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MUSIC – Putting Music onto your AV400
Your Archos™ product is a certified PlaysForSure digital
device which means that wherever you find music for
sale on the Internet with this symbol, you can be certain
that they will ‘Play for sure’ on your AV400*.
The AV400 is designed to work seamlessly with Windows
Media
®
Player (WMP) versions 9 and 10. The Windows
Media
®
Player software is used to download digital media
content from the Internet to your computer and organize it. You will also
use it to sync (copy) the contents of your Windows Media
®
Player media
library to your Archos™ device. See the comparison chart below for an
explanation of the different features available when running Windows
Media Player 9 and 10 or check out the web site www.playsforsure.com.
*Subscription services require you to be running Windows Media
®
player 10.
11.1 Synchronizing Music from Windows Media
®
Player (WMP) to the AV400
The Synchronize button in WMP (Windows Media
®
Player) is a one way
sync button. That is, it will add music, video, and photo
files to your AV400 so that you have the same digital
media on your AV400 as you have in your Windows
Media
®
Player library. Of course, you can choose to sync
only certain songs or sync your entire library. On WMP10, you can click
the button Set up Sync in the
Sync tab and then check the box labeled
Synchronize Device Automatically. This is the auto-sync advantage
of WMP10. If this box is checked, then each time you
connect your AV400 to your PC, Windows Media
®
Player
will automatically start up and check to see if there are
any new music, videos, or photos in your library, and if
so, will then send them to your AV400. You also have the possibility to
decide what types of media automatically sync when you connect your
AV400. For example, you may only
want music files to be synchronized.
On the other hand, with Windows
Media
®
Player 9, you have to tell it
what you want to sync, it cannot
synchronize automatically when you
plug it in.