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MP3 & WMA Digital Music Player / Photo Viewer / USB 2.0 Hard Drive
English user manual
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An introductory note from ARCHOS
Dear Customer ,
Thank you for choosing this Archos™ product. We hope that you will enjoy using it and that it will give you
satisfaction for many years to come.
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3 T Table of C able of Co on nt ten ent ts s 1 Ports, Buttons, and Connections 5 2 First Time Usage 6 2.1 Charging the Battery 6 2.2 Turning the Archos™ 204 ON and OFF 7 2.3 Changing the Interface language 7 2.4 Caring for the Archos™ 204 7 2.5 Foreign Character Sets 7 3 Playing Music 8 3.1 Playing a Music File 8 3.3 Playback Menu Items 11 3.4 ARCLibrary Specifi cs 11 3.5 ARCLibrary Updating 12 3.6 Setting a Bookmark 12 3.7 The Resume Function 12 3.8 Locking the Archos™ 204 Buttons 13 4 Putting
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5 P Ports, Buttons, and Connections orts, Buttons, and Connections 1 1 A (A) Headphone Jack 1 (B) USB 2.0 port – To connect your Archos device to a computer, to transfer fi les and/or charge the battery. 2 (C) Power jack – to connect an optional AC adapter/charger 3 (D) Off button (hold 3 seconds) & Stop/Escape* B (E) Navigation Joystick & Play/Enter button (Press down) (F) On button (hold 3 seconds) & Menu options C E D F (1) ON – ON/OFF indicator light (2) HD
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7 2 2.2 .2 T Tu urning the rning the Archos™ 204 ON and OFF Archos™ 204 ON and OFF • Press and hold the ON/Menu button until the screen comes on. • The Archos™ 204 will automatically shut off after a given amount of time if no buttons are pressed. To conserve battery energy, the backlight will automatically shut off. You can change these parameters in Setup > Power . • Press and hold the Stop/off button until the Archos™ 204 shuts off. 2 2.3 .3 C Changing the Interface language hangin
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9 3.2 3 .2 P Play Screen and Button Control lay Screen and Button Control (1) Menu available (2) Artist* or parent folder 10 1 5 6 7 8 9 (3) Album* or current folder 3 (4) Song title* or fi le name (5) Status: playing 2 (6) Play Mode: Folder 3 (7) Play Order: Repeat 4 (8) Volume (0-99) (9) Battery level (10) Real time clock 13 (1 1) Song elapsed time (12) Song remaining time (13) Album cover (if it is available) *If the fi le contains these tag data 12
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11 3.3 3.3 Playback Menu Items Playback Menu Items B When the menu icon appears, you have certain options. During song playback, press the MENU button for the following options. • Setup: Enters the Setup screen (same as selecting the Setup icon in the main menu) which allows you access to parameters such as bass and treble. E A C • Info: Show fi le information such as the fi le name, number of kilobytes of hard drive space used, date created, fi le format, etc. • ARCLib
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13 3.8 3 .8 L Locking the ocking the Archos™ 204 Buttons Archos™ 204 Buttons You can prevent the Archos™ 204 from executing unintended functions by locking the buttons. To lock the buttons, hold down on the MENU button until the “lock” icon appears in the top-left corner of the screen. Now the buttons are disabled, but you can still use the navigation joystick to change the volume. To unlock the buttons hold down again on the Menu button until the “lock” icon disappears. 13 14 P Pu
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15 4 4.2 .2 C Comparison of Windows Media Player 10 and 1 omparison of Windows Media Player 10 and 11 1 to Windows Media Player 9 to Windows Media Player 9 Windows® Media Player 10 /11 is only available for Windows® XP (service Pack 1) and newer operating systems. It is worth your while to upgrade to Windows® XP (home or professional) and to Windows® Media Player 10/11. The list below shows the advantages. Functionality WMP9 WMP10 and 11 Auto-synchronize the WMP library no* yes to Archo
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17 Playlists Playlists 5 5 A Playlist is a list of songs that the Archos™ 204 will automatically play one after the other. The Archos™ 204 can handle one Playlist at a time. You can create new Playlists, add or delete songs from a Playlist, or Save a Playlist as a fi le (fi le type.m3u) to be used another time. There is no limit to the number of Playlists you can save on the Archos™ 204 hard drive. A Playlist can have a maximum of 1000 songs in it. 5 5.1 .1 C Creating a new Playlist rea
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19 • Move: Allows you to change the order of songs in the Playlist by moving them up or down using the navigation joystick. • Delete: Removes the highlighted track from the playlist. Note: To delete a Playlist, navigate to Browser > Playlists . Highlight the Playlist, the menu button, highlight Delete and press ENTER. (Moving a music track) Important: Once you save a Playlist it is important that you do not move the actual fi les as the Playlist searches in the original
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21 Parameter Description Parameter Description Volume Range: 0 to 99 Controls the current volume. Balance Range: -10 to +10 (left to right) Sound effect Custom, Flat, Rock, Techno, Jazz, Classic or Live Change this parameter to select an equalizer setting to the style of music you are listening to. Select Custom to set your own equalizer levels. [Set Equalizer] To customize the equalizer. See below. [Reset] Sets all your sound parameters with default or fl at v
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23 ARCLibrary Off, On. Automatic (default) The ARCLibrary feature enables you to see your music organised by Artist, Album, Title, Genre and Year. Select Off to disable the feature or On to enable it. On Automatic, the library will update itself when disconnected from the computer. ARCLibrary Update Scans through all music and playlists in the folders Music and Playlists and indexes these into the ARCLibrary. You need to do this only when you have copied new music to your
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25 6 6.5 .5 C Changing the Power Settings hanging the Power Settings To help you get the most battery life out of your Archos™ 204 before having to recharge it, you can adjust the power settings. Go to Setup > Power. Parameter Description Parameter Description Power Off Range: 1 to 9 minutes or Never. Number of minutes of user inactivity before the Archos™ 204 automatically shuts off. The Archos™ 204 will not shut off during the playback of music fi les. Never (o
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27 U Using the Browser sing the Browser 7 7 The browser is used to navigate the fi le system on the Archos™ 204. The fi le ® system is the same type of fi le system that is found on Windows based computers. This way, transferring fi les from your computer to your Archos™ 204 is as easy as ‘drag and drop’. The fi le system is a hierarchical system which includes folders and subfolders. Because you will be putting hundreds of fi les onto your Archos™ 204, it is STRONGLY ADVISED that you keep a
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29 7 7.3 .3 F File and Folder Operations in Browser Mode ile and Folder Operations in Browser Mode While browsing the directory structure, you will have the option to manipulate fi les and folders. When you use the Browser mode, you will be browsing through the Archos™ 204’s hard drive as if browsing via a computer. In Browser mode, you can create folders, delete fi les or folders, rename fi les or folders, and copy or move fi les from one place to another. 7.3.1 Contextual Menu on a File
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31 1 1 Contextual Menu 2 Text being typed 3 2 3 Cursor 4 Upper/Lower case* 5 Delete character* 6 Clear entire line* 7 Enter * * These items can also be found in the contextual menu Tip: use the STOP/ESCAPE button to cancel any changes you made and exit the virtual keyboard. 4 5 6 7 31 32 V Viiewing Photos with your ewing Photos with your Archos™ 204 Archos™ 204 8 8 With your Archos™ 204, you can view pictures in the JPEG format* on the built-in LCD s
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33 8.2 8.2 Photo Browser Contextual Menu Photo Browser Contextual Menu Just like in the browser mode, you can rename fi les and folders and delete them if needed, and you can create folders to sort your picture fi les. You simply need to press the MENU button to display the contextual menu. See the instructions given in chapter 7 on using the browser. Info Another feature of the photo browser is the possibility to view picture information such as the size of the picture fi le, the date and ti
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35 C Connecting the onnecting the Archos™ 204 to a Stereo system Archos™ 204 to a Stereo system 9 9 Connecting your Archos™ 204 to a stereo system allows you to listen to your Archos™ 204’s music on it without a headset. You will need a standard (mini headphone to RCA) audio cable for this which is not supplied with the Archos™ 204. The diagram below illustrates the setup. Plug the audio cable into the headphone jack and into the auxiliary jacks on your stereo. Note that this is only a
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37 When connected to your computer, the Archos™ 204 will be recognized as an external Hard Drive and display automatically within a few seconds of being connected. You will see a new drive letter, such as E: in My Computer. You can now use the hard drive called Archos™ 204 like any other external hard drive. Simply access it using ™ Windows Explorer to drag and drop fi les to and from the Archos™ 204’s hard drive. If the Archos™ 204 is not automatically recognized and displayed as an externa
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39 ™ Hard Drive Mode & Macintosh First, close all programs that are using fi les from your Archos™ 204. Drag the Archos™ 204 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 drive icon will disappear from the desktop. You can now safely unplug the USB cable from your Archos™ 204 and/or your computer. 39 40 U Updating the pdating the Archos™ 204 Firmware Archos™ 204 Firmwar
