There is only one music player – the iPod, all others are pretenders. This is why.

“A leap-year issue with Microsoft’s Zune music player is still leaving many users cold, despite the company’s reassurance that all would be well by sometime on New Year’s Day.

Postings on Zune message boards Thursday morning, as people tried out Microsoft’s recommendations and fellow Zune users’ suggestions, ranged from the hopeful…

“The wipe process should only take a minute or two. If it is hanging on this screen, disconnect it from power, let the battery drain, and then reconnect it to start the device again,” user Raw Deluxe wrote on Zune Forums.

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…to the melancholy:

“Mine never made it back. The battery drained ok, but it tried to start one time and is now good and dead. I talked to support and they agreed – its a brick,” wrote brotherdiesel.

Scores of Zune users on Wednesday — the last day of a 366-day leap year — reported that their 30GB Zune devices were freezing up. Complaints rippled across message boards as people booted up the gadgets and found they could not get to their songs or pictures.”

There’s a fix at the link. But do yourself a favor. Throw the thing against the wall and buy an iPod, and be happy.

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