Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way. Sponsored By. The Zune Software will "phone home" to Microsoft at resources. 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 , 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.
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. 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. This says "if you ever want stuff from resources. It'll be a little web server you or I will run on our own, on localhost AKA Now download dot. 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. Then go to a command prompt and run these commands.
We'll install a tiny static webserver called dotnet serve. 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 BUT when we load the Zune software and watch network traffic, we see it's asking for resources. We need to answer since Zune is gone, it's on us now. It'll look like this:. The zuneprod.
Open zuneprod. For example if you're using notepad, your find and replace will look like this. About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee.
About Newsletter. However, you still have an older zune package installer, you may try. My Zune 32GB won't update to latest firmware, which the Zune software claims I have to in order to use with my computer. Never has been a problem in the past, however the Zune Software just updated a few days ago to version 4.
My Zune is currently at version 4. The Zune shows up in Device Manager, and it says it is working properly. Any thoughts? I have looked through the KB and outside of the driver issue, didn't see anything relevant. I am guessing it could be a software bug?. I was about to attempt uninstalling and reinstalling the Zune Software, but if I do, do I lose everything playlists, ratings, etc?
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