What exactly can the Zune Wi-Fi wireless feature be used for?
(Updated Jan. 20) According to Microsoft’s David Caulton you cannot use the Zune wireless feature to: • Connect directly to the Internet – e.g. all music purchases or downloads have to be made via a separate PC • Connect to any non-Zune devices including your PC – e.g. you have to synch with your PC using the USB cable • Connect to more than one other Zune simultaneously – e.g. no broadcasting What you can do with the Zune wireless feature is: • Search for and connect to another Zune in your vicinity • “You can send them a song, album, etc… for a 3-day/3-play trial listen. Songs come over with metadata and album art (neat). After the 3 days or 3 plays are up, the song gets deleted from the Zune on the next sync, but the info on the song stays in a “journal” on your PC for later purchase or acquisition.” (Note that some purchased songs may have restrictions that prevent any sharing. See also this report that the Sony and Universal Music Group labels are being fairly restrictive of their
