Button Controls While A Song Is Playing; The Arclibrary™ - Browsing By Artist, Album, Or Title; Putting Music Onto Your Pma400 - Archos PMA 400 User Manual

Button controls while a song is playing

Click once : Play the previous song in the
folder or playlist
Hold : Fast reverse through the song.
Stop Song and return music browser
3.2 The ARCLibrary™ - Browsing by Artist, Album, or Title
When you copy a song file or folder of files to your PMA400, your PMA400 is acting only as a
hard drive and does not 'know' what you are copying to it. Once you disconnect it from your
computer, you will have to go the music browser (just start the Music application) and select the
menu bar item Update ARCLIbrary. The PMA400 will then take a look at all the songs in the
music library, check to see if there are new ones, and then add the new ones to the database of
known songs. Now, when you choose to select your music from the various characteristics, you
will see your newly copied music. Understand that if your music files do not have the description
tags inside of them, then it be classified under unknown. The file name will be used in place of
the title if there is no song title tag.
3.3

Putting Music onto your PMA400

Because your PMA400 is seen as an external hard drive when connected to your computer, for
example, PMA400 (E:), you simply put your folders of MP3, WAV, or WMA formatted songs into
the folder Music on the PMA400 by dragging and dropping the files or by copy/pasting. If you have
purchased music from a web site that uses the Microsoft
Windows Media Player to transfer your music to the device in order for it to be played on the
PMA400. You will also be required to install the Archos supplied service provider plug-in in order
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for Windows Media Player to be able to recognize your PMA400 as a music device to copy to.
Increase the Volume
Click once : Play the next song in the
folder or playlist.
Hold : Fast forward through the song.
Decrease the Volume
The ARCLibrary is a database of all the songs in the
Music folder. You can choose your music to play by
artist, album, song title, genre, or year. Understand
however that not all music files have this information.
It depends on where you got the file from. Many
music files have information inside them to describe
what the music file is. These are called tags. Some
song files have all of these filled in and others have
none. Files of the type .wav do not have any tags
because the format does not allow it.
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copy protection system, you must use
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Play/pause/resume song
Long hold to go to music browser