Kinoma Notes

Wel­come to the best Kinoma Player 4 EX yet!

The big news? Now you can eas­ily stream your music, video and movies from home.

Just install Orb (free!) on your PC, then select Orb from Kinoma Player’s Book­marks menu to log in. Now you have all of your media at your fin­ger­tips, no mat­ter where you are.

Noth­ing else makes it as easy to access your media remotely on Palm OS. (Use Win­dows Mobile? Get Kinoma Play.)

This update is free for Kinoma Player 4 EX cus­tomers. If you don’t yet own Kinoma Player 4 EX, learn more and buy it here.

New Fea­tures

• Built-in Orb sup­port lets you stream your music, video and movies from home
• User­names and pass­words to password-protected media can now be saved across launches
• Faster access to YouTube via the Book­marks tab
• You can now book­mark all of the thou­sands of radio sta­tions in Kinoma Guide, includ­ing those with hid­den URLs

Fixes and improvements

Media

• Improved com­pat­i­bil­ity with very-low-bitrate MP3 files
• Improved media syn­chro­niza­tion for file names with inter­na­tional characters

YouTube

• Fixed recent issues where YouTube play­back reset some users’ devices
• Shuf­fle and Play Once play­back modes now works as expected
• Improved com­pat­i­bil­ity with YouTube search query recommendations

Power Man­age­ment

• Improved power sav­ings when the power but­ton is pressed while Kinoma Player is idle
• Devices will no longer power off dur­ing media play­back if Secu­rity set­tings are enabled

How to update

If your Palm smart­phone or PDA has an inter­net con­nec­tion, just choose Check for updates from the Media menu. Oth­er­wise, you can update from your PC.

We rec­om­mend that you get the v4.5 update today. If you have ques­tions or com­ments, please let us know in our forum.

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