Archos AV 500 series 13.3 Where is the Recording Saved? , 13.4 Audio Editing , 13.4 Audio Editing

Incremental Recording

While recording, you will notice the incremental recording action icon. This allows you to create

incremental recordings. This means that the current recording stops and a new recording instantly

begins. The next recording has an additional number appended to its name. Thus if you create multiple

incremental recordings, you might, for example, have ﬁ les names of REC0000_01, REC0000_02, etc.

This is good for recording old cassettes and old vinyl records. You can click on this icon during the blank space

between each song. That way, each song of the vinyl disk or audio cassette will be one single music ﬁ le.

13.3 Where is the Recording Saved?

The default location for audio recordings is the folder called Music . This can be changed though. For example,

you click on the Music icon in the main menu and then you choose Browse Hard Drive . Notice that there is the

Launch Audiocorder action icon. Each time you use this button to start the Audiocorder application instead

of the AudioCorder button on the main menu, you set the recording default location to the current folder. For

example, let’s say you have a folder called / Music/Vinyls/Soul . If you go to this folder and then make a recording

using the action icon, you will set the default record location to this folder. Now, all your recordings you make with

the Audiocorder icon will be saved in the folder /Music/Vinyls/Soul .

13.4 Audio Editing

Audio ﬁ les (only recordings that were made from the AudioCorder icon) can be modiﬁ ed by deleting the sections

you do not wish included. If you would like to edit an audio recording, you have the possibility to cut the ﬁ le down

to the speciﬁ c part you want to keep. In the example below, you have recorded a lecture of 33 minutes and 22

seconds in length. You would like to cut out and save just one particular important section from 12 minutes and

15 seconds to 21 minutes and 5 seconds. The diagram below illustrates the situation.

To keep just this section (cropping it), you will:

• Locate this ﬁ le via Browse hard disk in the Music application.

• From the action icons, select the File Management action icon and then select Edit .

• In the edit mode, set the Cut In point (12:15 in our example). This will remove the part of the ﬁ le BEFORE the

desired segment.

• Now set a Cut Out point (21:05 in our example. Please note: As you have cut part of the ﬁ le, this position will

actually be earlier in the ﬁ le now).

• Validate and Save the edit. The ﬁ le will be saved with the word ”edit” appended to the ﬁ le name in the same

folder as the original.

• If you do not want to save your modiﬁ cations, click the STOP/ESC button and select OK.

Highlight the ﬁ le to edit and select the File Management action icon.

Choose Edit . Only ﬁ les which have been created with the AV 500

recording function will show Edit in the ﬁ le menu. Files created from

CDs or downloaded cannot be edited. Once you enter the edit mode,

the audio ﬁ le will play in a continuous loop so that you will be able to

hear the changes to the edit as you make them.

Use the fast-reverse and fast-forward buttons (LEFT/RIGHT buttons)

to locate the points you want the new ﬁ le to start and end. These are

the Cut In and Cut Out points. Once you have set these points, you

can save the edit. In this example, a new ﬁ le REC0001_Edit will be

made. Your original ﬁ le is left untouched. You will notice that your Cut

In and Cut Out times are marked just below the ﬁ le name.