Why does Zune only play 30 seconds of a song?

I don’t have a Zune but it sounds kind of like a scan thing like they have on car stereos. You know, you hit scan and jumps over to all the stations that come in clear, play it for a few seconds, then moves on.

Does the Zune have such a feature?
Although it would be an odd feature for songs stored on the device…

@mrentropy I’m not sure but I will definitely have to check that out. That sounds highly likely. I know they have a random and repeat feature but I dont recall a scan one. I will have to look into that more.

You may want to check this out. It’s a forum for Zune users. One answer goes like this:

If you only get 30 second previews, you are streaming previews from the Marketplace and not playing a local file. Did you move your content… for example, change a drive letter of an external drive? If you right button, properties a song in the Zune software… check to see if the location and file still exists on your PC.

If you have a damaged collection database, you can start from scratch using the collection reset tool. This will re-index all your files.

Or are you asking why Marketplace only streams 30 seconds? That’s normal, unless you have Zune Pass and you are logged in… which will allow streaming on most (but not all) content.

@mrentropy i will have to look into that when i get home (on work comp right now). I dont think i changed anything but i have disconnected my external drive an insane amount lately. that might be why zune cant locate a number of files and why its giving me hell.

thanks for the help

That sounds more like “Intro” mode to me….

Wait, seriously… someone owns a Zune?

@jerv whats intro mode?

@grumpyfish i hate Apple products

@bright_eyes00 Intro-mode is a setting that makes the player play only the first part of a track before moving on. Not all players have it though. My Samsung YP-F1 can be set to play just the first few seconds before skipping to the next track but my Sansa e280 lacks that option.

To all, turns out my external harddrive was the issue because i had moved it from F: to G: without realizing it. When I reset the “import folders from…” to G: it worked fine. Thanks for all your help.