Copying Music To Your Gmini 400; Copy Protected Music Downloads; Music - Using Itunes™ With Your Gmini 400 - Archos Gmini 400 User Manual

WMP9 program. If you connect it after WMP9 has been started, you will
the connected Gmini 400.
6.3

Copying Music to your Gmini 400

Run Windows Media Player.
1. Choose Copy to CD or Device and then check
the songs from your Music Library that you want to
copy to your device.
6.4

Copy Protected Music Downloads

With music download services such as Napster.com, MusicNow.com,
BuyMusic.com, and Liquid.com, you can purchase music on-line and
Microsoft copy protection system. When they are downloaded to your
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computer then transferred to your Gmini 400, they will play only on your
people's portable music players.
you can download it from
the Archos website 'software'
category (www.archos.com).
With your Gmini 400 still
connected to your computer,
start Windows Media Player.
Normally, you will connect
your Gmini 400 to your
computer before you run the
2. Choose the Gmini 400
device then select the folder
you want to copy your songs
to. Now click on Copy.
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MUSIC - Using iTunes™ with your Gmini 400
Macintosh
your Macintosh
However, for Macintosh
Gmini 400 with iTunes
i-Tunes
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the Gmini 400 hard disk or from the Archos website. In this folder you
to copy the plug-in to. Once this is done, iTunes™ will recognize the Gmini
400 as a 'Device'.
To make your user experience easy as possible, please keep in mind the
following.
1) When you create your Playlists with iTunes
Playlists from songs that have been copied to your Gmini 400), your
Macintosh will save these Playlists to the root directory of your Gmini
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400. It will not save them to the Gmini 400 Playlists directory. It would be
best to use the Gmini 400 itself to make Playlists (section 4.2) and then
save these Playlists in your Playlists folder.
Gmini 400, the i-Tunes program will look at the ID3 tag information (See
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and create a folder on the root of your Gmini 400 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
400 convention of placing the music into the Music
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computer and your Gmini 400 is to use the
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users who do want to use the
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, Archos has developed a special
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/Data/i-Tunes Plug-in on
(you can only create
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does not follow the Gmini
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library to your