How To Get Music From Zune Onto Computer
You ll only see what microsoft wants you to see.
How to get music from zune onto computer. You should get the option to copy to my collection click on that and wait for the file to be copied from the device to your pc s harddrive. You can use a bootable live cd and then save the files somewhere you can then copy the files from the zune to your hard drive or a flash drive. Well once you hook your zune up to the computer it should come up with a list of things such as sync songs using media player or open files you would click open files then save those files to your computer.
Connect your device to the software and go to device pictures and then right click on the ones you want to reverse sync to the computer and select add to collection. This bypasses the microsoft zune software so you won t get errors about unsynced media. Click on device at the top left of your screen and then click on music.
You do this by monitoring the folders that contain the music zune software settings collection you only need to monitor parent folders. If you re finally ready to surrender your zune and go with an idevice then connect your zune to your computer and import everything into itunes. Look up how to sync your zune in linux.
Open up my computer and browse your device. The zune does not show up with a drive letter. Click on collection at the top left of your screen.
Plug in your zune and make sure the zune software starts up. You can also head to your my music folder. Pick an artist or album or song and right click it.
Now your sync mode choices are manual you add remove everything manually by drag and drop all or choose mode. Something to consider though is that when the pictures were synced to the device originally they were transcoded into a smaller size for viewing on the device. The only way to add songs pictures and videos is through the synchronization function of the zune software.