Archos 7, 5 User Manual

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ENGLISH USER MANUAL

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 (directly on your ARCHOS via the WiFi) to ensure that you get access to our technical support as well as FREE and PURCHASABLE offers from our website and from the ARCHOS Media Club. You can also register on our website (www.archos.com/register).

Wishing you the best multimedia experience,

Version 2.0

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

modied functionality than presented in this manual.

Entertainment

way

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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

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

2. PlayIng MusIC ..............................................................................................15

2.1 BROWSING THROUGH YOUR MUSIC FILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.2 MUSIC PLAYBACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.3 MUSIC PLAYER SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.4 PLAYLISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.5 PUTTING MUSIC ONTO YOUR ARCHOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.6 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED MUSIC (UPNP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

2.7 LISTENING TO WEB RADIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3. VIewIng PhOTOs ....................................................................................... 25

3.1 BROWSING THROUGH YOUR PHOTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.2 PHOTO VIEWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3.3 PHOTO VIEWER SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

3.4 PLAYING A SLIDESHOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

3.5 PUTTING PHOTOS ONTO YOUR ARCHOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.6 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED PHOTOS (UPNP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4. usIng The fIle brOwser .................................................................... 30

4.1 NAVIGATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.2 USING THE VIRTUAL KEYBOARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

4.3 BROWSING OTHER COMPUTERS ON THE NETWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

5. COnneCTIng TO The wIfI ..................................................................... 34

5.1 WIFI CONNECTION PROCEDURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

5.2 WIFI NETWORK CONFIGURATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

6. The InTerneT feaTures ..................................................................... 38

6.1 BROWSING THE WEB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

6.2 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED MEDIA FILES (UPNP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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6.3 THE ARCHOS MEDIA CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

6.4 MAIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

6.5 CONTACTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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7. TransferrIng fIles .............................................................................. 46

7.1 CONNECTING THE ARCHOS TO A COMPUTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

7.2 PUTTING FILES ONTO THE ARCHOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

7.3 DISCONNECTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

8. MaIn seTTIngs ........................................................................................... 49

8.1 “SOUND” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

8.2 “SCREEN” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

8.3 “TV OUT” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

8.4 “APPEARANCE” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

8.5 “LANGUAGE AND REGION” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

8.6 “TV CONTROL” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

8.7 “CLOCK” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

8.8 “ALARM CLOCK” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8.9 “POWER” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8.10 “STORAGE” SETTINGS

8.11 “PARENTAL CONTROL” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8.12 “SECURITY” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

8.13 “CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

8.14 “FIRMWARE AND PLUG-INS” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

8.15 UPDATING THE FIRMWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

8.16 “SYSTEM INFO” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

9. OTher funCTIOns .................................................................................... 62

9.1 “PLAY” MENU: OTHER FUNCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.2 TV FUNCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.3 TOOLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

10. arChOs Plug-Ins and add-Ons ................................................... 66

10.1 ARCHOS PLUG-INS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

10.2 ARCHOS ADD-ONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

TrOubleshOOTIng ........................................................................................ 68

RESETTING YOUR ARCHOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

SYSTEM RECOVERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

TOUCHSCREEN PROBLEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

REPAIR AND FORMATTING TOOLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

REPLACING THE BATTERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

TeChnICal sPeCIfICaTIOns .......................................................................71

TeChnICal suPPOrT InfOrMaTIOn ..............................................................................................75

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InTrOduCTIOn

The information presented in this manual might vary according

• to which ARCHOS model you have.

Every time you see one of these icons, it means that the fol-

• lowing section will concern this and only this model.

arChOs desCrIPTIOn

MAIN BUTTONS

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

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

•

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* When you keep the Power button held down, two messages will appear, one

after the other. If you release the button during the rst 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

Chg

CONNECTORS

On the side of the device:

Volume button: to increase/decrease volume.

Battery charge indicator

light on: the battery is charging

• blinking: the battery is fully charged

•

Power connector: charge the battery of your ARCHOS

• device (see

Charging the Battery

Headphone Jack: to connect headphones.•

Underneath the device:

Connect your ARCHOS to a computer (see

•

Connect an optional add-on. See

•

Charge the battery of your ARCHOS (see

These connectors allow you to:

ARCHOS add-ons.

ARCHOS 7

Connecting the ARCHOS to a Computer

Charging the Battery

)•

)

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The ARCHOS is equipped with a single speaker (ARCHOS 5) or two speakers (ARCHOS 7).

LEG STAND

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

•

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

• stable surface.

fIrsT TIMe usage

CHARGING THE BATTERY

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

The ARCHOS will turn on and start charging:

•

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

Simply plug the ARCHOS Charger/Adapter into the power connector. •

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

A lightning bolt symbol will ash over the battery icon in the upper right corner

of the screen while the battery is charging.

Note that the ARCHOS has a removable battery. To learn how to replace it, see: Troubleshooting.

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 rst time you turn on the ARCHOS, the installation wizard will help you congure

• the main functions of your ARCHOS: the language, the WiFi connection, the clock, etc.

At the end of the wizard, you will be requested to register your product (a WiFi

• connection is required) so that you have access to our technical support as well as FREE and PURCHASABLE offers from our website and from the ARCHOS Media Club. Being registered will allow you, for example, to get the free ‘Web Browser’ and ‘Web TV & Radio’ plug-ins.

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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

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:

•

WiFi connection

status.

manage the Home screen shortcuts. lock 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 conrmation 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: “Play”), then select a subcategory (ex: “Video”).

The right side of the Home Screen can contain up to

• 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 (in the top right corner of the screen).

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

• by tapping on the Home icon (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 progres-

• sion bar to go directly to a different location in the video or song. You can

also use your nger 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 le 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!).

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 com-

• puter).

Keep it away from water and excessively humid areas.

•

Keep it away from high electromagnetic elds.

• 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 rst screen of the Video mode

• shows you all the videos and subfolders located in the Video folder.

The “Resume” line allows you to

•

resume the last-played video le, if

it was interrupted before the end. If the “Resume” line does not appear,

it means that no video le 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.

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

“Info”

VIDEO BROWSER MENU ITEMS

displays a message box with information about the highlighted video le.

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“File Management”

“Rename”: allows you to change the name of the highlighted video le using the virtual keyboard. See:

“Delete”: allows you to delete the highlighted video le. A conrmation screen

Using the Virtual Keyboard

will pop up.

“Permissions”: allows you to dene the le/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 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 le.

“Bookmark” only appears in the menu when a bookmarked video le 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. See:

Using the Virtual Keyboard

“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 le and open it.

VIDEO PLAYBACK SCREEN

Menu icon

Back icon

Video le 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 nger 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 “Video” browser, tap on the Back icon

• (see n° 2).

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

on the Home icon (see n° 4).

tap

VIDEO PLAYBACK MENU ITEMS

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the current video le.

“Soundtrack” and/or “Subtitles”

allows you to select a different audio track*.

allows you to choose subtitles**.

* Only if the video le contains several audio tracks. ** Only if the subtitles are in a separate le. The supported le 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, Mini Dock or Battery Dock: see “Full Screen”: enlarges the picture to ll the screen. In order to t the ARCHOS

ARCHOS add-ons

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

“Maximized”: enlarges the picture to ll 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 le is allowed. You can bookmark up to 32 les. 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 “Video” browser and high-

light the bookmarked video le. Select the “Bookmark” menu item, then choose “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 dened 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 & Shufe”

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

tings you chose in “PlayMode” AND “Repeat & Shufe”.

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“PlayMode”

“Single” “Normal”

“Folder”

“UPnP Thumbnails”

“Repeat &

Shufe”

“Repeat”

“Normal”

“Repeat”

“Shufe”

What the video player does...

plays the current video le and then stops.-

plays the current video le repeatedly.-

plays all the video les of the current folder

one after the other, and then stops.

plays all the video les of the current folder

one after the other. This will be repeated in-

denitely.

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

The ARCHOS Media Club gives you the choice 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® Player 10 or

1. higher*:

Use Windows Media® Player 10 or higher* (Sync tab) to synchronize your

computer’s video les 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 les 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 nd suitable utility programs to do this job.

If you would like to simply copy and paste unprotected DVD video les 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) or from the Media Club. The same is also true for video podcasts in the H.264 format. In this case, purchase the Video Podcast plug-in.

1.5 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 (software) on the market that also can share media

les using the UPnP standard.

1.6 waTChIng web TV

In order to be able to watch numerous Internet TV channels, directly on your ARCHOS, you will need to register your device.

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From the Home Screen, tap on “Play”,

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then choose “Video”.

Select “Web TV”. If your device is not

2. connected to the Internet, it will try to make a connection.

The “Web TV” interface is organized by cat-

3. egory, such as “Location”, “Genre”, “Most

Popular Stations” etc. Browse the catego-

ries to nd the channel you want to watch.

To nd more information about how to connect to the Internet, see: Connecting to the WiFi

The TV channel you select will open in

4. the video player. Selecting the menu icon will display several options:

“Info”: to view the information con-

cerning the TV channel. “Format”: allows you to change the

way the image is displayed

“Add to favorites” / “Remove favorite”: adds the current Web TV station as a

favorite (or removes it from the favorites). “Sound”: displays the “Sound” settings screen (see:

“Sound” Settings

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

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 les contain these song

information tags. When new music is copied to the

• ARCHOS, the Music Library will be updated automatically.

If some of your music les do not con-

• tain information tags, they will be classi-

ed as (Unknown) in the Music Library.

The “Resume” line allows you to resume the last-played music le, if it was in-

• terrupted before the end. If the “Resume” line does not appear, it means that no

music le playback can be resumed.

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THE MUSIC BROWSER

The music browser allows you to

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navigate through the Music folder of your device’s hard drive.

To use it, select “Hard Drive” in the

• initial Music Library view.

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

MUSIC LIBRARY AND MUSIC BROWSER MENU ITEMS*

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the highlighted music le.

“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 le.

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

“File Management”

“Rename”: allows you to change the name of the highlighted music le using the

virtual keyboard. See: “Delete”: allows you to delete the highlighted music le. A conrmation screen

Using the Virtual Keyboard

will pop up. “Permissions”: allows you to dene the le/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 specic song by entering a few letters or a word. See:

Using the Virtual Keyboard

“Settings”

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 le 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 / (n° 5 or 6).

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

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

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).

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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 (see n° 1).

•

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

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(see n° 3)

MUSIC PLAYBACK MENU ITEMS

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the current music le.

“Set bookmark”

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

to resume playing a song from a bookmark, go to the Music Library or the Music

Browser, highlight the bookmarked music le. Select the “Bookmark” menu item,

then choose “Resume” (“Clear” will remove the bookmark from the song).

“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 conrmation screen will pop up.

“Settings”

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

“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 & Shufe”

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

tings you chose in “PlayMode” AND “Repeat & Shufe”. An icon shows the current modes in the Music playback screen.

“PlayMode”

“Single”

“Folder”

“All”

“Repeat &

Shufe”

“Normal”

“Repeat”

“Normal”

“Repeat”

“Shufe”

“Normal”

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 indenitely.

plays the songs of the current folder ran-

domly.

plays all the songs of your ARCHOS one

after the other, and then stops.

“Repeat”

“Shufe”

plays all the songs of your ARCHOS one

after the other. This will be repeated indenitely.

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 nished.

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 rst few seconds of each track. You can dene the

length to play in “Intro duration”.

“Intro duration”

denes 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 rst item in the playlist to

•

start playing from the rst track.

PLAYLIST MENU ITEMS

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

“Add to playlist”

“Selected le”: will add the highlighted track at the end of the current playlist.

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

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“Insert in playlist”

“Selected le”: will insert the highlighted track before the selected item in the

current playlist. “All les”: 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.

“Shufe”: randomly shufes 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. These can be cleared with the menu item “Playlist” > “Clear”. 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 rst song. Then use the “Add to playlist” or “Insert in playlist” menu item and choose “All les”.

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When you are satised with your new playlist, select the “Save playlist” menu

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item, and then choose “Save as”.

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 “Playlist” line and open it.

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

2. tents of the playlist will open on the right.

You can now add, shufe, 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 “Save playlist” menu item

Playlist Menu Items

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® Player 10 or

1. higher*:

Use Windows Media® Player 10 or higher* (Sync tab) to synchronize your

computer’s music les to the ARCHOS. See

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 les from your computer into the

Music folder of your ARCHOS.

Putting Files onto the ARCHOS

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 les 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

1. would like to perform.

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

2. 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

3. your Music Library.

See

Transferring Files

to learn how to transfer the

ripped music les 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® Player

to make music les from them.

2.6 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:

•

* There are other products (software) on the market that also can share media

les using the UPnP standard.

Playing your PC’s Shared Media Files (UPnP)

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