Archos AV 500 series MUSIC Putting Music onto your AV 500

MUSIC – Putting Music onto your AV 500

Your Archos™ product is a certiﬁ ed PlaysForSure™ digital device which means that wherever

you ﬁ nd music for sale on the Internet with this symbol, you can be certain that it will ‘Play for

sure’ on your AV 500*.

The AV 500 is designed to work seamlessly with Windows Media® Player (WMP) versions

9 and 10. The Windows Media® Player software is used to download digital media content

from the Internet to your computer and organizing it. You will also use it to synchronize (copy)

the contents of your Windows Media® Player media library to your Archos™ device. See the

comparison chart below for an explanation of the different features available when running

Windows Media Player 9 and 10 or check out the web site www.playsforsure.com.

*Subscription services require you to be running Windows Media® Player 10.

The Synchronize button in Windows Media® Player (WMP) is a one way ‘sync’ button.

That is, it will add music, video, and photo ﬁ les to your AV 500 so that you have the

same digital media on your AV 500 as you have in your Windows Media® Player

media library. Of course, you can choose to sync only certain songs, videos, or

photos, or sync your entire library. On WMP10, you can click the button Set up Sync

in the Sync tab and then check the box labeled Synchronize Device Automatically . This is the auto-sync

advantage of WMP10. If this box is checked, then each time you connect your AV 500 to your PC, Windows

Media® Player will automatically start up and check to see if there are any new music, videos, or photos in your

media library, and if so, will then copy them to your AV 500. You also have the

possibility to decide what types of media automatically sync when you connect

your AV 500. For example, you may only want music ﬁ les to be synchronized. On

the other hand, with Windows Media® Player 9, you have to tell it what you want

to sync, WMP9 cannot synchronize automatically when you connect your AV 500

to your computer.

Note for WMP10 users: Files added to your AV 500 from another computer or ﬁ les which are recorded from an analog

source cannot be added to the Windows Media® Player Library when you connect your AV 500 to the computer. Songs

which have been added, will however, be listed in the device’s ARCLibrary.

Windows® Media Player 10 is only available for Windows® XP (service Pack 1) and newer operating systems. It

is worth your while to upgrade to Windows® XP (home or professional) and to Windows® Media Player 10. The

list below shows the advantages.

Auto-synchronize the WMP library to ARCHOS™ AV 500 on connecting to PC no* yes

Can synchronize subscription music (‘to go’ services) to your AV 500 no yes

Carefree USB disconnection (no special green arrow unmount procedure) no yes

Will convert video ﬁ les** to play on your AV 500 if not in correct format no yes

Supports protected Internet video downloads no yes

PlaysForSure™ audio content yes (download) yes

* Must use WMP9 manual sync function to copy purchased music to the AV 500.

**Microsoft reserves the right to limit which video ﬁ le formats it will convert with WMP10