Archos AV380, AV320, AV340 user manual Using iTunes 4 with your AV300

3.8Using iTunes® 4 with your AV300

The easiest way to transfer music files between a Macintosh® computer and your AV300 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 AV300 with iTunes®, ARCHOS has developed a special i-Tunesplug-in. You will find it on the included CD-ROM in a folder called iTunes plug-in. In this folder you will find a plug-in for Mac OS 9.x and another folder for Mac OS 10.x. You will also find a JPEG image illustrating where you need to copy the plug-in to. Once this is done, iTunes™ will recognize the AV300 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 AV300), your Macintosh® will save these Playlists to the root directory of your AV300. It will not save them to the AV300 Playlists directory. It would be best to use the AV300 itself to make Playlists (section 3.5) and then save these Playlists in your Playlists folder.

2)When you drag and drop MP3 files from your iTunes® library to your AV300, the i-Tunes®program will look at the ID3 tag information (See section 3.2 of this manual for an explanation of ID3 tags) of the MP3 file, and create a folder on the root of your AV300 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 AV300 convention of placing the music into the Music folder first.

Playing MP3 music

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