ARCHOS XS series - Manual (Page 16)

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8 Using iTunes™ with your Gmini XS
The easiest way to transfer music files between a Macintosh ® computer and your Gmini XS is to use the Macintosh
Finder™ to drag and drop the files to and from your Macintosh ® .
However, for Macintosh ® users who do want to use the Gmini XS with iTunes ® , Archos has developed a special i-Tunes ®
plug-in. You will find it in the folder /Data/i-Tunes Plug-in on the Gmini XS hard disk or from the Archos website. In this
folder you will find a .sit compressed file. Uncompress it and open the folder for your operating system. You will find a JPEG image illustrating
where you need to copy the plug-
in to. Once this is done, iTunes™ will recognize the Gmini XS 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) When you create your Playlists with iTunes ® (you can only create Playlists from songs that have been copied to your Gmini XS), your
Macintosh ® will save these Playlists to the root directory of your Gmini XS. It will not save them to the Gmini XS Playlists directory. It would be
best to use the Gmini XS itself to make Playlists and then save these Playlists in your Playlists folder.
2) When you drag and drop MP3 files from your iTunes ® library to your Gmini XS, the i-Tunes ® program will look at the ID3 tag information of
the MP3 file, and create a folder on the root of your Gmini XS 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, albums, and title, iTunes
® does not follow the Gmini XS convention of placing the
music into the Music folder first.