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 3.3  Playback Menu Items  

 3.3  Playback Menu Items  

 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. 

 •  

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. 

 •  

ARCLibrary: 

 Allows you to browse through your ARCLibrary while listening to the 

current song. 

 •  

Edit Playlist: 

 Enters the playlist editor (see below how to use Playlists). 

 •  

Set Bookmark: 

 Set a bookmark at the current position within the audio fi le. See  

the  

Bookmark 

 section below. 

 3.4  ARCLibrary Specifi cs 

 3.4 ARCLibrary 

Specifi cs 

 The ARCLibrary is a system for choosing your music by its characteristics. It can be 
turned On or Off in the settings from  

Setup > Playmode 

. As shown in this screen 

capture here, you can select your music by Artist, Album, Song Title, Genre, or 
Year. MP3 and WMA music fi les have internal data tags to hold information about 
the song. For MP3 fi les, these are known as ID3 tags. Not all MP3 fi les have all 
this information fi lled in. If you purchase a song from a music download service, 
the song will have this information. If you have an MP3 or WMA fi le without this tag 
information, then you can add or change it by going to the properties of the fi le in 
Windows

®

 Explorer. The ARCLibrary indexes all the music and playlists that it fi nds 

in the folders  

Music 

 and  

Playlists 

 by using the tag information in each song. Thus, 

you should never delete the folders  

Music 

 or  

Playlists 

. If a song does not have 

tags, it will be put into the category  

<unknown> 

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 3.5  ARCLibrary Updating 

 3.5 ARCLibrary 

Updating 

 If you paste unprotected audio fi les from your computer to the Archos™ 204, they go directly to the Archos™ 204 
hard drive without the ARCLibrary knowing about the new song. This is why the ARCLibrary is updated when 
you disconnect your Archos™ 204 from the computer. Alternatively, you can set up the ARCLibrary to update 
only when you choose to, by setting it to “On”, not “automatic”. You can fi nd the information on how to do this 
in the section  

Playmode 

 in the  

Settings 

 chapter. You will then have to go to the  

Setup > Playmode 

 screen, 

highlight [Update ARCLibrary] and press ENTER. A message screen will appear indicating that it is updating the 
ARCLibrary contents. 

 3.6  Setting a Bookmark 

 3.6  Setting a Bookmark 

 If you are listening to a song, or perhaps a long recording, and would like to place a bookmark in it in order 
to pick up from this point at another time, you can use the Bookmark function. While listening to the audio 

recording, simply click on the MENU button, then choose  

Set Bookmark 

. This will set a bookmark in the audio 

fi le at the current position. You can only set one bookmark per fi le. When you look at the fi le in your browser, it 
will have a small mark on its icon indicating that this fi le has a bookmark set within it. You can have a maximum 
of 16 fi les bookmarked. Setting more bookmarks will erase existing bookmarks, starting with the oldest. The next 
time you play the audio fi le, you will be presented with three options: 

  Resume:  

 Start playing from the bookmarked position. 

  Ignore: 

   Keep the bookmark but start playing from the very beginning. 

 Clear:

Clear the bookmark from this fi le and start playing from the very beginning 

.  

 3.7  The Resume Function 

 3.7  The Resume Function 

 When you turn on your Archos™ 204 you will sometimes notice that the icon which is highlighted on 
the main screen is not the  

Browser 

 but rather the  

Resume 

 icon. This icon is highlighted when the 

Archos™ 204  can resume the last played audio fi le.