Worldwide mass media-player death It would appear that a Microsoft software bug has put the world's 30GB Zune population on the verge of extinction.…

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Baffled consumers are griping about a mysterious glitch that appeared to cause thousands of Zune music players to simultaneously stop working late Tuesday and early Wednesday.

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Along with an unknown number of other Zune 30GBs, my Zune was frozen this morning. Microsoft hasn't yet explained the mystery, but it could have something to do with the device's on-board clock.

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Users are reporting a glitch with Microsoft's 30GB Zune mp3 player.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Microsoft Corp. has warned customers using the 30-gigabyte version of its Zune media player that they "may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware."

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Microsoft warns customers using the 30-gigabyte version of its Zune media player that they “may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware.”

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Microsoft's Zune Player Experiencing Problems

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Zune music players crashing en masse

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According to several reports in online forums Zune 30 devices (these are the original Zune models) started freezing up all at the same time last night. I have a black Zune 30, but it is in the drawer and I wouldn't know if it froze up or not. It is still very early in Redmond so there is no official word from Microsoft on the cause and what the remedy is for this issue.

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Microsoft has yet to comment on what is causing massive numbers of its 30GB Zune to fail virtually simultaneously...

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