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Using iTunes™ with your Gmini™ XS202 Using iTunes™ with your Gmini™ XS202 S S
The easiest way to transfer music fi les between a Macintosh ® computer and your Gmini XS202 S is to
use the Macintosh Finder™ to drag and drop the fi les to and from your Macintosh ® .
However, for Macintosh ® users who do want to use the Gmini XS202 S with iTunes ® , Archos has
developed a special i-Tunes ® plug-in. You will fi nd it in the folder /Data/i-Tunes Plug-in on the Gmini
XS202 S hard disk or from the Archos website. In this folder you will fi nd a .sit compressed fi le. You will
fi nd a JPEG image illustrating where you need to copy the plug-in to. Once this is done, iTunes™ will recognize
the Gmini XS202
S 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) Music purchased at Apple’s on-line music store are copy protected with a proprietary encryption system. The
ARCHOS ™ device will not be able to play this purchased music or fi les in AAC format which you might have
created. It will happily play MP3 format fi les without problem.
2) When you create your Playlists with iTunes ® (you can only create Playlists from songs that have been copied
to your Gmini XS202 S ), your Macintosh ® will save these Playlists to the root directory of your Gmini. It will not
save them to the Gmini Playlists directory. It would be best to use the Gmini itself to make Playlists and then
save these Playlists in your Playlists folder.
3) When you drag and drop MP3 fi les from your iTunes ® library to your Gmini, the i-Tunes ® program will look at
the ID3 tag information of the MP3 fi le, and create a folder on the root of your Gmini 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 and albums, i-Tunes
® does not follow the Gmini convention of placing the music into
the Music folder fi rst.
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Updating the Gmini™ XS202 Updating the Gmini™ XS202 S S Firmware Firmware
Archos periodically updates the fi rmware or Operating System (OS) and makes it available for free download
on the ARCHOS website (www.archos.com). Updates to the Operating System include new features, feature
improvements, and bug fi xes. You should check to make sure that you are running the most recent version of the
OS. To see the current version of the software your device is running, go to
Setup > System and look at the line
OS Version . You will fi nd the most recent version of the OS and its version number at the Archos website (www.
archos.com) under the category
Software .
11.1 Download the Update_GminiXS202.AOS fi le 11.1 Download the Update_GminiXS202.AOS fi le
When you click on the link to download the new OS fi le (the fi le name is Update_
GminiXS202.AOS), your browser may warn you that the contents of the download
may harm your computer. This is because the Windows
® system does not know what
a .AOS fi le is. Be assured that Archos has made every effort to ensure that the fi le
does not contain viruses. Click on the option
Save to download this fi le to a convenient
place, such as My Documents , in order to later copy this fi le to your Gmini XS202 S . If
your Gmini is connected to your PC, you can even save it directly to the Gmini.
You will also fi nd next to the fi rmware download, a text fi le which details the list of
changes from the previous version of the OS.
11.2 Copy to Gmini™ root and Update 11.2 Copy to Gmini™ root and Update
When updating your Operating System, you must keep the AC charger/
adapter plugged into the Gmini™ so that it will not shut down due to low
batteries while you are performing the update. Connect your Gmini to your
computer (See the chapter on connecting to the computer for help), and
then copy the
Update_GminiXS202.AOS fi le to the root directory of the
Gmini. The root directory is the top most level of the directory hierarchy.
Just drag this.AOS fi le onto the Gmini XS202
S Hard disk in your fi le
manager and it will place it in the top most directory (outside any folder).
If there is already an older version of the Update_GminiXS202.AOS fi le on your Gmini, Windows ® will ask if you