It appears that a single male Zuner out in LA is looking for some hot music-swapping action on Craigslist.  Though it's listed in the "strictly platonic" section, we all know what can happen when things in The Social heat up.  It starts innocently enough, with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice" but things escalate quickly to "My Humps" and "I Wanna Sex You Up" and soon enough you're doing the "Wild Thing".  Next thing you know, somebody's "Knocked Up".  I've seen it a million times. 

Remember kids, practice safe Zuning!

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With the new Videos section, auto-playlists, metadata improvements and a more social Social, there's a lot of big changes to love about the 2.5 spring update. But what I appreciate just as much from the Zune team is the little interface and usability touches that make the experience of using the Zune software that much more enjoyable. The great thing about them is that they're never really publicized or explained, you have to explore and find them on your own (or read blogs like this one). When the 2.0 software was released, I was amazed when I found the "Now Playing" screen when I clicked the little equalizer-looking icon by the play controls. This release doesn't have as many surprises as last time, but there's still a few gems to be found. Here's just a few I've come across so far.

The Video Preview

If you're playing a video (or video podcast) and you leave the full-screen view of it, you'll get a little version of it continuing to play down at the bottom-middle of the screen.

It's a tiny Michael Scott!

It even goes widescreen if the video is in that format. How great is that?

More Complete 'Now Playing' Screen

Before when I'd have the Now Playing screen up, there were many places where there wouldn't be album covers making up the background. I had a lot of cover-less music, either live recordings, one-offs, non-album tracks, or stuff that just plain wasn't in the Zune system. It didn't look bad, the Zune software filled in the spaces with squiggly artsy designs, but the completist in me always wished it could be full of my album covers. Now it is! I don't know if it's the metadata fixes that have added art for just about every album and song I have (whether it's the right one or not) or they just changed it to only pull actual album art, but now I've got nothing but wall-to-wall album covers, and I couldn't be happier.

'Show Episode List' for Podcasts on the Zune

On the Zune itself, I noticed a new entry when you bring up the menu while playing a podcast. There's now an option for "Show Episode List" where you can view all the episodes in the series and even change episodes mid-episode. Neato!

Hide the Playlist

When you're on the Now Playing screen, there's now a new icon that lets you hide (or un-hide) the playlist. It still auto-hides it after a few seconds like it did before, so I'm not entirely sure of the benefit of it, but hey, it's there.

That's what I've found so far. I'm sure there's tons of other little changes that I'll discover the more I explore through the new update. If I missed anything share it in the comments.

Oh and by the way, I'm Jonathan. I'm new 'round these parts, but I'm a bigtime Zune fan/evangelist and I couldn't be happier to be a part of the Got Zune team. Add me as a friend on the Social if you'd like.

If you've been itching to check out all the new Zune 2.5 software improvements but haven't had time to go through everything yourself, fear not. Jason Dunn over at Zune Thoughts has done all the heavy lifting for you and created a few videos detailing what's new and exciting in the software upgrade. This first video gives an overview of most of the new features (minus The Social).

The second video goes specifically into the new features of The Social (which he wasn't able to access in the first video)

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