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My MP3 came loaded with music?!?

Aug 19, 2009 1:47AM PDT

Hello,

It was my birthday a few days ago, and I finally got a ZUNE i wanted forever. Now, when I finally got around to setting it up, I noticed there was already 200+ songs on it. The box looked sealed, never opened. Everything was in its place as it would be from the factory.

Is this normal?

It was almost all Techno music.

Anyone else have this happen to them?

Thank for all the replies!

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Two possibilties
Aug 19, 2009 3:31AM PDT

It's a refurbished unit. It's the retailer's demo or returned stock.

There are stories about a well known high street electronics retailer in the UK which has sold customers something as new, like a video camera. The customer gets it home and finds home movies already on the camera.

As I had to go through three scanners from that retailer before finding one with a power supply and software CD in the box, I know this not to be an urban myth.

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Most likely a refurb/repaired unit
Aug 21, 2009 1:48PM PDT

Depending where you got it from, I'd be inclined to go back and have ords with the manager and ask politely if (s)he will replace it with the new unit you thought you had purchased.

That said, most of the music player manufacturers do return refurbished units to retail stock - some include a statement to that in their terms and conditions. Personally, I think these refurbs should go into warranty replacement stock or be sold as used at a reduced price. If I'm buying new, at full retail price, I expect to get exactly that, new and unused equipment.

Good luck - and a belated Happy Birthday!

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Promotional music
Aug 21, 2009 7:49PM PDT

Your particular case does sound like some sort of return has taken place. I don't think a refurbished unit would still contain music.

There are some MP3 players that come with a handful of songs. Some cheap Chinese ones come with the Backstreet Boys song "I Want It That Way"; I know because I used to sell them Happy Both my Sony Walkman players have come with some music too, of course they are from Sony BMG artists.

So just because there's music on the player, does not make it a T2 or seconds unit. If there's one or two songs from each artist, it's probably not a seconds unit; but if there are full albums then it definitely is.

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Zunes in the past had preloads as well
Aug 26, 2009 5:17PM PDT

But only a small handful of songs, and a similar amount of videos (I want to say about a dozen or so of each media type).

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Re: My MP3 came loaded with music?
Aug 21, 2009 10:14PM PDT

In the past, Zunes have come preloaded with some songs, videos and pictures. AFAIK, they still do. However, for the first couple generations, we're talking about around 12 or 15 songs. There are some special editions with additional preloaded content (eg. for Halo or "Gears of War"), but 200 songs seems like an awful lot, even for something like that. Besides, if it was a special edition, you probably would have mentioned that.

Which Zune model do you have? What's the storage capacity?

Are the artists big names or more like independents that most people wouldn't have heard of. The songs that came preloaded on my first generation Zune were all by people I'd never heard of. I'm guessing that the second generation preloads were similar (the preloaded content was different). If your songs are by "unknowns", then some kind of preloaded content may be more likely. OTOH, if they're by better known artists, I've got to wonder where all those songs came from.

Do you have any other preloaded content (videos, pic's, podcasts)? That might help figure out what's going on. If you've got some blockbuster movies on there, I've got to think that you've got someone's old Zune. OTOH, if you've got just music with no videos or anything else, I'd also be inclined to think that you've got a used unit, since the preloaded content I've seen included other media.

James

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It shouldn't have that much music...
Aug 23, 2009 9:34AM PDT

A zune does come with some Podcasts, Music, photos, and videos, but if it comes with 200+ techno songs, that's not normal. Yours must be a refurb unit that someone else had used then returned after loading music onto the zune. you should ask the company that sold you the zune for a NEW unit, not a refurbioshed unit, unless it said somewhere that the zune you bought was a refurb.