Zuse makes Last.fm play well with the Zune software.

I’ve been using this technique for about 6 months without any issue. My last.fm account is full of scrobbled music from the Zune software: http://www.last.fm/user/ericatkins.

Many people are having trouble launching Zuse on 64-bit systems. When they launch Zuse.exe, Zuse will give an error and then crash.

This is because Zuse gets incorrectly installed to the ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Zune’ folder instead of the ‘C:\Program Files\Zune’ folder.

Zuse.exe and the files that get installed by the Zuse installer need to be in the same folder as Zune.exe.

Solution: Move Zuse.exe and any dependent files to the same folder as Zune.exe. Zuse will work. If you want scrobbling to take place when you listen to Zune, make sure you DON’T launch the Zune software by clicking on a shortcut to Zune.exe. You will want to launch the Zune software by launching Zuse.exe. So, update your shortcuts.

Scrobbling does work with Windows 7 + 64-bit. I suspect it works for Vista 64-bit as well.

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