As you may have learned, we are an iTunes home. It just seems to manage the music really well, and it works with several MP3 players that we have lying around.
One of the big selling points to the PSP was that it could function as an MP3 player for our son. This weekend, I decided to see if I could get his music from iTunes to play on the PSP. It doesn't come with a USB cable, but I had one from another Sony device. I figured that it would be easy, just plug it in, allow the Mac and iTunes to recognize it, and synch the music.
Nope.
I actually had to read the PSP manual. Then, I had to go out and get one of those USB memory reader/writer devices. Plugged that into the Mac, put the PSP memory card in the reader/writer. The Mac recognized it. Then walked the hard drive to my son's music folder. Said a little prayer that all of his music was stored as an MP3 (it was), created a "MUSIC" folder under the PSP folder on the memory stick, and started to move some of it to the PSP memory stick. Put that memory stick back in the PSP, and we had music playing using the PSP! Excellent! Since he has a Mac, we couldn't use the Media Manager that Sony sells for this (PC only). But the Mac makes this very easy, and he was moving music after a quick, little lesson.
It would probably make sense to purchase a memory stick soley for use with music, and have one for his stored games and other things. At only 1GB, he will probably "only" get about 240 songs on it. But that should be enough. For now.
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Comment posted by Simon Barratt03/28/2006 04:18:55 PM
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Check out SyncTunes @ http://www.nesfield.co.uk/synctunes/
This is a great tool, for moving music from iTunes to a mounted volume. Rather than digging through the mp3 files, this lets you synch music that are in your existing playlists to any mounted device.
I use it to move music to a SD card that I listen to in my Treo 650!
Comment posted by Gregg Eldred03/28/2006 04:36:07 PM
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@Simon - that is cool! As if I needed something to do this evening. I'll be downloading and installing that on the iMac today! Thanks.
Comment posted by Simon Barratt03/30/2006 01:36:49 PM
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Glad to be able to offer a distraction
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