Dorado
An authentic cross-platform re-creation of Zune 4.8 Desktop: Metro pivots, Quickplay & Smart DJ, Mixview, a real BASS audio engine (gapless, crossfade, ReplayGain, FFT), libVLC video, and MusicBrainz / Fanart.tv / LRCLIB enrichment.
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Open source · Independent · Non-affiliated
The Zune
experience, reborn.
A cross-platform desktop media player, a Zune HD–style Android music client, and the emulator core that connects them — rebuilt cleanly with modern, open tooling.
The projects
Three re-implementations, one canon.
Each project studies the original interface and rebuilds it behaviorally. No Microsoft binaries, firmware, or DRM content are involved.
Dorado-HD
The Zune HD handheld, reborn for modern Android: the 480×272 device canvas, crossbar pivots, kinetic lists, tri-state hearts, Media3 / ExoPlayer playback, a MediaStore-backed library, and 20+ re-implemented mini-apps and games.
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Dorado-EMU
A Zune HD application emulator that runs .zcp /
.ccgame XNA packages — the shared core behind the Android
client’s marketplace heritage.
By the numbers
~85%
Zune 4.8 desktop parity
167
Desktop unit tests
480×272
Authentic HD device canvas
MIT
Open-source licence
What got built
Fidelity you can hear and see.
The design language was famously content-first: black canvases, typography as navigation, zero chrome, zero rounded corners. Ported faithfully — and audited in continuous integration.
A real audio engine
BASS with gapless chaining, equal-power crossfade, ReplayGain leveling and an FFT spectrum visualizer.
Smart DJ & tri-state hearts
Hearts are prioritised in Smart DJ shuffles; broken hearts are always excluded — the Zune differentiator.
Pivot navigation
Panoramic pivot strip, parallax 3D slide, and the fan-loved tap-the-cut-off-header to go back.
The HD device canvas
An authentic 480×272 surface with crossbar pivots, kinetic scrolling and text-first navigation.
XNA package emulation
Loads Zune HD .zcp / .ccgame apps against a clean-room XNA 3.1 shim.
Metadata enrichment
MusicBrainz, Fanart.tv, Last.fm and LRCLIB aggregation with per-track match review.
Technology at a glance
| Dorado (desktop) | Dorado-HD (android) | |
|---|---|---|
| UI | Avalonia 11 · XAML · MVVM | Jetpack Compose · Material 3 |
| Audio | BASS / ManagedBass (P/Invoke) | Media3 / ExoPlayer |
| Video | libVLCSharp | Media3 |
| Storage | EF Core + SQLite | Room + DataStore |
| Toolchain | .NET 8 · C# 12 | AGP 9 · Kotlin 2.4 · KSP |
Keep the Zune experience alive.
Dorado is community-driven and open source. Every repository runs a full build, test suite and design-invariant audit on each push.