zune vs. last.fm

In the past few months I have ditched my iPod, and went with an 80GB Zune I bought off of Woot!. Everything has been pretty awesome about the Zune, except one thing, and that is last.fm integration. I love last.fm, for those unfamiliar it is a website that keeps track of all the songs you play, and makes recommendations for new artists and songs based on your plays. (It also has an internet radio feature comparable to Pandora, but I think last.fm is better myself.) The Zune has it's social, which similarly keeps track of your song plays and recommends songs as well, I think the recommendations are much better on last.fm, and on top of that the information you have access to is much larger than with Zune. Well, with the zune it is a pain in the butt to get tracks to "scrobble" to last.fm. On the Software end you have to use a program called Zuse, which connects the zune software to the scrobbler on your desktop and sends the music to last.fm, this isn't too bad, but it seems to miss tracks every now and then, and has a tendency to crash from time to time as well. On the hardware end from my Zune itself you have to use a program called Zenses to send your played tracks from the Zune to last.fm, this is a horribly long process that can only take 50 of the played tracks at a time. One thing about all this work around that seems really weird to me is that Microsoft and last.fm are already partners on the Xbox 360, so you would think they would have partnered to bring seamless easy scrobbling to the Zune, but nope it's a big pain in the ass. I am really hoping with the recent release of Windows Phone 7 and the Zune being on there hopefully we will see some better integration. Here's to hoping. If not I will go crush the last.fm and Microsoft HQs with my giant ball.

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