Archos PMA400TM user manual Music Using iTunes with your PMA400, Photo Application

aChoose your recording source, Internal microphone, external microphone, or line in.

bChoose the quality of the recording (see technical specs for exact bitrates)

cChoose the format of the recording. .wav recordings will not allow artist and album tagging.

dIf desired, you can set a fixed recording time.

ePress to pause your recording. Press again to resume recording.

fPress to start your recording.

gPress to stop your recording.

hDefault names for the recording. Using the text input system, you change these.

iRecording time left or available (left) and elapsed recording time (right).

jVU meters for the recording level

kRecording gain control

Your recording will be saved in the folder /Music/Recordings. You can use the File application to move or copy your files to a different location if desired. A recording will use the field Title as the file name.

5 MUSIC - Using iTunes™ with your PMA400

The easiest way to transfer music files between a Macintosh® computer and your PMA400 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 PMA400 with iTunes®, Archos has developed a special i-Tunes®plug-in. You will find the folder iTunes plug-inin the Archos folder on the PMA400 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 PMA400 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 PMA400), your Macintosh® will save these Playlists to the root directory of your PMA400. It will not save them to the PMA400 Music directory. It would be best to use the PMA400 itself to make Playlists and then save these Playlists to the Music or some other convenient folder.

2)When you drag and drop MP3 files from your iTunes® library to your PMA400, the i-Tunes®program will look at the ID3 tag information of the MP3 file, and create a folder on the root of your PMA400 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 PMA400 convention of placing the music into the Music folder first.

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6 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. From here you can search for your photos. A thumbnail photo of the highlighted file name will be shown on the right. The file (or folder) just before and just after will have their thumbnail images shown to the right just above and below the thumbnail of the highlighted file.

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

Use the LEFT and RIGHT buttons to view the previous or next photo in the folder. Photo magnification and rotation icons are available in the status bar above the photo.

6.1Transferring pictures to your PMA400

You can transfer your pictures to your PMA400 by first putting them on your PC and then connecting the PMA400 to your computer and cutting/pasting your photo files to the Photos folder of the PMA400 hard drive.

Another possibility is to connect your digital still camera to the USB Host port using the included short USB Host cable adapter. If your camera follows the Mass Storage Class (MSC) standard for USB connection, then your camera will show up in the file browser as the folder /Sda1. If you look in this folder you will see your photos. See the chapter on the file browser for instructions on how to copy files in the file browser. Attention: Not all digital cameras are MSC type devices.

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