Zune frozen at loading screen

okay around midnight tonight my zune unexpedly shut down and when i re booted it it froze at the 100% loading screen...im like okay "how do i fix this?"
But i ran across this which i find extremely weird, and i think my Zune got plagued with the so called"Extintion of the 30GB Zune"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/31/zune_death/

Your not alone

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nf/20081231/tc_nf/63809

That's mean the world is coming end in final 2008 year. Oh well Zune or Ipod suck anyway.

http://www.grandprix.net/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=5;t=003493

i really hope they fix it, i have no tunes then:(

Ipod OWNS....nuff said.

I HATE my ipod im just not a fan idk its nice to hold a great number of songs but other than that its no use to me, i do like the new ipods with the net on them tho lol

The way I look at it the money I would spend on an I pod or a zune I will spend on my car. lol

Can we turn this into a ipod vs zune vs ??? thread? I'm trying to decide what I want to get for the cars.

Factory radio in the GP and aftermarket in the RX-7. I like the idea of wifi syncing with the zune... what other advantages does it have over ipod?

I am stuck on this new iPhone I just got. The monthly payment sucks now, but this thing is amazing.
I have an ipod with 6,000 songs, and I usually just have a radio station on in my car most of the time. But the iphone I can now put songs on it or download a radio app or pandora and get whatever I want.

i love my ipod, hooks right up to my alpine deck and i can controll it through the radio. i love it, cant do that with a crappy zune.

one advantage is the zune pass you can purchase the pass for 14.99 a month and download and keep all the songs you want for as long as you keep the subscription active. one of my friends has only had his account for 1 month and has already downloaded over 3000 songs. so for the cost of 1 CD a month you can download all the music you will ever need. unlike the ipod where you have to pay for each song or album. you can also sync the zune to your 360 so you can listen to the music in game.

Who pays for music?

X2

Yea, some people use torrent and other programs. Problem is some users have scripts that creates a file name based on the search you entered. The file is in fact a virus. It gets annoying after a while going between the fake vs. real. Some people that aren't savy with computers and will be ok in paying $14 a month or 99 cent for a song or two. Matter of convenience. That's their strategy and it seems to be working.

As far as itunes vs. Zune, its a matter of preference. I don't like the itunes as its not for power users and its VERY proprietary. Want to sort by file name? Nope, can't do it. The mp3 must have the artist and song name. Sure you can get aftermarket apps but they're aren't compatible yet with release 2.2.

With Zune, you can use any program and not just windows media player. Also, the sound quality with zune is said to be better based on several review sites. Not saying the ipod has bad sound quality, not by a long shot.

I got an ipod touch as opposed to the other cheaper mp3 players as I wanted to have fun with it and use it for web browsing. Don't regret it. Still, there are cheaper mp3 players out there that offer much better, crisp sound quality even with mp3s. Just not the same cool interface.

Generally you can spot the viruses by looking at the file size.