Archos AV400 User Manual - Page 7
Setup > Playmode, Update, Automatic - hard drive
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3.3 Artist, Album, Title ... ID3 Tags ID3 Tags are information about the recording which found inside of an 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 AV400 will display them on the screen when it plays the of the parent folder, the name of the current folder, and then the name As of the writing of this manual, there are two versions of ID3 tags that AV400 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 AV400, but are used to index your music in the ARCLibrary (see next section). 3.4 The ARCLibrary (Browsing by Album, Artist, or Song name) 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 data tags to hold information about you purchase a song from a music download service, the songs will have this information. If you have an MP3 or ithout this tag information, then you can add or change it by going ® Explorer. Once you re-index into the ARCLibrary, you will access to this track with the ARCLibrary. Audio and Album = Audio Recording. The ARCLibrary indexes all the music on 13 your AV400's hard drive regardless of which folder you placed it in, by using the ID3 information in each song. When you transfer music to your AV400 from your computer, it goes directly to the AV400 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 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 AV400. 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 at the current position. You can it will have a yellow check mark on its icon within it. You can have a maximum of 16 will then start to erase the oldest bookmarks. The next time you play the 14