#Microsoft zune software for mac install
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But you only need to get on the latest (3.30 for my brown Zune 30) and then you're good.forever.

#Microsoft zune software for mac install

You may be prompted to install new firmware if you manually ask for an update. Since we are faking it, we always return the same response.

It's worth pointing out that the original Zune server was somewhat smart and would only return firmware if we NEEDED a firmware update.

#Microsoft zune software for mac update

Notice here that I know it's working because I launch the Zune app and go to Settings | Device then Update and I can see dotnet serve in my other window serving the zuneprod.xml in response.

Now run the Zune software, connect your Zune.

If this useful resource ever goes away, use the localhost hack above. Your hosts file would look like this, in that case.

UPDATE: As mentioned above, I did all this work (about an hour of traffic sniffing) and spoofed the server locally then found out that someone made as an online static spoof! It also doesn't use HTTPS, and if you'd like, you can skip the local spoof and point your your windowssystem32driversetchosts with an entry pointing to its IP address - which at the time of this writing was 66.115.133.19.

For example if you're using notepad, your find and replace will look like this. Open zuneprod.xml in a text editor and add before each of the firmware file cabinets. The zuneprod.xml file has relative URls inside like this, one for each model of the Zune that maps from USB hardware id to cab file.

If you really want to, you could install 7zip and extract the contents of the Zune Firmware MSI into a new folder but I don't recommend it as you'll need to rename the files and give them the correct extensions.

We will make some other small changes a little later on here. You'll want to move them and have all your files right at the top of c:usersYOURNAMEdownloadszunestuff. If you use Chocolatey, it's just 'choco install lessmsi' then run 'lessmsi-gui.' LessMSI will put the files in a deep folder structure. It's just an MSI specific extractor but it's nicer than 7zip because it extracts the files with the correct names.

Download lessmsi and use it to to the open and extract the firmware MSI.

Since not everyone who will read this blog is a programmer, the easiest ways is

There's a half dozen ways to crack open an MSI.

#Microsoft zune software for mac archive

This is an x86 MSI so don't bother trying to install it, we're going to open it up like an archive instead. Second, GET FIRMWARE: the Zune Firmware is still on the Microsoft sites as well.I've also made a copy in my Dropbox if this ever disappears. First, GET ZUNE: the Zune Software version 4.8 is up at the Microsoft Download Center and it installs just fun on Windows 10.Use the method that works easier for you and that you trust and understand!

#Microsoft zune software for mac full

The way I did it does use the files directly from Microsoft and gives you full control, but it's overly complex for regular folks for as long as the server exists as a mirror. The simplest way to update today is to point to 's IP address in your hosts file. IMPORTANT UPDATE: After I spent time doing this out I found out on Twitter that there's a small but active Zune community on Reddit! Props for them to doing this in several ways as well.

Isn't Zune dead? I hooked up a 3D0 to my 4k flatscreen last week, so it's dead when I say it's dead. Hasn't been touched.but it has a super old non-metro UI firmware.Д¬an a Zune be updated in 2019? Surely it can. I could get him an iPod Touch or something but he digs retro things (GBC, GBA, etc) so my buddy gave me a Zune in the box. He's got a little cheap no-name brand MP3 player and he's filled it up and basically outgrown it. Seriously, though, I got this Zune and it's going to be used by my 11 year old because I don't want him to have a phone yet. The Zune is a deeply under-respected piece of history and its UI marked the start of Microsoft's fluent design. ) There's even an article on Vice about the Zune diehards.

As I said on social media today, it's 2019 and I'm updating the Firmware on a Zune, fight me.