Kinoma Notes

I’m happy to announce that this new update adds a new ser­vice – Google’s Picasa Web Albums.

Kinoma Play’s new Picasa ser­vice lets you:

• Browse your pho­tos and albums
• Edit your photo tags
• Upload pho­tos directly into your photo albums
• Com­ment on photos
• View pho­tos from your friends (Pica­s­aWeb Favorites)
• Share your albums
• See recently-uploaded pub­lic photos

How to update

You’ll be noti­fied about the update auto­mat­i­cally. Or to update imme­di­ately, go to Kinoma Play’s Main screen, show the menu pod and select Player > Check for Updates.

Other changes

As usual, we con­tinue to make per­for­mance improve­ments, fix bugs, and improve device com­pat­i­bil­ity with every release. Here are the other notable changes in this release:

• MP3 files store meta­data (like song and album names) in ID3 tags. Although ID3 tags with Uni­code (UTF-8) meta­data are still rare, they’re now han­dled prop­erly in all cases.
• We fixed an inter­ac­tion with the Orb ser­vice that caused Orb > Music to be slow (some­times unus­ably so) for peo­ple who had lots of audio files with­out artist/album tags.
• Set­ting the photo of peo­ple in your con­tact list (using Pic­ture > Set Con­tact) is work­ing reli­ably again — no more black pictures.
• This release uses a more reli­able server for SHOUT­cast search.
• Google Image search works again for cus­tomers run­ning Kinoma Play in French, Span­ish and Norweigian.

Kinoma Play is designed to work on all Win­dows Mobile phones. You can always find an up-to-date list of all phones known to be com­pat­i­ble with Kinoma Play at http://kinoma.com/support/devices/play/.

Enjoy!