Why does it take so long for each tune to play on my Archos 104 MP3 player. Selecting songs from album/artist list is quick but after selecting a specfic song it takes approx. 3-4 minutes to load and play. Same if listening to an album as one song finishes the next takes ages before it starts.

SOURCE: Ipod doesn't show music in artists, only in albums.

Go to Get Info and unclick "Compilation". If it's a compilation it won't show the different artist, which is actually a cool idea.

Michael Galve

• 1269 Answers
• Posted on Sep 05, 2008

SOURCE: I can't make my archos

Select the Show playlist menu item while you are in the Music browser. A playlist panel will open on the right: you can now start adding songs to the current playlist. In the left pane, locate the songs you would like to add to your playlist. Highlight a song and press or OK to add it to the playlist (the song’s icon in the left panel will change to, indicating that it is part of the current playlist). Repeat this operation with all the tracks you want.
You can also add the content of an entire folder, artist, album, etc. if you highlight it and press OK.

Another way to add songs to a playlist is by using the Add to playlist or Insert in playlist menu items:
Add to playlist - will add the highlighted track, folder, artist or album at the end of the playlist.
Insert in playlist - will insert the highlighted track, folder, artist or album before the selected item in the playlist.
Note: a playlist can have a maximum of 5000 songs.


You can use TextEdit application to Add/Delete/Move the mp3 song in the playlist.
For example the playlist file you just created has the default name untitled playlist.m3u and there are 2 songs included:
/Music/Danielle Davis/I'm Sorry.mp3
/Music/Danielle Davis/Outta My Dreams.mp3

If you want to Add another song from a different location (ex. Slobberbone folder, song name: slippage.mp3), then you just need to open the untitled playlist.mp3 file with TextEdit and add another line to:
/Music/Wes Burden/ Brave New World/Brave New Wold.mp3

Save the untitled playlist.m3u file again and close. Next time when the untitled playlist.m3u is opened, you will see that there are four mp3 songs included.

Note: to delete a song in the playlist, simply delete the line which contains the title of the mp3 song.


If none works, Firmware update is an option.


Download the firmware from Archos Website.
Connect the device to the PC.
Go in “My Computer”, you should see “Archos 504/604”.
Copy/Paste the firmware downloaded on “Archos 504/604”
Disconnect the device safely. Go to Setup > System > Update Firmware.

You can also copy the firmware update file to the root of the device, and select while browsing the hard drive content with the “Browser”.

SOURCE: Archos 605 artist information problem

Try using Real Player.

SOURCE: code 104

Recovert code 104
would you like to recover your system?
NO
Repair disk
Format disk
P.S. pressed the OK button on the device and its telling me to
connectto your divise to my PC and install an update file DONE
then the devise reapear back to recovery code 104

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Press the mode button on mp4 player to find the music directory and select what you want to change to.