If you want free Zune Downloads, Zune Movies, Zune Music, Zune Games and more - then you’ve come to the right place! I update this page every day with the best place that I’ve found to get unlimited free Zune downloads from. The sites we show you below - if you follow our links you can either avoid giving them your email (and all the annoying promos that go with that) or get better deals

Currently my favorite place is - ZneZone - which has just a small one time fee - and then unlimited downloads for life. What is really cool is that they have over 95 Million files available right now. Which is just unbelievably cool if you want to fill your Zune with movies, music, games and other stuff.

By the way, we probably should let you know that they are currently offering a SPECIAL BONUS to all their new members! (One reason they got our faves list). You just need to click on this link to see the details for this bonus offer.

Anyway, go here to check out this great site and see what you think about it - And then send me a thank you note for showing you the best website on the internet for Zune owners!

BUT - you may not have any $$ right now, even for this great low-priced deal!

So we have come up with a great alternative for you. You do get fewer free downloads - but you will pay NOTHING at all for them. All up, by joining all three of the sites below (its free to join) you can get 38 free MP3s (all YOUR choice, and from all the best and most popular songs - which come with no DRM) and two weeks access to download as many movies and TV shows and games that you can!

Be warned, though - you must cancel your free membership before it ends in order to avoid being converted to paid membership. You need to follow the links we provide to get the max number of free downloads and to know where to go to cancel once you have your free MP3s - if you want to..

Best Site - by a long way! Easy to join, easy to use and easy to cancel your free membership - 10 free songs + Movies + TV Shows + games + free Zune compatible  video converter (and you have 14 days to download all the movies and TV shows and games you can!) You can cancel your free subscription at any time - details here

Second Best site:Easy to join, easy to use and easy to cancel your free membership. Get 25 FREE Zune® compatible downloads(and you have 7 days to download them and they are DMR free) You can cancel your subscription any time by going to your account page. Any problems and you can contact them here.

We recommend that you join all  of these sites (did we mention its free?), to get the maximum number of free downloads!

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Zunes can now use audiobooks!  Two sites that are worth mentioning - because we can get free audiobooks from them - are  audible.com and overdrive.com. Audible are currently offering a free 30-trial to Zune users which includes three free audiobooks of your choice. Which is cool - but remember, if you forget to cancel your free trial, you will get billed for $22.95 every month till you remember to cancel

Overdrive is a whole other ballgame - and its great to see Zune making it possible for us to use this service. It has been available on iPod  and now  it cab be used by that Zune owners as well.

What overdrive does is makes it possible to borrow books from libraries via the Zune format - in other words,  as an audiobook. Now only some libraries offer the service and only some books are available in this format. But a quick check at overdrive will tell you whether there is a library near you that offers this service. And its free! Potentially dozens of books  can be enjoyed this way!

For example, I am a Lee Child fan - and 3 of his books have been published in the MP3 format by Books on Tape, including “Gone Tomorrow” which I have not yet read. Overdrive shows that this title is available at dozens of libraries around the US. When I click the link to the State Library at Seattle for example, there it is!

So long as we are a member of the library, we can borrow this book for free - download it to our PC and then  to our Zune. Now most libraries explain that the OverDrive WMA Audiobook excerpts are delivered as WMA files. These  can be used with any version of Windows Media Player.

To use a full OverDrive WMA Audiobook title, you will need to download OverDrive Media Console 1.0 or newer and complete a one-time ‘Windows Media Player Security Upgrade’ on Windows Media Player version 9 or newer.

Its not difficult and every library provides guidance to help get us setup. Check it out!

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We can’t let Michael Jackson’s passing go without paying our respects. He was a true musical and movement genius. There have been a LOT of videos tributes made. We like this one:

But perhaps even more astonishing and moving is the following tribute performed by CPDRC inmates in Cebu, Philippines - amazingly - only 10 hours after the world heard officially that Michael Jackson had died.  The choreography was reminiscent of MJ, and the execution was unbelievable. May Michael Jackson rest in peace.

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Apple are super aggressive in the market place and have done everything they can to reduce or eliminate competition. The “friendly” ads they run with PC (ie Microsoft) as the butt of their jokes are just the mild tip of the iceberg (we have done several blog posts about this in the past - this post, for example)

A recent addition to the Zune site shows us just why Apple is so determined to keep the MP3 market for itself - if it can. Just check out the following image and video to see just how much big bucks are involved here:

Zune have worked out that anyone that goes for the “buy each and every MP3″ way of getting music is going to have to spend a small fortune - even if they only fill up a small % of their MP3s GB!

Now this comes as no surprise to the Wowzune team as we have pointed this out in many blog posts in the past as we have reviewed lots of different ways to get free, or almost free, music - which BTW, also beat the Zune Pass deal). But its good to see it set out like this (just click the image to see more comparisons done).

In fact, we thought it would be fun to put the two recent “throwing down of the gauntlet” ads by these two IT giants. The first offering is from Zune and so (typically?) more serious in its approach. But the content is deadly for Apple iTunes.

The second continues Apple’s amusing  ridicule of “PC”. Less obviously damaging - but Apple aims to destroy the credibility of anything Microsoft - including Zune.

Well - while these guys are busy fighting, we suggest you take a look around our blog and check out the many alternatives to both Apple iTunes and Zune Marketplace before you even think of spending anything! You will be surprised just how much legal free music, videos and other downloads are out there and cheaper membership deals as well!

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In the previous post we provided links to some pretty good free music for Zune - and movies, TV shows etc. But we have since worked out how to more than double the amount of free music we can get from one of the sites. So are going to take you through how to do this.

First up, you still have to go to the site - link. Then, when the site opens, scroll down the page till you get to the bottom. There you will find a link to “free music downloads“. Click on that link and you will be taken to a page that offers you the opportunity to download a free music toolbar. We wanted to check out what this was about and report back in a blog post. But we were sure surprised when we downloaded the tool bar and found:

This is the same “free trial”offer that we linked you to in our previous post. But if we download the free toolbar then we get to keep 50 free songs - all our own choice and all ours to keep, even if we simply end the free trial (its only 25 free songs if we do the free trial without downloading the toolbar). In addition, to our surprise and delight, we found ….

…that we can potentially have another 365 songs for free. That’s because each day, we are offered a free MP3 to download and keep. Now, unlike to 50 freebies we refer to above,  these songs are not of our own choosing - they are selected for us by the “expert editorial staff (that) hand picks a fresh track every day for you. Totally Free!”

To be honest, we downloaded the free toolbar three days ago and have not so far wanted any of the free MP3s offered - but hey, there are another 362 free MP3s on offer. Bound to want some of them. And we also really like the free radio we discovered that can access from the tool bar! We recommend you check this out.

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We have been checking out ways to get movies onto our Zune.  As a result we have been testing out some of the software that allows us to download movies to our Zune. There is quite a lot of software out now, that will do this. But we have found - having downloaded about a dozen different products and tried them out - that most are hard to use. Mainly because they give poor guidelines on how to use their software. Do software developers even think like the rest of us?

Well, we finally found a program that is literally click, click, click done! So we are gonna tell you about it. First up - they have a free version - which is the one we tested, and are reporting on.  It is free free. By that we mean that you never have to pay for the free version. It does not have a time limit on its use. What it does have is a watermark in the middle of the screen - which can be annoying, but otherwise its great. If that bothers you, well its pretty cheap to upgrade. A lot of the other products whose free version we trialed - had worse limits. Like having to click “continue” every 60 seconds, or only being able to do 2 minute cuts etc.

So I have just put Ocean’s Thirteen on my Zune  - we’ll cover how we got the file onto our laptop in the next blog post.

But for now, using the free version of TransferMyVideo software, it was a case of clicking ‘browse’ to find the video file, clicking on the image provided in the software to choose Zune, clicking ’start converting’, and barely a few minutes later -  the video was ready to be synced to my Zune. It was GREAT! And it was free!!

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If you look around the Wowzune site you will see that we have found a lot of great places and ways to get free - or nearly free - music, videos, games etc for Zune. And we are always looking for new sources. So we were excited to find this site that looked like it was offering some great free music!

Look at this -

( WATCH OUT - THIS IS A SCAM )

Seems clear enough - 1000 free songs, and free registration to get them!

But its all a scam - and a potentially expensive one at that!

Check out the information that appears down below this image on the site:

*This is a subscription service with an initial set up fee of $5, then $5 twice per week until cancelled by sending STOP to 19933991

This  is the actual size of the print! - and whats worse,  its actually colored white on an orange background. Which makes it hard to notice and even harder to read.

Let’s repeat it in big letters:

*This is a subscription service with an initial set up fee of $5, then $5 twice per week until cancelled by sending STOP to 19933991

That’s  $45 for the first month and $40 per month after that!! Hardly FREE!!! That’s massively expensive. You can check out a couple of the membership sites we have reviewed on this site. They offer genuine free trials and free songs and then low monthly subscriptions for those that decide they really like the service. There just is no way to justify these massive charges.

Our guess is that most people who sign up, don’t even realize that they have agreed to these massively high fees.

So - go check this site out and then AVOID it! Here is the home page - doesn’t it look legit? But its not - as you’ll soon discover. It looks like a normal music site. But its just a scam site to trap the unwary.

I guess it means we have to be careful to check what the small print says before we use give out our cell phone number. They might SAY its free - but they could be lying!

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This video was published on Youtube just an hour ago. But we reckon its a goodin. We have posted on this topic before - so you have a basis for comparison. This tutorial provides us with another way to watch free videos on our Zunes. So well worth the few minutes it takes to watch it.

Its a good tutorial - we doubt that it could be done better! And the downloader is free as well.

Well, what are you waiting for?

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Soundclick is a fantastic site where over 300K songs are made available to us for free though “creative commons” license. This is a license that a musician can choose to distribute his music. They still have ownership rights - but we can download their music for free and other musicians can use the music as a base for their own creative endeavors.

We do have to join Soundclick to download the music - but membership is free! The music has been organized by genre - (from the drop “license”menu, select “creative commons) and there are 17 genres with, for example, 2,672 Latin music creative commons licenses and 31,392 rock music creative commons licenses - here is an example:

Just click “full” to get to the download button for the music you have chosen. Does it get any better than this?

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As promised we are reporting from the Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival in Whistler! For any snowboarder or skier, the Whistler Telus event is a must-go-see. The last time I went, the snowboarding big air event was fantastic but the entertainment was fairly amateurish. This time was way more pumped with major promoters on the spot giving out freebies to the crowd - monster drinks, free razors from schik, $50 discounts off Zune purchases from Bestbuy, discounts of Bolle sunnies etc - the usual razzmatazz and the constant deep bass vibrations from the zune DJs.

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Zune had their usual “resident artists” (those that design for the “Zune originals”) on the spot happily putting their designs or signatures on snowboards for those that were interested. They also had the art work on display on snowboards - continuing their “living art” theme that drives the artwork designed for Zunes.

Despite the glitz that surrounded it, the big air event was -for me - less impressive than the last one I attended (in 2003). Partly because I am a snowboarder and there were no snowboarders in the event this time round and partly because the organizers decided not to provide publicly visible scores for the contestants. As you can see in the next image, it was kinda hard to see just who was doing the tricks!

Having said all that - Whistler is one of my favorite places and I was happy to have an excuse to go see this years events. For those interested to know - the winners of the concert series set up to find the top undiscovered band in Canada was:- the British Columbians

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