It seems Archos IT team keeps busy and serious about the Archos 5 Firmware updates, they recently released a new firmware update with the following fixes:

Version 1.3.05 – January 12th, 2009

Bug fixes:

• System: Sometimes the clock was wrong after a Suspend or a USB connection
• Audio: AC3 5.1 audio didn’t always work with SPDIF output (it was stereo only)
• Settings Wizard: It was not possible to select a month other than 10, 11 or 12
• Music: The display of the “Hard Drive” view is now faster when there are a lot of files or folders
• System: ARClibrary is not systematically rebuilt after firmware update anymore

You can download the new firmware from here:

Download Archos 5 and Archos 7 Firmware OS v 1.3.05 (53094Kb)

• GUI: new added support for Arabic User Interface
• Music: There is now support for FLAC files with an ID3V2 tag

Archos Firmware Bug fixes:

• System: Clock drifted when staying ON for a long time that could lead to wrong TV program being recorded.
• Network Browser: Some directories had wrong names (first letter repeated) and could not be opened
• Flash Video: Sometimes video did not play in Full Screen mode
• Flash Video: Sometimes audio did not play in Embedded mode
• Flash Video: Embedded video display sometimes flickered
• Flash Video: Embedded playback sometimes rebooted the device
• Video: Subtitles were not outlined
• Video: Lower part of the subtitles was cut, especially in 720p mode
• WebRadio: Accentuated characters were not displayed correctly (now depends on the current language used)
• Music: WMA files smaller than 500KB did not play
• TV Program Guide: Channel name was sometimes not well updated in the bottom detail line
• GUI: Some Chinese messages were wrong

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