ARCHOS Gmini200 User Manual

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4.1.3 Using Playlists

A Playlist is a list of songs that the Gmini will automatically play one after the other. The
Gmini can handle one Playlist at a time. You can create new Playlists, add or delete
songs from a Playlist, or Save a Playlist as a fi le (fi le type .m3u) to be used another time.
There is no limit to the number of Playlists you can save on the Gmini hard drive.

Creating a new Playlist
To create a Playlist, press the RIGHT button while you are in the
Music browser. A second panel is opened on the right side to
display the Playlist contents (shown empty in the picture). 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 OK/PLAY
button to add it to the Playlist. The song will be added to the

Playlist and a small mark is placed next to the music note icon
to indicate that it is now in the Playlist. Continue searching and
adding songs in this manner until you are satisfi ed. You can jump
back and forth anytime between the two windows by clicking the
LEFT/RIGHT buttons. A Playlist can have a maximum of 1000 songs
in it. We recommend that you save your Playlists to the Gmini hard
drive (see below) to be used again later. You can also add all the
music fi les of a complete folder in one operation by highlighting
the desired folder, pressing MENU to display the contextual menu, and then selecting
either ADD TO PLAYLIST or INSERT TO PLAYLIST. Watch which window you are in since the
left window menu has different options than the right window menu.

Loading a Playlist
You can load a previously saved Playlist or add the fi les it
contains to the current Playlist. Use the music browser to select
the Playlist of your choice (Playlists are indicated by a special list
icon) and then press OK. If there were already some items in the
Gmini Playlist, then the songs of the loaded Playlist will be added
to the end of it. You can then check or modify the Playlist as
usual in the Playlist window.

Playing a Playlist
There are two ways to play a Playlist.
1) Press the RIGHT key to go into the Playlist edition window. Then use the UP and DOWN
keys to select which song you want to start with.
2) In the Playlist window press MENU to display the contextual menu and select START
PLAYLIST. The Gmini starts playing from the fi rst track of the playlist.

Playlist contextual menu description

• Start Playlist: starts playing the fi rst track of the playlist.
• Save Playlist: saves the current Playlist onto the hard drive

so that it can be reloaded later. It will be saved into the
directory which is open in the left window. You should
navigate in the left window to your Playlist folder before
saving.

• Rename Playlist: changes the name of the current Playlist

with the virtual keyboard.

• Shuffl e Playlist: randomly changes the order of the items in

the current Playlist .

• Clear Playlist: remove all tracks from the current Playlist.
• Move Track: changes the position of the current track

within the Playlist. The current track is then displayed with a
double arrow icon. Use the UP and DOWN keys to move the
selected track and press OK to validate the new position.

• Delete Track: removes the highlighted track from the

playlist.

Important: Once you save a Playlist it is important that you do not move the actual MP3 fi les as the Playlist
searches in the original fi le location. If you need to move your MP3 fi les to a different folder, you’ll have to recreate
your Playlists.

4.1.4 What is an .m3u fi le?

You can open a Playlist fi le (Playlistname.m3u) on
your computer with a text editor such as Notepad
or SimpleText (Macintosh

), and you will see that it is

merely a list of fi les to be played along with the hard
disk path to fi nd them. If you delete a Playlist from
your Gmini, you are only deleting the list and not the
music itself. Because a Playlist includes the path to

the music fi le (as shown in the example Playlist fi le above), you have to remember that if
you change the location of a music fi le, then the path to it in the Playlist will be incorrect,
and the Gmini will not play the song (because it can’t fi nd it). Thus it is important to create
a clean directory structure and not change where your fi les are located. Either that or just
delete your Playlist and create a new one.

Example of the contents of the .m3u Playlist
fi le ‘Jazz Music’

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