Digital Streets

Playing around with the Zune software and device and finding out that some features, while not really intuitive, come in quite useful from time to time.  The first one is directly jumping back to the Start Screen on the Zune device, regardless of what screen you are in.  While pressing the back button on your Zune will take you to the previous screen, holding the back button down will take you all the way back to the Start Screen in a matter of seconds.  This makes jumping around to different types of media much quicker than continually going back step-by-step.

The Zune software also has it’s hidden little tricks.  There is a dynamic search function for location artists or videos.  By simply typing while you have selected an artist or video will begin the dynamic search with your text appearing in semi-transparent black box.  Behind the box will be the search results.  This seems a little buggy to me with mixed results and doesn’t seem to work on very many of the fields.  I still recommend using the Search box to find media, plus the Search box also checks the Zune Marketplace.