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2.2 Turning the Archos™ 204 ON and OFF
2.2 Turning the Archos™ 204 ON and OFF
• Press and hold the ON/Menu button until the screen comes on.
• The Archos™ 204 will automatically shut off after a given amount of time if no buttons are pressed. To conserve
battery energy, the backlight will automatically shut off. You can change these parameters in Setup > Power .
• Press and hold the Stop/off button until the Archos™ 204 shuts off.
2.3 Changing the Interface language
2.3 Changing the Interface language
• English is selected as the default language for your Archos™ 204 user interface. You can choose another
language by going to Setup > Display .
2.4 Caring for the Archos™ 204
2.4 Caring for the Archos™ 204
The Archos™ 204 is an electronic product that needs to be treated with care.
• Do not subject it to unnecessary shock or vibration.
• Do not subject it to heat. Keep it ventilated (especially when connected to a computer).
• Keep the Archos™ 204 away from water and excessively humid areas.
• Keep the Archos™ 204 away from high electromagnetic fi elds.
2.5 Foreign Character Sets
2.5 Foreign Character Sets
You have the possibility to display your fi le names, folder names, and MP3 ID3 tags in various character sets
(ex: Korean, Japanese, Simplifi ed Chinese, etc.). You can fi nd the language fi les CodePage_name.4fz in the font
folder under /Data on the Archos™ 204 hard drive or on the Archos website under the heading Software.
If, for example, you would like to have the Japanese language display, you would copy the fi le Cp932.4fz into
the folder /system on the Archos™ 204 . Shut down and restart the Archos™ 204 . File names, folder names,
and ID3 tags written using the Microsoft
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codepage for the language will now be displayed in that character set.
Only one.4fz fi le can be used at a time, thus you should only put one.4fz fi le into the /system folder. When an.4fz
language fi le is used, the interface language will be set to English.
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Playing Music
Once the Archos™ 204 has been turned on, the following screen is displayed. You can select the major functions
from this main menu.
• Music : Browse through the folder Music or use the ARCLibrary music selection system.
• Photo : Browse through and view all the pictures on your Archos™ 204.
• Browser : Browse through and manage all of the other fi les on your Archos™ 204.
• Resume : Resume playing from the last place you stopped.
• Setup: Set the parameters of your Archos™ 204 to your personal taste.
3.1 Playing a Music File
By clicking on the Music icon in the main menu screen, you will enter into a ‘music only’
mode. File types other than WMA, WAV, and MP3 that may be in those folders will be
fi ltered from view.
There are two ways to access your music, by selecting Browse hard disk or by
searching the songs’ tag information, Artist, Album, title, etc . In the case of Browse
hard drive, you will be sent directly to the Music folder of your Archos™ 204. Here you
can look at all your music fi les and the folders on your Archos™ 204’s hard drive as if
you were browsing fi les with a computer. The other way is to browse your music by tag
information, artist, album, song name, year, or genre. The Unknown category indicates
that the fi le has no tag data.
To select a music fi le, push the navigation joystick to move upwards or downwards and press it down to enter a
highlighted subfolder or tag category. Click ENTER to play the highlighted song. Use LEFT to leave a folder and
go back to the previous level.
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