Archos AV 500 series user manual Audio Editing, Incremental Recording

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Incremental Recording

While recording, you will notice the incremental recording action icon. This allows you to create incremental recordings. This means that the current recording stops and a new recording instantly begins. The next recording has an additional number appended to its name. Thus if you create multiple incremental recordings, you might, for example, have files names of REC0000_01, REC0000_02, etc.

This is good for recording old cassettes and old vinyl records. You can click on this icon during the blank space between each song. That way, each song of the vinyl disk or audio cassette will be one single music file.

13.3 Where is the Recording Saved?

The default location for audio recordings is the folder called Music. This can be changed though. For example, you click on the Music icon in the main menu and then you choose Browse Hard Drive. Notice that there is the Launch Audiocorder action icon. Each time you use this button to start the Audiocorder application instead of the AudioCorder button on the main menu, you set the recording default location to the current folder. For example, let’s say you have a folder called /Music/Vinyls/Soul. If you go to this folder and then make a recording using the action icon, you will set the default record location to this folder. Now, all your recordings you make with the Audiocorder icon will be saved in the folder /Music/Vinyls/Soul.

13.4 Audio Editing

Audio files (only recordings that were made from the AudioCorder icon) can be modified by deleting the sections you do not wish included. If you would like to edit an audio recording, you have the possibility to cut the file down to the specific part you want to keep. In the example below, you have recorded a lecture of 33 minutes and 22 seconds in length. You would like to cut out and save just one particular important section from 12 minutes and 15 seconds to 21 minutes and 5 seconds. The diagram below illustrates the situation.

To keep just this section (cropping it), you will:

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•Locate this file via Browse hard disk in the Music application.

•From the action icons, select the File Management action icon and then select Edit.

•In the edit mode, set the Cut In point (12:15 in our example). This will remove the part of the file BEFORE the desired segment.

•Now set a Cut Out point (21:05 in our example. Please note: As you have cut part of the file, this position will actually be earlier in the file now).

•Validate and Save the edit. The file will be saved with the word ”edit” appended to the file name in the same folder as the original.

•If you do not want to save your modifications, click the STOP/ESC button and select OK.

Highlight the file to edit and select the File Management action icon. Choose Edit. Only files which have been created with the AV 500 recording function will show Edit in the file menu. Files created from CDs or downloaded cannot be edited. Once you enter the edit mode, the audio file will play in a continuous loop so that you will be able to hear the changes to the edit as you make them.

Use the fast-reverse and fast-forward buttons (LEFT/RIGHT buttons) to locate the points you want the new file to start and end. These are the Cut In and Cut Out points. Once you have set these points, you can save the edit. In this example, a new file REC0001_Edit will be made. Your original file is left untouched. You will notice that your Cut In and Cut Out times are marked just below the file name.

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