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To keep just this section (cropping it), you will:
• Locate this fi le via Browse hard drive in the Music application.
• From the action icons, select the File Management action icon and then select Edit .
• In the edit mode, set the Cut In point (12:15 in our example). This will remove the part of the fi le BEFORE the
desired segment.
• Now set a Cut Out point (21:05 in our example. Please note: As you have cut part of the fi le, this position will
actually be earlier in the fi le now).
• Validate and Save the edit. The fi le will be saved with the word ”edit” appended to the fi le name in the same
folder as the original.
• If you do not want to save your modifi cations, click the STOP/ESC button and select OK.
Highlight the fi le to edit and select the File Management action icon.
Choose Edit . Only fi les which have been created with the Gmini
™
500
recording function will show Edit in the fi le menu. Files created from
CDs or downloaded cannot be edited. Once you enter the edit mode,
the audio fi le will play in a continuous loop so that you will be able to
hear the changes to the edit as you make them.
Use the fast-reverse and fast-forward buttons (LEFT/RIGHT buttons)
to locate the points you want the new fi le to start and end. These are
the Cut In and Cut Out points. Once you have set these points, you
can save the edit. In this example, a new fi le REC0001_Edit will be
made. Your original fi le is left untouched. You will notice that your Cut
In and Cut Out times are marked just below the fi le name.
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MUSIC – Using iTunes
MUSIC – Using iTunes
™
™
with your Gmini
with your Gmini
™
™
500
500
The easiest way to transfer music fi les between a Macintosh
®
computer and your Gmini
™
500 is to use the
Macintosh Finder
™
to drag and drop the fi les to and from your Macintosh
®
. However, for Macintosh
®
users who
do want to use the Gmini
™
500 with iTunes
®
, ARCHOS
™
has developed a special i-Tunes
®
plug-in. You will fi nd it
in the folder /Data/i-Tunes Plug-in on the Gmini
™
500 hard drive or at the ARCHOS
™
website. In this folder you
will fi nd a plug-in 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
™
will recognize the Gmini
™
500 as a ‘Device’.
Attention
Your Gmini
™
500 needs to be set to “Hard drive” mode (see the section System
Settings in the Settings chapter or the chapter Connecting/Disconnecting the
Gmini
™
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
®
(you can only create Playlists from songs that have been copied
to your Gmini
™
500), your Macintosh
®
will save these Playlists to the root directory of your Gmini
™
500. It will
not save them to the Gmini
™
500 Playlists directory. It would be best to use the Gmini
™
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
®
library to your Gmini
™
500, the i-Tunes
®
program will look
at the ID3 tag information of the MP3 fi le, and create a folder on the root of your Gmini
™
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
®
does not follow the Gmini
™
500 convention of placing the music
into the Music folder fi rst.