AVOS - Audio Video Operating System, or Archos Video Operating System

AVOS is the operating system for the AV400 and the Gmini 400

AVOS - Audio Video Operating System, or Archos Video Operating System, depending on who you listened to last. Archos claim that the interface is the most advanced poratble jukebox OS. They're probably right.

It's simple and logical to follow as well as being pretty to look at. You can't really ask more from an operating system & user interface. It's light-years ahead of the text-only displays. Joy.

As is now standard, creating music folders, playlists, renaming tunes, etc can all be done away from a computer directly on to the AV400 or Gmini 400 itself. Also standard; present and correct is the automagic of ID3 tag downloads. The music names itself and the album and the year and the artist, etc.. You don't have to type all that stuff out.

Customise the whole look

The screen background; colours of the font background and the menu bars. Basically you can personalise your entire interface in the same way that you can personalise your Computer's Desktop. (Or if you are a simple - in the sense of plain - windows user, you can personalise the settings the same way that you can personalise windows.)

Thumbnails

Photos and Videos can be browsed by looking at thumbnails of them. This is so much easier than trying to find the picture you are looking for by name that it makes you cry to think of all the time you wasted in the past. A handy extra is the fact that you can rate the pictures too, so you can search only those pictures that you have given a high score too, for example. Skip the dross.

Flick through the thumbnails one at a time, or 4 at a time with the screen quartered, or nine at a time with the screen split into 9. It's true to say that the thumbnail views of pictures and videos do make it easy to find the one you're after, and in terms of ease of use you shouldn't have any problems.

Slideshows: now you can enlighten/bore entire rooms full of people with your high quality digtal photo slide shows. In fact you can set the slide show off & running and leave the room yourself. How cool is that? Fire and forget, indeed.

Another really nice-to-have feature is photo manipulation. Zoom, pan and rotate options are available. You can look at a digital picture and magnify it, up to approx. 3X. Pan around the pictutre and then enlarge a different part of it. Just like the cops you can now solve crime by reading the date on a newspaper or checking the time on a wrist watch in a photo. Something that is not much use for crime solving is rotation of the image, which you can also do. For more information on the photo capabilities of these players with AVOS click here

You can download album covers and sync them up with your albums so that you get a visual display along with the music (albeit static).

We wish all jukebox user interfaces were this logical, easy to use, practical and .... well, just right.

This version of AVOS works with these players:

Gmini 400

Archos AV420

Archos AV480