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How to install music on your PSP

PSP for Beginners Installing music on your PSP couldn’t be easier, although there is one important consideration to make. Music, even in mp3 format, can take up a lot of space on your Memory Stick Pro Duo, so I recommend that you invest in at least a 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo if you are thinking about using the PSP to listen to a lot of tracks while on the road.

Fortunately, the Sony PSP is quite flexible in the music formats it will play, with the device not just limited to ATRAC files, and is incredibly straight forward as regards to copying the music onto the PSP. Anyone who has used Sony’s SonicStage software will understand how complex you can make music management when it really doesn’t need to be.

To copy music across to the PSP from your PC, connect the USB cable (to both the PSP and the PC!), turn the PSP on, and select the USB Connection options -

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You should then see connected screen -

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You then need to open an explorer session in Windows. You should see the PSP listed as a ‘Removable Device’.

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IF you then expand the device, you should see a directory listing that includes the folder PSP. Expand this folder and you should see listed, amongst others, a MUSIC folder.

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It is into this folder you need to copy your MP3 music. You can copy the music into a subfolder, so you would have \ PSP \ Music \ Gorillaz - Demon Days \ intro.mp3 etc

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You can now disconnect your PSP from the PC (hit the O button). Browse to the Music folder and you should see the music you just copied across -

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Select the album by pressing X and you will see a list of all tracks within the album. Now select the track you wish to play.

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Pressing the Traingle button will bring up a context menu, that allows you to skip forwards, backwards, pause etc.

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If you are using firmware 3.00+, or Dark_AleX’s custom firmware, the music player now has a visualisation option. Selecting this allows you to choose a background animation to play while listening to music, much like Windows Media Player -

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And thats it. It really is quite straight forward to get music onto your PSP.

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7 Responses to “How to install music on your PSP”

  1. is it ok wihtout using softwere for istalling mp3 to psp

  2. alvin on March 10th, 2007 at 5:47 am
  3. i cant do that, is there a way without going on the internet to play songs on ur psp without using mp3. plus tell me a site where i can download mp3 music from but no limewire

  4. KEVIN on April 19th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
  5. Ok, this is very easy to follow, but my psp, for some reason, when I explore it has no subfolders under system, except for browser thats it, I’m very experianced with computers so please let me know, do I have to create the folder? I would appreciate any solution, thanks.

  6. Don on August 22nd, 2007 at 2:46 am
  7. Don, simply create the folders as required (using windows explorer, as you would on your harddisk).

  8. Dave on August 22nd, 2007 at 9:32 am
  9. ok, so. on the my Windows Media player it says its on my PSP. and on my PSP it has the name of the band but says there isnt any tracks on it, wat should i do?

  10. sid on September 10th, 2007 at 5:31 am
  11. Very nice. Love this place! Keep up the good work!

  12. www.DO-IT-YOURSELF-TIPS.com on September 30th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
  13. hey wassup, not that it matters or anything, But i actually saw Gorillaz Demon Dayz show live!

  14. 3-OG on February 17th, 2008 at 1:31 am


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