Archos 400 user manual Music Using iTunes with your Gmini

7MUSIC - Using iTunes™ with your Gmini 400

The easiest way to transfer music files between a Macintosh® computer and your Gmini 400 is to use the Macintosh Finder™ to drag and drop the files to and from your Macintosh®.

However, for Macintosh® users who do want to use the Gmini 400 with iTunes®, Archos has developed a special i-Tunes®plug-in. You will find it in the folder /Data/i-TunesPlug-inon

the Gmini 400 hard disk or from the Archos website. In this folder you will find a .sit compressed file. Uncompress it and open the folder for your operating system. You will a find a JPEG image illustrating where you need to copy the plug-in to. Once this is done, iTunes™ will recognize the Gmini 400 as a ‘Device’.

To make your user experience easy as possible, please keep in mind the following.

1)When you create your Playlists with iTunes® (you can only create Playlists from songs that have been copied to your Gmini 400), your Macintosh® will save these Playlists to the root directory of your Gmini 400. It will not save them to the Gmini 400 Playlists directory. It would be best to use the Gmini 400 itself to make Playlists (section 4.2) and then save these Playlists in your Playlists folder.

2)When you drag and drop MP3 files from your iTunes® library to your Gmini 400, the i-Tunes®program will look at the ID3 tag information (See section 3.3 of this manual for an explanation of ID3 tags) of the MP3 file, and create a folder on the root of your Gmini 400 using the name of the Artist as the folder name. Then it will take the Album name ID3 tag, and create a subfolder with that album as its name. Finally, it will take the MP3 song itself and place it into that album subfolder. Thus, although it is a clean structure of artists and albums, i-Tunes®does not follow the Gmini 400 convention of placing the music into the Music folder first.

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