Archos XS100 Using iTunes with your Gmini XS100 , Updating the Gmini XS100 Firmware

Using iTunes™ with your Gmini™ XS100

The easiest way to transfer music ﬁ les between a Macintosh® computer and your Gmini XS100 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 XS100 with iTunes®, Archos has

developed a special i-Tunes® plug-in. You will ﬁ nd it in the folder /Data/i-Tunes Plug-in on the

Gmini XS100 hard disk or from the Archos website. In this folder you will ﬁ nd a .sit compressed ﬁ le.

Uncompress it and open the folder for your operating system. You will ﬁ nd a JPEG image illustrating where you

need to copy the plug-in to. Once this is done, iTunes™ will recognize the Gmini XS100 as a ‘Device’. Currently

there is no plug-in for the PC version of iTunes™.

To make your user experience easy as possible, please keep in mind the following.

1) Music purchased at Apple’s on-line music store are copy protected with a proprietary encryption system. The

ARCHOS device will not be able to play this purchased music or ﬁ les in AAC format which you might have created.

It will happily play MP3 format ﬁ les without problem.

2) When you create your Playlists with iTunes® (you can only create Playlists from songs that have been copied

to your Gmini XS100), 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 and then

save these Playlists in your Playlists folder.

3) 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 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 artists and albums, i-Tunes

does not follow the Gmini convention of placing the music into

the Music folder ﬁ rst.

Updating the Gmini™ XS100 Firmware

Archos periodically updates the ﬁ rmware or Operating System (OS) and makes it available for free download

on the ARCHOS website (www.archos.com). Updates to the Operating System include new features, feature

improvements, and bug ﬁ xes. Y ou should check to make sure that you are running the most recent version of the

OS. To see the current version of the software your device is running, go to Setup > System and look at the line

OS Version . You will ﬁ nd the most recent version of the OS and its version number at the Archos website (www.

archos.com) under the category Software .

11.1 Download the Update_GminiXS100.AOS ﬁ le

When you click on the link to download the new OS ﬁ le (the ﬁ le name is Update_

GminiXS100.AOS), your browser may warn you that the contents of the download

may harm your computer. This is because the Windows® system does not know what

an .AOS ﬁ le is. Be assured that Archos has made every effort to ensure that the ﬁ le

does not contain viruses. Click on the option Save to download this ﬁ le to a convenient

place, such as My Documents , in order to later copy this ﬁ le to your Gmini XS100. If

your Gmini is connected to your PC, you can even save it directly to the Gmini.

You will also ﬁ nd next to the ﬁ rmware download, a text ﬁ le which details the list of

changes from the previous version of the OS.

11.2 Copy to Gmini™ root and Update

Connect your Gmini to your computer (See the chapter on connecting to

the computer for help), and then copy the Update_GminiXS100.AOS ﬁ le

to the root directory of the Gmini. The root directory is the top most level

of the directory hierarchy. Just drag this.AOS ﬁ le onto the Gmini XS100

Hard disk in your ﬁ le manager and it will place it in the top most directory

(outside any folder). If there is already an older version of the Update_

GminiXS100.AOS ﬁ le on your Gmini, Windows® will ask if you want to

overwrite the current ﬁ le. Click on Y es. Once this ﬁ le is copied, safely disconnect Gmini XS100 from the computer.

Refer to the disconnection procedure in the connection chapter if you are unsure of how to do this.