[Windows Phone 7 General] style1:
Ok I see what you're saying. Can't say much about that. What works for you is whats best for you. Awesome media player design btw. If you need some help on it please send me a message and I'll be glad to help anywhere I can.

I'm not sure if M$ has actually come out and taken the Iphone route of "we won't allow apps in the app store that copy system functionalities" But in the current generation of technology even if they did they wouldn't get away with it for long. Microsoft has already been slapped around pretty harsh in Europe by being FORCED to offer users a choice of what browers are available. So I don't doubt that in the future you will be able to make your wishes happen on WP7. I hope so anyway.

I'm about 100% sure you'll see Opera on WP7. That info comes from fellow developer that works for Opera. As locked down as the Iphone is, they still got through and easily became the most downloaded app on the phone in a short matter of time. We'll see the same on WP7.

You read wrong sir but don't just take my words, here's from CNET: "Music tops the Zune HD's main menu for good reason. More than anything else, the Zune HD is a portable music machine designed for curious fans with large appetites for new music. The audio player supports MP3, AAC, WMA, and WMA Lossless formats, as well as audio book files from Audible or OverDrive. Like most MP3 players, the music you sync the Zune HD with can be quickly sorted by artist, album, song, genre, and playlist, but the Zune HD's unique strengths as a music player are revealed once you dig down to a particular artist or song. For example, when you select an artist to play, you'll get a list of their albums set against a background photo of the musician or band, along with tabs that offer biographical information, additional photos, and a list of related artists (all of which is pulled offline from the Zune software)"

These seem to be contradictory statements, you don't know about it but you have expectations and you know it doesn't live up to them? Oh well let me educate you. Zune Pass comes out to $15 dollars a month allows for unlimited downloads and 10 free songs a month that you can keep. It allows you to download, steam, sync from marketplace and with Smart DJ this becomes incredibly useful if you're a musicphile like me. And In the end you make out cheaper than in using Itunes. Lastly, you will find MILLIONS of songs in the Zune marketplace. So you can believe that if you've heard of them they exist in the marketplace

I'm surprised you're serious about music and aren't using a Zune. Its that good, you'll find artists that you've never heard of that will blow you away just by listening to something similar. You have HD radio, Pandora, and all the music you could ever want to listen to in one spot. I guess that for the casual listen:o

Well I did some research and Zuneplayer does infact support Lossless files. Its honestly such a rarely used medium that its truely puzzling as to why this is being discussed. I think the only things you'll find encoded in Lossy are downloaded off the internet. If you're keeping personal pictures of your family and friends on your phone they won't be lossless. If you're keeping music you burned onto you CPU and transferred to your Zuneplayer odds are they are either WMA or MP3/4 so its highly doubtful that they are encoded losslessly(new word), If you're downloading from Zune Marketplace its the same deal. Like you're really going to have to put in work to get yourself some .ogg files that actually make sense. But true, if you did it would save a lot of space.

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Good discussion happening here, thanks guys