune team, if you're listening....  Download history for subscriptions still won't load. It gets stuck at varying percentages for different users. There's a nice long thread over on zune.net with  numberous users outlining their problems.  Customer support and mods cannot help us.  Seems to be a backend issue.  http://forums.zune.net/15482/ShowPost.aspx

Glad to see you guys are keeping your ears to the ground, nice enhancements.  Also, I love how unrelated to your posts some of the comments on this blog are.  (Not Jaxim specifically)  Like the one in response to your last post asking for a case for his 30.  :)  

Cesar,

Any word on the battery drain issue yet?

Nice improvements Ceasar. I hope the team can crank out some improvements for the 2.0 software next. While I appreciate the ease of use for a novice that the new software provides, I miss the greater functionality provided by the old 1.0 version.

I've basically gone from using it to manage my library to just managing what's on my device. I miss being able to do both in one package.

international zuners will have access to zune social and zune cards?.. as i know, all our plays are not shown in our zune cards... you may want to improve that

greetings from chile

Love the enhancements, however I would have hope that fixing the bugs in the software would have been the first priority. A tad bit dissapointed that you guys are focusing on a piece of the experience that was pretty polished versus the piece that has well documented bugs that should be fixed.

-Lil'

jonathan broderick I totally disagree with you.  

1 - I think these tweaks to the social make it much more useful, descriptive and fun.  2 - I doubt that developers working on the Social take away from developers working on whatever you want out of a Zune firmware patch.

Thank you Zune Team!

Agreed.  The Zune Social developers are an entirely different team than the folks working on the desktop client, and yet another team working on the firmware.  Those are all very different disciplines.

Have some faith, folks.  2.0 is a damned nice piece of engineering.  Sure, it has some issues.   But as much as I loved my original 30, I REALLY love it now.

Cesar, my thanks to the team for all the great work.  I look forward to seeing what's next.

The Zune Social, Zune's social networking site, just got a slight upgrade yesterday. Besides general stability and performance enhancements, there's navigation improvements that let you remove friends and view song and album information in send dialogues.

The Zune Social, Zune's social networking site, just got a slight upgrade yesterday. Besides general

The Zune Social, Zune's social networking site, just got a slight upgrade yesterday. Besides general

I guess there still isn't a fix for the Podcast un-subscribing themselves.

This actually messed up my number of played tracks, It took like 400 plays away from the Mars Volta...

Microsoft had a really busy week this week. Unfortunately, it coincided with an IPv6 class I was taking