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The player didn't care about metadata. However, it did understand playlists, so Archos would bundle with player software for the PC that DID use metadata to organize things, and would sync with the Archos by writing out playlists that reflected that organizaion.

Thus, an ordinary user could indeed have an iPod-like experience of letting software manage his player for him (although the player Archos bundled was not as good as iTunes).