Kinoma Notes

Along with sup­port for a bunch of video and audio for­mats, Kinoma Player also sup­ports a bunch of playlists for­mats.

A “playlist” is just a file con­tain­ing a list of things to be played.

You use playlists to cre­ate groups of con­tent. For exam­ple, you could cre­ate a Work­out Tunes playlist that con­tains an hour of two of your favorite music to rock out to.

Playlist for­mats

Kinoma Player sup­ports all pop­u­lar playlist for­mats, including:

• M3U playlists (.m3u)
• Playlists (.pls)
• Win­dows Media playlists (.asx)

Addi­tion­ally, you can use RSS feeds as playlists.

M3U playlists are some­times called “MP3 playlists”. We won’t call them that here, because with Kinoma Player you’re not lim­ited to using MP3 files  — any­thing you can play, you can put in a playlist.

Mak­ing the playlist file

M3U playlists are the eas­i­est kind of playlist to cre­ate. An M3U playlist is just a text file that includes the loca­tions to the con­tent that Kinoma Player should play.

To cre­ate an M3U playlist file, just cre­ate a new text file and give it a descrip­tive name and an .m3u extension.

Each item gets its own line in the text file. Con­tent loca­tions can be paths to local files (i.e. files on your SD card), or they can be URLs. Paths to local files can be absolute or rel­a­tive.

Absolute paths spec­ify the full path to the con­tent, which means that they stay the same no mat­ter where you put the playlist file. Absolute paths looks like this:

/AUDIO/My Favorite Band/Latest Album/Hit Song.mp3

Rel­a­tive paths spec­ify the path to the con­tent rel­a­tive to the playlist file itself. Rel­a­tive paths needs to be updated if you move the playlist file. Rel­a­tive paths looks like this:

My Favorite Band/Latest Album/Hit Song.mp3

Any URLs in your playlist will be absolute by nature, and they’ll look like other URLs you’ve seen:

http://myfavoriteband.com/music/album/hit-song.mp3

Once you’ve cre­ated your playlist, you’ll find it in Kinoma Player’s Playlists tab:

 

That’s all there is to it! If you have any ques­tions, be sure to let us know in our forum.

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