I'm just curious if anyone has had any success running zune software on Ubuntu, either with wine or some other software? I don't really have much (make that any) experience with wine, so I'm also wondering if it's even worth my time to try? I'm more asking out of curiosity, rather than a real need to get the zune software working. Thanks in advance for any help you can give...

Hello,

Last time I checked, there wasn't any actual support for the zune on linux. I remember trying a while back with my old zune, and the furthest I got was to view *some* files within Amarok using libmtp, but I didn't have actual control over anything. Have a look at the following threads:
http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2772
https://www.ehow.com/how_7317935_use-zune-ubuntu.html
http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59339

Now besides those threads, I personally think that you would have better luck installing VirtualBox and emulating windows within linux, IMO.

Good luck man, as a LOT of people have been trying to natively get the zune working within linux.

Cheers,

Josh

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Looking at the wineappdb, it seems that no one has managed to get it to work. I would also assume that efforts have been abandoned on the software.

And that's why I gave up and don't use my zune anymore..... I use my awesome Nokia N900 for everything now

Thanks for the tips. I wound up abandoning the zune software. I'm running windows on another computer in my house so I just made that the designated zune computer. What is the Nokia N900? Is that your phone? I take it from your comment that it has a good music player on it? Is it a smartphone? I don't have a smartphone at the moment but I'm looking into getting one soon. I'll have to check that one out.