Are you a Zune owner and wish that you know where to download music for Zune conveniently, instantly and most importantly without expensive pay per download fees? You may be looking for the latest songs by Beyonce, Maroon 5 or Justin Timberlake but the thought of the cost makes it a little hard to bear. If this describes you, then you may want to read on as we share about how you can pack more music to your Zune and where are the best places to download music for Zune.



HMV, Amazon and iTunes are some mega online stores where you can download Zune music together with other media files like videos, music videos and movies for Zune. Microsoft also has a Zune marketplace where you can find a huge library of over 2 million music files. But buying at these music stores is not the cheapest thing to do. Downloading one or a few music or songs is perfectly fine for your pocket as each download costs around $0.99 onwards. But you would feel the pinch if you were trying to build a private collection.

You may think that the free sites that offer you Zune music downloads are great. I would advise you to think twice about downloading music there since you could be downloading a host of malware and viruses unknowingly. Not only so, corrupted copies from these sites could damage your Zune player. Ouch!

One way to pack your Zune player with more music is to rip music from your existing CD or borrow from a friend. The Zune player works pretty much similarly to other MP3 players. So to download music for Zune should be quite simple to execute for those who already own another MP3 player.

Ripping music for your Zune player requires a media player like Windows Media Player. There are others like Winamp, RealPlayer and so on. If you are using Windows Media Player, once the CD is loaded into your CD ROM, you can see the song list from which you can select the tracks you want. Then all you have to do is to right click the mouse and go to "rip" or simply just click the "Rip" icon on the interface. Once it is done, wire the Zune to your computer via the USB cable and synchronization between your Zune and your PC takes place. It will download music for Zune onto your player.

Sometimes, the synchronization may be interrupted and the files are not downloaded properly. When this happens, all you need is to copy the music downloads and paste it directly onto the Zune player. Your player would appear as a removable drive, typically Drive E on your computer when you explore it.

One important point here when you download music for Zune online or rip music from CDs is that the file formats must be compatible with your player. Zune supports windows media player supported formats like WMA, WMV, MOV, MP4 and MP3. Do not be mistaken that they can support RealMedia or DivX format as Zune does not support them.

So far we have talked about music CD ripping, it is time to discuss the juicy part of downloading music, movies, videos and games for Zune from paid membership services. There are practically dozens of such sites where you can download unlimited zune music, songs, movies, videos, games and even software for a one-time fee. While it is not free, it definitely is an inexpensive choice as you need not pay to download new songs as and when they are available.

Hopefully, these tips would help you to decide your choice for Zune music downloads. For more details about the top download sites that allow you instant access to download music for Zune, go over to my recommended blog.