User manual ARCHOS GMINI 400

English Language User Manual GminiTM 400 · · · · · Pocket Music / Photo / Games / Video MPEG-4 Video Player MP3 & WMA Music Player Photo Viewer USB 2.0 Hard Disk Game player User Manual for ARCHOS GminiTM 400 Version 1.1 Please visit our website to download the most recent manual and software for this product. 1 Table of Contents 1 2 INTRO - Ports, Buttons and Connections INTRO - First Time Usage 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Plugging in the AC Adapter Turning on the Gmini 400 Shutting off the Gmini 400 and Battery saving features Changing the Language Foreign Character Sets Charging the Batteries Caring for the Gmini 400 Hardware Reset Button Control Playing Through your Stereo System Artist, Album, Title ... ID3 Tags The ARCLibrary (Browsing by Album, Artist, or Song name) Setting a Bookmark The Resume Function Playing a Playlist Creating a Playlist Saving a Playlist Adding songs to a Playlist while listening to Music Cable Connections for Audio Recording Recording Procedure Microphone Analog Line-In Incremental Recording Where is the Recording Saved? Audio Editing Installing Windows Media Player 9 Installing the WMP9 Service Provider Plug-in Copying Music to your Gmini 400 Copy Protected Music Downloads 8 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 6 8 3 MUSIC - Playing Music Files 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 11 12 13 13 14 15 11 4 MUSIC - Playlists 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 16 17 17 18 16 5 MUSIC - Recording Music 5.1 5.2 19 20 19 21 21 21 21 22 5.3 5.4 6 MUSIC - Using Windows® Media Player 9 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 24 24 25 25 24 7 8 MUSIC - Using iTunesTM with your Gmini 400 GAMES - Playing Mophun® games 8.1 8.2 Downloading Games Copy to Gmini 400 root Playing a Game 27 26 27 27 28 2 9 VIDEO - Playing Video 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Setting a Bookmark The Resume Function Display Format Settings Playing Video Files from the Internet 30 30 31 31 29 10 VIDEO - Creating MPEG4 video files with your computer How to create an MPEG-4 video file PC Tools Macintosh Users Installing the PC Software DivXTM Codec Virtual DubTM MPG4 Translator MP3 Sound Codec Using MPG4 Translator Select Source & Destination Files Change Settings Target & Priority Start Viewing Photos Magnifying Photos Viewing a slideshow Transferring photos to your Gmini 400 Navigating the Directory Structure Navigating the Directory Structure File Operations Folder Operations Copying and Moving Files and Folders Using the Virtual Keyboard Connecting the Gmini 400 Windows® ME, 2000, XP (Home/professional) MacintoshTM OS 9.X MacintoshTM OS X MacintoshTM OS X (10.2 Jaguar and 10.3 Panther) Disconnecting the Gmini 400 from your Computer Windows® Macintosh® Sound Settings Play Mode Settings Clock Settings Display Settings Power Settings System Settings 32 32 32 32 33 10.1 33 33 33 34 35 10.2 35 35 36 36 11 PHOTO - Viewing Photos 11.1 11.2 11.3 12.1 12.2 37 37 38 38 39 12 BROWSER - Using the Browser 41 42 41 42 42 43 44 12.3 13.1 13 Connecting/Disconnecting the Gmini 400 to/from your PC 45 45 45 46 46 46 46 13.2 47 48 14 SETTINGS 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 49 50 52 52 54 55 49 3 15 Updating the Gmini 400 Firmware Operating System (OS) Download the Update_Gmini400.AOS file Read the History.txt File Copy to Gmini 400 root and Update 56 56 56 56 16 Technical Support 17 Troubleshooting 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 USB Connection issues Charging and Power issues Gmini 400 locks up (freezes operation) or Stops The Computer locks-up (freezes operation) or Stops File issues, corrupted data, formatting, and partitioning Windows® 98SE & ME Running Scan-Disk (Error Checking) 63 Windows® XP & 2000 Running Check Disk Utility (ChkDsk) 64 60 61 61 62 62 58 60 18 Technical Specifications 19 Legal 65 66 4 Dear Customer, ARCHOS thanks you for your choice of this exciting Gmini 400 product. With this beautiful device in your pocket, you can enjoy digital music, digital photos, games, or digital video anytime and anywhere. We are sure that your Gmini 400 will give you years of listening and viewing enjoyment. Of course you can always use it as a regular portable hard disk too for all your personal computer files. This guide will explain to you the functions of the Gmini 400. Our engineers have packed this product with many functions and capabilities. The better you know how to use it, the more enjoyment you will get from it. Remember, with the Gmini 400, you can... · Listen to MP3, WMA, or WAV music files · Play a variety of 2D and 3D Mophun® video games · Play MPEG-4 video files on the built-in screen, or to a television or video projector · View digital photos and make personalized slide shows · Record music files directly into digital format from your hi-fi without a computer · Use it as a voice recorder with its built-in microphone · Store .DOC, .PDF, or any type of data file ­ it's a portable hard drive too! · Create music Playlists · Copy Pictures or data from CompactFlashTM cards directly to the Gmini 400 (may require a freely available plug-in from the Archos website). We wish you many years of enjoyment from your Gmini 400 product. Please do register your product at our website www.archos.com/ register/products.html to ensure that you get access to our help line and to be informed of free software updates for your product. Wishing you the best music, photo, gaming, and video experience, The ARCHOS TEAM 5 1 INTRO - Ports, Buttons and Connections a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Hard disk activity indicator (red) On indicator (green) Battery charger indicator (green) ­ blinks when the battery is fully charged On/Enter/Play/Go ­ Hold for 3 seconds to turn on the Gmini 400 Move UP (also increases volume during media playback) Move DOWN (also decreases volume during media playback) Move LEFT (also plays previous song or fast reverse through a song or video) Move RIGHT (also plays next song or fast forward through a song or video) Game Control 1 (Function depends on game) [acts as Enter/Play when not in game mode] Game Control 2 (Function depends on game) [acts as Escape/Stop when not in game mode] Escape/Stop/Go back/Off - Hold for 3 seconds to turn off device F1 command or function F2 command or function F3 command or function Function button F1 ­ activates the on-screen function or command above it (l) Function button F2 ­ activates the on-screen function or command above it (m) Long press to switch display between built in screen and external TV Function button F3 ­ activates the on-screen function or command above it (n) 6 a b c d e f Multiconnect adapter ­ allows for an analog audio input (Line In) Multi-connect jack ­ for headphones, AV cable, or FM Remote control (optional accessory) Microphone ­ for making digital voice recordings CompactFlashTM slot ­ Type I compatible USB 2.0 port (USB 1.1 compatible) to connect the Gmini 400 to your computer Power Connector (Use only the supplied Archos power charger/adapter) 7 2 2.1 INTRO - First Time Usage Please take the time to read though this manual. There are many things that this device can do that you may not be aware of. Plugging in the AC Adapter · Use only the included ARCHOS charger/adapter. · Before using for the first time, charge the batteries completely. · You may use the Archos Gmini 400 while its battery is charging, but it will then take longer before the battery is completely charged. 2.2 Turning on the Gmini 400 · Hold the PLAY/ON button for 4 seconds. The green "On" indicator light will turn on. Be patient, it will take a few seconds for the operating system to boot up. · If the unit shuts off after holding the ON button for several seconds, plug in the Archos adapter/charger to make sure the batteries get charged. 2.3 Shutting off the Gmini 400 and Battery saving features To shut off the unit, press and hold the STOP/ESC/OFF button for 3 seconds. In the Power menu [Setup Power: Battery Operation] there is a Power Off parameter. It is factory set to 2 minutes. Thus, if your Gmini 400 is idle for 2 minutes, it will shut off. This setting can be changed from one to nine minutes or to `never'. In the Power menu [Setup Power: Battery Operation] there is a Backlight Off parameter to save battery power (the lighting of the screen consumes a lot of the battery power). It is factory set to 30 seconds. That is, if there are no buttons pressed, the screen will shut off in order to save battery life. To turn the screen back on, just click once on any button. See section 14.5 for a complete explanation. 8 2.4 Changing the Language The Gmini 400 interface can be set to English (default), French, German or Spanish. · To change the language, move the cursor to Setup and then click PLAY/ENTER . · Then move with the joystick to Display and click PLAY/ENTER . · Highlight the Language parameter. · Use the Right or Left button to choose the desired language. · Choose French, German, Spanish or English. · The language displayed will change immediately. · Click on the STOP/ESC button to exit this screen. 2.5 Foreign Character Sets You have the possibility to display your file names, folder names, and MP3 ID3 tags in various character sets (ex: Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, etc.). You can find the language files CodePage_name.4FZ in the font folder under /Data on the Gmini 400 hard disk or on the Archos website under the heading Software. If, for example, you would like to have the Korean language display, then you would copy the file CP949.4FZ into the folder /system on the Gmini 400 and shut down and restart the Gmini 400. File names, folder names, and ID3 tags written using the Microsoft® codepage for the language will now be displayed in that character set. Only one .4FZ can be used at a time, thus you should only put one .4FZ file into the /system folder. When an .4FZ language file is used, the interface language will be set to English. 2.6 Charging the Batteries Use ONLY an Archos charger/adapter that is specified for the Gmini 400. Other chargers or adapters may damage the Gmini 400. The green CHARGE indicator lights up to indicate that the external adapter is connected. The batteries will charge automatically when the AC adapter/ charger is plugged in. Once the batteries are fully charged, this light will blink, indicating that you can disconnect the charger/adapter. Once charged, you can get up to 10 hours* of MP3 music playback time and up to 5 hours* of AVI video playback time (on the built-in screen) from 9 the batteries. The Gmini 400 is made with integrated batteries which are designed to last for the life of the Gmini 400. This means that you will not have to change them. If, in the exceptional case, the batteries need changing, this should only be done by an Archos technician. * depending on how you use it (start/stop/writing, etc.) 2.7 Caring for the Gmini 400 The Archos Gmini 400 is an electronic product that needs to be treated with more care than typical consumer electronic products. · Do not subject it to shock. · Do not subject it to heat. Keep it ventilated (especially when connected to a computer). · Keep the Gmini 400 away from water and excessively humid areas. · Keep the Gmini 400 away from high electromagnetic fields. · Keep any connected cords to the Gmini 400 neatly arranged. This light product could fall if a cord is accidentally pulled by a child. · Do not open up the Gmini 400. There are no user serviceable parts inside. Opening will void your warranty. 2.8 Hardware Reset In the event that your Gmini 400 freezes operation (due to electrostatic phenomena for example), you can actuate a hardware reset by holding down on the STOP/ESC button for 10 seconds. In normal operation, the STOP/ESC button will shut down the Gmini 400 after being held down for 3 seconds. 10 3 MUSIC - Playing Music Files When you click on this icon in the main screen, you will be sent directly to the Music folder. Use the direction buttons to highlight one of the factory installed music selections and then Click on PLAY . If you hear nothing at first, make sure you have adjusted the volume control on the headphone cord. By clicking on the Music icon in the main menu screen, you will enter into a `music only' mode. Other playable file types that may be in this folder are only listed if you enter the folder via the Browser. Current Directory Play Order Play Mode: One Directory Status: Playing Volume (maximum:31) Battery level (full) Artist* or parent folder Album* or current folder Song title* or file name File format and rec info Next track to be played *APIC Album picture Relative location in the track Volume level meters Song elapsed time Song time remaining Song Length Time of Day Go to setup options Show Music Options Browse the hard disk for other tracks *If the MP3 file contains these ID3 tag data 3.1 Button Control Increase the Volume Click once: Play the next song in the folder or playlist. Hold: Fast forward through the song. Play/pause/resume song Click once: Play the previous song in the folder or playlist (during first 5 seconds of song) otherwise go to the beginning of the song. Hold: Fast reverse through the song. Stop Song Decrease the Volume 11 To lock the Gmini 400 buttons, press and hold the left function button for three seconds. The Gmini 400 will display the message "Buttons locked!" on the bottom of the screen. Press this again for three seconds to unlock the buttons. What the Icons indicate Status Stopped Blinks while playing a track Current track is paused Recording a track Play Order - no icon Play once Repeat playing Shuffle (random) track selection Playing a playlist Play Mode See section 14.2 3.2 Playing Through your Stereo System On your HiFi there are two RCA type connectors that are labeled Aux in, CD in, or Line-in. Typically they are color coded white and red for left and right stereo channels respectively. Just take the included A/V cable and plug it into the Gmini 400 headphone jack. Plug the red and white connectors into the Aux in, CD in, or line-in of your stereo system. Do not plug the yellow (video) connector into anything. On the front of your stereo, select the corresponding auxiliary input or CD input that you plugged into on the back of your HiFi system. Press Play and then adjust the Gmini 400 volume (UP/DOWN buttons) in order to supply your stereo system with a signal that is neither too weak nor too strong. If the sound is distorted, you will need to reduce the Gmini 400's volume. 12 3.3 Artist, Album, Title ... ID3 Tags ID3 Tags are information about the recording which found inside of an MP3 music file. When someone creates an MP3 music file, he or she has the option of adding information to it. This information can include, among other things, the name of the artist (Wes Burden), the album name (Brave New World), the title of the song (Mirror), and a small image of the album cover (only jpeg images not progressive jpeg). If these data are present, the Gmini 400 will display them on the screen when it plays the file. If they are not present, then the Gmini 400 will display in order, the name of the parent folder, the name of the current folder, and then the name of the file. As of the writing of this manual, there are two versions of ID3 tags that are firmly established standards, ID3 version 1 and ID3 version 2. Your Gmini 400 can read either version of tags, and display the information. If both sets of tags have information, the data from the ID3 version 2 tag will be displayed. Other tag information may include year and genre of music. These other tag data are not displayed by the Gmini 400, but are used to index your music in the ARCLibrary (see next section). WMA files also have tags and these are displayed as well when the file is played. 3.4 The ARCLibrary (Browsing by Album, Artist, or Song name) 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, you can select your music by Artist, Album, Song Title, Genre, or Year. MP3 and WMA music files have internal data tags to hold information about the song. For MP3 files, these are known as ID3 tags. Not all MP3 files have all this information filled in. If you purchase a song from a music download service, the songs will have this information. If you have an MP3 or WMA file without this tag information, then you can add or change it by going to the properties of the file in Windows® Explorer. Once you re-index the ARCLibrary, you will have access to this track 13 from the ARCLibrary. Audio files created with the microphone will be indexed as Artist = ARCHOS and Album = Audio Recording. The ARCLibrary indexes all the music and playlists that it finds in the folders Music and Playlists on your Gmini 400's hard drive, by using the tag information in each song. When you transfer music to your Gmini 400 from your computer, it goes directly to the Gmini 400 hard disk without the ARCLibrary knowing about the new song. Thus, in order for your new songs to be indexed into the ARCLibrary, you must update it with the Update button as shown here in the Setup > Playmode screen. You have the following options to set the ARCLibrary. Off ­ From the Music icon, you will just browse music files in the folder Music. On ­ You can browse music by its characteristics (ID3 tags) but you will have to manually update the ARCLibrary each time you add new music from your computer to your Gmini 400. Automatic ­ The ARCLibrary will be set to On and it will automatically update the library each time it notices that you have disconnected from a computer. A message screen will appear indicating that it is updating the ARCLibrary contents. 3.5 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. You simply click on the center function button labeled Options, then choose Set Bookmark. This will set a bookmark in the audio file at the current position. You can only set one bookmark per file. When you look at the file in your browser, it will have a yellow check mark on its icon indicating that this file has a bookmark set within it. You can have a maximum of 16 files bookmarked. Setting more bookmarks will then start to erase 14 the oldest bookmarks. The next time you play the audio file, 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 file and start playing from the very beginning. The Resume Function When you turn on your Gmini 400 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 Gmini 400 can resume the last played audio or video file. 3.6 15 4 MUSIC - Playlists A Playlist is a list of songs that the Gmini 400 will automatically play one after the other. The Gmini 400 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 Gmini 400 hard disk. Playlists are indicated by a special list icon (circled icon to the left). 4.1 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 Gmini 400 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 (F1), 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 Gmini 400, you are only deleting the list and not the music itself. Example of the contents of the .m3u Playlist file `Jazz Music'. 16 4.2 Creating a Playlist To create a Playlist, press the RIGHT button while you are in the Music browser. A second window will open on the right side to display the Playlist contents. You can now start adding songs to the current Playlist. In the left window, search for the songs you would like to add to your Playlist. Once the song is highlighted, click on the Add function button to add it to the Playlist. The song will be added to the Playlist and a small mark next to the music icon will be made to indicate that it is in the Playlist. Continue searching and adding songs in this manner until you are satisfied. You can also click the Add or Insert button when highlighting a folder. All the contents of the folder and its subfolders will be added or inserted into the current playlist. You can jump back and forth between the browser and the playlist by clicking on the LEFT and RIGHT buttons. A Playlist can have a maximum of 5000 songs. We recommend that you save your Playlists. 4.3 Saving a Playlist It is recommended that each time you create a Playlist, you save it to a separate folder called Playlists. These lists take very little space on your hard disk and if well named, give you easy access to your favorite songs. Go to the Playlist by selecting Music from the main menu and then click on the RIGHT button. You will then see the list of songs in the current Playlist. Click the function button F1 then choose Save. ATTENTION: Make sure that your left window is the Playlists folder, because the open window on the left is the location the Gmini 400 will be saving your Playlist to. Save ­ Saves the current playlist to the folder open in the left window. The * next to the playlist name indicates that this playlist has not been saved. 17 Close ­ Closes the windows and returns to the main menu screen. Rename ­ Renames the current playlist. Shuffle ­ Randomly shuffles the order of the songs in the current playlist. Clear ­ Clears the contents of the current playlist. Button Move ­ Allows you to change the place in the list of the highlighted song. Click on Move and then click on UP or DOWN to move the song up or down the list. Click OK when finished. Button Delete ­ Will delete the highlighted song from the Playlist. It will not delete the actual song itself from your hard disk, just from the current Playlist. Important: Once you save a Playlist it is important that you do not move or rename the actual MP3 files as the Playlist searches in the original file location. If you need to move your MP3 files to a different folder, you'll have to recreate your Playlist. 4.4 Adding songs to a Playlist while listening to Music This can only be done if you have entered your Music folder via the Music icon and not by the general browser. To add the song you are listening to or any other song to the current Playlist, do the following: · While playing a song, click on Options and choose Edit Playlist. A browser window and the Playlist will open. · Click on the LEFT button to go to the hard disk browser window. · Select the song or folder of songs to add, then click the button Add. · Click ESC to return to the playing screen. 18 5 5.1 MUSIC - Recording Music With the Gmini 400 series, you do not need a computer to create digital music files. It is capable of recording from the built-in microphone or an analog line source (ex: HiFi system, Boombox, CD Player, etc) into a standard Windows® WAV format, either PCM (uncompressed) or ADPCM (compressed). Cable Connections for Audio Recording Plug the multi-connect adapter into the Gmini 400 and then plug the included AV cable into the side marked Line-In as shown here. Connect the Red (Right) and White (Left) connectors to the audio output of your Hifi or other audio device that you are recording from. Do not plug the yellow connector to anything. To the outputs of your audio device. 19 5.2 Recording Procedure Before the actual audio recording begins, there is a pre-recording screen which will allow you to adjust your recording settings. 1. From the home screen, select AudioCorder then click on ENTER/GO . 2. In the pre-recording screen, adjust the recording level* by clicking on the LEFT and RIGHT buttons. Click on the F3 Start button to start recording. Attention, the first time recording you should adjust your Settings. 3. Click on Settings to reveal the recording parameters screen as shown above. Be sure to set the correct Source. You will hear silence during recording and playback if the incorrect source is chosen. 4. Once you have clicked on the Start button, you can pause the recording by clicking the same function button (now labelled Pause), or stop the recording by clicking on the STOP/ESC button. * (Analog recordings only) You should try some test recordings before deciding on which recording level gives the best sound quality. Don't be tricked by the volume of the headphones which can be adjusted independently with the UP and DOWN buttons. 20 Microphone The built-in microphone is located on the top of the Gmini 400 unit next to the headphone jack. Make sure that you have selected Microphone as the input source in the pre-recording Settings screen. The microphone recording level is preset. Analog Line-In You can record from any line-level audio source to the Gmini 400. Make sure that you select the Analog Line-In as the input source in the prerecording Setup screen. If you have the TV cradle unit, you can plug the Red and White connectors of the AV In cables to the output of you home stereo system or the audio device you are recording from. If you have the optional multi-connect adapter plug, you can enter a stereo audio signal into the AV400 directly. Be careful that the source audio is supplying a line level and not an amplified signal (turning down the volume on the player will work if you are using the headphone out signal of your audio device). An amplified signal will make for a terribly distorted recording. You can also use a high quality pre-amplified microphone, such as the one Archos sells as an option. Incremental Recording While recording, you will notice the center function button labeled Next. This allows you to create incremental recordings. That is, the current recording stops and a new recording instantly begins. The next recording has an additional number appended to its name. Thus if you create multiple incremental recordings, you might, for example, have files names of REC0000_01, REC0000_02, etc. This is good for recording old cassettes and old vinyl records. You can click on the Next button during the blank space between each song. That way, each song of the vinyl disk or audio cassette will be one single audio file. 5.3 Where is the Recording Saved? The default location for audio recordings is the folder called Music. If you click on the Music icon in the main menu, you will go to this folder. Notice that the right function button is labeled Record. Each time you use this button to record audio instead of the AudioCorder button on the main menu, you set the recording default location to the current folder. For example, let's say you have a folder called /Music/Voice/Lectures. If you go to this folder and then make a recording using the right function button 21 Record, you will set the default record location to this folder. Now, each time you use the AudioCorder icon to start a recording, your recording will be saved in the folder /Music/Voice/Lectures. 5.4 Audio Editing Audio files (microphone recordings / analog recordings / FM Remote Control (optional)) can be modified by deleting the sections you do not wish included. If you would like to edit an audio recording, you have the possibility to "crop out" the exact section of the recording you would like to save. For example, you have recorded a lecture of 33 minutes and 22 seconds in length. You would like to cut out and save just one particular important section from 12 minutes and 15 seconds to 21 minutes and 5 seconds. The diagram below illustrates the situation. Desired audio section 00:00 (0min 0sec) 12:15 21:05 33:22 To keep just this section (cropping it), you will: · · · · locate this file from the Browser mode Select Edit from the File menu in order to enter the edit mode In the edit mode, set the cut-IN point (12:15 in our example) Next, set the cut-OUT point (21:05 in our example) Save the edit 22 Highlight the file to edit and select Edit from the file menu. Only files which have been created with the Gmini 400 recording function will show Edit in the file menu. Files created from CDs or downloaded cannot be edited. Once you enter the edit mode, the audio file will play in a continuous loop so that you will be able to hear how your edit sounds. Use the fast-reverse and fastforward buttons (LEFT/RIGHT buttons) to locate the points you want the new file to start and end. These are the cut-IN and cut-OUT points. Once you have set these points, you can save the edit. In this example, a new file REC0000.wav will be made. Your original file is left untouched. You will notice that your Cut-IN and Cut-OUT times are marked just above the file name. 23 6 MUSIC - Using Windows® Media Player 9 The Gmini 400 is designed to work seamlessly with Version 9 of Windows® Media Player (WMP9). By installing the Archos Service Provider plug-in, WMP9 will recognize your Gmini 400 as a connected music device. You can then easily copy your CD collection to your Gmini 400. WMP9 will encode each song into the WMA format (preferred compressed format of Windows®) and then store them on your connected Archos device. This Service Provider plug-in will also allow you to play purchased music from on-line music services such as Napster.com, MusicNow.com, BuyMusic.com, and Liquid.com. 6.1 Installing Windows Media Player 9 If you do not already have Windows Media Player version 9 running on your computer, you can install it from the Archos Installation Utility. Connect your Gmini 400 to your computer. In Windows Explorer, open up the hard drive labeled JUKEBOX. It may be called JUKEBOX (E:) or with another letter. Open the folder Data, then the folder PC Installation, then double-click on the file Setup.exe. In other words, follow the path E:\Data\PC Installation\setup.exe. Click on the icon according to your operating system. Follow the on screen instructions. 6.2 Installing the WMP9 Service Provider Plug-in You should first make sure you have properly installed Windows Media Player 9 as explained above. To install the Service Provider Plug-in to Windows Media player, run the Archos Installation Utility as explained above, and then chose Archos Media Player Service Provider Plug-in. Follow the on screen instructions. If you have accidentally deleted it, 24 you can download it from the Archos website `software' category (www.archos.com). With your Gmini 400 still connected to your computer, start Windows Media Player. Normally, you will connect your Gmini 400 to your computer before you run the WMP9 program. If you connect it after WMP9 has been started, you will have to click on View > Refresh in order for WMP9 to go check and find the connected Gmini 400. 6.3 Copying Music to your Gmini 400 Run Windows Media Player. 2. Choose the Gmini 400 1. Choose Copy to CD or Device and then check the songs from your Music Library that you want to device then select the folder you want to copy your songs copy to your device. to. Now click on Copy. 6.4 Copy Protected Music Downloads With music download services such as Napster.com, MusicNow.com, BuyMusic.com, and Liquid.com, you can purchase music on-line and then store it on your Gmini 400. These music files are protected with the Microsoft® copy protection system. When they are downloaded to your computer then transferred to your Gmini 400, they will play only on your devices. These files will not play on other people's computers nor on other people's portable music players. 25 7 MUSIC - Using iTunesTM with your Gmini 400 The easiest way to transfer music files between a Macintosh® computer and your Gmini 400 is to use the Macintosh FinderTM to drag and drop the files to and from your Macintosh®. However, for Macintosh® users who do want to use the Gmini 400 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 400 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 a find a JPEG image illustrating where you need to copy the plug-in to. Once this is done, iTunesTM will recognize the Gmini 400 as a `Device'. 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 400), your Macintosh® will save these Playlists to the root directory of your Gmini 400. It will not save them to the Gmini 400 Playlists directory. It would be best to use the Gmini 400 itself to make Playlists (section 4.2) and then save these Playlists in your Playlists folder. 2) When you drag and drop MP3 files from your iTunes® library to your Gmini 400, the i-Tunes® program will look at the ID3 tag information (See section 3.3 of this manual for an explanation of ID3 tags) of the MP3 file, and create a folder on the root of your Gmini 400 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 400 convention of placing the music into the Music folder first. 26 8 8.1 GAMES - Playing Mophun® games Your Gmini 400 has a built-in Mophun® game engine. What that means is that it can run games created for the Mophun® gaming platform. Included with your Gmini 400 is the full version of one of the game titles available from Archos. You will also find other sample games on your Gmini 400. Downloading Games To see a complete list of games for sale, go to the Gmini 400 presentation page on the Archos website (www.archos.com) and click on the Gmini 400 Games link. Once you purchase the game, you will be presented with a download message box. 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 .MPN file is. Be assured that Archos has made every effort to ensure that the file does not contain viruses. Click on the option Save to download this file to a convenient place, such as My documents, in order to later copy this file to your Gmini 400. Copy to Gmini 400 root Connect your Gmini 400 to your computer (section 13.1), and then copy the .MPN game file to the root directory of the Gmini 400. The root directory is the top most level of the directory hierarchy. Just drag this .MPN file onto the Gmini 400 Hard disk in your file manager and it will place it in the top most directory (outside any folder). Once this file is copied, safely disconnect (section 13.2) the Gmini 400 from the computer. 27 Once disconnected from your computer, the Gmini will notice that there is a new game file on the root directory and will install the game automatically. It will then erase the .MPN file that you copied to the root directory. It is a good idea to keep a copy the installation file on you PC. Even if that file gets lost, you can always go back to the Archos website and re-download your purchased game free of charge. You may notice that there is a folder on your Gmini 400 hard drive called Mophun. You should not delete this folder nor copy any files into it. Purchased games will install themselves into this folder. 8.2 Playing a Game Just highlight the Games icon in the main screen and click the Go button. You can choose from the list of games presented. Once selected, follow the on-screen instructions. 28 9 VIDEO - Playing Video Like a music file, you simply highlight the video file and then click on PLAY/GO . The thumbnail images on the right side will show you a frame from the highlighted video file (center) as well as a frame from the file above and the file below the highlighted one. By clicking on the Video icon in the main menu, you will enter into a display `video only' mode. Other playable file types that may be in this folder are only listed if you enter the folder via the Browser. To watch your videos on a television, you must hold down the F2 function button (the center function button) for three seconds. The Gmini 400 screen will go black and the video will be sent out to your connected television. Switch your television to auxiliary video input (often found just below channel 1 ­ sometimes called L1 or L2). If you don't see a clear color image, you may have to set your Gmini 400 to your local television standard (NTSC or PAL) in the Setup > Display settings menu. · Use the PLAY/GO button to pause/resume the video. · Use the UP/DOWN buttons to control the volume. · Hold down the RIGHT/LEFT buttons to fast forward or fast reverse through the video. · Click the right function button to Hide/Show the overlaid video time information. · Click the Options function button to set a bookmark, change the screen presentation. Long press to switch between built-in video and external video. 29 · Click on the left function button to put the video into slow-motion view. You can cycle through the values Normal, ½ , ¼ , and 1/8 speed. The sound is muted when in slow motion. While in slow mode and paused, you can step image per image with the RIGHT button. 9.1 Setting a Bookmark If you are watching a video and would like to place a bookmark in it in order to continue from this point at another time, you can use the Bookmark function. You simply click on the center function button labeled Options, then choose Set Bookmark. This will set a bookmark in the video file at the current position. You can only set one bookmark per file. When you look at the file in your browser, it will have a yellow check mark on its icon indicating that this file has a bookmark set within it. You can have a maximum of 16 files bookmarked. Setting more bookmarks will then start to erase the oldest bookmarks. The next time you play this video file, you will be presented with three options: Resume: Start playing from the bookmarked position. Ignore: Clear: Keep the bookmark but start playing from the very beginning. Clear the bookmark from this file and start playing from the very beginning. 9.2 The Resume Function When you turn on your Gmini 400 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 Gmini 400 can resume the last played audio or video file. 30 9.3 Display Format Settings You will notice in the Options button (center function button), that you have a number of display format options. In certain cases, depending on how the original video was recorded, you may want to use these adjustments. Default mode : Adjusts the video size to best adapt to the LCD screen. 4/3 aspect: Enlarge the image to fill the screen (usually a vertical fill) and then cut the sides to completely fill a television screen. 16/9 aspect: Send out a TV signal without the black horizontal bars. No Overscan: Picture will not pass into the overscan area. Entire picture will always be seen on all televisions. Will not be cropped on the LCD. 9.4 Playing Video Files from the Internet The number of encoding and compression schemes currently used to create video files is very extensive and seems to change on a weekly basis. There are so many standards and formats that it is very possible that the video file you download from the Internet will not play right away on your device. Due to certain "variations", even when video files are formatted in "MPEG4" they may not play right away. The Gmini 400 series can play video files of type MPEG4 Simple Profile which have an MP3 or IMA-ADPCM audio sound track. It can play such video files which have a maximum size of 640 x 400 pixels (30 frames/second). The Gmini 400 will not directly play files of type .mov, .mpg, .mpeg, or .avi files created with codecs (compression/decompression) other than the XviD and DivXTM MPEG4 codecs. If you have video files of these other types that you would like to view on your Gmini 400, they will have to be converted first. You will have to use the software MPG4 Translator included on the Gmini 400 hard disk to re-encode them into the proper XviD or DivXTM MPEG4 format with an MP3 or IMA-ADPCM sound track. See chapter 10 for more details. 31 10 VIDEO - Creating MPEG4 video files with your computer How to create an MPEG-4 video file Please understand that video re-encoding is not always a simple one button process. Video segments that come from your digital camcorder or which are freely available on the Internet are encoded in many different ways. If not already in the proper MPEG4 Simple Profile format, transforming these videos into this format readable by the Gmini 400 requires use of the below mentioned software tools. This is due to the relatively new nature of the ISO (International Standards Organization) MPEG4 video format. Unlike its predecessors MPEG1 and MPEG2, there are a number of levels in this format and thus not all MPEG4 video files will work on all MPEG4 players, and older MPEG1 and MPEG2 files must be re-encoded into this format. Although you may have a bit of a learning curve in the initial re-encoding of video files, once you have the process down, it is just a matter of letting your PC or Mac go to work and create video files for playing on your Gmini 400. PC Tools The Gmini 400 is delivered with two Windows® based programs that allow you to create MPEG4 Simple Profile .AVI video files. They are the MPG4 Translator and Virtual DubTM. The MPG4 Translator will call the Virtual Dub program and give it the correct parameters to encode your video from its original format, .avi or .mpg (mpeg 1), and then encode it into a DivXTM based MPEG4 .AVI file. The file will be scaled in order to be played back properly. Only MPEG4 files encoded with DivXTM or XviD can be played on the Gmini 400. Please visit the website of DivXNetworks, Inc (www.divx. com) to download this codec. This is a free codec. This will allow your PC to create DivXTM type videos which play on your Gmini 400. If you would like to have your sound track in MP3 format, you may have to download this audio codec (available freely on the Internet) if it is not already on your computer. Macintosh Users Until recently, the Macintosh user community did not have any tools to create DivXTM simple profile MPEG4 video files. There are now tools available for purchase at the DivXTMNetworks web site which will allow you to create DivXTM simple profile files with your Macintosh that are playable on the Gmini 400. 32 10.1 Installing the PC Software If your video file is not an MPEG4 Simple Profile .avi file of the proper size, you will need to re-encode it using the following utilities. For the Gmini 400, you will need to create an AVI file that is MPEG4 Simple Profile with a maximum resolution of 640 x 400 and a sound track that is stereo MP3 or WAV. Run the program SETUP.EXE (the Archos Installation Utility) found on the Gmini 400 hard drive in /Data/PC Installation. Please install the programs in the following order. DivXTM Codec This software will install the DivXTM Compression/Decompression onto your PC. You should shut off any anti-virus programs when installing this or other codec software. This is not a program that is run by itself. Rather, it installs background software which allows your computer to do high quality video compression. This is the MPEG4 compressed video type that the Gmini 400 knows how to play. You can find this codec software, as well as an application that allows you to play DivXTM videos on your PC, at the website www.divx.com. The standard version is the one best suited for your Gmini 400. If you do not use the standard version, uncheck the bidirectional encoding in your DivX codec property page. Virtual DubTM A utility for transcoding one video file into another. This is a general purpose transfer and cleanup utility which has many options allowing for even the most difficult video translations. When you install it with the Archos Installation Utility, it will automatically unzip. It will prompt you to save it to C:\Program Files\VirtualDub. You should use this default directory location. Otherwise you will have to instruct the MPG4 translator program where to find it. MPG4 Translator This program, developed by Archos, is a "Front-end" for the Virtual Dub program. It has a simple interface which you use and it then tells Virtual Dub how to process the video file. It sets all the parameters for Virtual Dub specifically to create a video file in the right size and format to be read by the Gmini 400. When you run it for the first time, the MPG4 Translator will need to locate the Virtual Dub program. If you did not install Virtual Dub in the default location, you will have to show the program where Virtual Dub is. 33 MP3 Sound Codec If MPG4 Translator detects a suitable MP3 codec on your PC, it will use it, and your video file sound track will be MP3. Otherwise, it will use the standard IMA ADPCM codec. There are MP3 encoders (usually packaged together as an encoder and decoder) available on the Web for you to download. If you choose to use the LAME codec, make sure that you have a version built with the ACM front-end. You can find other MP3 codecs on the web by using the search terms ACM, MP3 and CODEC in your favorite web search engine. Once this MP3 codec is installed into your system, MPG4 Translator will be able to create final video files with MP3 sound, even if the source video file does not have an MP3 sound track. If you are unsure what codecs (audio and/or video) have been installed on your computer, you can see the list by going to the following location. For Windows XP, click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices Properties > Hardware > choose Audio Codecs, then click on Properties. You will find a list here of all the audio codecs that are installed on your computer. Decoding of MPEG 2 video files is currently not supported by MPG4 Translator. These are usually .mpg or .mpeg format files, not the required AVI file. There are other tools found on the Internet (FlaskMPEG, Rippack, etc.) that may be downloaded in order to help you with these file types. A good starting place is the website www. digital-digest.com. 34 10.2 Using MPG4 Translator Here you see the image of the main MPG4 Translator program. When you first run the program, if the DivXTM codec has not been installed yet, you will be notified. You should download the codec and install it on your computer. If the Virtual dub program has not been installed, you will also be notified, and you should install it (either with the Archos Installation Utility or the Virtual Dub website). If you have placed the Virtual Dub program in a folder other than the default, it will ask you to locate the file. Select Source & Destination Files In the example above, a source file 24 hours of Lemans.avi has been selected as the source video. You can see on the bottom of the window its original characteristics (width 720, height 576, frame rate 25). Next, you must then tell the program where to place (Set Destination file) the newly recorded version of the file (don't worry, it will not erase the original). You should give it a new descriptive name, such as shown above Lemans_Gmini400.avi. Make sure you add the .avi extension. Change Settings Next, you can change the parameters (Change Settings) of the DivXTM encoder to adjust the level of quality of the final image. Like MP3 music, the higher the bit rate setting is made, the higher the quality of the music, or video in this case, that you will get. However, this will also take up more space on your hard disk. A setting of 900 kbps will give you a nice looking image for viewing on a television. For near DVD quality, you can set it up to 1200 kbps. If you do not use the standard version, uncheck the bidirectional encoding in your DivX codec property page. 35 Target & Priority You should select the target as Gmini 400. You will see a Priority box appear. This control is to allow you to select which feature of the video to be guarded. If for example you are re-encoding a video file that is 800x600 in resolution and 30 frames per second, this is beyond the maximum resolution that the Gmini 400 can play. Thus, the MPG4 Translator program will have to decrease the resolution. Choosing LCD optimizes the final video format for viewing on the built in LCD screen. Choosing the TV option will optimize the movie to keep the highest possible frame rate. You can see what the size and frame rate will be by looking at the Video Image Size: Destination parameters. When choosing TV, it is understood that the output will be optimized for a television, and not the built-in screen. Start Click on Start and the program will call Virtual Dub to start processing the video. Depending on the power and speed of your computer, this could take real time (a 60 minute long video re-encoded in about 60 minutes) or much longer. As shown to the left, you will see the progress as it processes the video file. If the Start button is grayed out, it would be for one of two reasons. 1) The source file is not a true AVI file. Even if the file name ends with .avi, the internal file data determines if it is truly an AVI file. 2) The Virtual Dub program was not located when MPG4 Translator was started up. Close the program, restart it, and make sure you locate the Virtual Dub program. 36 11 PHOTO - Viewing Photos The Gmini 400 series support the viewing of JPEG (.jpg) and Bitmap (.bmp) image formats. Progressive JPEG images are not supported. The Gmini 400 will resize the image to fit on the built-in screen or on a television screen if you choose the television output. The yellow bar above the list of files indicates that you are in the `Photo Only' mode, meaning that only files of type JPEG or BMP will be visible in the directory. The three images on the right are thumbnail sized pictures of the highlighted file (center) and the picture just before and just after the highlighted file. If you are viewing photos on a television (long press on F2 to switch to external video), it is recommended that you set the Image Display setting to Progressive to eliminate any possible screen flicker. You will find this in the menu Setup > Display. 11.1 Viewing Photos When you click Enter on a highlighted image file, the Gmini 400 will display the image in the carrousel, either alone, within a group of 4 images, or within a group of 9 images. A red rectangle will surround the selected photo. Click on Enter again to display the image in full screen. Once it is displayed as a full screen image, you can rotate it, magnify it, or set it as the Gmini 400 screen background (Wallpaper). 1 x 1 image 2 x 2 images 3 x 3 images 37 Rotate picture 90° left View next photo Rotate picture 90° right View previous photo · Click the left function button #-Pic to change the number of photos in the carrousel view. · Click the center function button Picture to display the picture options. · Click on the right function button Hide to hide the picture name and function buttons. Magnifying Photos Once the picture is displayed in full screen, clicking the PLAY/GO button will magnify the image up to three levels. Each successive click of the PLAY/GO button will magnify the picture one more level. You can use your direction buttons to move the picture around in order to see the desired magnified area. The small + signs on the bottom left of the screen indicate the level of magnification, either +, ++, or +++. Click on STOP/ ESC to go back to an unmagnified view. 11.2 Viewing a slideshow By clicking on Slideshow, the Gmini 400 will present each picture in the current folder for a set amount of time and then go on to the next picture. You can set the amount of time that each picture stays on the screen under Setup > PlayMode > Picture Pause. This parameter is the number of seconds each picture displays on the screen. 38 11.3 Transferring photos to your Gmini 400 To transfer pictures from your digital camera directly into the Gmini 400, you will insert your digital camera's Compact FlashTM card* into the slot on the left side of the Gmini 400. Open up the door to the slot by unlatching the center clasp with your thumbnail. *Attention: In order to protect the delicate pins in the CF card slot, the door to the slot only opens far enough to allow the CF card to enter. Do not force it to open further than shown in the photo here. Slide the card in with its front side facing the back of the Gmini 400. When you insert the card, the Gmini 400 will recognize it and open up two browser windows. The left window will show the contents of your CompactFlashTM (CF) card* and the right window will show the contents of your Gmini 400's hard drive. Navigate to the folder on your CF card which contains your photos (in this example /DCIM/113CANON). Move to the right window (click the right button) and navigate to the folder you would like to save your photos to (you can create a new folder if you need to by clicking on the right window's Folder (f3) button). 39 Photos from CompactFlashTM on the left, and your Gmini 400 hard disk on the right. Choose destination folder then choose File > Copy All. Your files will be copied to the folder on the right side of the screen. You can now pull out the CF card from the Gmini 400. If your image files are not seen in the left screen, you may have to go the Setup > System > Show all files parameter and set it to On. Once set to on, all file types, regardless of their extention (.txt, .raw, .pdf, etc.) which are on your CF card will be visible in the left browser screen. You cannot copy files to your CF cards from your Gmini 400. *If your camera uses SmartMediaTM, Memory Stick® (MS), MultiMedia Card (MMC), or Secure DigitalTM (SD) memory cards, you can purchase the optional Archos 4-1 CompactFlashTM adapter which will allow these card types to be read by the Gmini 400. 40 12 BROWSER - Using the Browser The browser is used to navigate the file system on the Gmini 400. The file system is FAT32, the same type of file system that is found on Windows® based computers. That is, it is a hierarchical system which includes folders and subfolders. Because you will be putting hundreds of files on your Gmini 400, it is STRONGLY ADVISED that keep a neat and orderly file structure. Otherwise, you will be spending time searching for files and not listening or watching them. We suggest that on the first level of your file structure, you include the folders: Data, Music, Playlists, Photo and Video. The folders Music, Photo and Video are special folders in that the icons on the main screen lead to these folders and then places you directly in that folder. If these folders are deleted, you will be placed at the root level (highest level) of the directory hierarchy. 12.1 Navigating the Directory Structure Just below the top status bar, you can see the path to the directory you are currently viewing. To navigate the directory structure you will use: ENTER Open the highlighted folder (directory) or Play the highlighted file. Move the cursor up and down to the previous or next file or folder. ESC/STOP Go back to the main menu. Move back and forth between windows in the double browser. 41 Go to the parent directory (go back up one level). Example: Go from folder /Music/Wes Burden/ to /Music. 12.2 Navigating the Directory Structure Depending on where you are in the directory system, you will have the option to manipulate files and folders. From the main menu, click on Browser. Attention, there is a setting in the Setup > System menu called Show all files. If this is set to Off, the Gmini 400 will only display file types .mp3, .jpg, .avi, etc. That is, it displays only the file types that it knows how to play. To see all your files, including ones it cannot play, change the Show all files system setting to On. Files that it cannot play will be preceded by the unknown file type icon . File Operations Folder Operations Info: Delete: Show file information such as song length, video length, photo size, number of kilobytes used of hard disk space, date file was made, etc. Delete the file permanently from the Gmini 400. (Before it is deleted, the Gmini 400 will ask "Delete file: xxxxx ?". Use the function keys to reply Yes or No. For folder, it will delete the entire contents of the folder. It will ask "Delete folder: xxxxx and all files therein?". Use the function keys to reply Yes or No. 42 Rename: Change the name of the file or folder to something new. You will be sent to the virtual keyboard (see next section) to enter the new file or folder name. Create: Create a new folder in the current level of the directory. You will be sent to the virtual keyboard (see next section) to enter the new folder name. Copying and Moving Files and Folders By using the unique Archos double browser system, you can copy or move files from one location in the file structure to another (1000 files per folder maximum). You simply click on the RIGHT button, and a second browser window will open. The double browser can be used in: Photo View: Left browser shows the memory card and right browser the Gmini 400 hard disk. Music View: Left browser is the Gmini 400 hard disk and right browser the music Playlist. Browser View: Two browser windows to browse two different parts of the Gmini 400 hard disk. In the Browser mode, you can jump between the two windows using the LEFT and RIGHT buttons. Where the cursor is highlighting a file or folder, that window is the source for the copy. The destination folder will be the other window. For example, we want to copy the file Project X.doc from the HD/Data/Files from Work folder to the HD/Data/Backed up Files folder. We must start from the main screen Browser mode. 1) Locate the file to copy. 2) Click the RIGHT button to open a new browser window. 43 3) Click the RIGHT button again to move the cursor to the right browser and find the desired destination folder. 4) Move back to the left browser (LEFT button), highlight the file to copy, and select copy from the file menu. The file will be copied to the folder in the right browser. Entire folders can also be copied or moved in this same manner. 12.3 Using the Virtual Keyboard It is recommended that you create folders and rename files or folders from your computer when it is connected to the Gmini 400. The computer keyboard is much easier. Often times, however, you are not near your computer and you must enter the text directly with the Gmini 400. For this, the virtual keyboard screen will appear. The new text that you are typing in Cursor Each key has an upper case and lower case character (lower case mode shown here). Press ENTER to enter the highlighted key. Hold down on the LEFT or RIGHT buttons to move the cursor within the line. Change keyboard between upper case and lower case Confirmation to use the entered text Backspace button 44 13 Connecting/Disconnecting the Gmini 400 to/from your PC Note that when the Gmini 400 is connected to a computer, it will use more energy than usual. Your battery power will be consumed at a higher rate than normal. If the Gmini 400 looses power while connected to your computer you could damage your directory structure and/or loose data. Thus, you should always use the AC adapter when connected to your computer. Be careful to understand the disconnection procedure also since disconnecting incorrectly can lead to data loss or computer/Gmini freeze up. The Gmini 400 is not compatible with Windows® NT, Windows® 95, or Windows® 98 (first edition). Windows 98SE® (second edition) drivers are available on the Archos web site. While connected as a hard disk to your computer, the Gmini 400 buttons are blocked and are no longer functional. 13.1 Connecting the Gmini 400 1) Use the power adapter to prevent the Gmini 400 from shutting off due to low power. (This could cause damage to the contents of the hard disk if not done.) 2) Plug the USB cable into your running computer. 3) Turn on the Gmini 400 ­ wait until it completely boots up. 4) Plug the other end of cable into your now running Gmini 400. Windows® ME, 2000, XP (Home/professional) When connected, the Gmini 400 will be recognized as a Mass Storage Device and display automatically within a few seconds of being connected. You will see a new drive letter, such as E: in My Computer called JUKEBOX. You can now use the hard disk called JUKEBOX like any other external hard disk. Simply access it using Windows® Explorer to drag and drop files to and from the Gmini 400's hard disk. If it is not automatically recognized, please refer to the troubleshooting section at the back of this manual. 45 MacintoshTM OS 9.X You must update your operating system to a minimum of version 9.2. Once done, you will not need any special drivers or extensions. You simply plug the Gmini 400 into your Macintosh as enumerated above, and within a few seconds, the Gmini 400 will be recognized as a mass storage device (Hard Disk) and mount on the desktop. You can now use the Hard disk called JUKEBOX like any other external hard disk. MacintoshTM OS X We highly recommend that you update to Macintosh OS 10.2.4 or later. If you have Mac OS X before the 10.2 upgrade, you will find that version 10.1 may mount the Gmini 400 as a hard disk on your desktop, but ONLY after a very long wait, up to 10 minutes. Version 10.0 of OS X does not have the ability to properly recognize a mass storage device such as the Gmini 400. MacintoshTM OS X (10.2 Jaguar and 10.3 Panther) If you have OS 10.2, you must update to version 10.2.4 or newer. This is a free update from Apple® Computer. You will not require any special installation of software drivers or extensions. You simply plug the Gmini 400 into your Macintosh as enumerated above, and within a few seconds, the Gmini 400 will be recognized as a mass storage device (Hard Disk) and mount on the desktop. You can now use the Hard disk called JUKEBOX like any other external hard disk. 13.2 Disconnecting the Gmini 400 from your Computer WARNING: You must properly remove (unmount) your Gmini 400 from the computer before disconnecting the USB cable to avoid loss of data or freezing the computer and/or the Gmini 400. DO NOT SIMPLY PULL OUT THE USB CABLE AT ANY TIME! 46 Windows® To safely disconnect the Gmini 400 hard disk, click on the system tray remove icon (green arrow as shown below) and follow the instructions. Wait until you get a message saying that you can safely unplug the device before disconnecting the USB cable. Attention: The operating system will not allow you to safely disconnect the Multimedia Gmini 400 if you have an open file from it in a running application. You will have to close all open Gmini 400 files in any running application. Sometimes, even when files are closed in an application, you will have to shut down the application. Using the green disconnect arrow in the system tray will then allow you to safely disconnect the Gmini 400. 1. The safe remove icon is in the system tray next to the clock. Windows® XP Windows® 2000 & Windows® ME 2. Click on the icon to eject (unmount) the Gmini 400 from the computer and select the `Safely remove' message. Windows® XP & 2000 3. There will be a message indicating that it is now safe to disconnect the Gmini 400. You can now go ahead and unplug the USB cable from the Gmini 400. Windows® XP Windows® 2000 Note: Hitachi_DK23DA-20 only indicates the type of hard disk used inside of the Gmini 400. 47 Macintosh® Drag the Gmini 400 hard disk icon towards the trashcan, the trashcan will become a big arrow as shown in the screen shot to the left (Mac OS 9.x will still retain the trashcan icon. This is OK, don't worry.) Drop the hard disk icon onto the arrow (or trashcan). The hard disk icon will disappear from the desktop. You can now safely unplug the USB cable from your Gmini 400 and/or computer. 48 14 SETTINGS From the home screen, select the Setup option to reveal the menu options for various settings. 14.1 Sound Settings If you would like to customize the sound quality, you can adjust the Bass, Treble, and other audio settings to suit your particular taste. Normally you will do this while listening to music so that you can hear the changes you make. Simply click on the LEFT function button Setup while listening to music. · Once in the Setup screen, move over to the Sound icon and click again on ENTER . Use LEFT and RIGHT to change a parameter's value. You will hear these changes instantly. · Use the UP and DOWN buttons to select a different parameter. · Click on STOP/ESC when finished. You will return to the Setup screen. · Click on STOP/ESC again and you will return to the music playing screen. 49 The Sound Parameters Parameter Volume Bass Treble Balance Bass Boost Reset button Description 32 levels of volume (0-31). 10 levels. Decreases or Increases the low frequencies. 10 levels. Decreases or Increases the high frequencies. 10 levels. Favors the right or left channel of the Stereo signal 10 levels. Increases the very low frequencies Readjusts all settings to their default values 14.2 Play Mode Settings If you would like the Gmini 400 to play through an entire folder of songs, play songs at random (shuffle), or any of the other playing options, you can set these parameters in the PlayMode settings. · Click on STOP/ESC to return to the Gmini 400 main menu and click on Setup. Or, while listening to a song click the LEFT function button Setup. · Once in the Setup screen, move over to PlayMode and click again on ENTER. · Highlight one of the five PlayModes and click on ENTER to check that option. · With the Repeat & Shuffle setting, choose if the songs are to be played in order, repeated or shuffled. · See section 3.4 for details on using the ARCLibrary · Picture Pause sets the amount of time paused between pictures in the slideshow mode. See the Photo chapter for more details. 50