Windows 10: Zune - please unbrick

I have two Zune players with FM HD radio. I would like to be able to download music and media to them.Yes, I know that Zune Software is discontinued, and legacy versions of it available are no longer compatible with Windows 10 and 11.All I want to do is be able to manage content on the players. I don't need anything else.I get it - there will be no software upgrade to the Zune; its browser is toast. Zune Market, that ship sailed almost a decade ago.But the FM HD radio is fantastic!I just wish I could put other content on them. They have 32G memory - and I can do absolutely nothing with it!

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The TPU Zune Social

rcmartin

Device: Zune 80
Zune pass: no
Favorite Album: A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step


zune > gaypod

 

Any way to get the Zune software to work on Windows 10?

I still have and love my old Zune HD, it's my main music player, but I recently moved from a Windows 7 computer to a Windows 10 and I can't seem to install the software anymore. I tried looking online for fixes and found the offline Zune installer since the software is no longer supported by Microsoft and it can't contact the Microsoft Zune page anymore. A lot of people said this worked for them but I still keep getting errors. I've ran out of things to try and was wondering if anyone here knew how I could make it work?

This is the error I keep getting:





It goes through the preparing your computer step and onto the installing step, gets to about 6-13% and then jumps to 88% and then the error pops up. I tried installing the firmware first as someone online suggested but that didn't help either (though I had the x86 version first and now when I try to install the right x64 version it pops up that a version of this is already installed but it's not under my program files for me to delete the wrong one.) Either way, the error occurs regardless of what I've tried. My only other option is to use a VM but I really don't want to as that's so much more trouble. I'd love to get it working on my Win 10!