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Using MusicMatch™

6.2 Creating MP3 ﬁ les from your Audio CDs

Make sure you have already installed the MusicMatch™ program from the included CD-ROM

(see section 6.1 above).

ENCODE First we have to get those CDs of yours into MP3 format. Regular CDs are in

the format CDA (fancy term for Compact Disc Audio). We’ll just use MusicMatch™ and

encode them into MP3 format.

a) Start MusicMatch™ by double-clicking on the icon.

b) Insert your music CD into your computer’s CD drive. MusicMatch™ will start playing

the CD. Click on the stop button to stop playing the CD.

c) Open up the recorder window by

clicking on View, and then select

Recorder as shown. The Recorder

window will appear and you will

see your CD tracks on the right of

the window. If the CD is relatively

new (last four years) it will probably

already have the track title

information included in the CD. If

not, you will see the words Track 1,

Track 2, etc.

d) In the recorder window, the tracks that will be recorded (turned into MP3 format) will

have a check mark in front of the song. You can uncheck the tracks that you do not

want to record. Now click on

Start. MusicMatch™ will now

encode the checked tracks

into MP3 ﬁ les. You will see

the CD music tracks being

encoded in real time. Notice

in this screen capture that

the ﬁ rst song is 50% encoded. Be patient as the encoding time can take a while.

LOCATE

Now let’s go get those MP3s so that we can transfer them over to the Gmini.

MusicMatch™ automatically puts them in the folder My Music. Start by double-clicking

on My Documents and then open My Music. You will then ﬁ nd an Artist folder, and within

it, your speciﬁ c album.

TRANSFER

Finally, transfer the ﬁ les over to the Gmini as explained previously (section 5.2).

6.3 Getting purchased MP3 ﬁ les to your Gmini

If you subscribe to a paid internet music service* which allows you to download MP3

music ﬁ les and you want to put them on your Gmini, you should do the following.

Start by downloading your music ﬁ le to your folder My Music on your computer. You

should use a clean ﬁ le structure as described in section 4.3.1 of this manual. Next,

connect your Gmini to your computer and then follow instructions in section 5.2.

Attention: before subscribing to a paid music service, be careful to read the information

on the music download web site to be sure that the ﬁ le format is supported by the Gmini

(MP3, WMA, or WAV). Some websites may use special encryption systems that are not

supported by the Gmini.

6.4 The ARCLibrary and MusicMatch™ Playlists

Attention: you should re-index the ARCLibrary system so that it can take into account

newly transferred ﬁ les. This is automatically done each time you select View > Portable

Device Manager with the Gmini connected to your PC. MusicMatch™ will display a

message «Activating Portable Device» while it is updating the ARCLibrary contents. If

you transfer large amounts of ﬁ les to your Gmini (tens of Gigabytes of data) the indexing

can take up to three minutes for each gigabyte of music ﬁ les. If you do not update your

ARCLibrary after transferring ﬁ les to the Gmini, it will not be able to include these music

ﬁ les in the ARCLibrary. You will have to play these ﬁ les by browsing the Gmini’s hard drive

in the Browser mode .

6.4.1 ARCLibrary Updating

MP3 and WMA music ﬁ les have internal tags to hold information such as the Artist name,

the genre of music, the Album, the name of the song, etc. For MP3 ﬁ les, these are known

as ID3 tags. Not all MP3 ﬁ les have this information ﬁ lled in. If you purchase a song from a

music download service, the songs will have this information. If you create a recording

from the built-in microphone for example, the Gmini will create an artist tag called New

Artist, an album tag called New Album, and a song title called REC0000. You can add

or change the contents of the ID3 tags with MusicMatch™. Go to your MusicMatch™

library and then right click on the song whose ID3 tags you want to change. Then select

Edit Track Tag(s).

The ARCLibrary indexes your music by using the ID3 information in each song. Each time

you add new music to your Gmini, you must refresh or update the internal library. That

way, when you browse by Album, Artist, or song Title, it will take into account all the

ﬁ les on your Gmini. The fact that you add a music ﬁ le to you Gmini doesn’t change the

Using MusicMatch™