Kinoma Notes

One of the things you used to hear about five years ago was the then-novel con­cept of a juke­box in the sky, which would let you lis­ten to your music from anywhere.

Wel­come to the future! Let’s set up your own per­sonal celes­tial juke­box, shall we?

Media­Mas­ter is a great ser­vice that lets you lis­ten to your music from any web browser on any computer.

Kinoma Player 4 EX works with Media­Mas­ter to let you lis­ten to your music on your Treo, wher­ever you hap­pen to be.

Here’s how to make them work together:

1. Cre­ate a Media­Mas­ter account.
2. Once you’ve received your con­fir­ma­tion email, click the con­fir­ma­tion link to sign in to your new account.
3. Once the Media­Mas­ter player loads, click the Upload Man­ager tab and upload some music.
4. Click the All Songs tab, then drag the music you want to lis­ten to with Kinoma Player onto the My Radio tab.
5. Click the My Radio tab to con­firm that it con­tains your music.
6. Choose Radio Sta­tion from the Pub­lish menu at the top of the web page.
7. Select Win­dows Player from the Player pop-up menu, click Update.
8. Find the playlist URL, which is the URL in the embed code that ends in “asx”.
9. Go to Kinoma Player 4 EX, choose Open URL from the Media menu, and enter that playlist URL.
10. Choose OK to play your music imme­di­ately, or choose Book­mark to cre­ate a book­mark for future one-click access.

As I write this, Media­Mas­ter streams your music at 128 kbps. Although that’s a pretty high data rate for mobile audio stream, it’ll nor­mally work fine on Sprint’s and Verizon’s high-speed “3G“networks.

The fine folks at Media­Mas­ter are very inter­ested in pro­vid­ing a bet­ter expe­ri­ence for Kinoma Player users. I’ll let every­one know when they’re offer­ing mobile-optimized streams that work great even dur­ing peak times and for AT&T’s “2.75G” net­work as well.

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