Instruction Manual
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Music application
The music player application offers many functions.
Hold down on an item or tap on the menu icon to display what options are available. When you leave the music playback screen while a song is still playing, it will keep
playing in the background. This allows you to browse your internal memory, view your photos or surf the Web while listening to music. Regardless of what you are doing
on your device while the music is playing, you will be able to access the music playback screen from the right side of the system bar.Tap the Music symbol to reveal a
playback summary.
BROWSING THROUGH YOUR MUSIC FILES
Here you see the music library screen with the cover-roll album art
display on the left.
Scroll the albums vertically to see all the albums stored on your
device.
Scroll horizontally to see your Favorites, Recently added, Recently
played, or All albums.
If your music files do not include cover art, then a standard cover
icon will appear.
You can browse through your music by album, artist, or song name,
via your created playlists, your favorites. You can also browse
through your files and folders in the storage* system.
Tap the Search icon in the upper right corner to search through your
music files.
* In addition to the internally stored music, you have the
option External in Storage. This allows you to play music
from media servers or from a file server over your WiFi network.
THE FAVORITES
The "Favorites" lists the music you play the most often. To add a title, an album, or an artist to your favorites list, just hold down on the item and a few options will
appear. Choose Add to favorites. The item will be marked with a star icon .
To access your favorites list, go to the cover-roll browsing screen and flick the albums left/right until you see the Favorites. To remove an item from your favorites list,
roll it into view and then hold your finger down on it. In the option list, choose Remove from favorites.
MUSIC PLAYBACK
The music playback screen includes the standard playback controls.
You can tap on the progression bar to go directly to a specific
location in the song. The previous and next buttons can be tapped
once to jump to the beginning of the current song or jump to the next
song, or held down to reverse or advance rapidly through the current
song. The icons to the right of the album are the followings:
- Switch to the music selection screen
- View the current playlist*
- Choose between repeating all songs in the current list, just one, and
not repeating.
Tap the menu button in the upper right corner to choose additional
items such as Party Shuffle. Selecting the party shuffle will create a
playlist of several songs from the entire music library. The idea is
that while the list is playing, you can add more songs. Find the
desired song, long hold on the item, and then select Add to
playlist > Current playlist. It will add it to the end of the current
party shuffle. If you do nothing, the player will just add songs as
needed to keep the party going.
* In the list, it is possible to change the position of the upcoming
songs by holding down on the icon on the left of the song and
dragging it to the desired position.
TRANSFERRING YOUR MUSIC TO YOUR ARCHOS
For Windows: note that the below procedure requires at least Windows XP and Windows Media Player 11.
1.Connect your tablet to your computer using the USB cable.
Your device is automatically detected. It appears as an icon on “My Computer”.
2.You can transfer your media files to the ARCHOS by copy/pasting them into the respective folders.
3.Once all your file transfers are finished, close any program that may have read or written to the ARCHOS.
4.You can now unplug the USB cable.
For Macintosh:You first need to install the free Android File Transfer application (not included). Download from http://www.android.com/filetransfer.
For Linux: You need to install MTP tools (not included).
Video application
The Video browser allows you to navigate through and play the video files stored in the ARCHOS internal memory or a micro-SD card (for devices that have a micro-SD
card slot) or even files stored on other computers on your local network (see the chapter Playing your PC's shared media). The initial choice allows you to choose between
the internally stored videos and videos on a network. When you choose Video Folder for example, you will see the list of videos just in the folder named video. If you
choose All videos, you'll see a list of all the videos it has found on your device. Each line contains a thumbnail from the video, the total play time, a Resume icon if it