Recently I got hold of a Zune media player. The device is solid and pretty cool.
In Europe, the Marketplace is still not available, but all other features work like a charm. Browsing the net for software I found some usefull hacks. Yeah, the Zune can be hacked.
One hack presents the Zune as a normal removable media in your Windows Explorer. An iPod has this behavior be default.
Another hack adds support for many AV formats, that are NOT supported by default. To be able to import for example .mkv, install the XP CodecPack and rename the file to .avi before you drag it to the Zune software.
The forum ZuneBoards will probably keep me up to date with all future hacks that will extend the Zune functionality.
