Most music lovers understand how it feels to get a new Zune player and cannot wait to find a place to download music for Zune. And we want to have our favourite songs like Big Girls Don't Cry by Fergie and A Bay Bay by Hurricane Chris without hurting our wallets as well. Do not worry about it because it is the purpose of this article to discuss the download process and reveal how to download music for Zune cheaply.

There are several places we can download Zune music as well as other entertainment files like movies, music videos and even games for our player. I think you know them. For example, iTunes, Napster, and even Microsoft has a Zune marketplace where you can easily find over 2 million sound tracks to download. Each download can cost you anything from $0.99 to $2.49. Mind you, most music lovers own more than a few hundred pieces of music and this really can be expensive, especially for school going teens.

You may think that the free sites that offer you songs are great. I would advise you to think twice about getting songs or music there since you could be downloading a host of malware and viruses unknowingly. Not only so, corrupted copies from these sites could damage your player. Ouch!

One way to pack your player with more music is to rip music from your existing CD or borrow from a friend. The player works pretty much similarly to other MP3 players. So to download music for Zune should be quite simple to execute for those who already own another MP3 player.

If you want to transfer songs from a CD to your Zune, all you need to do is rip the songs using a media player like Windows Media Player. Select the desired songs or sound tracks and click the "Rip" button and in a moment's time, the songs would appear in the library of the Windows Media Player. Connect your digital player to the USB port or cradle and your player would synchronize automatically with the media library to download the music onto your music player.

Do not worry if the synchronization is not working well. You can always copy the media files to your player directly. Take note that your Zune will always appear as a removable disk drive on your computer.

One important point here when you download music for Zune online or rip music from CDs is that the file formats must be compatible with your player. It supports windows media player supported formats like WMA, WMV, MOV, MP4 and MP3. Do not be mistaken that they can support RealMedia or DivX format as our devices do not support them.

So far we have talked about music CD ripping, it is time to discuss the juicy part of downloading music, movies, videos and games for Zune from paid membership services. There are practically dozens of such sites where you can download unlimited Zune music, songs, movies, videos, games and even software for a one-time fee. While it is not free, it definitely is an inexpensive choice as you need not pay to download new songs as and when they are available.

These are all you need to know when you download music for Zune. Discover more about paid membership services that offer unlimited downloads for less than the price of a movie treat for your family.