ARCHOS 400 - Manual (Page 16)

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MUSIC - Playlists
A Playlist is a list of songs that the Gmini 400 will
automatically play one after the other. The Gmini
400 can load one playlist at a time into its internal
memory. 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
Gmini 400 hard disk. Playlists are indicated by a special list icon (circled
icon to the left).
4.1
Playing a Playlist
To play a Playlist, you simply scroll to the
Playlist, such as ‘Jazz Music’ shown to the
left, and click on PLAY ►. The list of songs
will be loaded into the internal memory of
the Gmini 400 and then be displayed in a
separate panel.
Click on PLAY ► and the songs will
be played in the order shown. To
shuffl e the music entries in a random
order, you can click on Playlist (F1),
then choose Shuffl e. You can open
a Playlist fi le
(Playlistname.m3u) on
your computer with a text editor such
as Notepad, and you will see that it is merely a list of fi les to be played
along with the hard disk path to fi nd them. If you delete a Playlist from
your Gmini 400, you are only deleting the list and not the music itself.
Example of the contents of the .m3u Playlist fi le ‘Jazz Music’.