Archos AV 500 series SETTINGS , SETTINGS

SETTINGS

From the main screen, select the Settings action icon to reveal the menu items for various settings.

If you would like to customize the sound quality, you can adjust the Bass, Treble, and other audio

settings to suit your particular taste. Normally you will do this while listening to music so that you can

hear the changes you make. Simply click on the Audio Settings action icon while listening to

music.

• Once in the Settings screen, move over to the Sound icon and click again

on ENTER o. Use LEFT and RIGHT buttons to change a parameter’s value.

You will hear these changes instantly.

• Use the UP and DOWN buttons to select different parameters.

• Click on STOP/ESC x when ﬁ nished. You will return to the Setup screen.

• Click on STOP/ESC x again and you will return to the music playing

screen.

The Sound Parameters

Parameter Description

Volume 0 – 99

Bass 10 levels. Decreases or Increases the low frequencies.

Treble 10 levels. Decreases or Increases the high frequencies .

Balance 10 levels. Favors the right or left channel of the Stereo signal .

Bass Boost 10 levels. Increases the very low frequencies .

Reset button Re-adjusts all settings to their default values .

If you would like the AV 500 to play through an entire folder of songs, play songs at random (shufﬂ e), or

any of the other playing options, you can set these parameters in the PlayMode settings. Click on the

Settings action icon from the main menu or while listening to music and then choose PlayMode .

Parameter Description

Playmode options

Folder Play all tracks in the current directory or current album.

All Play all tracks on the AV 500.

Single Play a single track then stop.

Queue While the current song is playing, select the Show ARCLibrary action button, ﬁ nd the next song you want to play,

then click PLAY. This is your queued song. You can only queue one song at a time. See the Playlist section to

prepare multiple songs to play. Once the current track is ﬁ nished playing, your queued track will be played. If you do

not queue another track at this time, the AV 500 will play the next song in the directory.

Scan Each track in the directory is played for 10 - 90 seconds. This allows a quick sample of each song. If you want to

play the whole song, click on the Play button during those ﬁ rst 10 - 90 seconds. The AV 500 will then revert to single

directory mode and play the rest of the songs in the directory without scanning.