Together with the new TV advertisements for the 2nd-generation Zune launched weeks ago, they also launched a promotional flash website at zunejourney.net which can be simply described as psychedelic and trippy.
You might notice whilst you pointlessly scroll through space, music begins to play in the background, some of which are quite good. Of course, this was a Flash website so the music must have come from somewhere accessible by the browser so it wouldn’t be hard to trace.
After unearthing the configuration XML file, the URLs to each of the MP3s were easily found. Here they are. My favorite is track 11, Dark Territory by Junky XL. Track 13, Lake Michigan is used in the “bunny” TV ad.
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1. Don’t Let go All Good Things Pacha Massive |
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2. Your Rocky Spine Onigara Great Lake Swimmers |
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3. El Microphono Pinata Mexican Institute of Sound |
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4. Will you return Emotionalism The Avett Brothers |
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5. Cannot Get Started Plague Park Handsome Furs |
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6. Um Segundo Momento Bebel Gilberto |
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7. I Remember Luckiest Girl Rosey |
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8. Paloma The Buena Vibra Sound System Sidestepper |
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9. I Sugar Assault Me Now The Return to Form Black Magick Party Pop Levi |
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10. Ave Cruz Ceu Ceu |
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11. Dark Territory Junky XL – Music from SSX Blur Junky XL |
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12. Plasticities Armchair Apocryha Andrew Bird |
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13. Lake Michigan Asleep at Heaven’s Gate Rouge Wave |
Theoretically, I don’t want to steal music. I just want to play these tracks more often, without visiting the website. Disclaimer: Long holds no responsibility if and when FBI agents busts through your door warranting for your arrest for downloading music from the Zune website, plus any other illegal activity which you may or may not be conducting at the time.
The RIAA just took all my things and is trying to get me to settle for $1.2mil per song. Thanks Long…
Thanks for the Music Long!
I’ve been having fun with the site’s source files too…lots of cool stuff 😉
famous about:cache in Firefox? 😉
Oh, and “Bunny” ad is from Sony Bravia. New Zune ad is named “The Ballad of Tina Pink” (from official .asx data).
“Theoretically, I don’t want to steal music”
A little bit irresponsible Long?
Thank you, chief inspector Zeng 😉
You are cool Mr Zheng! We love your site!
thought this was kinda weird.
CompUsa selling a zune on nov 11 for over $1000
http://cdntthnkof1.googlepages.com/zuneforonegrand%3F
I suppose you could always just buy a new Zune if you’re concerned about it since this looks like all the preloaded content that it’s going to come with.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I’ve been looking everywhere for the song from the Ballad of Tina Pink commercial, and thanks to you I finally found it. Also, I assume that the first post on this page is a lie right?
there’s a song on the site and in th new commercial… but it’s not on your list 🙁 does anyone know who sings it?
Hey thanks for going through our XML, glad you found everything you wanted!