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contents of the ARCLibrary. You update the Gmini’s ARCLibrary by ﬁ rst connecting it to

your computer, and then secondly, running the program MusicMatch™ and selecting

View > Portable Device Manager. This will open up the Portable Device Manager (PDM)

Window. MusicMatch™ will see if a portable device (the Gmini) is connected, and then

look at all the music ﬁ les on the Gmini’s hard drive, read their tags, and then refresh

the Gmini’s ARCLibrary. A message “Activating portable device” indicates that your

computer is in the process of refreshing the ARCLibrary. This message will stop when it

has ﬁ nished rewriting the ARCLibrary on your Gmini. You can now close the PDM window

and the MusicMatch™ program. Properly disconnect your Gmini (use the green arrow

icon). Now when you use the ARCLibrary (by clicking on the Music icon -- don’t forget

also that ARCLibrary must be set to On in the system settings), you will see that your new

songs have been indexed and can be found by Artist, Album, Title, or Genre. Be patient

when letting MusicMatch™ update your ARCLibrary, it can take as long as 3 minutes per

gigabyte of music ﬁ les.

6.4.2 Creating and Using Playlists with MusicMatch™

You can use the included MusicMatch™

program to create Playlists that you can

then save to your Gmini. ATTENTION: before

creating a Playlist, make sure you are

choosing mp3 ﬁ les from your Gmini and

not mp3 music ﬁ les from your computer’s

hard disk! If you created your Playlists from MP3 ﬁ les that are on the Gmini, then you

can simply transfer these Playlists to the Playlist folder on the Gmini. That is, the Gmini

must have been connected to the computer and the ﬁ les in your Playlist must be ﬁ les

that are on the Gmini’s hard drive already. If you copy a Playlist which requests MP3

ﬁ les from your computer’s hard drive, C: for example, then the Gmini naturally will not

have that ﬁ le locally on its hard drive to play. Connect your Gmini to your computer

and make your Playlists from ﬁ les on the Gmini with MusicMatch™. Save your Playlist in

MusicMatch™. Next, copy (or drag and drop) the .m3u Playlist ﬁ le to your Gmini using

Windows™ Explorer. You will ﬁ nd all your MusicMatch™ saved Playlists in the directory

C:\Program Files\MUSICMATCH\MUSICMATCH Jukebox\Playlist\Default\

Copy the desired Playlist or Playlists from this directory to the Playlists folder on your

Gmini. You can now use the browser on your Gmini to go into the Playlists folder and

select a Playlist.

The easiest way to transfer music ﬁ les between a Macintosh® computer and

your Gmini is to use the Macintosh Finder™ to drag and drop the ﬁ les to and

from your Macintosh®.

However, for Macintosh users who do want to use the Gmini with iTunes™, ARCHOS has

developed a special i-Tunes® plug-in. You will ﬁ nd it on the included CD-ROM in a folder

called iTunes plug-in. In this folder you will ﬁ nd a plug-in for Mac OS 9.x and another

folder for Mac OS 10.x. You will also ﬁ nd a JPEG image illustrating where you need to

copy the plug-in to. Once this is done, iTunes™ will recognize the Gmini as a ‘Device’.

To make your user experience simpler, 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 ), your Macintosh® will save these Playlists to the

root directory of your Gmini. It will not save them to the Gmini Playlists directory. It would

be best to use the Gmini itself to make Playlists (section 4.1.3) and then save these

Playlists in your Playlists folder.

2) When you drag and drop MP3 ﬁ les from your iTunes™ library to your Gmini, the

i-Tunes® program will look at the ID3 tag information (See section 6.4.1 of this manual

for an explanation of ID3 tags) of the MP3 ﬁ le, and create a folder on the root of your

Gmini 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

Artist/Album/Song, i-Tunes® does not follow the Gmini convention of placing the music

into the Music folder ﬁ rst.

3) i-Tunes® does not write to the ARCLibrary when it transfers ﬁ les to your Gmini. Thus, the

ARCLibrary will not reﬂ ect the true number of songs on your Gmini. However you can still

ﬁ nd and play your music via the Music Browser.

Using iTunes® 4 with your Gmini

Using iTunes® 4 with your Gmini

Using MusicMatch™