Overview

Zune Converter Suite for Mac, packed with DVD to Zune Converter for Mac and Zune Video Converter for Mac, enables you to convert DVD and video to Zune on Mac with original video quality. Any DVD movie and video file like MXF, MTS, MKV, MOV, M4V, FLV, AVI, VOB, etc can be converted to Zune MP4 and WMV without any limitation. Additionally, you're able to take out the audio files from the DVD movies and video files, and then convert them to MP3, M4A, WMA, etc for playback on Zune.

Download locations for Microsoft Zune 4.8.2345.0, Downloads: 29820, Size: 100.77 MB. View your songs, videos, and pictures. The only way you ought to use a Zune with a Mac is to place in virtualization utility like Parallels, setting up homestead windows in the virtualization utility, and then setting up the Zune utility. That is notably convoluted and expensive.

Apart from its powerful conversion function, this professional Mac DVD to Zune Converter Suite is able to optimize the video with creative video editing functions like adjust the video effect, trim the video length, get appropriate video frame, join several video clips together and add watermark to the video. For the green hand, it's still very easy to use thanks to its initial and simple design. To the conclusion, this versatile DVD and video to Zune converter will enrich your multimedia life.

Enjoy the DVD movies and popular videos on Zune perfectly

When it comes to putting DVD movies and videos on Zune, Zune Converter Suite for Mac is the top-rank software that you cannot miss. It enables you to get amazing videos and audios for Zune from any DVD movies and video files. With Effect, Trim, Crop, Merge and Watermark function, it's no doubt that you could get ideal Zune videos. Besides, it allows you to preview the source DVD movies and video files as well as capture your favorite video images when previewing. The video and audio settings can be modified to meet your needs.

• Merge several videos together

  If you'd like to join several video files into a new file, Merge function can make it for you very easily. Select the video files in the main interface and then click 'Merge' button to put them into a new file. After the conversion, you can enjoy the video files seamlessly on Zune.

• Trim the video length at will

  With almighty Trim function, it's quite easy to cut off your undesired video part from the whole file. Drag the slide block the set the start time and end time or input the corresponding time as you like, thus you're enabled to only play the desired part on Zune anytime you want.

• Get satisfying video effect before the conversion

  Equipped with practical Effect function, this Mac Zune Converter Suite allows you adjust the video brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and volume according to your preference. You just need drag the scroll bar of each parameter and change the corresponding value.

• Add text or image watermark to the video

  Sometimes you need to add some words to the video as a kind of comment. Watermark function can help you add text or image watermark to the video. You can add your signature and favorite logo to the video at your disposal. The position and transparency of watermark are adjustable.

• Crop the video frame

  Not satisfied with video frame? You can apply Crop function to adjust the video frame. Four adjustment options are available for you: Keep original, Crop area, 16:9 and 4:3. Drag the corner of the rectangular box to get the proper video frame.

• Adjust the video and audio settings

  You're enabled to adjust the video and audio settings according to your needs. The video settings like video encoder, frame rate, resolution, aspect ratio and video encoder are adjustable. In addition, you can select the satisfying audio encoder, sample rate, channels and audio bitrate from the corresponding drop-down list.

• Lightening conversion speed

  Thanks to the advanced acceleration technology, you can get the Zune videos from DVD movies and video files in the short while. Compared with other software, it's 6X faster. It will not waste your time when converting the DVD and video to Zune.

• Convenient operations for anyone

  With the built-in player, you're able to preview the source DVD movies and video files. Besides, it supports batch conversion, so you can get multiple video files for playback on Zune. It's pretty convenient for anyone to operate.

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Reviews

• I just converted a DVD movies to Zune. The conversion speed is faster than other similar software I've tried. The customer support is quite professional and friendly.- Jack

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OS Supported: Mac OS X 10.7 or later (including macOS Catalina)

Hardware Requirements: 512MB RAM, Super VGA (800×600) resolution, 16-bit graphics card or higher

As I said on social media today, it's 2019 and I'm updating the Firmware on a Zune, fight me. ;) There's even an article on Vice about the Zune diehards. The Zune is a deeply under-respected piece of history and its UI marked the start of Microsoft's fluent design.

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. He's got a little cheap no-name brand MP3 player and he's filled it up and basically outgrown it. 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. Hasn't been touched...but it has a super old non-metro UI firmware.

Can a Zune be updated in 2019? Surely it can. 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.

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. The simplest way to update today is to point resources.zune.net to zuneupdate.com's IP address in your hosts file. 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 zuneupdate.com server exists as a mirror. Use the method that works easier for you and that you trust and understand!

• First, GET ZUNE: the Zune Software version 4.8 is up at the Microsoft Download Center and it installs just fun on Windows 10. I've also made a copy in my Dropbox if this ever disappears. You should too!
• Second, GET FIRMWARE: the Zune Firmware is still on the Microsoft sites as well. This is an x86 MSI so don't bother trying to install it, we're going to open it up like an archive instead. Save this file forever.
  • There's a half dozen ways to crack open an MSI. Since not everyone who will read this blog is a programmer, the easiest ways is
  • Download lessmsi and use it to to the open and extract the firmware MSI. It's just an MSI specific extractor but it's nicer than 7zip because it extracts the files with the correct names. If you use Chocolatey, it's just 'choco install lessmsi' then run 'lessmsi-gui.' LessMSI will put the files in a deep folder structure. You'll want to move them and have all your files right at the top of c:usersYOURNAMEdownloadszunestuff. We will make some other small changes a little later on here.
    
  • 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.
  • NERDS: you can also use msiexec from the command line, but I'm trying to keep this super simple.
• Third, FAKE THE ZUNE UPDATE SERVER: Since the Zune servers are gone, you need to pretend to be the old Zune Server. The Zune Software will 'phone home' to Microsoft at resources.zune.net (which is gone) to look for firmware. Since the Zune software was made in a simpler time (a decade ago) it doesn't use SSL or do any checking for the cert to confirm the identity of the Zune server. This would be sad in 2019, but it's super useful to us when bringing this old hardware back to life. Again, there's as half dozen ways to do this. Feel feel to do whatever makes you happy as an HTTP GET is an HTTP GET, isn't it?
  • NERDS: If you use Fiddler or any HTTP sniffer you can launch the Zune software and see it phone home for resources.zune.net/firmware/v4_5/zuneprod.xml and get a 404. It if had found this, it'd look at your Zune model and then figure out which cab (cabinet) archive to get the firmware from. We can easily spoof this HTTP GET.
  • NERDS^2: Why didn't I use the Fiddler Autoresponder to record and replay the HTTP GETS? I tried. However, there's a number of different files that the Zune software could request and I only have the one Zune and I couldn't figure out how to model it in Fiddler. If I could do this, we could just install Fidder and avoid editing the hosts file AND using a tiny web server.
  • From an admin command prompt, run notepad windowssystem32driversetchosts and add this line:
    127.0.0.1 resources.zune.net
  • This says 'if you ever want stuff from resources.zune.net, I'll handle it myself.' Who is 'myself?' It's our computer! It'll be a little web server you (or I) will run on our own, on localhost AKA 127.0.0.1.
  • Now download dot.net core, it's small and fast to install programming environment. Don't worry, we aren't coding, we are just using the tools it includes. It won't mess up your machine or install anything at startup.
  • Grab any 2.x .NET SDK from https://dot.net and install it from an MSI. Then go to a command prompt and run these commands. first we'll run dotnet once to warm it up, then get the server and run it from our zunestuff folder. We'll install a tiny static webserver called dotnet serve. See below:
    dotnet
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-serve
cd c:usersYOURNAMEdownloadszunestuff
dotnet serve -p 80

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• If you get any errors that dotnet serve can't be found, just close the command prompt and open it again to update your PATH. If you get errors that port 80 is open, be sure to stop IIS or Skype Desktop or anything that might be listening on port 80.
• Now, remember where I said you'd extract all those cabs and files out of the Firmware MSI? BUT when we load the Zune software and watch network traffic, we see it's asking for resources.zune.net/firmware/v4_5/zuneprod.xml. We need to answer (since Zune is gone, it's on us now)
• You'll want to make folders like this: C:usersYOURNAMEdownloadszunestufffirmwarev4_5 copy/rename copy FirmwareUpdate.xml to zuneprod.xml and have it live in that directory. It'll look like this:
  
• 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. Open zuneprod.xml in a text editor and add http://resources.zune.net/ before each of the firmware file cabinets. For example if you're using notepad, your find and replace will look like this.
  

• <FirmwareUpdate DeviceClass='1'
  FamilyID='3'
  HardwareID='USBVid_045e&amp;Pid_0710&amp;Rev_0300'
  Manufacturer='Microsoft'
  Name='Zune'
  Version='03.30.00039.00-01620'
  URL='DracoBaseline.cab'>

• 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 http://zuneupdate.com 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 resources.zune.net to its IP address - which at the time of this writing was 66.115.133.19. Your hosts file would look like this, in that case. If this useful resource ever goes away, use the localhost hack above.
  66.115.133.19 resources.zune.net
• Now run the Zune software, connect your Zune. 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.

It's worth pointing out that the original Zune server was somewhat smart and would only return firmware if we NEEDED a firmware update. Since we are faking it, we always return the same response. You may be prompted to install new firmware if you manually ask for an update. But you only need to get on the latest (3.30 for my brown Zune 30) and then you're good...forever.

Enjoy!

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