User Manual ARCHOS FM Remote Control Stereo FM Radio / Remote Control / Microphone for ARCHOS Gmini Series TM User Manual for ARCHOS Gmini SP, 100, 200, 400 FM Remote Control v3.0. Please visit our web site to download the most recent manual and software for this product. 1 Table of Contents 1 The Archos FM Remote Control 1.1 Operation Modes 1.2 Connecting to your Gmini 3 3 3 2 How to Use the Radio and MP3 Function 2.1 Playing Music 2.2 Tuning the Radio 2.3 Making a Radio Preset 2.4 Setting the HOLD mode 2.5 Recording from the Microphone 2.6 Recording from the Radio 2.7 Retro Recording and Editing Retro-recording Editing 2.8 Setting Parameters FM Band Radio & Microphone Recording Retro-Recording 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 10 5 7 7 10 11 11 3 Technical Support 4 Troubleshooting Table of Contents 12 13 14 15 15 16 5 Warranty and Limited Liability Warnings and Safety Instructions FCC Warning Statement Copyright Notice 2 1 The Archos FM Remote Control This FM Remote control will allow you to: · Play songs that are on your Gmini. · Record your voice* with its microphone. · Listen to FM Stereo radio. · Record off the FM stereo* radio into music files. 1.1 Operation Modes · · · · · Browse Mode: Allows browsing through files and folders on the Gmini Play Mode: Plays music files from the Gmini Voice Record Mode: Allows the recording of voice from the remote's microphone FM Play Mode: Plays from the built-in FM radio FM Record Mode: Records from the built-in FM radio 1.2 Connecting to your Gmini Gmini SP* and Gmini 100 Gmini 200 Gmini 400 The FM Remote Control is hot pluggable. You do not have to shut off the Gmini in order to plug in the FM Remote Control or remove it. First, plug in the Remote into the Gmini's multi-connect jack as shown. Next, plug your headphones into the FM Remote Control itself. Once connected, the regular buttons on the Gmini will still work in addition to the remote control buttons. * Gmini SP model does not support microphone or FM recording. The Archos FM Remote Control 3 A B C D E F 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 FM Mode: 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) The Archos FM Remote Control G H I 3.5mm jack for headphones (Quick press) Switch between FM mode and MP3 (browse) mode. Stop playing current MP3. (Long press) Go back to home icon. Hold for 3 seconds to turn off Gmini. 4 2 How to Use the Radio and MP3 Functions 2.1 Playing Music You can connect your FM Remote to the Gmini at any time. If you connect the Remote before turning on your Gmini, once you start it up, it will give you the choice of one of the two main screen icons, either or . If you are in any directory, you can make a long press on the FM/MP3 mode button and you will be sent to the main menu of the Gmini, thus giving you the choice of or . Use the remote's / rocker control as the Up and Down buttons on the Gmini to scroll through your directories and see the various files and folders. Use the center rocker button as the PLAY button on the Gmini to play the displayed music file or to enter a folder. Click once on the Hold button to go back up a level in the directory structure. Use the Increase and Decrease buttons on the Remote FM to control headphone volume. 2.2 Tuning the Radio How to Use the Radio and MP3 Functions 5 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. 2.3 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. 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 Gmini 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. 2.4 Setting the HOLD mode Use this feature if you would like to prevent the FM Remote from changing stations, songs, or settings accidentally if a button is pressed or hit. Hold down for three seconds on the HOLD 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 Gmini buttons. 2.5 Recording from the Microphone How to Use the Radio and MP3 Functions 6 First make sure you are in the MP3 mode (MP3/FM button to change modes) and in the folder you want the voice file to be recorded to. Simply click once on the REC button and the recording starts. The REC button will light up red to indicate that 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 recording will be saved in same folder of the last radio or voice recording. Typically this location is the Music folder. This default location is changed when you make a recording using the F3 `Record' button (Gmini 400) or Record menu item (Gmini 100 & 200) in any given folder from the Music browser. 2.6 Recording from the Radio When you hear something on the radio you would like to record, click once on the remote control's 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 recording will be saved in same folder of the last radio or voice recording. Typically this location is the Music folder. This default location is changed when you make a recording using the F3 `Record' button (Gmini 400) or Record menu item (Gmini 100 & 200) in any given folder from the Music browser. The file name for this recording will be RADIOxxxx, 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 Retro-recording This is a feature that allows you to capture the 30 seconds 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 Gmini 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. 1. Choose the Radio Recording to Edit. How to Use the Radio and MP3 Functions 7 Gmini SP & Gmini 100 Gmini 400 Gmini 200 2. Choose the Menu item, Edit Track. Gmini SP & Gmini 100 Gmini 400 Gmini 200 Cut-In & Cut-Out (Gmini 100 & Gmini 200) How to Use the Radio and MP3 Functions 8 To go to the Audio Edit screen and remove unwanted sections, locate the recorded radio file on your Gmini and click on the menu item Edit Track. Shown here is the Audio Edit mode. It looks similar to the music play screen. You will notice that your radio recording has started to play. It will continuously loop so that you can hear the changes to it as the Cut-ins and Cut-outs are made. As normal, when playing a song, you can use the Reverse and Forward buttons 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 then click the Pause button. The question screen will come up and ask if this will be the Cut-in or the Cut-out. Since the Cutin button is already highlighted, just click on the Play button to accept that you are making the Cut-in point. After this, the Gmini will go back to edit screen and start playing the song again. To make the point where you want the newly edited song to end, let the song play to the point that you wish it to stop, and then click on Pause at that precise moment. This time however, use the Right button to highlight the Cut-out option and then click on Play to validate the Cut-out choice. You will now hear your song played with the undesired parts completely removed. If you would like to make further cuts, you can still do so. If you are happy with the results, click on ESC / to exit the Audio Edit screen and it will ask if you would like to save your edit. If you select No, your recorded file will be left untouched. If you select Yes, the Gmini will execute a read/write process and create a new file named originalfilename_Edit.mp3 and place it in the same directory as the original file. You can now delete the original final if you desire. Cut-In & Cut-Out (Gmini 400) To go to the Audio Edit screen and remove unwanted sections, locate the recorded radio file on your Gmini, click on the F2 File button, and select the item Edit. Shown here is the Audio Edit mode. It looks similar to the music play screen. You will notice that your radio recording has started to play. It will continuously loop so that you can hear the changes to it as the Cut-ins and Cut-outs are made. How to Use the Radio and MP3 Functions 9 As normal, when playing a song, you can use the Reverse and Forward buttons 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 then click on the F1 button Cut-In. The song will now start to play from that cut-in point as if it was the beginning of the song. Let the song play (Or fast forward) to the point you want the song to end. Wait for the precise moment that you want the edited song to end and then click on the F3 button Cut-Out. Your song is now edited in the beginning and end. You can use the Forward and Reverse buttons to listen to your new start and end points and judge if the cuts are as you wanted. If you are happy with the results, click on F2 Save to your edit. It will ask if you would like to save your edit. If you select No, your recorded file will be left untouched. If you select Yes, the Gmini will execute a read/write process and create a new file named and place it in the same directory as the original file. You can now delete the original file if you desire. 2.8 Setting Parameters Gmini SP & Gmini 100 Gmini 200 Gmini 400 To change the Remote FM parameters, you must attach the FM Remote Control, enter FM mode, click on the Gmini's Menu button (Settings on Gmini 400) and then select FM Settings. FM Band How to Use the Radio and MP3 Functions Gmini SP & Gmini 100 Make sure you have the correct FM setting. Go to the parameter FM Band. The specifications for the modes are as follows: USA: 87.5 - 108 Mhz de-emphasis 75 µs Europe: 87.5 ­ 108 Mhz de-emphasis 50 µs Japan: 76 - 91 Mhz de-emphasis 50 µs Gmini 200 Gmini 400 10 Radio & Microphone Recording Gmini SP & Gmini 100 Gmini 200 Gmini 400 You can adjust the quality of the FM a ...