Archos 104 MP3 Player User Manual


 
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Hard Drive Mode & Macintosh
First, close all programs that are using les from your Archos™ 104. Drag the
Archos™ 104 hard drive icon towards the trash can, and the trash can will become a
big arrow as shown in the screen image. Drop the hard drive icon onto the arrow. The
hard disk icon will disappear from the desktop. You can now safely unplug the USB
cable from your Archos™ 104 and/or your computer.
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Using iTunes™ with your Archos™ 104
Using iTunes™ with your Archos™ 104
The easiest way to transfer music les between a Macintosh
®
computer and your Archos™ 104 is to
use the Macintosh Finder™ to drag and drop the les to and from your Macintosh
®
.
However, for Macintosh
®
users who do want to use the Archos™ 104 with iTunes
®
, Archos has
developed a special i-Tunes
®
plug-in. You will nd it in the folder /Data/i-Tunes Plug-in on the
Archos™ 104 hard disk or from the Archos website. In this folder you will nd a .sit compressed le.
Uncompress it and open the folder for your operating system. You will nd a JPEG image illustrating where you
need to copy the plug-in to. Once this is done, iTunes™ will recognize the Archos™ 104 as a ‘Device’. Currently
there is no plug-in for the PC version of iTunes™.
To make your user experience easy as possible, 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 les in AAC format which you might have created.
It will happily play MP3 format les without problem.
2) When you create your Playlists with iTunes
®
(you can only create Playlists from songs that have been copied
to your Archos™ 104 ), your Macintosh
®
will save these Playlists to the root directory of your Archos™ 104.
It will not save them to the Archos™ 104 Playlists directory. It would be best to use the Archos™ 104 itself to
make Playlists and then save these Playlists in your Playlists folder.
3) When you drag and drop MP3 les from your iTunes
®
library to your Archos™ 104, the i-Tunes
®
program will
look at the ID3 tag information of the MP3 le, and create a folder on the root of your Archos™ 104 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 Archos™ 104 convention of placing the
music into the Music folder rst.