MP3 Music

Most Zune lovers understand how it feels to get a new Zune player and cannot wait to find a place to download music for Zune. And we want to have our favourite songs like Big Girls Don’t Cry by Fergie and A Bay Bay by Hurricane Chris without hurting our wallets as well. Do not worry about it because it is the purpose of this article to discuss the download process and reveal how to download music for Zune cheaply.

You perhaps already know that you can find movies, music, videos and games for your Zune player at iTunes and Microsoft’s Zune marketplace and other online music stores like Amazon, HMV and more. At Zune marketplace, you can access millions of songs. For the price conscious, the price tag of $0.99 to $2 over for a piece of song at any of these music stores can really be a turn-off. Imagine how much it would cost to acquire hundreds of songs for your music collection?

Another option which is quite popular among Zune owners are the free download services. While these are generally free and you can download music for Zune to your heart’s content, you are also exposing your PC to the adware and spyware that comes attached with the music downloads. The extent of damage to your computer may be pretty bad when you realize that your computer is slower.

There is a safe option to transfer songs to your Zune. Similar to any other MP3 players, you can rip songs from a CD and synchronize that onto your player. If you are familiar with music ripping, you should be quite comfortable to download music for Zune in this manner.

Ripping music for your Zune player requires a media player like Windows Media Player. There are others like Winamp, RealPlayer and so on. If you are using Windows Media Player, once the CD is loaded into your CD ROM, you can see the song list from which you can select the tracks you want. Then all you have to do is to right click the mouse and go to “rip” or simply just click the “Rip” icon on the interface. Once it is done, wire the Zune to your computer via the USB cable and synchronization between your Zune and your PC takes place. It will download music for Zune onto your player.

Do not worry if the synchronization is not working well. You can always copy the media files to your player directly. Take note that your Zune will always appear as a removable disk drive on your computer.

One important point here when you download music for Zune online or rip music from CDs is that the file formats must be compatible with your player. Zune supports windows media player supported formats like WMA, WMV, MOV, MP4 and MP3. Do not be mistaken that they can support RealMedia or DivX format as Zune does not support them.

Other than the free sites as well as music CD ripping, you do have a third option which is a favourite among current Zune owners. This alternative comes in the form of paid membership services where you can have unlimited access to download music for Zune as well as movies, videos, games and even the latest software. All these are available without any bandwidth limits at a price lesser than $49 which is something even teens can afford.

These are all you need to know when you download music for Zune. Discover more about paid membership services that offer unlimited Zune downloads for less than the price of a movie treat for your family.