Music Using iTunes with your PMA430 | Archos PMA430TM manual

6 MUSIC - Using iTunes™ with your PMA430

The easiest way to transfer music files between a Macintosh® computer and your PMA430 is to use the Macintosh Finder™ to drag and drop the files to and from your Macintosh®. Keep in mind that Macintosh® uses the AAC

format natively and that only your MP3, WAV, and WMA files will play on your ARCHOS device.

However, for Macintosh® users who do want to use the PMA430 with iTunes®, ARCHOS has developed a special i-Tunes®plug-in. You will find the folder iTunes plug-inin the ARCHOS folder on the PMA430 as well as on the ARCHOS website. 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 PMA430 as a ‘Device’.

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

1)Music purchased at Apple’s on-line music store are copy protected with a proprietary encryption system. The ARCHOS device will not be able to play this purchased music. It will happily play MP3 format files without problem.

2)When you create your Playlists with iTunes® (you can only create Playlists from songs that have been copied to your PMA430), your Macintosh® will save these Playlists to the root directory of your PMA430. It will not save them to the PMA430 Music directory. It would be best to use the PMA430 itself to make Playlists and then save these Playlists to the Music or some other convenient folder.

3)When you drag and drop MP3 files from your iTunes® library to your PMA430, the i-Tunes®program will look at the ID3 tag information of the MP3 file, and create a folder on the root of your PMA430 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 PMA430 convention of placing the music into the Music folder first.

7 Photo Application

This is the photo viewer application. When you click on this icon in the main screen, you will be sent directly to the Photo Browser, which lets you look through your photos. A thumbnail photo of the highlighted file name will be shown on the right between the thumbnails of the file (or folder) just before and just after. You can hide and display the thumbnail panel by clicking the RIGHT and LEFT controls or by

tapping on the Double-browser icon on the menu bar.

Click on the PLAY button and the highlighted file name will be displayed.