Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says it has resolved a glitch that caused the 30 GB model of its Zune MP3 player to freeze up over the past week.

"You can go back to using your Zune!" the company said in a support note posted Thursday on its Web site. The note details steps that Zune owners should take to eliminate the bug by resetting their players.

Earlier this week, thousands of Zune users flooded blogs and support forums with reports that their devices had locked up. Microsoft traced the problem to a software bug that caused the Zune's internal clock to fail when switching from the past leap year to 2009, which is not a leap year.

To fix the problem, Microsoft advised users to unplug the Zune from its power source and allow the batteries to drain. "Wait until the battery is empty and the screen goes block," the company said in its support bulletin. It then instructed users to power up the devices, but only after 7 a.m. Eastern time on New Year's Day Thursday. "No other action is required," said Microsoft. [Information Week]

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Check out the iPod touch ad featuring the CSS song (those traitors!) "Music is My Hot Hot Sex", and other videos, below...

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actual dudes (not actors) w/ iPhone & new Zunes (CRED)

Mad TV dressed up like the iPod commercial too!....

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I get all kinds of press releases sent to me. Most of them go unused. That would be true about the one I just got about the new "ZUNE Ignition Artist of the Month", but the timing was just too perfect.....

BAND OF HORSES is the Zune Ignition Artist of the Month

In conjunction with the new album "Cease to Begin" which is due to be released TOMORROW October 9, Band of Horses is currently participating in the ZUNE 'Ignition' artist program. The Ignition program provides a unique multi-platform online promotional push for artists through Zune, MSN, and Xbox.

Zune Marketplace is currently offering the free track "Is There a Ghost," and another free track "No One's Gonna Love You" will be available during the last 2 weeks of October. Xbox Live is offering a free video download of the band's live performance of "No One's Gonna Love You" along with interview footage. MSN is currently streaming video from that same live performance/interview and holding an online listening party for the band's new album.

Previous Zune 'Ignition' artists include Maximo Park, Ryan Adams, Editors, and Talib Kweli.

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Zune is throwing a hip hop BBQ party in NYC, and though they don't reveal the location on their website, I heard it was at Empire Fulton Ferry Park in Brooklyn - home of the recent BOADRUM77 Boredoms show. Also on the August 4th bill: "Brand Nubian, Cham, Large Professor, MIMS, Joell Ortiz and many more special guests." Free tickets can be gotten here. In related news, Zune & Live Nation are doing stuff together. All Clipse tour dates below...

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