Music and McDonalds

So apparently Microsoft and McDonalds have this advanced agreement with the Zune to make it easy to download music to your Zune while your eating your meal at McDonalds. Well tonight I found myself at that very same restaurant establishment with a little bit of time to download some music so I decided to test it out.

First let me say that this particular McDonalds was a shamble, sure it was later in the evening but there was more than a long wait for the food with noone there, they had old Star Wars Happy Meal toys for my kid who wanted Lego Batman and despite the fact they have a playhouse the place was a mess. Now moving on, lets try and download some music.

Well since there was such a wait for the food and the kids don't care about the condition of the playhouse there was time to download some tunes.

I got connected to the free Wi-Fi pretty quick on the first try which was a nice change so I decided to download a quick song, somehow I came across Herbie Hancocks Rockit so I added it to the cart and it started downloading. With that going well I came across Jessica Simpsons new album and despite my better judgement I hit download for the whole album.

My first attempt at downloading from the marketplace right from the Zune was at home when I downloaded the new Buckcherry album, that was pretty darn quick. Maybe becuase I wasn't very near the Wi-Fi access point the downloading at McDonalds was very slow. It was a good thing we had some time to spare becuase it took quite a while to download.

One thing I don't like about this new Wi-Fi marketplace is that the Zune battery doesnt seem to be designed to draw like this for very long. Other than that things went well, as in it didnt fail and I got my new CD for the car ride home.

Yes I listened to it in the car on the way home and its now on my Zune card probably.

With the Zune Pass in hand I am enjoying a plethora of music like I never thought I would. As for McDonalds, well now I can say I've tried it and thats about it, a one time thing. I won't be headed to McDonalds regularly to download music, I'll take my food to go.