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Basic Playback (8.00)
Users will be issuing basic playback commands through the touchscreen. There are onscreen buttons for play/pause, skipping forward and backward, or searching within a song. The onscreen buttons are gigantic and spaced apart, so the only input error you'll run into will likely be caused by the sometimes unresponsive screen. The volume can either be controlled onscreen, or via the physical keys on the unit's top. There is no hold button, just an option in the menu to lock the screen.
These onscreen buttons will be your main method of control.
This is the video player's interface. It'll automatically hide.
Advanced Playback (9.25)
The Archos 7 has some great tools for customizing your playback. You can set your play mode to all, queue, intro, single, or folder. The intro mode will let you set how long you want the "intro" clip to be, which is great if you want to make a Power Hour mix or some sort of non-drinking-game-related medly. Another cool feature is the ability to bookmark a specific point in a song, so you can skip back to it later. Most audiobooks nowadays come in chapters, but this is still a great tool for keeping your place in any long audio file.
The button in the top right is the menu button, which will let you find additional
information on a song, set a bookmark within a song (good for audiobooks or
really long podcasts), set the song/video's rating, lock the device, or fool
around with the settings.
Here's the settings menu for the music player.
While you're on the playback screen, you can see the name of the song playing, the artist, album, album art, playlist position, previous and next songsWhile a song is playing, you can see the name of the song, the artist, the album name, the album art, the song's position in the playlist, the previous song in the playist, the next song in the playlist, a clock and slider bar depicting the current position of the song, and the volume. The feature we don't usually see is the previous/next song's title displayed to the side of the previous/forward skip buttons. You can also select "info" from the menu to get a ton of information about the song or movie you're playing.
This is the list of info you can dig up on a song.
This is the only info you can find on videos.
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