There are lots of ways to get music onto your Zune. I will cover 4 of these ways in this post. This is for the community as well as a reference for member of the Zune.net forums.

Rip a CD
This is a no brainer, but since there is no guide within the software, i'll show you. When the Zune Software is loaded there are 4 upper tabs above the music category. Collection, Device, Marketplace, and Social. Put a CD into your computer and this screen pops up in Vista. Notice you have a choice for Zune to play or rip. Pick Rip or close this window out and go to the 2nd way. (which is also the 1st way, but initiating the rip from the software.

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Once you put an audio CD into your drive, the Zune Software recognizes that and adds a tab along side the Collection, Device, Marketplace, and Social tabs called disc. Click that tab and you'll see this below.

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From here you can see the contents and album art of this CD. Under the song list, click rip and follow along.

The next way is to add music from your computer that you have already downloaded or ripped before. You will need to know where this music is. I personally keep all my music in one directory on my 500gb My Book external drive.

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In your Zune Software go to Settings:Software:Collection and you will see the above look. Here you can remove or add directories for the software to look for music. Once you tell it to look where your music is, it will add it to the collection automaticly. Sync your Zune and Zoom Zoom.

The next way is probaly the easiest, but most expensive. Buy the music from the Marketplace. You can buy the songs or albums outright or get a Zune Pass and download all you want for $15/mo... That's all!

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So if I want to buy this talented artists CD, I would just click buy next to the album art or just buy singles to the right of the actual song.