Archos Gmini200 Using iTunes 4 with your Gmini, Creating and Using Playlists with MusicMatch

contents of the ARCLibrary. You update the Gmini’s ARCLibrary by first connecting it to your computer, and then secondly, running the program MusicMatch™ and selecting View > Portable Device Manager. This will open up the Portable Device Manager (PDM) Window. MusicMatch™ will see if a portable device (the Gmini) is connected, and then look at all the music files on the Gmini’s hard drive, read their tags, and then refresh the Gmini’s ARCLibrary. A message “Activating portable device” indicates that your computer is in the process of refreshing the ARCLibrary. This message will stop when it has finished rewriting the ARCLibrary on your Gmini. You can now close the PDM window and the MusicMatch™ program. Properly disconnect your Gmini (use the green arrow icon). Now when you use the ARCLibrary (by clicking on the Music icon -- don’t forget also that ARCLibrary must be set to On in the system settings), you will see that your new songs have been indexed and can be found by Artist, Album, Title, or Genre. Be patient when letting MusicMatch™ update your ARCLibrary, it can take as long as 3 minutes per gigabyte of music files.

6.4.2 Creating and Using Playlists with MusicMatch™

You can use the included MusicMatch™ program to create Playlists that you can then save to your Gmini. ATTENTION: before creating a Playlist, make sure you are choosing mp3 files from your Gmini and not mp3 music files from your computer’s

hard disk! If you created your Playlists from MP3 files that are on the Gmini, then you can simply transfer these Playlists to the Playlist folder on the Gmini. That is, the Gmini must have been connected to the computer and the files in your Playlist must be files that are on the Gmini’s hard drive already. If you copy a Playlist which requests MP3 files from your computer’s hard drive, C: for example, then the Gmini naturally will not have that file locally on its hard drive to play. Connect your Gmini to your computer and make your Playlists from files on the Gmini with MusicMatch™. Save your Playlist in MusicMatch™. Next, copy (or drag and drop) the .m3u Playlist file to your Gmini using Windows™ Explorer. You will find all your MusicMatch™ saved Playlists in the directory

C:\Program Files\MUSICMATCH\MUSICMATCH Jukebox\Playlist\Default\

Copy the desired Playlist or Playlists from this directory to the Playlists folder on your Gmini. You can now use the browser on your Gmini to go into the Playlists folder and

select a Playlist. MusicMatch™Using

7 Using iTunes® 4 with your Gmini

The easiest way to transfer music files between a Macintosh® computer and your Gmini 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 with iTunes™, ARCHOS has developed a special i-Tunes®plug-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 Gmini as a ‘Device’.

To make your user experience simpler, 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 ), your Macintosh® will save these Playlists to the root directory of your Gmini. It will not save them to the Gmini Playlists directory. It would be best to use the Gmini itself to make Playlists (section 4.1.3) and then save these Playlists in your Playlists folder.

2)When you drag and drop MP3 files from your iTunes™ library to your Gmini, the i-Tunes®program will look at the ID3 tag information (See section 6.4.1 of this manual for an explanation of ID3 tags) of the MP3 file, and create a folder on the root of your Gmini 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 Artist/Album/Song, i-Tunes®does not follow the Gmini convention of placing the music into the Music folder first.

3)i-Tunes®does not write to the ARCLibrary when it transfers files to your Gmini. Thus, the ARCLibrary will not reflect the true number of songs on your Gmini. However you can still find and play your music via the Music Browser.

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