i love my zune, and it still works and sounds fantastic....
The Zune wasn’t so much a failure, it was just a victim of the massive success and ubiquity of the iPod.
I just bought one on Ebay to replace the one I bought new back in like 2006.
Stand-alone MP3 players will always rise above streaming for me.
Still love the Zune. One battery replacement later it is still ticking. Use it mostly to listen to downloaded books.
I will miss it when it is gone.