I was going to post on how to do this myself, but no need now. An article over at Tech-Recipes (thanks Riko) shows you how with a nice collection of screen grabs to make it even easier.

It never fails, due to a typo or software snafu, some songs in your collection have incorrect information for the artist, album, genre, etc. This can make it difficult when you are trying to find that song you are looking for, setting up a playlist, or sharing music (not to mention that it doesn't look right). You can edit the song data from within the Zune software by doing the following:

Open your Zune software and go to the music section under collection.

From the browse view: (this is for a quick fix to a single artist, album or song tag) ...

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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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When you pick a song to listen to in the Zune software on your desktop, you can click a little EQ looking icon in the lower right of the screen and get a really cool screen... This works in your library or even browsing and sampling in the marketplace.

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Here is what you have when you click it...

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This screen uses album art from your collection as the background. Really Slick!

To get back, hit the backspace on your keyboard, the back button on your mouse, or click exit in the same place the EQ icon was.

The 2.2 release apparently broke the hacks that allowed users to use the Zune 30 as an external HD for storage and such.

Some folks over at Zunerama have already come up with a work around.

First, it's based on the registry hack from before - (described at this link: http://zunerama.com/forum/index.php?topic=970.0)
The difference with the new firmware is that the registry keys have changed. The new registry keys to be modified are:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Enum\USB\VID_####&PID_####\########-####-####-####-############\Device
Parameters
Modify the same three keys as before, and your Zune will serve as an external drive. A different icon will display in the shell, but you'll have the same functionality.

Source :Zunerama via Crunch Gear