Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Downloading Music to your PSP

By Jake Robertson

An increasing number of people want to know how to download music to their PSP.

The Sony PSP was originally created as a mobile 3D-game machine, like the GameBoy was created as a 2D-gaming device. It was not designed to play music.

It happens quite often however that these technical gadgets get used for other things that what the original creators had in mind.

Actually the PSP game console is able to play both music and movies and the sound quality is very good.

It can be difficult to get songs on UMD, which is the PSP media format, but you can easily copy your existing MP3 collection from your hard drive on to your PSP.

In case you want to transfer audio CDs to the PSP you first need to convert the music from the CD to files on your computer and then transfer these to the PSP.

To do this, you would need a PSP memory card big enough to store your music files, CD ripping software if you want to convert audio CD tracks for PSP use and a USB cable to connect your computer and PSP together.

You can also get software to make the process quicker and easier. These programs will extract the music from whichever CDs you choose, convert them into the correct PSP format and then transfer them on to the PSP.

Some pieces of software like this can also compile a music library on your computer and remember which songs you have on your PSP so you won't accidentally put them on twice and waste memory.

If you have one of these programs, you just need to connect your PSP to your computer, start the program and press the "synchronize" button.

When downloading music to your PSP, you have the advantage that it does not use a proprietary format like iTunes with iPod. This means that, although the PSP is not a full-blown music player like the iPod, it is certainly a game console with the ability to play your favorite MP3s.

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