Archos PMA400TM AudioCorder Application, Play Music through your Home Stereo, Resume Functions

Button controls while a song is playing

Increase the Volume

Click once : Play the previous song in the folder or playlist

Hold : Fast reverse through the song.

µ Stop Song and return music browser Decrease the Volume

Click once : Play the next song in the folder or playlist.

Hold : Fast forward through the song.

Play/pause/resume song

Long hold to go to music browser

3.4Play Music through your Home Stereo

Instead of connecting the red and white AV Out cables of your TV Cradle to your television, connect them directly to your stereo system’s auxiliary inputs. Then put your device into the TV cradle and play your music from there. You will have to adjust the output volume of the PMA400 so that it is neither too strong (creates distortion) or too weak (cannot hear it). Alternatively, you can purchase the Archos travel kit which includes an AV Cable. With this cable, just plug it into the headphone jack of the PMA400 and the other end’s white and red plugs to the Aux in, CD in, or line-in of your stereo system.

3.5The Resume Functions

You will notice on your PMA400 the Resume Icon. Use this icon to resume the last played audio or video file. That is, it will pick up from the last played video or audio file that did not completely finish.

3.2The ARCLibrary™ - Browsing by Artist, Album, or Title

The ARCLibrary is a database of all the songs in the Music folder. You can choose your music to play by artist, album, song title, genre, or year. Understand however that not all music files have this information. It depends on where you got the file from. Many music files have information inside them to describe what the music file is. These are called tags. Some song files have all of these filled in and others have none. Files of the type .wav do not have any tags because the format does not allow it.

When you copy a song file or folder of files to your PMA400, your PMA400 is acting only as a hard drive and does not ‘know’ what you are copying to it. Once you disconnect it from your computer, you will have to go the music browser (just start the Music application) and select the menu bar item Update ARCLIbrary. The PMA400 will then take a look at all the songs in the music library, check to see if there are new ones, and then add the new ones to the database of known songs. Now, when you choose to select your music from the various characteristics, you will see your newly copied music. Understand that if your music files do not have the description tags inside of them, then it be classified under unknown. The file name will be used in place of the title if there is no song title tag.

3.3Putting Music onto your PMA400

Because your PMA400 is seen as an external hard drive when connected to your computer, for example, PMA400 (E:), you simply put your folders of MP3, WAV, or WMA formatted songs into the folder Music on the PMA400 by dragging and dropping the files or by copy/pasting. If you have purchased music from a web site that uses the Microsoft® copy protection system, you must use Windows Media Player to transfer your music to the device in order for it to be played on the PMA400. You will also be required to install the Archos supplied service provider plug-in in order for Windows® Media Player to be able to recognize your PMA400 as a music device to copy to.

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For example, if you are listening to a long audio file and you stop it during mid play and shut off your PMA400, you can continue listening from that point the next time you turn on your PMA400 by clicking on the Resume icon. In addition to this resume icon, if you stop a song in mid play, and shut down your device, the next time you play the music file, it will start playing from the point that you stopped it at previously.

4 AudioCorder Application

With this application you can make digital audio recordings from the built-in microphone (Int. Mic), a connected dynamic microphone (Ext. Mic), or from a line level audio source (Line In) such as a cassette player, CD player, or the line output of your home stereo system.

You can use the red and white cables (AV in) of your TV Cradle to make line-in recordings or you can purchase the optional Archos travel kit which will allow you to make line-in recordings with just a cable and adapter, thus making recordings anywhere, and without the TV Cradle.

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