Archos 6400 User Manual

Annex No.5

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Functional Description / User manual

Archos G6S

(Archos 5 User manual & legal booklet)

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Please visit www.archos.com/manuals to download the latest version of this manual.

Dear Customer,

Thank you for choosing this ARCHOS product. We hope that you will enjoy using it and that it will give you satisfaction for many years to come.

Please do register your product on our website (www.archos.com/register) to ensure that you get access to our help line and to be informed of free software updates for your product. You can also register directly on your ARCHOS via the WiFi.

Wishing you the best multimedia experience, The ARCHOS Team.

All the information contained in this manual was correct at the time of publication. However, as we are often updating and improving our products, your device’s software may have a slightly different appearance or modiﬁed functionality than presented in this manual.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................4

ARCHOS DESCRIPTION ..........................................4

FIRST TIME USAGE .............................................5

TURNING THE ARCHOS ON/OFF ....................................5

THE INSTALLATION WIZARD ......................................5

USING THE ARCHOS INTERFACE ...................................5

PRODUCT CARE ................................................7

1. PLAYING VIDEO ..........................................................................................8

1.1 BROWSING THROUGH YOUR VIDEOS .............................8

1.2 VIDEO PLAYBACK ............................................9

1.3 VIDEO PLAYER SETTINGS ....................................11

1.4 PUTTING VIDEOS ONTO YOUR ARCHOS ..........................12

1.5 SEE PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED VIDEOS (UPNP) .................13

1.6 WATCHING WEB TV .........................................13

2. PLAYING MUSIC ......................................................................................14

2.1 BROWSING THROUGH YOUR MUSIC FILES .......................14

2.2 MUSIC PLAYBACK ..........................................16

2.3 MUSIC PLAYER SETTINGS ....................................17

2.4 PLAYLISTS ................................................19

2.5 PUTTING MUSIC ONTO YOUR ARCHOS ...........................21

2.7 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED MUSIC (UPNP) .....................22

2.8 LISTENING TO WEB RADIOS ..................................22

3. VIEWING PHOTOS .................................................................................23

3.1 BROWSING THROUGH YOUR PHOTOS ...........................23

3.2 PHOTO VIEWER ............................................24

3.3 PHOTO VIEWER SETTINGS ....................................26

3.4 PLAYING A SLIDESHOW ......................................26

3.5 PUTTING PHOTOS ONTO YOUR ARCHOS .........................27

3.6 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED PHOTOS (UPNP) ....................27

4. USING THE FILE BROWSER .............................................................28

4.1 NAVIGATION ...............................................28

4.2 USING THE VIRTUAL KEYBOARD ...............................30

4.3 BROWSING OTHER COMPUTERS ON THE NETWORK ................30

5. CONNECTING TO THE WIFI ..............................................................32

WIFI CONNECTION PROCEDURE ...................................32

WIFI NETWORK CONFIGURATION ..................................33

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6. THE INTERNET FEATURES ..............................................................36

6.1 BROWSING THE WEB ........................................36

6.2 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED MEDIA FILES (UPNP) ................38

6.3 THE ARCHOS MEDIA CLUB ....................................40

6.4 MAIL .....................................................41

6.5 CONTACTS ................................................41

7. TRANSFERRING FILES....................................................................... 42

7.1 CONNECTING THE ARCHOS TO A COMPUTER .....................42

8. MAIN SETTINGS ................................................................................... 45

8.1 “SOUND” SETTINGS .........................................45

8.2 “SCREEN” SETTINGS ........................................46

8.3 “TV OUT” SETTINGS .........................................47

8.4 “APPEARANCE” SETTINGS ...................................48

8.5 “LANGUAGE AND REGION” SETTINGS ...........................49

8.6 “TV CONTROL” SETTINGS ....................................49

8.7 “CLOCK” SETTINGS .........................................50

8.8 “POWER” SETTINGS ........................................51

8.9 “STORAGE” SETTINGS .......................................52

8.10 “PARENTAL CONTROL” SETTINGS .............................53

8.11 “CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE” SETTINGS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

8.12 “FIRMWARE AND PLUG-INS” SETTINGS ........................55

8.13 UPDATING THE FIRMWARE ..................................55

8.14 “SYSTEM INFO” SETTINGS ..................................56

9. OTHER FUNCTIONS ..............................................................................57

9.1 PLAYING GAMES ...........................................57

9.2 TV FUNCTIONS .............................................57

9.3 TOOLS ...................................................58

10. ARCHOS PLUG-INS AND ACCESSORIES .................................62

10.1 ARCHOS PLUG-INS .........................................62

10.2 ARCHOS ACCESSORIES .....................................62

TROUBLESHOOTING ................................................................................ 64

RESETTING YOUR ARCHOS ......................................64

SYSTEM RECOVERY ............................................64

TOUCHSCREEN PROBLEMS ......................................65

REPAIR AND FORMATTING TOOLS .................................65

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ...............................................................67

TECHNICAL SUPPORT INFORMATION ................................................................................... 68

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INTRODUCTION

ARCHOS DESCRIPTION

MAIN BUTTONS

Press and hold to turn your ARCHOS on/off.*

• The green LED indicator lights up when the device is on.

•

* When you keep the Power button held down, two messages will appear, one after the other. If you release the button during the ﬁrst message, your device will keep using a small amount of battery power to allow a quick start up.

If you do not plan on using the ARCHOS for an extended period of time, keep the button held down until you see a second message appear. The device will shut down completely, and there will be absolutely no battery usage.

VOL

LED INDICATORS

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CONNECTORS

Underneath the device:

•

Volume button: to increase/decrease volume.

Battery charge indicator.

light on: the battery is charging

• blinking: the battery is fully charged

•

Headphone Jack: to connect headphones.

These connectors allow you to:

Connect your ARCHOS to a computer (see Connect a compatible external device to your ARCHOS (see USB Host Connection) Charge the battery of your ARCHOS (see

Connecting the ARCHOS to a Computer

Charging the Battery

)

•

Connect an optional accessory. See

BUILT-IN LOUDSPEAKER

The speaker is located on the right side of the device.

LEG STAND

•

Your ARCHOS is equipped with a leg stand, located on the back of the device.

ARCHOS Accessories.

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Carefully pull it out, and it will allow your ARCHOS to stand by itself on a ﬂat,

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stable surface.

FIRST TIME USAGE

CHARGING THE BATTERY

Before using your ARCHOS for the ﬁrst time, completely charge its battery:

Connect the USB cable to the ARCHOS and to a running computer.

The ARCHOS will turn on and start charging:

The C

LED indicator is on while the battery is charging. It will blink when the battery is fully charged.

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▲ ▲

USB

A lightning bolt symbol will ﬂash over the battery

icon in the upper right corner of the screen while the battery is charging.

TURNING THE ARCHOS ON/OFF

Press and hold the button to turn your ARCHOS on/off. See

•

The green LED indicator lights up when the device is on.

ARCHOS Description

THE INSTALLATION WIZARD

The ﬁrst time you turn on the ARCHOS, the installation wizard will help you conﬁgure the main functions of your ARCHOS: the language, the WiFi connection, the clock, etc.

USING THE ARCHOS INTERFACE

INTERFACE DESCRIPTION

Status Bar

In the top right corner of the screen, the status bar indi-

• cates the volume, the battery level, the current time of day and the

WiFi connection

status.

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Contextual Menu

•

In the upper right corner of the screen, tap on the Menu icon to display available menu items. The available options will vary, depending on where you are in the interface.

•

On the Home screen, the Menu icon allows you to:

switch the display of the image between the built-in LCD screen and a TV (when connected to TV-out capable accessory). See

manage the WiFi connection.

manage the Home screen shortcuts.

lock your device’s touchscreen. This can be useful if your ARCHOS is in your

ARCHOS Accessories

pocket, for example, and you do not want to touch the screen by accident. To unlock the device, press the

button. A conﬁrmation screen will pop up.

Home Screen

This is the main screen of your ARCHOS, show-

• ing its main functions.

Choose one of the main categories, on the left

• side of the screen (ex: “ category (ex: “

•

The right side of the Home Screen can contain up to

Video”).

Play”), then select a sub-

four media items. These are considered as shortcuts.

USING THE TOUCHSCREEN

Your ARCHOS is equipped with a touchscreen. Below is a description of the main tactile screen areas and a few tips on how to use the touchscreen.

Main Touchscreen Actions

•

In the different applications, you can go back one level in the interface by tapping on the Back icon

Wherever you are in the interface, you can go back directly to the Home screen

• by tapping on the Home icon

(in the top right corner of the screen).

(in the top left corner of the screen).

While playing a video or song, you can pause/resume it by tapping on the Pause

•

/ Play icon.

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Other Touchscreen Actions

•

When watching a video or listening to music, you can tap on the progression bar to go directly to a different location in the video or song. You can also use your ﬁnger to drag the cursor in the progression bar to another location in the video or song.

•

In the screens where it appears, the volume bar can be dragged in the same way.

•

In the different browsers (File, Music, Video, Photo, etc.), you can drag the scroll bar up and down to scroll the ﬁle list up and down. You can also scroll faster by tapping above or below the cursor in the scroll bar.

In the Web browser or the PDF viewer, you can scroll up and down by tapping on

• the page and dragging it up or down (be careful however not to tap on a link!).

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PRODUCT CARE

Your ARCHOS is an electronic product that needs to be treated with care:

•

Do not subject it to shock or vibration.

•

Do not subject it to heat, keep it ventilated (especially when connected to a computer).

•

Keep it away from water and excessively humid areas.

•

Keep it away from high electromagnetic ﬁelds.

•

Do not open it up. There are no user-serviceable parts inside. Opening will void your warranty.

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1. PLAYING VIDEO

In the Home screen, tap on “Play”, then choose the “Video” icon to enter the Video mode.

1.1 BROWSING THROUGH YOUR VIDEOS

The “Video” browser allows you to navigate through the Video folder of the

• ARCHOS hard drive.

You can go back one level in the interface by tapping on the Back icon

• Wherever you are in the interface, you can go back directly to the Home screen by tapping on the Home icon .

THE VIDEO BROWSER

•

The ﬁrst screen of the Video mode shows you all the videos and subfolders located in the

•

The “ resume the last-played video ﬁle, if it was interrupted before the end. If the “ it means that no video ﬁle playback can be resumed.

To play a video, highlight it, then open it. If a video is in a subfolder of the Video

• folder, open the subfolder, and you will see it.

Resume” line allows you to

Resume” line does not appear,

Video folder.

In the “Video” browser, each video ﬁle appears with a thumbnail, displayed on the left of the ﬁle’s name.

VIDEO BROWSER MENU ITEMS

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the highlighted video ﬁle.

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“File Management”

Rename”: allows you to change the name of the highlighted video ﬁle using the

“ virtual keyboard. See:

Delete”: allows you to delete the highlighted video ﬁle. A conﬁrmation screen

“

Using the Virtual Keyboard

will pop up.

Permissions”: allows you to deﬁne the ﬁle/folder as adult content, so that other

“ users can’t see it. To use this, your “

restricted access)

”. See Parental Control Settings.

Parental Mode” needs to be set to “Adult (un-

“Create Home Shortcut”

Creates a shortcut to this video on the Home screen.

“Bookmark”

“

Resume”: will resume playing the highlighted video from the bookmark.

Clear”: will remove the bookmark from the highlighted video ﬁle.

“

“Bookmark” only appears in the menu when a bookmarked video ﬁle is highlighted. See Video Playback Menu Items to set a bookmark on a given video.

“Search”

Allows you to search for a particular video by entering a few letters or a word.

Using the Virtual Keyboard

See:

“Settings”

you can choose to display the Video Player settings screen (see:

Settings

) or the “Sound” settings screen (see:

“Sound” Settings

Video Player

1.2 VIDEO PLAYBACK

To play a video, highlight the ﬁle and open it.

VIDEO PLAYBACK SCREEN

Menu icon

Back icon

video ﬁle name

Home icon

play / pause icon

video progression bar

volume level

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VIDEO PLAYBACK TOUCHSCREEN CONTROLS

To pause/resume the video, tap on the Pause / Play icon (see n° 5 in the

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previous screen). To display the menu overlay, tap once anywhere on the screen. To make it disap-

• pear, tap again.

You can tap on the progression bar to go directly to a different location in the

• video. You can also use your ﬁnger to drag the cursor in the progression bar to another location in the video (see n° 6).

The volume bar can be dragged in the same way (see n° 7).

• To display the available menu items, tap on the menu icon

•

(see n° 1).

•

To stop the video and go back to the “ (see n° 2). on the Home icon

VIDEO PLAYBACK MENU ITEMS

To exit the Video mode and go back directly to the Home screen,

(see n° 4).

Video” browser, tap on the Back icon

tap

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the current video ﬁle.

“Soundtrack” and/or “Subtitles”

allows you to select a different audio track*.

allows you to choose subtitles**.

* Only if the video ﬁle contains several audio tracks. ** Only if the subtitles are in a separate ﬁle. The supported ﬁle types are: .srt,

.ssa, .sub (text based) and .smi.

“Format”

allows you to change the way the image is displayed.

Auto”: adjusts the video size to best adapt to the built-in screen (or TV, with the

“ optional DVR Station 6, Mini Dock or Battery Dock: see

Full Screen”: enlarges the picture to ﬁll the screen. In order to ﬁt the ARCHOS

“

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screen, your device might need to cut small parts of the image, most likely at the top and bottom.

Maximized”: enlarges the picture to ﬁll the screen, assuming the image has an

“ aspect ratio of 2.35 with black bands at the top and bottom.

Original”: displays the entire picture in its original format.

“

“Speed”

will play the current video in slow motion or high speed.

while paused in slow motion, you can advance frame by frame, using the right arrow.

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“Set”

Bookmark”: sets a bookmark at the current spot in the video. Only one bookmark

“ per ﬁle is allowed. You can bookmark up to 32 ﬁles. Bookmarked videos will appear, in the “

Video” browser, with a bookmark symbol and a progression bar.

to resume playing a video from a bookmark, go to the “ light the bookmarked video ﬁle. Select the “

Bookmark” menu item, then choose

Video” browser and high-

“Resume” (“Clear” will remove the bookmark from the video).

Thumbnail”: saves the current image as a new thumbnail image in the “Video”

“

browser. “

Wallpaper

”: the current image will be deﬁned as your device’s background image.

“Settings”

you can choose to display the Video Player settings screen (see:

Settings

) or the “Sound” settings screen (see:

“Sound” Settings

Video Player

1.3 VIDEO PLAYER SETTINGS

In the Video mode, you can access the Video Player settings screen by using the

•

Settings” menu item.

“ Use the left/right arrows to select a different setting for a parameter.

•

“PlayMode”, “Repeat & Shufﬂe”

the following table explains how the video player will work according to the set-

tings you chose in “

PlayMode” AND “Repeat & Shufﬂe”.

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“PlayMode”

“Single”“Normal”

“Folder”

“UPnP Thumbnails”

“Repeat &

Shufﬂe”

“Repeat”

“Normal”

“Repeat”

“Shufﬂe”

What the video player does...

plays the current video ﬁle and then stops.-

plays the current video ﬁle repeatedly.-

plays all the video ﬁles of the current folder

one after the other, and then stops.

plays all the video ﬁles of the current folder

one after the other. This will be repeated indeﬁnitely.

plays all the videos of the current folder ran-

domly.

Here you can enable/disable the video thumbnails while browsing through your

PC’s shared videos. See:

Playing your PC’s Shared Media Files (UPnP)

. If you

choose “Disabled”, you will be able to browse through your PC’s shared videos faster.

“LCD Backlight”, “Brightness”, “Contrast” and “Gamma”

adjusts the level of backlight/contrast/brightness/gamma of the built-in screen.

you can also reset the LCD parameters to the default values (“

Reset” button).

1.4 PUTTING VIDEOS ONTO YOUR ARCHOS

On The ARCHOS Media Club, you have the possibility to purchase or rent videos directly from your ARCHOS, without using a computer. See: The ARCHOS Media Club.

There are two main methods to transfer the videos stored on your computer onto the ARCHOS:

Windows Media® Player: copy your videos using Windows Media

1. higher*:

Player 10 or

Use Windows Media® Player 10 or higher* (Sync tab) to synchronize your computer’s video ﬁles to the ARCHOS. See

Putting Files onto the ARCHOS

for more details.

* For best performance, we recommend that users update to Windows Media Player 11 or higher.

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Windows® Explorer: Copy and paste your video ﬁles from your computer into the

Video folder of your ARCHOS.

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To learn how to connect/disconnect the ARCHOS from your computer, see the

Transferring Files

CREATING COMPATIBLE VIDEO FILES WITH YOUR COMPUTER

section.

If some of your videos don’t play on your ARCHOS, you may need to convert them to a compatible format:

•

The easiest way to do this is by using Windows Media® Player 10 or higher to transfer videos to your ARCHOS. Windows Media® Player will automatically convert most formats to the WMV format that your device can play.

See your Windows Media® Player help instructions for more information.

•

If you don’t want to use Windows Media® Player, a search on the Internet should allow you to ﬁnd suitable utility programs to do this job.

•

If you would like to simply copy and paste unprotected DVD video ﬁles from your PC onto your ARCHOS without converting them to WMV format, you can purchase the Cinema plug-in from the ARCHOS website (www.archos.com). The same is also true for video podcasts in the H.264 format. In this case, purchase the Video Podcast plug-in.

1.5 SEE PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED VIDEOS (UPNP)

When connected to your home WiFi network, your ARCHOS gives

• you the possibility to watch, directly on your device, shared videos stored in your PC’s Windows Media® Library.

For this to work, you will need a WiFi connection and Windows Media® Player 11

• or higher* installed on your PC.

The ARCHOS uses the UPnP (Universal Plug-and-play) standard to stream shared

• videos from your PC’s Windows Media® Library.

See:

•

Playing your PC’s Shared Media Files (UPnP)

* There are other products on the market that also can share media ﬁles using the UPnP standard.

1.6 WATCHING WEB TV

With the optional ‘Web TV & Radio’ plug-in, you will be able to watch numerous Internet TV channels, directy on your ARCHOS.

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2. PLAYING MUSIC

In the Home screen, tap on “Play”, then choose the “Music” icon to enter the “Music” player.

2.1 BROWSING THROUGH YOUR MUSIC FILES

•

There are two types of views for you to browse through your songs: the Music Library and the Music Browser.

•

In both views, you can go back one level in the interface by tapping on the Back icon

screen by tapping on the Home icon .

When you leave the music playback screen while the song is still playing, it will keep playing in the background. This allows you to browse your hard drive, view your photos or surf the Web while listening to music. To stop the song, tap on pause in the music playback screen and then tap on Home.

THE MUSIC LIBRARY

The Music Library (default view)

• shows your music sorted by categories (Cover, Artist, Album, Genre, etc.) if your music ﬁles contain these song information tags.

•

When new music is copied to the ARCHOS, the Music Library will be updated automatically.

. Wherever you are in the interface, you can go back directly to the Home

•

If some of your music ﬁles do not contain information tags, they will be classiﬁed as

•

The “Resume” line allows you to resume the last-played music ﬁle, if it was interrupted before the end. If the “Resume” line does not appear, it means that no music ﬁle playback can be resumed.

(Unknown)

in the Music Library.

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THE MUSIC BROWSER

The music browser allows you to

• navigate through the

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To use it, select “

•

Hard Drive” in the

initial Music Library view.

MUSIC LIBRARY AND MUSIC BROWSER MENU ITEMS*

* The available menu items will vary depending on the mode you chose (Music Library or Music Browser).

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the highlighted music ﬁle.

“Show playlist”

opens a playlist edition window on the right (see:

Playlists

“Bookmark”

Resume”: will resume playing the highlighted song from the bookmark.

“

Clear”: will remove the bookmark from the highlighted music ﬁle.

“

“Bookmark” only appears in the menu when a bookmarked music ﬁle is highlighted.

“File Management”

Rename”: allows you to change the name of the highlighted music ﬁle using the

“

virtual keyboard. See:

Delete”: allows you to delete the highlighted music ﬁle. A conﬁrmation screen

“

Using the Virtual Keyboard

will pop up.

Permissions”: allows you to deﬁne the ﬁle/folder as adult content, so that other

“

users can’t see it. To use this, your “Parental Mode” needs to be set to “Adult (un-

restricted access)

”. See Parental Control Settings.

“Create Home Shortcut”

Creates a Home screen shortcut to the highlighted song, artist, album, folder, etc.

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“Search”

Allows you to search for a speciﬁc song by entering a few letters or a word. See:

Using the Virtual Keyboard

“Settings”

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you can choose to display the Music Player settings screen (see:

Settings

) or the “Sound” settings screen (see:

“Sound” Settings

2.2 MUSIC PLAYBACK

Use the scroll bar to browse through the list of audio tracks.

• To play a song, highlight the corresponding ﬁle and open it.

•

MUSIC PLAYBACK SCREEN

Menu icon

Back icon

Home icon

Play / Pause icon

previous track

Music Player

next track

progression bar

Volume level

MUSIC PLAYBACK TOUCHSCREEN CONTROLS

•

To pause/resume the song, tap on the Pause / Play icon (see n° 4 in the previous screen).

•

To play the previous/next song, tap on

•

To browse through your songs while listening to music, simply tap on the Back icon

launched the current song from (see n° 2).

•

You can tap on the progression bar to go directly to a different location in the song. You can also drag the cursor in the progression bar to another location in the song (see n° 7).

. This will take you to the Music Library or browser screen that you

/ (n° 5 or 6).

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•

The volume bar can be dragged in the same way (see n° 8).

•

To display the available menu items, tap on the menu icon

•

To go back directly to the Home screen, tap on the Home icon

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(see n° 1).

(see n° 3)

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the current music ﬁle.

“Set bookmark”

sets a bookmark at the current spot in the song. Only one bookmark per ﬁle is allowed. You can bookmark up to 32 ﬁles.

to resume playing a song from a bookmark, go to the Music Library or the Music Browser, highlight the bookmarked music ﬁle. Select the “ then choose “

Resume

” (“

Clear

” will remove the bookmark from the song).

Bookmark

” menu item,

“Set rating”

allows you to give a rating to the current song (1-5) or to remove the rating (none).

“Lock device”

locks your device’s touchscreen. This can be useful if your ARCHOS is in your pocket, for example, and you do not want to touch the screen by accident. To unlock the device, press the

button. A conﬁrmation screen will pop up.

“Settings”

you can choose to display the Music Player settings screen (see next section) or

Sound” settings screen (see:

the “

“Sound” Settings

2.3 MUSIC PLAYER SETTINGS

In the Music mode, you can access the Music Player settings screen by using the

• “Settings” menu item.

Use the left/right arrows to select a different setting for a parameter.

•

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“PlayMode”, “Repeat & Shufﬂe”

the following table explains how the audio player will work according to the settings you chose in “

An icon shows the current modes in the Music playback screen.

PlayMode” AND “Repeat & Shufﬂe”.

“PlayMode”

“Single”

“Folder”

“Repeat &

Shufﬂe”

“Normal”

“Repeat”

“Normal”

“Repeat”

“Shufﬂe”

What the video player does...

plays the current song and then stops.-

plays the current song repeatedly.-

plays all the songs of the current folder one

after the other, and then stops.

plays all the songs of the current folder one

after the other. This will be repeated indeﬁnitely.

plays the songs of the current folder ran-

domly.

“All”

“Normal”

“Repeat”

“Shufﬂe”

plays all the songs of your ARCHOS one

after the other, and then stops.

plays all the songs of your ARCHOS one

after the other. This will be repeated indeﬁnitely.

plays all the songs of your ARCHOS ran-

domly.

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“Queue”

“Intro”

allows you to select a track to be played after the current one is ﬁnished.

while a track is playing, switch to the browser window, select a track to highlight it, then open it. This is your queued track, which will be played after the current track.

you can only queue one track at a time.

plays the ﬁrst few seconds of each track. You can deﬁne the

length to play in “Intro duration”.

“Intro duration”

deﬁnes for how long each track will be played when “

PlayMode” is set to “Intro”.

2.4 PLAYLISTS

A playlist is a list of audio tracks that the music player will automatically play one

• after the other.

•

On your ARCHOS, you can play, create and edit as many playlists as you want.

Note: when you delete a playlist, you are only deleting the list and not the music itself.

PLAYING A PLAYLIST

•

In the Music Library, highlight the

Playlist” line and open it.

“

•

Highlight a playlist and open it. A panel showing the contents of the playlist will open on the right.

•

Open the ﬁrst item in the playlist to start playing from the ﬁrst track.

PLAYLIST MENU ITEMS

These menu items appear when a music ﬁle is highlighted on the left panel:

“Add to playlist”

Selected ﬁle”: will add the highlighted track at the end of the current playlist.

“

All ﬁles

”: will add all the tracks (from the left panel) at the end of the current playlist.

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“Insert in playlist”

Selected ﬁle”: will insert the highlighted track before the selected item in the

“ current playlist.

“

All ﬁles”: will add all the tracks (from the left panel) before the selected item the

current playlist.

These menu items appear when the focus is on the right panel (playlist editor):

“Track”

Remove track”: deletes the highlighted track from the playlist.

“ “

Move”: allows you to change the position of the highlighted track within the

playlist. Highlight the track you want to move, select the “Track” menu item, then choose “Move”. Now highlight the position to which you want to move the track and validate.

“Playlist”

Clear”: clears the current playlist.

“

Shufﬂe”: randomly shufﬂes the order of the songs in the current playlist.

“

“Save playlist”

Save”: saves the current playlist to the Playlists folder.

“

Save As”: same as “Save”, but it also allows you to give a personalized name to

“

the playlist. See:

Using the Virtual Keyboard

“Hide playlist”

closes the playlist editor.

“Settings”

you can choose to display the Music Player settings screen (see

Settings

CREATING A NEW PLAYLIST

) or the “Sound” settings screen (see:

“Sound” Settings

Music Player

While you are in the Music browser, select the “Show playlist” menu item. A

1. playlist panel will open on the right. By default, the new playlist contains the same songs as the last opened playlist. You can now start modifying the playlist.

In the left panel, locate the songs you would like to add to your playlist. Highlight

2. a song and open it to add it to the playlist. Repeat this operation with all the tracks you want.

To add all the songs of a folder to a playlist: open the folder in the left panel and highlight the ﬁrst song. Then use the “Add to playlist” or “Insert in playlist” menu item and choose “All ﬁles”.

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When you are satisﬁed with your new playlist, select the “Save playlist” menu

3. item, and then choose “

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Enter the name of your new playlist with the virtual keyboard (see:

Virtual Keyboard

Use the tabs to jump back and forth between the left and right panels.

EDITING A PLAYLIST

) and select “OK”.

Using the

To edit an existing playlist:

In the Music Library, highlight the “

1. Highlight the playlist you want to modify and open it. A panel showing the con-

Playlist” line and open it.

tents of the playlist will open on the right. You can now add, shufﬂe, move or remove tracks within the playlist, using the

3. appropriate menu items. The available menu items will vary according to which panel you selected (see:

After you have made the changes you want, select the “

Playlist Menu Items

Save playlist” menu item

and choose “Save” to save the playlist. If you wish to give it a different name, choose “

Save As”.

2.5 PUTTING MUSIC ONTO YOUR ARCHOS

There are two main methods to transfer the music stored on your computer onto the ARCHOS:

Windows Media® Player: copy your music using Windows Media

1. higher*:

Use Windows Media® Player 10 or higher* (Sync tab) to synchronize your computer’s music ﬁles to the ARCHOS. See

Putting Files onto the ARCHOS

for more details.

* For best performance, we recommend that users update to Windows Media Player 11 or higher.

Windows® Explorer: Copy and paste your music ﬁles from your computer into the

Music folder of your ARCHOS.

Player 10 or

To learn how to connect/disconnect the ARCHOS from your computer, see the

Transferring Files

section.

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TRANSFERRING YOUR CD COLLECTION TO YOUR ARCHOS

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You can easily create music ﬁles with your computer by using Windows Media® Player 10 or higher to convert your CDs to a playable format for your ARCHOS:

Place a music CD in your computer, and Windows® will ask you what action you would like to perform.

Choose

Rip music from CD, and Windows Media® Player will start ripping the

CD. The songs will be automatically extracted from the CD and encoded into the MP3 or WMA format, according to what you chose in Windows Media® Player’s ripping options. The default format is WMA.

Once this is done, the album will become part of your Music Library.

Transferring Files

See

to learn how to transfer the

ripped music ﬁles onto the ARCHOS.

See your Windows Media® Player help instructions for more information.

Check the laws and regulations in your country

• or jurisdiction to know if private copying of your CDs for your own use is authorized.

Some music CDs have a special copy protection

• system that will not allow Windows Media to make music ﬁles from them.

Player

2.7 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED MUSIC (UPNP)

When connected to your home WiFi network, your ARCHOS gives you

• the possibility to play, directly on your device, shared music stored in your PC’s Windows Media® Library.

•

For this to work, you will need a WiFi connection and Windows Media® Player 11 or higher* installed on your PC.

•

The ARCHOS uses the UPnP (Universal Plug-and-play) standard to stream shared music from your PC’s Windows Media® Library.

•

See:

Playing your PC’s Shared Media Files (UPnP)

* There are other products on the market that also can share media ﬁles using the UPnP standard.

2.8 LISTENING TO WEB RADIOS

With the optional ‘Web TV & Radio’ plug-in, you will be able to listen to thousands of different radio stations and various podcasts worldwide.

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3. VIEWING PHOTOS

In the Home screen, tap on “Play”, then choose the “Photo” icon to enter the “

3.1 BROWSING THROUGH YOUR PHOTOS

The “Photo” browser allows you to navigate through the Pictures folder of the

• ARCHOS hard drive.

Photo” mode.

You can go back one level in the interface by tapping on the Back icon

• Wherever you are in the interface, you can go back directly to the Home screen by tapping on the Home icon .

THE PHOTO BROWSER

The ﬁrst screen of the Photo mode

• shows all the photos and subfolders located in the

To view a photo, highlight its

• thumbnail, then open it. If a photo is in a subfolder of the open the subfolder, and you will see your photo.

•

The Photo Browser also allows you to view your pictures, sorted by date.

The “Resume” line allows you to resume the last-viewed photo.

•

Pictures folder.

Pictures folder,

In the “Photo” browser each photo is displayed with a thumbnail.

PHOTO BROWSER MENU ITEMS*

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the highlighted picture.

“File Management”

Delete”: allows you to delete the highlighted photo. A conﬁrmation screen will

“ pop up.

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“Permissions”: allows you to deﬁne the ﬁle/folder as adult content, so that other

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users can’t see it. To use this, your “Parental Mode” needs to be set to “Adult (un-

restricted access)

”. See Parental Control Settings.

“Start slideshow”

starts a slideshow from the highlighted image.

“Create Home Shortcut”

Creates a shortcut to this picture on the Home screen.

“Settings”

will display the Photo viewer settings screen (see

* The available menu items will vary depending on where you are in the “Photo” Browser.

Photo Viewer Settings

3.2 PHOTO VIEWER

To view a picture, highlight the corresponding thumbnail and open it. The menu overlay will disappear automatically after a few seconds.

PHOTO VIEWER SCREEN

PHOTO VIEWER TOUCHSCREEN CONTROLS

To start/pause a slideshow, tap on the Play / Pause icon.

• To display the menu overlay again, tap once anywhere on the screen. To make it

• disappear again, tap again.

To display the next picture, drag your ﬁnger from left to right. Drag from right to

• left to go back one picture.

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To rotate the picture 90° counterclockwise, drag your ﬁnger from bottom to top. To

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rotate the picture 90° clockwise, drag from top to bottom. To magnify the current picture, hold down anywhere on the screen until you are

• satisﬁed with the zoom level. You can then drag your ﬁnger to move the picture. To display the image in its original format, tap twice (rapidly) anywhere on the screen.

You can use the progression bar to go directly to another photo of the current

• folder.

To display the available menu items, tap on the menu icon

• To close the photo and go back to the “Photo” browser, tap on the Back icon .

•

To exit the Photo mode and go back directly to the Home screen, tap on the Home icon .

PHOTO VIEWER MENU ITEMS

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the current picture.

“Rotate”

choose “ choose “

Left” to rotate the picture 90° counterclockwise. Right” to rotate the picture 90° clockwise.

“Start slideshow”

starts a slideshow from the current image.

Pause slideshow” menu item will appear, allowing you to pause the slide-

“

the

show.

“Set as wallpaper”

deﬁnes the current picture as your ARCHOS background image.

“Settings”

will display the Photo viewer settings screen (see next section).

“Zoom”

use the slider to magnify/demagnify the current picture.

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3.3 PHOTO VIEWER SETTINGS

In the Photo mode, you can access

• the Photo viewer settings screen via

Settings” menu item.

the “ Use the left/right arrows to select a

• different setting for a parameter.

“Picture Pause”

deﬁnes the time that each picture will be displayed during a slideshow.

“Transition”

deﬁnes the transition effect to be used between two pictures. There are several cool effects that you can choose from.

“Sequence”

allows you to enable/disable the shufﬂe mode. If this parameter is set to

Shufﬂe”, your pictures will be displayed randomly. To disable the shufﬂe mode,

“ select “Normal”.

“Format”

allows you to change the way the picture is displayed.

“

Original”: displays the entire picture in its original format.

“

Full Screen”: enlarges the picture to ﬁll the screen. In order to ﬁt the ARCHOS

screen, your device might need to cut small parts of the image, most likely at the top and bottom.

3.4 PLAYING A SLIDESHOW

•

To view a slideshow, highlight a picture ﬁle in the “Photo” browser or while viewing a photo, and choose the “Start slideshow” menu item, or tap on the Play icon.

•

While a slideshow is playing, you can pause it at any time by selecting the “

slideshow

•

You can deﬁne the time that each picture is displayed and the transition effects in

Photo” settings (see:

the “

” menu item or by tapping on the Pause icon.

Photo Viewer Settings

Pause

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3.5 PUTTING PHOTOS ONTO YOUR ARCHOS

There are two main methods to transfer the pictures stored on your computer onto the ARCHOS:

Windows Media® Player: copy your pictures using Windows Media

Player 10 or

higher*:

Use Windows Media® Player 10 or higher* (Sync tab) to synchronize your computer’s pictures to the ARCHOS. See

Putting Files onto the ARCHOS

for more details.

* For best performance, we recommend that users update to Windows Media Player 11 or higher.

Windows® Explorer: Copy and paste your pictures from your computer into the

Pictures folder of your ARCHOS.

To learn how to connect/disconnect the ARCHOS from your computer, see the

Transferring Files

section.

3.6 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED PHOTOS (UPNP)

When connected to your home WiFi network, your ARCHOS gives

• you the possibility to view, directly on your device, shared photos stored in your PC’s Windows Media® Library.

•

For this to work, you will need a WiFi connection and Windows Media® Player 11 or higher* installed on your PC.

•

The ARCHOS uses the UPnP (Universal Plug-and-play) standard to stream shared photos from your PC’s Windows Media® Library.

•

See:

Playing your PC’s Shared Media Files (UPnP)

* There are other products on the market that also can share media ﬁles using the UPnP standard.

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4. USING THE FILE BROWSER

The ARCHOS File Browser gives you the possibility to navigate the ﬁle system of your ARCHOS hard drive. In the Home screen, tap on “Tools”, then choose the “

You will see two panels:

The one on the left is the panel that

• you usually use to navigate through your device’s hard drive.

The panel on the right is the one

• you will use when you want to copy or move ﬁles and folders (see:

Folders

Copying and Moving Files and

Files” icon to enter the File Browser.

About your ARCHOS hard drive: DO NOT delete or rename the original folders: “Music”, “Pictures”, “Video”,

“Playlists”, etc. In the Home screen, the icons under the “Play” item (“Video, “Music”, “Photo”...) lead directly to these folders and they will no longer work if the folders are deleted or renamed.

4.1 NAVIGATION

TOUCHSCREEN CONTROLS

•

You can drag the scroll bar up and down to scroll the ﬁle list up and down. You can also scroll faster by tapping above or below the cursor in the scroll bar.

•

To open a ﬁle or folder, tap on it to highlight it, then tap on it again.

•

To jump between the left and right panels, tap directly on the panel that you want to highlight.

•

To display the available menu items, tap on the menu icon

•

You can go back one level in the interface by tapping on the Back icon Wherever you are in the interface, you can go back directly to the Home screen by tapping on the Home icon .

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Note that some of the above menu items may not appear if they are not available for the highlighted ﬁle or folder.

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“Info”

displays a message box with information about the highlighted ﬁle.

“Create folder”

creates a folder at the current location.

you will have to enter the folder’s name with the virtual keyboard (see:

Virtual Keyboard

Using the

“File Management”

Rename”: allows you to change the name of the highlighted ﬁle or folder using

“

the virtual keyboard. See:

Delete”: allows you to delete the highlighted ﬁle or folder (and all its contents).

“

Using the Virtual Keyboard

A conﬁrmation screen will pop up.

Permissions”: allows you to deﬁne the ﬁle/folder as adult content, so that other

“

users can’t see it. To use this, your “

restricted access)

”. See Parental Control Settings.

Parental Mode” needs to be set to “Adult (un-

“Copy”

Copy”: allows you to copy the highlighted ﬁle or folder to the location deﬁned in

“

the other browser panel.

Copy all ﬁles”: allows you to copy all the ﬁles of the current folder to the loca-

“

tion deﬁned in the other browser panel.

Move”: allows you to move the highlighted ﬁle or folder to the location deﬁned

“

in the other browser panel.

COPYING AND MOVING FILES AND FOLDERS

In the left panel, highlight the ﬁle/folder that you want to copy or move.

• In the right panel, navigate to the location where you wish to copy the ﬁle/folder to.

• Go back to the left panel, select the “Copy” menu item and then choose “Copy”,

•

Copy all ﬁles” or “Move”, depending on the action that you want to carry out.

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