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Title: Zune Pass tracks playable in MC with zones?
Post by: Jonathan DA on October 30, 2011, 09:17:30 pm

Does anyone have a Zune Pass?  Are the downloaded tracks playable in MC?  And, more specifically, can a Zune Pass downloaded track be routed through MC's zones?  Thought I'd ask here first before I give Microsoft my credit card info just to try it out.

Thanks,

Jonathan

Title: Re: Zune Pass tracks playable in MC with zones?
Post by: phytio on October 31, 2011, 05:17:38 pm

Unfortunately I can't comment on zones, though if you explained a little I could try setting one up, but Zune Pass does work with MC :) I download them in Zune and they're automatically imported.

Title: Re: Zune Pass tracks playable in MC with zones?
Post by: Jonathan DA on October 31, 2011, 09:19:02 pm

That's good news!  By zones, I mean the ability to route a Zune Pass track to a different zone.  For example, if you have two zones, say living room and bedroom.  If your main stereo outputs are connected to the living room, and your second zone is the bedroom, can you route the playback of the Zune Pass track to the bedroom zone?  Sometimes DRM protected tracks cause problems for zones.

Title: Re: Zune Pass tracks playable in MC with zones?
Post by: JimH on November 01, 2011, 07:14:08 am

Can you describe the equipment you are using for zones?  If it's just 4 pairs of speakers, for example, it will work.  Playing to a DLNA device would probaby not.

Title: Re: Zune Pass tracks playable in MC with zones?
Post by: Jonathan DA on November 01, 2011, 10:24:51 am

I'm using an MAudio Delta 410 card for most of my zones.  So no DLNA.  That's pretty awesome that it should work!  Not quite as cool as Spotify/Grooveshark/Rdio integration, but good enough for now.  I'm gonna sign up for the trial and will report back on the results.

Title: Re: Zune Pass tracks playable in MC with zones?
Post by: phytio on November 03, 2011, 06:00:24 pm

Zune Pass is pretty cool. I signed up for the trial and I'm not sure I'm going to be able to stop it now that I'm used to downloading anything.

Title: Re: Zune Pass tracks playable in MC with zones?
Post by: sakendrick on December 11, 2011, 10:01:52 pm

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work.  I get error playing file when I try to play any of my zune pass tracks through to my DLNA Denon.  If you get DRM files to playback successfully, specifically zune pass, please let me know!!

(PS - my server does sit on the same machine as my zune player and pass)