Archos 400 MUSIC - Using iTunes with your Gmini 400

MUSIC - Using iTunes™ with your Gmini 400

The easiest way to transfer music ﬁles between a

Macintosh® computer and your Gmini 400 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 400 with iTunes®, Archos has developed a special

i-Tunes® plug-in. You will ﬁnd it in the folder /Data/i-Tunes Plug-in on

the Gmini 400 hard disk or from the Archos website. In this folder you

will ﬁnd a .sit compressed ﬁle. Uncompress it and open the folder for your

operating system. You will a ﬁnd a JPEG image illustrating where you need

to copy the plug-in to. Once this is done, iTunes™ will recognize the Gmini

400 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 Gmini 400), your

Macintosh® will save these Playlists to the root directory of your Gmini

400. It will not save them to the Gmini 400 Playlists directory. It would be

best to use the Gmini 400 itself to make Playlists (section 4.2) and then

save these Playlists in your Playlists folder.

2) When you drag and drop MP3 ﬁles from your iTunes® library to your

Gmini 400, the i-Tunes® program will look at the ID3 tag information (See

section 3.3 of this manual for an explanation of ID3 tags) of the MP3 ﬁle,

and create a folder on the root of your Gmini 400 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 Gmini

400 convention of placing the music into the Music folder ﬁrst.