Kinoma Notes

If you use Kinoma Player you’re already liv­ing the future of mobile music, espe­cially if you’re a lis­tener of some of the thou­sands of Kinoma Media Guide radio sta­tions and podcasts.

But do you use Kinoma Player to stream your per­sonal music library? If not, you can use the just-released beta of Winamp Remote — a cus­tom ver­sion of Orb — together with Kinoma Player to do just that.

Down­load and install

Get the Winamp Remote installer from the Winamp Remote site, or down­load a com­bined Winamp/Winamp Remote installer from the Winamp site.

Just fol­low the prompts, and click Allow this pro­gram if your fire­wall asks if “Orb” can access the internet.

Set your PC preferences

A new Winamp Remote icon will appear in the lower-right area of your screen. Right-click the icon, choose Con­fig­u­ra­tion, and make sure the Media tab is point­ing at your music folders.

For best per­for­mance, remove any Video or Music fold­ers that you’re not using.

Set your phone preferences

Launch Web (Blazer) and login to http://winamp.orb.com/ with the user­name and pass­word you selected dur­ing instal­la­tion, then pick New speed test to get a base down­load speed.

My speed test reported 75 kilobits/sec when and where I tested it, so I picked Set­tings and chose a fairly-conservative fixed speed of 50 Kb/s.

Enjoy!

Go to the Audio tab, pick a cat­e­gory, then pick Shuf­fle to start stream­ing your music.

If you expe­ri­ence occa­sional rebuffer­ing, just go to Set­tings and pick a slightly lower datarate until you find one that works. And if you have other ques­tions or need more help, be sure to let us know in the Kinoma forum.

• Winamp Remote

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