Zune

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2008–2023), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Zune, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Playback and volume need both a button and touchscreen, and the button sits at the far end from the headphone jack2023-04-18
Desktop software for managing the music library was very hard to use2021-12-07
Text on the screen was so large it conveyed less information than an iPod2020-08-01
Cheap MP3 players lacked a decent UI, so the commenter stopped using them2017-10-20
Microsoft's Metro-style UI is hard to use, so Zune fails as a usable interface2012-10-13
Account creation redirects endlessly in a loop, and podcast page is region-blocked2012-04-20
Experience feels weird and awkwardly non-functional compared to iPod2010-04-23
Zune's features are undermined by counter-intuitive software and obtuse case design2008-10-16