After installing the new Zune client software on my Vista PC, nearly all of my albums and artisit listing got messed up. I went through the entire library music twice and reset the “Artisit” and “Album Artisit” properties to match. Unfortunately when I ripped my music from my CD collection to MP3 using Windows Media Player (10 & 11) it didn’t populate the ‘Album Artist”. For some odd reason when the new Zune software was installed, it almost seemed like the “Album Artist” info was filled in by some wierd defaults that made no sense.

There is a fix published for this problem I found in the forums that point to the KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945319?sd=zune. Performing these steps worked for me, but this should be a lot simpiler to do, especially for the non-techie consumers that don’t understand this stuff. The Zune team should release an update to address this problem.

I also ran into a problem of not being able to download songs after purchasing them. The download runs all the way to the end and then gives a strange meaage about an ‘unknown’ error and gives the error code. The funny thing is that if you search on the error code in the Zune Support Forums it finds it with many, many people posting about the problem so it’s obviously not an “unknown” error. I finally got the music downloaded, just by trying over and over again until they all downloaded. Looks like this needs to be addressed in the next Zune software update too.