I manually manage my files - way more control, and that's one of the reasons I love the 605. I use Cowbell Music Organizer to write ID3 tags.

errr....... they have already come, go to the archos website and update your firmware and you'll be able to play with them. a word of warning - the new firmware has many bugs (backspace does not work sometime, can't get to widgets sometimes) and the widgets aint that awsome..... thou hopefully the ...

If you were a "real" audiophile you:

1.) Would be using a headphone amplifier with a good set of headphones, so the Archos' "low volume output" wouldn't be a problem anyway. (Personally I don't find an issue with it)

2.) Wouldn't be looking at a player that plays highly compressed MP3 audio to ...

Nightsong91 wrote:Do wikipedia/dictionary widgets work offline?

Think about it - How could that possibly work unless all of Wikipedia was stored on your device?

The more features a device has the more complicated it will be to use. Period. Anyone who knows how to copy files can put music on the Archos and listen to it... same with an iPod. That's not that hard to do. Advanced features call for advanced knowledge of the product and any products relating ...

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I got a very stable toaster also. What's the point of being stable if you don't have any features.

I have a toaster that boast all the features in the world, but only works 50% of the time. What's the point of being full of features if you don't work 50% of the time?

I've owned a a 3rd, 4th ...

Not really - the 605 is advertised at 4 more hours for audio and only 1.5 less for video. I bet both players get around the same life for each.

The flash player, web plugin, and widgets plugin aren't codecs.

Maybe you should learn what a codec is before you boycott them. Haha

Good tip!

The reason I chose to do it this way is because it's platform independent. The FF add-on would definitely be faster though!

Or you could get rsync for Windows and use Task Scheduler to schedule syncs.

That'd be a good place to start.

One command in Linux:

rsync -avz /media/A605 ~/Archos

that's it. I set it as a scheduled job to run at 2AM, dock my player at night, and it automatically syncs everything on my player with everything in the "Archos" directory inside my "home" directory. A change to either the device or the ...

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I have a 605 and I LOVE it but I want Archos to make it so we all can put our own stuff on it!!!!

I want My 605 to be MY 605 NOT the one that Archos says what I can have!!!!

Lets do this!!!!

I don't know what you mean by this.

Here's what an iPod supports:

Audio: MP3, M4P/M4A (iTunes Audio ...

Just move the zip files to the Widgets folder and be done with it.

When I go to the store and spend $60 on a computer game and it sucks I can't return it.

A text editor. You need to know some Javascript, HTML, and XML. You'd also need something to edit image files (JPG) like Photoshop or GIMP.

The best way to learn would be to extract all of the files from an existing widget and start looking at the code.

I've owned 3 iPods, a Zune, and some Sandisk players. The Archos is the best by far. You think the 605 is bad? Seriously? Have a few $400 iPods die and call Apple and have them tell you that you should have bought the Applecare because YOU probably killed the device through physical abuse, which isn ...