Kinoma Notes

Zune Pass is a music sub­scrip­tion ser­vice from Microsoft’s. Think of it as “all you can eat” music rental for a monthly sub­scrip­tion fee.

That’s pretty neat, but who wants to carry around a Zune and their phone? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could play Zune Pass music on your phone?

Kinoma Play to the rescue

With Kinoma Play, you can enjoy your entire Zune Pass col­lec­tion — not to men­tion the rest of your media library! — any­where, any­time by installing Orb on your home PC or media server.

Not every song avail­able in the Zune store has “sub­scrip­tion” rights, although most of my favorites did. And if you do buy tracks, those MP3 files will play per­fectly with Kinoma Play as well.

Install and con­fig­ure Orb

You can find instruc­tions for installing Orb, and using Kinoma Play to stream your com­plete media library from your PC here.

Impor­tant: As I write this, Orb 2.5 has a bug that inter­feres with Zune Pass stream­ing. For now, use the lat­est 2.0.1 release from the Orb down­load page.

Try it for free!

Don’t have Kinoma Play yet? Get Kinoma FreePlay from http://kinoma.com/get/, and a 14-day Zune Pass trial from http://www.zune.net/en-us/products/zunepass/.

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