My Piece of the Inter(.)net » Digital Downloads http://mypieceoftheinter.net A place for my geekish ramblings or whatever I find interesting. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:35:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Zune Reminds You to Use Your Free Credits http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1153 http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1153#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:28:54 +0000 David McGrath http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1153 Since Microsoft updated the terms of the Zune Pass, users have received 10 free song credits per month to go toward owning music from the store.  This is a great deal for Zune users, because $15 per month not only pays for unlimited music downloads from the Zune Marketplace on a subscription basis, but also provides 10 songs to own.  (I see this now as committing to buy 10 songs per month and getting a $5 per month subscription, but either way…)  (Personally I make a point to only purchase DRM-free tracks.)

I was impressed to discover that recently when I went to click the “download” button next to a song, which downloads the song under the subscription, I got a popup reminding me to use my song credits.  I am very impressed that Microsoft would remind its users to get things from it for free.  Of course, if the user sees this as a nag rather than a reminder, there’s always that convenient option to disable the popup.  Microsoft, hooray! ;-)

zune credit nag

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