
I can't get music to play on my Sony PSP?Ok I am about ready to throw my Sony PSP out the window. i have done everything your directions have said and i cannot get music to play on it. i know it stores it to my memory card because it uses up the memory. i made the music folder and dragged the mp3 files into it but it refuses to play on my PSP. i do not know what else to do. please help me.. This is a distressingly common question here at Ask Dave Taylor so I thought it would be useful to detail exactly how to get music onto your PSP and play it. Step One: Make MP3 Format Audio Files! First off, you need to have music in MP3 format (the PSP supports other music formats, but the majority of reports I get are that they either don't work or are quite difficult to set up). If you are ripping your own personal music CDs, you might well find that your music library is in a different audio format (Apple prefers AAC and Windows Media Player prefers WMA format, for example). Here's how to tweak each of these programs to save your future rips in MP3 format: • MP3 audio CD rips from Apple iTunes If you find yourself with music files that are in the wrong format, then you need to use a format translator. Two applications that look like they'd do a good job in this department are Switch (for Windows) and Music Man (for Mac OS X). In fact, you can read a tutorial about Switch here: How to convert WMA audio files into MP3 audio files. Once you have the files in the correct format, check that they work properly by double-clicking on one of them. Your preferred audio player should launch and, hopefully, you should hear music out of your computer speakers. Step two: Connect! Hook up your Sony PSP to your computer via a USB cable. Turn on the PSP and put it in "USB CONNECT" mode (it should display the words "USB CONNECT" on the PSP display during the entire time you're transferring files, and plug it in if you don't have a fully charged battery). If your computer complains that you are connecting a high-speed USB device on a low-speed USB port, try unplugging it (which is to say, take your PSP out of "USB CONNECT" mode, then unplug the cable from the PSP) and plugging it into a different USB port. Somewhere on your computer you have a higher-speed port, which you should certainly use if you can. If not, or if you can't figure out which port is USB 2.0, then you should be able to safely ignore the warning message and proceed anyway. Once you rehook up your PSP, do make sure you remember to put it back into "USB CONNECT" mode). Your PC or Mac should just magically show a new removable hard disk on the desktop (or, if needed, go to My Computer to find it). On a Mac it'll probably show up as a device called "Removable Drive", but on a PC it can show up as drive E:, F:, G: or whatever else is the next available drive name on your computer. If it doesn't show up and you're running Windows XP, then you might need to search for the proper driver, which is hopefully an option. If you're running an earlier version of Windows, you're kinda on your own because earlier versions don't support pluggable hard drives. There's an untested Windows98 driver you can download from Interia.pl, but I haven't heard from anyone whether it actually works or not. Once your PSP shows up on your computer, you should be able to navigate the different directories to find a folder called MUSIC. That's where you want to drag and drop your MP3 files, so do so now, realizing that each music file typically takes up 2-3MB of space, so the default 32MB Memory Stick Duo that came with the Sony PSP is only going to be able to hold about one CD of music before it's full, and that's assuming you don't have any game saves on it. Instead, you might consider buying a bigger Memory Stick: I have a 512MB one that gives me plenty of space and it didn't cost much (Amazon.com, for example, sells this funky green 512MB PSP-compatible Memory Stick for less than $40, with free shipping). (If you don't have a "MUSIC" folder on your PSP then you might need to have the PSP unit itself reformat the memory stick (rather than your PC) so that all of the folders are setup properly. You can learn how to do this here: reformat your Sony PSP memory stick) Step Three: Listen! Once you've copied your music files onto your Sony PSP device, you should be done. Take the PSP out of "USB CONNECT" mode, then unplug the cables, hook up headphones so you can hear the PSP audio, and then go to the MUSIC area on the PSP. One of the items listed in "MUSIC" is something called Memory Stick. Your songs are in that folder. To get to them, move the highlight bar to "Memory Stick" and press the "X" button: ![]() You can see the "X button on this photo: it's the lowest of the four buttons on the right side control area. You should then move into the Memory Stick music area and see all of your MP3 files. Click on one to play it! Hopefully these detailed instructions will help you avoid tossing your PSP out the window. If not, well, let me know when you'll be tossing it and maybe I can catch it and use it as another test device. :-) Updated to explain what to do if you don't have a "MUSIC" folder, based on comments added to this article.
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. Hey i have done everything you have said reguarding the psp and putting music on it. But i ran into another problem i dont have the file named (Music) or anything like movie or a file like it.. All i have got is a couple of file under saved data and a couple under browser.. thats it!! so i was wondering if i need to add a new file or i need to put the music somewhere else??? So please let me know what i shoud do.. PS i have windows xp-pro Posted by: Ronnie at January 7, 2006 9:29 AMWhat you need to do is to have the PSP format your Memory Stick, Ronnie. Be aware that doing so will delete all game saves, photos, music, etc that's on the stick (though I expect you don't have any), but then you'll have all the folders you need to work with it later. Click on "home", then left arrow to the system configuration options, and under "System Settings" one of the options is "Format Memory Stick". That'll do it! Posted by: Dave Taylor at January 8, 2006 9:32 AMyo is there a way to put music on to your PSP with out a MP3 player. If there is plese tell me because i tryed. the computer will say that it transfered my music but when I check nothing is there. So plese answer. Posted by: josslon at January 11, 2006 5:11 PMHey i have done all that you have said.I have draged the my favorite music into the psp music folder on my PC. And I finished it all, but when i go back on my psp on the music file it just shows the little box where the picture of the album is suposed to be, and underneath it says 0 traks. So i did everything you said but it still doesnt work. please help! Posted by: riy-guy at January 15, 2006 5:02 PMOMGOODNESS! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! U r a Savior LoL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU helped me out to the maximum!!!!!! I appreciate it! Posted by: Ms.Jay at January 20, 2006 7:22 PMforget everything i said. Switch doesnt let me convert the music. It keeps saying file cannot be converted plz help me!!! Posted by: riy-guy at January 22, 2006 1:02 PMnevermind i figured it out Posted by: riy-guy at January 22, 2006 2:49 PMhow do you get music onto the MUSIC file(which is under the PSP file) Posted by: Lina C. at January 23, 2006 8:17 PMif you download the new verson 2.6 then you can go to system setting then go to enable WMA playback then you should be able to play WMA files on your PSP. Posted by: AR at February 7, 2006 2:30 AMhOW DO YOU PUT THE SONGS INTO MP3 FORMANT Posted by: dILLON at February 11, 2006 6:03 PMHi. I have formatted my memory stick, logged onto my PSP in the USB section. I can transfer songs to my PSP but when I go to play them, my PSP say file is corrupt!! Any suggestion? You're a life saver!!! Posted by: Mike at February 12, 2006 5:30 AMThere's a problem..absoutely nothing you said helps me. Posted by: JKluger12 at March 4, 2006 11:12 PMi have no USB cable yet and i tried putting some songs directly to the memory stick using a card reader, and it wont display songs avalable but it uses up space. oh and the mp4 file too. thanks in advance for the help! Posted by: pjpike at March 5, 2006 10:52 AMHi all. To convert music into MP3 format, please see: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/about_convert_mp3.html You can't use MP4 audio files on a PSP either, so you might need to convert them to MP3 format. JKluger: if you don't give us any additional details, it's basically impossible to try and help you any further... :-) Posted by: Dave Taylor at March 6, 2006 12:10 AMi did evey think you told me and when i get out of USB connection i go to music and memory stick and when i click it,it says that there is no tracks please send me an answer quick Posted by: Luis at March 7, 2006 10:27 PMHow do you put songs under music? i tried and it created a new folder. i have tried just about everything! Please help me!!! ;) Posted by: Lina C. at March 11, 2006 9:54 AMHi I understand what everyone is saying and I put music on my PSP because it takes up space but when i look into music it sata there aren't any tracks. Please help if you have an answer send to marky755@msn.com Dave, I just want to express my thanks. i tried everything, but won't play music. got to dump this junk on ebay and buy ipod. thanks a lot. Posted by: me me at March 23, 2006 8:42 PMWell, me me, there are oodles of people who *have* gotten this to work, so perhaps you can tell us a bit more detail about how you've proceeded with the steps I outline in this article and where things failed to work for you? Posted by: Dave Taylor at March 23, 2006 11:26 PMHey Dave! Unfortunately, Lee, you cannot do that. The PSP can only do one thing at a time... Posted by: Dave Taylor at April 4, 2006 7:39 AMi need to know how to get music on my psp even though i was a 32mb memory card for my psp Posted by: mark at April 4, 2006 2:44 PMomg thnku sooooo much lol i have spent ages trying to put music onto my brothers psp and i finally came accross this website which was a savior lol! thnku soo much! Posted by: cinderella at April 7, 2006 4:01 PMI have done everything you said to do about putting music onto my psp, and I know it's on there because the free space on the memory stick goes down when I download, but when I go onto music and memory stick, it says 'there are no tracks'. What should I do? Posted by: timmy at April 21, 2006 10:27 AMI really need help. When I try to place music into my "MUSIC" folder in the "PSP" folder i get an error message that says: "Cannot copy file, specify name and path" or something like that. What does it mean? Posted by: Nick at May 2, 2006 8:20 PMActually, Lee, you can. I'm a bit iffy on the details, but there is a program you can download that lets you listen to your own custom soundtrack in GTA: Liberty City Stories. There may be other games it works with, but I'm not so sure. LCS is an amazing game, and having your own songs as a sountrack would be an amazing help, since, well, the songs suck in the actual game. Look it up on Google, you may find something. Posted by: Julian at May 9, 2006 8:34 PMI dont understand the usb connection download system you put up. Posted by: Braxton at May 13, 2006 11:51 PMdoes anyone know if you can create folders under the music folder? because I put a couple of cd's worth of MP3's on my 1GB stick, and now they are now even organized to artist? ie x:\PSP|MUSIC\REM would that work???? Posted by: Corey at May 28, 2006 10:49 AMOut of the box the PSP 32mb stick isn't formated. You are "dead on" with formating the memory stick! I found just what I needed here to make this thing work! Posted by: Kenny at May 30, 2006 9:56 PMI've read the comments here and i'm still about ready to chuck this one day old PSP out of the office window. So far: - I've connected the USB cable fine. WTF? Please someone save my sanity. I'm around all day on. dave.pears@endemoluk.com and evenings dave@wingmanagement.co.uk HELP! Posted by: Dave Pears at June 1, 2006 2:41 PMi downloaded a song and when i went to my music and clicked memory stick it said there are no tracks please help me out. Posted by: erik at June 3, 2006 10:52 PMok ok this is very simple you guys are making this like rocket sience or something. ok this is what "I" did to get music on my sony psp. i have "Lime wire" i don't know if any of you guys have it but its a great music sharing place. all the music is free. if you want it go to www.limewire.com and "download" and "get Basic", now install it. ok plug your psp in your PC through a USB cable. and on your psp go to "Settings" and click on "USB connection" your PC should pop up with the action you wanna do. click on the folder file. now, creat a file called "PSP". ok now go in that file, inside that file creat a file called "MUSIC" now go inside that file. ok i hope u have lime wire open and ready to go. download a song and when it's complete drag and drop it into the music file and there you go, you have music on your psp Posted by: David at June 15, 2006 1:04 PMI also have the same problem as Nick, I did everything basic i am in usb mode Sometimes if i'm lucky i can get the stick to be recognized as a removeable drive, but when i transfer a file ( a picture file to PSP\PHOTO) i have got my music on the psp---music file but i dont no wer to download the stuff plz help me!!! Posted by: sean at June 20, 2006 12:37 PMHey i have done all that you have said.I have draged the my favorite music into the psp music folder on my PC. And I finished it all, but when i go back on my psp on the music file it just shows the little box where the picture of the album is suposed to be, and underneath it says 0 traks. So i did everything you said but it still doesnt work. please help! Posted by: derik at June 21, 2006 8:18 PMHey Dave ty for the info. I figured out after u format the memory card u can get shared music and move it to the music section of the PSP. It worked and I made all of my files MP3s. Thank you tons dave! Posted by: Charlie at July 2, 2006 1:00 AMdear dave youve helped me a lot with my psp just by looking on your web page but i have a question that i need to ask you, it says when i fifa world cup psp game in my psp i need to update my psp and i dont know how, when i bought mu psp the instruction manuel was in japenese so can you please tell me how i update my psp and what do i need to update it. Posted by: sidd at July 7, 2006 11:19 PMi really dont have a comment because i have a question. can u download any songs on ur psp without it costing or without a usb plug? Posted by: Falynn at July 11, 2006 9:01 AMI can connect my PSP to my PC but I can not create a file "PSP". Unable to create the folder 'New Folder'is the error message. 0 bytes are listed for the capacity. Can you help? Thanks. Posted by: Jeff at July 17, 2006 10:29 PMI read your instructions several times even got my wife to try the instructions...same results. I dragged and dropped my .MP3 files into the Music folder, unplugged the cables and plugged in my headphones. I went to the music area and pressed the X button. The PSP reads "The music cannot be played. There are no tracks available." Of course there is nothing on the Sony troubleshooting site? I am ready to personally fly to Sony and throw this PSP at them! What do I do? Is it broken? Do I return it to the store? Posted by: George at July 26, 2006 10:05 PMYou are missing the following instructions "create the Music directory under the PSP folder! Posted by: George at July 26, 2006 10:20 PMI had problems before and basically gave up, but then on a whim i tried to connect my psp to my comp to get some music and pics, and it worked. it was so frustrating before and then it worked. then two minites later i wanted to add another song, i plug my usb in, 'does not recognize usb device.' what the hell? Posted by: Ron at July 30, 2006 1:45 PMi have down loaded songs on my psp but it only shows 1 song how do i find and play the others it shows my memory getting smaller so i know the songs are going somewhere Posted by: rayzor at August 7, 2006 6:28 PMI have exactly the same problem as Nick and Steve. I have managed to copy music files before but now i keep on getting the message "Path or Filename Does not exist" I am copying the files to the right folder and i have formatted my memory stick many times to make sure i have all the right files. What is strange is that i have managed to copy files before and now i can't. PLEASE HELP DAVE!!! Posted by: Andy at August 22, 2006 6:21 AMDear Dave, how do i put music on my psp i tred everything Posted by: navpreet at September 16, 2006 8:10 AMI have trouble with the music and transfering stuff into my psp documents. Everytime to drag something into my music folder it load about half way and died. Which when I played the music on the psp it keep on giving my corrupted data. Help me fix this corrupted data. TX Posted by: key at September 16, 2006 5:13 PMOK DAVE SORRY BUT I NEED TO GET YOUR ATTENTION WITH CAPS!!! OK THIS IS WHAT I DID:1 ITUNES,2CHANGED TO AAC,3 MY CPMPUTER, 4 MY PSP HARD DRIVE, 5 PSP, 6 MUSIC,7 AND I DRAGGED MY SONGS TO MUSIC,8 I PRESS O , 9 I LOOKED AT MY MUSIC ON PSP AND IT SAYS NO TRACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP ME PLEASE DAVE Posted by: michael at October 1, 2006 2:51 PMi said all u said to do and it just says there r no tracks avalible?....wat do i do?? Posted by: Amber at October 2, 2006 6:53 PMG'day Dave. I bought a PSP 2 days ago, and everytime I slide music, video, or picture files onto the formatted removable drive (into the correct folder), the file either becomes corrupt on the PSP, or an error message comes up and file paths. Please help. :-) Posted by: Michael at October 9, 2006 4:37 AMFrom my comment above, the error message the appears when sliding files across (that appears most of the time, if this message doesn't appear, the file becomes corrupted on my PSP). The error message is as follows: "Cannot copy *insert file name here*. Cannot find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name." I'm stumped! Posted by: Michael at October 9, 2006 4:53 AMI'm trying to download music onto my psp, but my computer doesn't recognize the USB cable. I have the right cable, my PSP is in USB mode, but it doesn't say removeable disk or anything. I got Get Connected USB cable that set-up MAX Media Manager on my computer. The manual with it said windows 98/98SE said that the USB cable will not be recognized so it told me to download a program to make it get recognized, but it didn't work. I am ver frustrated what do I do? Posted by: Anonymous at October 22, 2006 11:33 AMYou are the best. I have been thru 2 computers(1 that was ancient) and now this one. Countless useless help searches and finally you were the one place that helped. I just downloaded my first song to my 9 year olds PSP. I will never search for help again anywhere but your site. Posted by: Brian at October 23, 2006 3:45 PMHey, I was having trouble downloading music to my psp, then I figured it out that I hate windows media, so I used music match and I got all the music that I wanted, then I couldnt figure out why Mr. Dave, you say the psp can only do one thing at a time...(playing whilst listening to music etc etc...) then, why good sir, do two of my games ask me if i would like to search my psp for music files to add to the in-game playlist? If i have misunderstood something i am sincerely sorry for the waste of time. i have music on my psp to listen to but how can i integrate it into the game when prompted? I have tried folder after folder, but to no avail. so Mr. Guru, who is admittedly better at this than i am, what do i do? Posted by: Drew at November 4, 2006 5:31 PMWhat games are you talking about, Drew? I don't have any that do what you're asking, so there's no way for me to test things out, unfortunately. :-\ Posted by: Dave Taylor at November 4, 2006 7:50 PMWhen I put certain mp3 files into the music folder on my psp it comes up as "corrupted data" on my psp. WHYYYYYYYYYY MEEEE? Posted by: Setara at November 10, 2006 2:22 PMDAVVVVE! I need yor help! Will you please answer me? Is having a windows XP home edition the only way to connect your PSP to your PC, I have windows Ah, thanks so much...I've had this for a year and have been trying to put music on here and it wouldn't show up lol... Hey, I downloaded music on my PSP, i know because it used up space on my memory stick, but when i go to listen to it, it says "there are no tracks." Hi Dave, Can music be downloaded from the PSP's internet ? If not then why? Posted by: nm at December 1, 2006 7:49 PMCan you tell me step by step please how to get free music downloads onto my psp.I got a window xp please and thank you. Posted by: jimmy stahler at December 19, 2006 5:28 PMFrom my comment above, the error message the appears when sliding files across (that appears most of the time, if this message doesn't appear, the file becomes corrupted on my PSP). The error message is as follows: "Cannot copy *insert file name here*. Cannot find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name." I'm stumped!(reposted from above) I have this same problem. I was easily able to drag and drop files onto my PSP from a computer at work that ran SP1 (I run SP2 Home). So it isn't the cables, the memory stick format or bad files. But I cannot find any info on this, I'm Stumped also!?! Posted by: Robert at December 27, 2006 4:24 PMThe latest system software version for psp supports AAC files ripped from CDs by itunes (not the protected AAC format that you buy from the itunes music store), so no need to reconfigure itunes to rip to mp3 format anymore. Posted by: Richard at December 28, 2006 8:38 AMit has all the artists, but likw wen i click on it it says that there are no tracks.. ever time i try to "drag and drop", it says disk is full and what not... DAVE, I REALLY REALLY NEED HELP.. I AM SO CLOSE TO JUST BREAKING THIS PSP AND GETTING AND IPOD NANO.
I see that a lot of people have the same problem as me- After putting music on PSP it says "no tracks" How do you fix this? Thanks Posted by: Chris at December 30, 2006 4:17 PMi keep trying to download videos through the internet to my psp and it says it downloads but when i chech videos theres nothing there..am i supposed to format the video files or something?? Posted by: none at January 8, 2007 11:04 AMMy son has a PSP and we have put music on it. The music will be there - sometimes - but when it is, a song will never play all the way through. We have formated the memory stick - through the PSP and there is plenty of room on it. We are also using MP3 files. Any suggestions?? Posted by: RB at January 14, 2007 8:38 PMNever mind - I got it working. All this time it was a bad cable. We were using the one that came new with starter kit - therefore I didn't think about it being the cable to start with. It was really flimsy and on a retractable device. I noticed we could sometimes get songs on and sometimes not. Also sometimes the PC would recognize the PSP and sometimes it would not. We found another cable in the house and tried it and the songs went on great. Posted by: RB at January 17, 2007 3:54 PMdownload the new firmware version 2.6 or late then you can go to system setting then go to enable WMA playback this option willconnect to the internet to enable the wma playback then you should be able to play WMA files on your PSP. copy your mp3 files to psp/music folder. Solucionescompu@aol.com Posted by: Mauricio at January 19, 2007 3:35 PMHi Dave, Get yourself a 4 gig memorystick, then get the psp media manager software, it converts files for you...or get pspmaxmedia manager from datel- it's easier and free than media manager, and update your firmwire, or get devhook 3.03 firmwire even has visualizers :D, that matches color wit ur existing theme, or random colors :D and 4 or 5 styles :D Posted by: ace at February 7, 2007 7:56 PMI have media player version 9 i think, so how do i do it on 9 Posted by: Branden H. at February 13, 2007 2:54 PMi can not download anything onto my psp Posted by: victoria at February 13, 2007 4:45 PMdave i keep copying files onto my psp from my pc and they keep getting corrupted. they are in the correct file format mp3.unless there is a special mp3 format that i dont know about. not all of the files are corrupted though, only certain files. recopying doesnt help. please assist me. thanks Posted by: lionel at February 21, 2007 6:38 PMHey Dve, wen ever i drag anytyped of files onto the PSP. I get an error saying "Please correct path or file name" and it wont save onto the PSP. Ive called Sony and Microsoft and HP. But they dont know whats wrong with it. PLEASE HELP ME !!!!!!! Posted by: JUAN at February 27, 2007 8:42 PMhey i have my muic and photos on my psp they are there no problem but it is telling me to connect to a wireless network to enable wma playback any way around that ??? its bugging the hell out of me hello im having a problem ith my psp how do i get the songs to come up it shows the name but underneath it says zero tracks? Posted by: justin millhouse at March 2, 2007 10:23 AMyo dave i formated my memory stick but still when i check on removable disk no folders show up Posted by: Jack at March 3, 2007 2:22 PMHe wants free songs on his PSP thank you Posted by: David Parham at March 3, 2007 6:07 PMI have a problem with playing music on my PSP. All my songs on my computer are in mp3 format. But the problem is, my PSP will only play SOME of the songs a put on it. I'm at a loss as to why it's only playing some MP3's!! I use Music Match to convert my CDs to MP3s. All the albums my PSP won't play have a little box for the album cover, and when you click on it it says there arent any tracks. Even though I can play the tracks from my PSP memory stick. And they're all definitly MP3s!! Can anyone help? It doesn't make any sense as to why it plays some of my MP3s! Thanks, Nadia. Posted by: Nadia at March 6, 2007 3:48 PMMy problem is sorted :o) Three days I've had this problem for and have just stumbled upon a website that had the solution... straight after I sent this post no doubt! Anyway, the reason some of my albums didn't play was because the songs where within a folder of a folder! This website shows a diagram of the problem, notice the cross on the folder within a folder of the Music folder. Once I moved the folder with the actual mp3's in it up to the Music folder, my songs were playing... yay :o) My PSP is brilliant now... I can surf the net, play films, play games, play movies, and even read PDFs. Nadia. Oh... I forgot to post the webaddress of the site that helped me, its http://www.us.playstation.com/Support/PSP/Music/s_psp_mu_SA.html Posted by: Nadia at March 6, 2007 4:05 PMi have two psps i have one memory card. one psp plays music and all! The other one doesnt want to play the songs or show the pictures. what do i do to make this psp work like the other one. I did a system restore! what now? Posted by: valerie at March 10, 2007 2:04 PMmy music still wont play even though its in mp3 format. i save it to the memory card and it still says there are no tracks on the memory card but i see that it is taking up space. so its on there i just cant get to it can you help me out please Posted by: nigel at March 14, 2007 9:05 PMok i am really lost....my computer keeps saying that it is an unknown usb device and to unconnect it and if it does not work to replace the device...i'm really lost cuz i've boughten 3 usb cables Posted by: jAKE at March 18, 2007 9:43 AMI download the music and when i'm finished some of my memory is gone but when i try to play it i go to music and my folder is there but it says 0 tracks please help!!!!!!! Thanks in advance !!!!!! Posted by: t-laid at March 22, 2007 4:37 PMWhen I go to WMA Playback it says select connection. I dont know what that is. But if I put MSN it goes through, but then it says the attempt to obtain the IP address timed out.What does that mean! Posted by: DD at March 25, 2007 12:59 AMok i no this topic is old but same old problem....i got a psp with software (im using xp btw) and i connect the usb to pc-psp and it comes up psp type a but i then have to install the driver and guess what for 2 weeks now i have searced relentlessly for something NOTHING sony microsoft and dell are no use...i know this is a big problem so any ideas wouldnt go a miss. I trie to download things to my psp but it just take up my memory with nothing playing or sounding on it. I checked put it still doesnt work Posted by: Amos at March 25, 2007 6:11 PMwell, i was gonna throw my PSP out when i could not load pics on it, but then a miracle happened i stumbled upon your site. but alas, i now can't put music in my PSP so back to square1. Posted by: Jameey at March 26, 2007 12:45 PMLOL give me your psp no need to throw it outside. my psp also makes corropted data. im throwing mine outside anyone need? lmao Posted by: aa at March 30, 2007 4:30 PMi cant get music on my psp when i go to usb connection i click the x buttom and it just says usb mode..... Posted by: tyler g je at April 10, 2007 6:29 PMi just braught a psp and when i conected it with the usb cable it shows up a removable disk that wont let me create folders it says "unable to create " "canot find the file specified" Posted by: leon at April 11, 2007 11:44 PMhey dave, i was wondering if there was anyway to download version 2.6 for the sony psp without connecting to the internet, because i want to be able to listen to my music while playing games, thanx Posted by: ben murray at April 15, 2007 2:23 AMI CANT GET IT 2 WORK I DID EVERY THING U TOLD ME 2 DO I WENT OUT AND BOUT A MP3 PLAYER BUT STIILL NO PROCCESS Posted by: MALIK at April 17, 2007 7:43 PMI did all the steps to play the music on my psp Ive done everything you said but when i go to music it still says i have no tracks. Posted by: Cody at May 7, 2007 2:53 PMHello. I have no clue how to get the internet browser on my PSP. My PC has not got a wireless connection. so i only have a USB cable. Can you help me? Posted by: Natasha at May 12, 2007 10:51 AMDid You Name The Folder MUSIC with all Capitals Posted by: name at May 17, 2007 7:35 PMi hav limewire but wen i copied the mp3 playlist 2 the Music folder it worked, but wen i go 2 my Music file on my psp it says that there are zero tracks...plzzz help me Posted by: Mac at May 22, 2007 6:47 PMhow can i put songs to my mp4?? plz help me i dont know what to do.. Posted by: leira at May 27, 2007 10:16 PMOk i do all u said and when i get to music folder it says i have 3 tracks i try to listen to them but it says my wma playback is not enable Ok i do all u said and when i get to music folder it says i have 3 tracks i try to listen to them but it says my wma playback is not enable Thank you so much!!! This was a great help! Posted by: mari at May 31, 2007 11:42 AMi am trying to figure out two things. 1: how do i play saved videos when it says i have none? 2: when i get on a website and it has music what program do i need to download to make them play? Im still having problems with my psp, on my xp when i go to start/computer to find where the file for the psp is the only thing that pops up is removable disk e.. but when i click it it says insert disk.. i dont have a memory card so is this a reason? and Yes i do have the psp on usb mode ive only seen that sentance about 100 time Posted by: Blake H at June 2, 2007 10:43 PMwhen i connect my psp it says plaese wait, i thought it ws the card so i used another but it still says "please wait". i waited for ages and the computer still does not recognise my psp. It was working fine last week and this is the first complaint i have had can u help Posted by: niall at July 1, 2007 7:05 AMmy music is all mp3 format..and still nothing..i have done this over n over now.. when i hook it up to the pc it shows the music as there but it wont play.... i have been looking for a way to fix it for weeks now.. im gonna break the psp soon.. thx, anger management.. Posted by: Stephanie at July 3, 2007 11:07 AMworks great for music, photos and videos. thankya dave....the article helped a lot!! Posted by: Christina at July 17, 2007 2:41 PMI have done everything to put music on my PSP but when I want to play the song it says "Corrupted Data" Posted by: Raul at July 29, 2007 2:30 PMhow do i puts vidoes on my psp Very helpful! Thank-you! Posted by: Bruce at August 1, 2007 9:38 AMI read the instruction of how to put music on psp from computer but when I plug psp into it and go to "my computer" to see what drive it is on it is listed under "network drives" with "memory _card on Hp001871503349 (Y:) and when I click on that it says"y:\ is not accessible - an unexpected network error occurred". I have no idea what this all means.Please help as our grandson wants to listen to music on his new psp. Posted by: Barbara at August 20, 2007 11:43 PMok turn on your psp get a usb cable hook it up to both your psp and your computer make sure u have either 360share pro or limwire u get limewire for free by going to www.download.com or www.downloads.com then u click on the music u want make sure when somethin pops up like a rectangle scroll to the bottom and click on a folder then drag the music from the 360share or limewire to the psp rectagle k have fun listing to every song in da world!!!! haha DXDXDXDXDX Posted by: cld360fly at August 26, 2007 7:12 AMthe music is not on my psp how do you get to folders i read every single comment and i cant do any thing help me AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!! im going mad help plz! Posted by: Josh at September 10, 2007 3:47 AMI HAVE A PROBLEM THAT NOBODY HAS!!!!!! well i have a play station slim and it's driving me mad because: 1. he recognizes my memory card but it doesn't recognizes my games (and are games not from the internet) 2.my computer doesn't recognizes me the cable and if i go in my computer it still can't find it.but let the thing with the cable... why my games aren't working?why???? it isn't a play station portable without games! it's driving me mad!!!! please some help :( Posted by: Just me at November 4, 2007 1:44 AMHey, I just found your website today after i had had problems getting my psp to connect to my computer. It's working now thanks to you guys. I just thought i'd say thanks a lot. Josh Posted by: Josh McCarthy at November 12, 2007 11:00 AMhow do i get my psp to play music it says that i have to enable my WMA player Posted by: Heather at November 17, 2007 4:46 PMhelp dave !!!! lost my psp cd that came w/it when i bought it i dont know how to download anything w/out........ what do i do, please help!! Posted by: bernardo at November 24, 2007 2:39 AMI did everything your website says, but every time I try to go to my music it says no tracks are avilable and music cannot be played. Posted by: Shelia at November 30, 2007 9:49 PMHelp!!!!!!!!!!!! I took my memory stick out of my psp and put it in my computer and put music on the memory stick and put It back into the psp. It said memory space taken, but they is no music on the psp. Posted by: Shelia at November 30, 2007 9:59 PMOkay. I figured out why sometimes you can't see the tracks you put on the PSP. You have to save the tracks directly under the Artist's folder. If you put another folder into the artist's folder(for me One-X(Album name)inside three days grace folder) and then the tracks inside of the Album folder then the tracks won't show up. Copy the tracks directly under the Artist's folder. Posted by: Nick Strub at December 25, 2007 11:41 AMthank you so much it really works!!! Posted by: tommy at December 27, 2007 10:42 AMErr.. Thanks, but how come when I download the song (it's in mp3 music file checked like 5 times) and when I play it on my PsP is skips to the next song and when I check the last one I was on, it says the file has been coruppted and cannot play. What's going on? Posted by: Maxmillion at December 28, 2007 9:21 AMi did everything u said i dragged to music files and made psp file. i know it is somewhere because it uses my memory stick on my psp. i go to music but it says no tracks. how do i get the music to come up? please help dave? Posted by: mike at January 9, 2008 7:33 PMThanks, i listened to you, switched USB ports, and it worked. Thanks to you. Posted by: OB at January 22, 2008 6:58 AMi tried everything you said to connect my psp to the computer but it still wont work. i've tried every port but it wont reconize my psp. my computer usually never has a problem with connecting devices. please help me. Posted by: will at January 26, 2008 6:41 PMmy problem is that the pc gives me a copy.exe problem when trying to open my psp... i even went to gamestop to buy a cd to send saved games, movies, pictures, music etc and nothing what can i do? any thoughts send e-mail to lestat666alucard@hotmail.com i dont know if upgrading it to 3.80 would be helpful (i don't think it should matter though) Posted by: anthony at February 3, 2008 6:07 PM hey i have two questions. first i have windows media player so i hooked up my psp to my usb cord and tried to download music and it worked except that when i go into my music on my psp it says the artist names but it says i have no songs. if u could return my email it would be great. is there sposed to be a music file in the 'psp' folder? because if there is i dont have it! Posted by: nemmesis at February 9, 2008 2:12 PMHey, I go to music, and my songs are there and I go to play them and this message comes up I was having trouble with this myself, but then I did two things that appeared to make the difference: If you're having trouble, maybe try one (or both) of these. Posted by: Ted at March 11, 2008 2:43 PMmy computer just dont recognise it, i plug it in with my psp set on usb mode and it beeps but comes found new hardware but i go to my computer and there is nothing, no removable storage, i have tryed everything, anyhelp??? Posted by: marcus at April 21, 2008 8:58 AMHy dave, i cant find my treiber Cd for Windows xb . do you know where i could ownload a triber for free? Posted by: Sabrin Khalil at April 21, 2008 12:21 PMi cant play my music because i dont have the enternet or the wireless router.so can you help me dave? Posted by: marissa at April 27, 2008 2:41 PMi put music on my psp and it takes up space but it says theres no music.i know im doing it right because i did it on a different memory card before and it worked.how do i fix it? OK. i got it. for all of you who format your mem stick. do the usb connect. accept the WMA playback. if you plug your psp in to your cmp and you use programs to load the music onto your psp. persay windows media player. well what it does it make folders in your music file. well it should work in a sense but for some stupid reason it doesnt read any music in the folder. so the simple fix is to just put the exact file in the music folder. make sure its not under any artist folder or anything. heres a great example of how you should see it. just change (psp) with the removable drive it shows up as I have a lot to say, but ...
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