R36S as a Music Player | Rockbox Setup Guide

[music] It turns out the R36s console is not just for playing games. I'm going to explain everything in detail right now. In my previous R36s videos, I've shown you what games you can play and how, but I haven't covered other features this amazing console is capable of. Today, I'll show you how to use it as a pocket music player to listen to your favorite tunes. For this, I'm going to use a completely clean, freshly installed Arus firmware. so you can follow along and set it up step by step. And if you've just bought your R36s, R36XX, or R36H console, make sure to check out this video first where I go over the initial setup in detail so you can get your console ready for comfortable use. In this example, I'm using a console with a second SD card where I keep my game collection. First, we need to download the music player itself. I recommend using Rockbox. It's one of the most popular media players and it's completely free on the Portmaster website. Download it via the link in the description box. Now, turn off your console and remove the SD card from the second slot. Then, insert the SD card into your computer. On the SD card, you'll find a section usually called Earms. Look for the folder named ports. This is where we need to put the downloaded archive or more precisely its contents. [music] Watch closely what I'm doing. I am extracted the Rockbox archive. [music] Now I have a Rockbox folder containing the program launcher and another Rockbox folder with the actual program. We need to move the contents into the root of the ports folder. To avoid folder name conflicts, I rename the Rockbox folder to something like 1 2 3. Then I move the launcher file and the Rockbox program folder into the root of ports. After that, I can delete the empty one, two, three folder. Now, in the ports folder, we have the Rockbox launcher, the Rockbox program folder, and the Rockbox archive itself as a backup in case we need to reinstall. Also, in the easy section, I can create a music folder. Here you can add any music you like. For this example, I'll create a folder called Metaphoric and move a few tracks into it.