Your music anywhere with Kinoma Player and MediaMaster
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:
- Create a MediaMaster account.
- Once you’ve received your confirmation email, click the confirmation link to sign in to your new account.
- Once the MediaMaster player loads, click the Upload Manager tab and upload some music.
- Click the All Songs tab, then drag the music you want to listen to with Kinoma Player onto the My Radio tab.
- Click the My Radio tab to confirm that it contains your music.
- Choose Radio Station from the Publish menu at the top of the web page.
- Select Windows Player from the Player pop-up menu, click Update.
- Find the playlist URL, which is the URL in the embed code that ends in “asx”.
- Go to Kinoma Player 4 EX, choose Open URL from the Media menu, and enter that playlist URL.
- 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.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
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