Music - Using Itunes; With Your Av 500; Photo - Viewing Photos; Viewing Photos - Archos AV500 - Mobile Digital Video Recorder User Manual

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MUSIC – Using iTunes MUSIC – Using iTunes
The easiest way to transfer music fi les between a Macintosh
™
Finder to drag and drop the fi les to and from your Macintosh
use the AV 500 with iTunes
/Data/i-Tunes Plug-in on the AV 500 hard drive or at the ARCHOS
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
Your AV 500 needs to be set to "Hard drive" mode (see the section System
Settings in the Settings chapter or the chapter Connecting/Disconnecting the
AV 500 to/from your PC on how to do this.)
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 ACC format which you might have
created. It will happily play MP3 format fi les without problem.
2) When you create your Playlists with iTunes
to your AV 500), your Macintosh
them to the AV 500 Playlists directory. It would be best to use the AV 500 itself to make Playlists and then save
these Playlists in your Playlists folder. (See section Creating a Playlist in chapter Music –Playlists )
3) When you drag and drop MP3 fi les from your iTunes
the ID3 tag information of the MP3 fi le, and create a folder on the root of your AV 500 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
the Music folder fi rst.
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PHOTO – Viewing Photos PHOTO – Viewing Photos
The AV 500 series support the viewing of JPEG (.jpg) and Bitmap (.bmp) image formats. Progressive
JPEG images are not supported. The AV 500 will resize the image to fi t on the built-in screen or on a
television screen if you choose the television output. When you are in the Photo mode, it means that
only fi les of type JPEG or BMP will be visible in the directory. Other fi le types will not be visible. The
three images on the right are thumbnail sized pictures of the highlighted fi le (center) and the picture
just before and just after the highlighted fi le. Select the Photo icon, then click Enter o in order to go to
the Photo directory.

15.1 Viewing Photos

15.1 Viewing Photos
1 x 1 image
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™ ™

with your AV 500

with your AV 500
® , ARCHOS ™ has developed a special i-Tunes
™ will recognize the AV 500 as a 'Device'.
Attention
®
(you can only create Playlists from songs that have been copied
® will save these Playlists to the root directory of your AV 500. It will not save
®
does not follow the AV 500 convention of placing the music into
When you click Enter o on a highlighted image fi le, the AV 500 will display the
image in full screen mode. Displayed as a full screen image, you can rotate it,
magnify it, or set it as the AV 500 screen background with the Save as Wallpaper
function in the File Management action icon.
2 x 2 images
(Zoom out 1x)
® computer and your AV 500 is to use the Macintosh
®
. However, for Macintosh
® plug-in. You will fi nd it in the folder
™ website. In this folder you will fi nd a plug-in
®
library to your AV 500, the i-Tunes
3 x 3 images
(Zoom out 2x)
®
users who do want to
®
program will look at
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