Artist, Album, Title; The Arclibrary (Browsing By Album, Artist, Or Song Name); Setting A Bookmark - Archos Gmini 400 User Manual

3.3
Artist, Album, Title ... ID3 Tags
ID3 Tags are information about the recording
has the option of adding information to it. This
information can include, among other things, the
name of the artist (Wes Burden), the album name
(Brave New World), the title of the song (Mirror), and a small image of
the album cover (only jpeg images not progressive jpeg). If these data
are present, the Gmini 400 will display them on the screen when it plays
the name of the parent folder, the name of the current folder, and then
As of the writing of this manual, there are two versions of ID3 tags that
Gmini 400 can read either version of tags, and display the information. If
both sets of tags have information, the data from the ID3 version 2 tag
will be displayed. Other tag information may include year and genre of
music. These other tag data are not displayed by the Gmini 400, but are
3.4

The ARCLibrary (Browsing by Album, Artist, or Song name)

a music download service, the songs will have this information. If you
ithout this tag information, then you can add
Once you re-index the ARCLibrary, you will have access to this track
Gmini 400 will display in order,
The ARCLibrary is a system for choosing
your music by its characteristics. It can
be turned On or Off in the settings
from Setup > Playmode. As shown
in this screen capture, you can select
your music by Artist, Album, Song Title,
Genre, or Year. MP3 and WMA music
information about the song. For MP3
®
from your computer, it goes directly to the Gmini 400 hard disk without
the ARCLibrary knowing about the new song. Thus, in order for your new
songs to be indexed into the ARCLibrary, you must update it with the
Update button as shown here in the Setup > Playmode screen. You
have the following options to set the ARCLibrary.
Off – From the Music
On – You can browse music by its characteristics (ID3 tags) but you will
have to manually update the ARCLibrary each time you add new music
from your computer to your Gmini 400.
Automatic – The ARCLibrary will be set to On and it will automatically
update the library each time it notices that you have disconnected from a
computer. A message screen will appear indicating that it is updating the
ARCLibrary contents.
3.5

Setting a Bookmark

If you are listening to a song, or perhaps a long recording, and
would like to place a bookmark in it in order to pick up from
this point at another time, you can use the Bookmark function.
You simply click on the center function button labeled Options,
then choose Set Bookmark. This will set a
position. You can only set one bookmark
browser, it will have a yellow check mark
bookmark set within it. You can have a
Explorer.
more bookmarks will then start to erase
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with the microphone will be indexed as
Artist = ARCHOS and Album = Audio
Recording. The ARCLibrary indexes all
the folders Music and Playlists on
your Gmini 400's hard drive, by using
the tag information in each song. When
you transfer music to your Gmini 400
Music.