Can I listen to my iTunes music on my Sony PSP?

Now that the Sony PSP has a Web browser along with its existing wireless capabilities, is there any way at all that it's possible to actually listen to my iTunes music library on my PSP, even though the library's actually on my Macintosh and I'm not even at home?

Dave's Answer:

Amazingly, this can indeed be done! You'll need to make sure that your Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) has been updated to the 2.0 firmware release (if you have problems updating, please see Network Update on my Sony PSP doesn't work? for specific details of the upgrade process), that you have a Mac and that it's running Mac OS X 10.3 or newer, and you need to download a copy of the application Dot Tunes.

Ask Dave Taylor guest expert "digiKID" can pick it up from here...

Dot Tunes looks at your iTunes library and generates a simple web page based on Album or Artist listings that can be accessed across the internet. Once you have generated the web page, it's a simple matter of bookmarking the page in Safari and syncing that bookmark to your web browser on your PSP. You can then access your itunes library with the Dot Tunes web interface and easily navigate to a specific song by artist or album listing. Dot Tunes' simple web based interface is ideal for navigating to a song from the tiny screen of your PSP's web browser. You can then download the song to your Music directory on your PSP.

Here is the catch. The PSP is picky about what media is in what directory on your PSP. When you select a song to download it will ask where to save it. If you want to play the song you're downloading you will need to save it in the Music directory under a pre-existing playlist folder. So simply navigate to your music folder, enter into a pre-existing play list folder and hit save. You will also need to rename the extension of the file from .m4u to .MP4 for the PSP to recognize it. You do not need to rename the extension of a .MP3 file.

iTunes on PSP: Dot Tunes web interface 2

Now you can delete old songs and ad new ones on the go, anywhere you have access to a WiFi connection on your PSP. An interesting feature is that if you subscribe to podcasts in iTunes 4.9, you can include the podcasts in Dot Tunes sorted by the Artist (creator) or Album (name of the show) and they will appear in the listings in Dot Tunes on your PSP.

Keep in mind that your Mac will be acting as a web server, to serve your Dot Tunes page to you across the web. You will need to make sure that your Mac will 'Wake for Ethernet network administrator access' under your Energy Saver preferences if you have it set to sleep after being idle. You will also have to make sure that the port your Dot Tunes page is being served on is on an open port, not blocked by your ISP, and not blocked by your Mac's or your router's firewall. You may also want to password protect the connection to prevent anyone from helping themselves to your non-DRM protected iTunes libraries.

That's all there is to it!

Many thanks to DigiKID for figuring this out and allowing us to share it with you on this blog. You can read his original article here: How to serve your iTunes library to your Sony PSP using WiFi internet.

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Reader Comments To Date: 27

DOT-TUNES said, on September 15, 2005 4:40 AM:

Hi all,

Many many people have emailed begging us to create a Windows version of DOT-TUNES - so we did :-)

The Windows version of DOT-TUNES is available now from www.dotpod.net

Enjoy :-)

Jeff
DOT-TUNES
http://www.dotpod.net

Kate said, on September 21, 2005 7:48 PM:

What is the easiest way to download songs that are in the itunes format to my PSP?

xdfhn said, on December 29, 2005 10:55 PM:

I still dont get how to downlaod itunes music into a psp.

Brandon said, on May 6, 2006 8:04 PM:

Hi i love this web site.

gonzo said, on June 19, 2006 6:41 PM:

i don't know why you'd go to trouble of using dot tunes. the PSP has a pretty straight-forward interface to music files saved on a memory stick inserted into the PSP. and with version 2.7 of the PSP system, the .m4a file extension is supported, so you don't need to change the names of your music files. as to getting the files onto the PSP, you have to use a USB cable between your computer and the PSP. it is not supplied, but is cheap to find anywhere.

user said, on July 8, 2006 11:17 PM:

if i download a song off itunes to my psp and when i look for it in my psp and it isnt there but its taking up memory how do i get it so can acess it. Can i put podcast on my psp? (like the shows,ex:strongbad emails,on my psp under video)

GREG said, on July 12, 2006 8:30 PM:

EMAIL ME AND TELL ME HOW TO USE IT IM CONFUSED

ricky said, on August 4, 2006 8:57 PM:

this stuff is really hard i have no clue how to download the music or nothing to my psp it is a waste of time.HELP ME

see said, on December 19, 2006 9:42 AM:

hi i need to know how to download music from
itunes on a acer computer to my psp using itunes
and how much a 2gb memory holds
tnx

stephen said, on February 19, 2007 1:44 PM:

this is wot u do if u want to download music to your psp i will tell u in a easy more better way

1. insert usb into your computer and psp
2. go onto my computer
3. click on the harddrive that has psp
4. open it and there should be 4 different choices
5. click on music
6 then copy and paste your desired music from itunes or any other music opperator

JOhn said, on February 24, 2007 5:12 PM:

I really need help with putting videos that i downloaded on itunes, which is a lot, onto my PSP. I just bought the 4GB memory stick, but i cant figure it out. Can you please tell me how to make it work. THanks

ruben said, on March 12, 2007 5:24 PM:

how do i enter in the web to see dot tunes on the screen of my psp

Brandon said, on April 4, 2007 11:31 PM:

Ok for all of you who are asking why you cant put itunes music into your psp, its because every itunes song is protected so you cant put it in your psp using a usb cable or anything like that.

STEVEN said, on May 18, 2007 8:04 PM:

A HOW U PUT MUSIC IN THE PSP ( BY SYNCIN)

Dylan said, on June 10, 2007 8:58 AM:

im getting a psp soon and i have itunes on my pc i was wondering if anyone could tell mehow to get itunes files from my pc to my psp.

Thompson said, on September 2, 2007 8:02 PM:

Hi
Thanks for the post! I haven't bought the psp yet, but doing some research on it this fine (lazy) labor day sunday.

Question: Does the web browser allow you to access any website? Wouldnt it be simpler to just access my music at mediamaster.com (a website where you can upload your music, and stream from anywhere). Or do I need some plugin or something? Any info or thoughts welcome. thanks all, enjoy the weekend!

ps...for those wondering how to do this via pc, if you could do it with mediamaster, then that would be one way.

yotsel said, on October 19, 2007 6:12 PM:

I want to know if I can put music from my iTunes to my PSP and if possible how?(I have iTunes on my PC not on Mac)

tavia said, on January 31, 2008 12:25 PM:

how to get around surfcontrol, access denied or URL has been denied??????

Jeff said, on February 12, 2008 4:15 PM:

I need help on itunes... When I go to a song and right click to change the info i have this problem; I can't change individual track info anymore. I right-click a song, choose "info," and everything is grayed out and un-editable. "Multiple item information" still works, but I can't change song titles that way. How can I make it so I can edit an individual song's info?

Coajaj said, on March 30, 2008 12:26 PM:

This site is helpful but I am not able to understand it throughly and I am going to try another site Please update this site I see that this site has not been updated in quite a while Way before the new PSP came out. Thanks for the help but its not helpful

Eric said, on July 6, 2008 1:23 PM:

UM i don't understand what the difference between itunes and dot tunes is. and i want to put music on my psp so basically i have to download itunes and then just transfer it to my psp?

Emma said, on October 6, 2008 3:40 AM:

I used to burn iTunes music to a CD to remove DRM so that I can listen to my music on every device. This method cost a lot of money and time. I was considering of buying CDs instead until I got to know NoteBurner Audio Converter. It adopts virtual burning technology so the burning process do not need a CD-the converted songs are in the preset folder of your hard disk. This is the most amazing feature for me. This software supports a variety formats including m4p to mp3,m4p to wma etc. I no longer care about the compatibility problem because NoteBurner can convert all kinds of formats to mp3.

elto said, on February 7, 2009 7:08 PM:

how do i get itunes on my psp

Pam said, on March 23, 2009 2:59 AM:

I want to know if I can put music from my iTunes to my PSP and if possible how?(I have iTunes on my PC not on Mac) :S HELP!!!

bob said, on May 19, 2009 5:41 PM:

how do i get my movies from my closet to my psp

Dorianne said, on August 28, 2010 6:16 PM:

I forgot to add the above info, so you might get this quetion twice. How can I add some that I purchased from Itunes, (there in my library), and add them to my family blog?? Thank You

sameer sharwan said, on January 7, 2013 4:00 AM:

i/ll purchase sony psp byt i dont understand how r download music,vdo psp. pls help

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