User Manual 1 The Archos FM Remote Control........................................................................ 3 1.1 1.2 Operation Modes...............................................................................................................3 Connecting to your AV300...............................................................................................3 2 How to Use the Radio and MP3 Functions........................................................ 5 2.1 Playing MP3 files..............................................................................................................5 Tuning the Radio ..............................................................................................................5 Making a Radio Preset......................................................................................................5 Setting the HOLD mode ...................................................................................................6 Recording from the Microphone ......................................................................................6 Recording from the Radio ................................................................................................7 Retro Recording and Editing ............................................................................................7 Setting Parameters ............................................................................................................9 FM Band ........................................................................................................................ 9 Radio Recording............................................................................................................ 9 Microphone Recording .................................................................................................. 9 Retro-Recording ............................................................................................................ 10 ARCHOS FM Remote Control Stereo FM Radio / Remote Control / Microphone for ARCHOS Video AV300 series 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 3 Technical Support ............................................................................................. 11 4 Troubleshooting................................................................................................. 12 5 Warranty and Limited Liability....................................................................... 13 User Manual for ARCHOS AV300 FM Remote Control v1.0 Please visit our web site to download the most recent manual and software for this product. 2 1 The Archos FM Remote Control This FM Remote control will allow you to: Play MP3 songs that are on your AV300. Record your voice with its microphone. Listen to FM Stereo radio. Record off the FM radio into MP3 files 1.1 Operation Modes Browse Mode: Play Mode: Voice Record Mode: FM Play Mode: FM Record Mode: Allows browsing through files and folders on the AV300 Plays mp3 music files from the AV300 Allows the recording of voice from the remote's microphone Plays from the built-in FM radio Records from the built-in FM radio A B C D E F G 1.2 Connecting to your AV300 Built-in microphone Record voice or FM Radio Battery level / Playing / Recording / Paused / Repeat play / Volume level HOLD: Press Hold for 3 seconds to de-activate/reactivate all buttons FM Mode: Short press changes between Stereo and mono reception Browse Mode: Short press moves browser up to the parent directory Increase +: Volume Up Decrease - : Volume Down Rocker Control : (left, right, center click) Browse Mode: Left: Previous item in current directory Right: Next item in current directory Center: Play song / Pause / Enter directory Left: Go down the FM band or to previous preset Right: Go up the FM band or to next preset Center: Change FM mode (Preset/Manual/Search) Center: (Long) Make a preset at the current frequency or delete current preset (preset mode) 3.5mm jack for headphones (Quick press) Switch between FM mode and MP3 (browse) mode. Stop/Esc. (Long press) Go back to home icon. Hold for 3 seconds to turn off AV300. FM Mode: The FM remote is hot pluggable. You do not have to shut off the AV300 in order to plug in the FM Remote control or remove it. First, (1) plug in the doublejacks and then (2) attach the mini-centronics connector. Now plug your headphones into the FM Remote Control itself. Once connected, the regular buttons on the AV300 will still work in addition to the remote control buttons. H I 3 4 2 2.1 How to Use the Radio and MP3 Functions Playing MP3 files If you would like to name your Preset radio stations, you can do this by editing, with a text editor such as Notepad (Windows®) or SimpleText (Macintosh®), the file FMPreset.txt which you will find in the System folder on the root directory of the AV300 hard drive. Please note that you should not use a word processor such as Microsoft Word® to edit the preset text file. Each line of the text file should contain the station frequency, a space, and then the name of the station. You can name the station whatever you want, some examples are 90.1 Easy Jazz or 90s Hits FM Radio 107.8 or 91.3 KGTS. You are limited to 32 characters for naming a station preset. The entry on a line of 0.0 represents an empty preset slot. You can connect your FM Remote to the AV300 at any time. The remote's screen will show your current directory or the file name you are currently playing. Make a long press on the FM/MP3 mode button and you will be sent to the main screen of the AV300. You can choose either the or icon. Use the remote's / rocker control as you would the UP/DOWN joystick controls and the PLAY as the PLAY button on the AV300. This will allow you to search your directory structure to find songs and playlists that you want to play. If you are in the FM mode, just click on the MP3/FM button to go to MP3 mode. Use the Increase and Decrease buttons on the Remote FM to control headphone volume. 2.4 Setting the HOLD mode Use this feature if you would like to prevent the FM Remote from changing stations or settings accidentally if a button is pressed or hit. Hold down for three seconds on the HOLD 2.2 Tuning the Radio button to activate this. The buttons will be locked and not respond if pressed. To de-activate HOLD and make the buttons usable, press the HOLD button again for 3 seconds. Using the HOLD on the Remote will lock both the Remote's buttons and the AV300 buttons. You can also hold down on the top function button of the AV300 to de-activate HOLD. Once the remote is plugged in, click on the mode button MP3/FM to go to the radio mode. Use the rocker control Left and Right to go up and down the frequency range. A short press on the rocker button will rotate through the three FM tuning modes, Preset (you can choose one of your 20 preset stations), Manual (tune your station manually), Search (let the radio search for the next clear station). Press the MP3/FM button to leave the Radio mode and go back to the MP3 mode. 2.5 Recording from the Microphone First make sure you are in the MP3 mode (MP3/FM button to change modes). Simply click once on the REC button and the recording starts. The REC button will light up red to indicate that 2.3 Making a Radio Preset You can save up to 20 preset stations with the FM remote control. Once you have found the radio frequency you want to save as a preset, press and hold the rocker PLAY button for 3 seconds. The Remote will show P2 Saved, for example, indicating that this radio station is now program number 2. If you would like to erase a preset station, go to the tuning Preset mode, scroll to the preset number you want to clear, then hold down on PLAY for three seconds. You now have a free program slot to make a different FM preset. you are making a recording. When you are done, click on REC again and the recording will finish and write to your hard drive. Your recorded file will be saved in the last folder that was used for audio recording. For example, if you have a folder /HD/Music/Voice that you made an audio recording in, then the next time you click the REC on the remote control, it will save the file to that Voice folder. If you have used only the AudioCorder icon from the main AV300 screen for recording, then the recording will be stored in /HD/Music since no other folder had been identified as the last recording folder. The file name for this recording will be VOICExxxx.mp3, where xxxx are incremental numbers. During the recording, you can change the recording gain. Press the rocker control to the left (less gain) when the sound you're recording is loud, or to the right (more gain) when the sound is soft. 5 6 2.6 Recording from the Radio It will continuously loop so that you can hear the changes to it as the Cut-IN and Cut-OUTs are made. As normal, when playing a song, you can use the Reverse and Forward on the joystick to move back and forward within the song. While the song is playing, wait for the precise moment that you want the edited song to start and click the left function button Cut-IN. This is the point that your new edited song will start. You will notice that the song length will be reduced. This is normal, because you just shortened the song with the cut. You will also notice the point at which the cut was made at the Cut-IN indicator (0:00:18 in the example screen). Let the song continue (or fast forward it) and then at the precise moment When you hear something on the radio you would like to record, click once on the REC button. The REC button will light up red to indicate that a recording is taking place. Click it again when you want to stop the recording. Your recorded file will be saved in the last folder that was used for audio recording. For example, if you have a folder /HD/Music/Radio that you made an audio recording in, then the next time you click the REC on the remote control, it will save the file to that Radio folder. If you have used only the AudioCorder button on the main AV300 screen for recording, then the recording will be stored in /HD/Music since no other folder had been identified as the last recording folder. The file name for this recording will be RADIOxxxx.mp3, where xxxx are incremental numbers. During the recording, the gain is fixed so that you get the best possible radio recording. 2.7 Retro Recording and Editing you want the edited song to stop, click on the right function button Cut-OUT. This is the point that your new edited song will stop. You can let the song loop so that you can listen to and verify that the cuts you made are to your liking. If not, Click on the STOP to clear the edit points and re-edit the cuts, or just exit the audio editor without changing the radio file. Once you are satisfied with the edit, click on the center function button Save Edit to save your edit as a new file. The AV300 will execute a read/write process and create a new file named oldfilename_Edit.mp3 and place it in the same directory as the original file. Retro-recording This is a feature that allows you to capture the 30 seconds (approximately) of radio broadcast before the record button is pressed. It does this by continuously recording a 30 second loop of music in a buffer. Then, when you click on Rec to record the radio, it adds this 30 seconds to the beginning of your recording. This way, if you start recording a radio song after it has started, you will actually have the entire song in the recording. The Retro-Record setting must be set to On in order for this to work. See the description in section 2.8 on how to turn on or off the Retro-record function. Editing Once a retro-recorded song has been recorded, it can be edited on the AV300 itself. Often, the beginning of the recording will include a commercial or announcer talk that you do not want to keep, but was also recorded during the buffered 30 seconds. To go to the Audio Edit screen, locate the recorded radio file on your AV300 and then click on PLAY. The function button Audio Edit indicates that you can edit this radio recording. Click on Audio Edit to enter the Edit mode. Shown below is the Audio Edit mode. You will notice that your radio recording has started to play. 7 8 2.8 Setting Parameters bitrate to quality level 3 and the sample rate to 22kHz, will save space on your hard drive and you will hear little difference in the recorded voice quality. To change the Remote FM parameters, you must attach the FM remote control, enter FM mode, and then click on the center function button Settings on the AV300. FM Band Make sure you have the correct FM setting. Go to the parameter FM Band. The specifications for the modes are as follows: Retro-Recording To activate the Retro-Recording function, set it to On. Each time you make a recording from the radio, you will get approximately 30 seconds of what was playing from the radio before you had pressed the REC ...