Kinoma Notes

When most peo­ple think of buy­ing music online, they think of iTunes. But most iTunes music is still encum­bered with DRM, which makes it clumsy to use with Kinoma Player. (Read this to learn how to use all of your iTunes pur­chases with Kinoma Player.)

Hap­pily there are excel­lent alter­na­tives for buy­ing music that “just work” with Kinoma Player.

Today we’ll use Ama­zon, which offers a great selec­tion of high-quality (MP3 files at 256 Kbits/sec) music at a rea­son­able price. Since none of the music is DRM-encumbered, there are no wor­ries about acci­den­tally buy­ing music that needs to be con­verted before you can take it with you.

To buy dig­i­tal music from Ama­zon, go to the Ama­zon MP3 Down­loads store and find some­thing you like.

You’ll be prompted to down­load the Ama­zon MP3 Down­loader. It’s optional, but it makes it eas­ier to down­load your music pur­chases and auto­mat­i­cally add them to your favorite PC music man­ager (iTunes, Win­dows Media Player, etc.).

Once your down­loads are com­plete, just drag them to your device’s mem­ory card to lis­ten to your new music with Kinoma Player.

That’s all there is to it! In min­utes, you can go from just think­ing about buy­ing a song or album to lis­ten­ing to it on your phone with Kinoma Player.

• Ama­zon MP3 Downloads
• How to use DRM-encrypted iTunes tracks with Kinoma Player [Kinoma Notes]
• Three ways to get your stuff onto an SD card [Kinoma Notes]

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