ARCHOS AV420 - Manual (Page 41)

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MUSIC - Playlists
A Playlist is a list of songs that the AV400 will
automatically play one after the other. The AV400 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 file (file type .m3u) to be
used another time. There is no limit to the number of
playlists you can save on the AV400 hard disk. Playlists are indicated by a
special list icon (circled icon to the left).
12.1
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 AV400 and then be displayed in a
separate panel.
Click on PLAY  and the songs will be played in the order shown. To
shuffle the music entries in a random order, you can click on Playlist,
then choose Shuffle. You can open a Playlist file
(Playlistname.m3u) on
your computer with a text editor such as Notepad, and you will see that it
is merely a list of files to be played along with the hard disk path to find
them. If you delete a Playlist from
your AV400, you are only deleting
the list and not the music itself.
Example of the contents of the .m3u Playlist file ‘Jazz Music’.