The Day the Music Died

I love music and it is a love that I am trying to help my kids discover also. They all have MP3 players and they use them constantly. I have one as well and I cant believe that I used to use something as primitive as a record or cassette tape.(my parents even had an 8 track) For you kids out there google it so you can see how pathetic portable music use to be.

So a tragedy happened at our home about a week ago. Alex comes to me and says that the screen on his Zune cracked. He was devastated, he has always taken good care of it, never takes it anywhere without its cover, and it has fewer scratches and dings than mine does. With the LCD cracked it was impossible to see anything, it would still play and hook to the PC but its a Zune not a shuffle not being able to see and pick what you want is kind of pointless. After spending a few minutes with Google and discussing it with him we decided to try to repair it ourselves, figuring that it was already broken and we didn't have anything to loose.

Using eBay to do some scavenging we found a player that was non functional but had a working screen and possibly a working hard disk that we could sell at a latter time. We bought it for $23. While waiting for its delivery My zune decided to crap out. One minute I lost 1/2 my music the next the player was giving me an error message and would not reset. Based on what I had learned I decided that my hard drive probably died.

On Friday the Zune arrived with the tools that I ordered. We had what we needed to attempt the repair. After an hour Alex's Zune was functioning again. I decided to see if a hard drive would fix mine. After another hour my zune was good as new. I am pretty impressed with myself, I do not normally attempt this kind of thing.

Broken zune from eBay $23. Tools needed for the repair $19. Bringing 2 Zunes back from the dead in one night Pri..... well not priceless but pretty darn cool if I say so myself.

I'm glad that in my house we do not have 2 30 gig paperweights. Props to http://www.rapidrepair.com/ who had great guides to help with the process.

If I was a good blogger I would have taken pictures of the process, but I forgot and I am not going to take them apart again just for my blog.