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Using iTunes™ with your Gmini XS

The easiest way to transfer music files between a Macintosh

computer and your Gmini XS is to use the Macintosh

Finder™ to drag and drop the files to and from your Macintosh

However, for Macintosh

users who do want to use the Gmini XS 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 XS 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 find a JPEG image illustrating
where you need to copy the plug-

in to. Once this is done, iTunes™ will recognize the Gmini XS as a ‘Device’. Currently there is no plug-in for

the PC version of iTunes™.

To make your user experience easy as possible, please keep in mind the following.

1) When you create your Playlists with iTunes

(you can only create Playlists from songs that have been copied to your Gmini XS), your

Macintosh

will save these Playlists to the root directory of your Gmini XS. It will not save them to the Gmini XS Playlists directory. It would be

best to use the Gmini XS itself to make Playlists and then save these Playlists in your Playlists folder.

2) When you drag and drop MP3 files from your iTunes

library to your Gmini XS, the i-Tunes

program will look at the ID3 tag information of

the MP3 file, and create a folder on the root of your Gmini XS 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, albums, and title, iTunes

does not follow the Gmini XS convention of placing the

music into the Music folder first.