
Sony PSP to Windows: Download Photos and Music?I just bought a new Sony PSP and am having a heck of a time figuring out how to get it to work with my Windows XP PC. I know I can copy music and pictures onto the PSP, but I don't know how. Help? Good news. It's not difficult to accomplish what you seek, but there are a number of steps required to download files from your PC to your PSP. The first step is to make sure that you have a Memory Stick Duo in your PSP and, if necessary, format the Memory Stick with the PSP itself (go to Home, then Settings, then scroll down to System Settings and use the 'X' button to select this option, then scroll down to Format Memory Stick and select the option). You'll only have to do that once. Next, take the USB cable and hook one end into the PSP on the top middle edge and the other end into your PC. Now, using the Settings menu, choose USB Connect and your PC should shortly see your PSP as a removable drive. The very first time I did this on my Windows XP system, the OS installed some new drivers, then promptly told me it had to reboot for the device to be mounted on the system: ![]() So, logically, I did just that, and when it rebooted the device showed up as Removable Disk G:, as shown here on My Computer: ![]() Double click the new drive and you'll find that there's only one folder therein, called PSP. Double click in that and you'll find that you have four folders that the format has created: ![]() Looking good! Now if you have MP3 music files, you can drag and drop them into the MUSIC folder (and if they're in the wrong audio file format, please see How to convert WMA audio files into MP3 audio files), and JPEG (or, sometimes, JPG) photographs or graphics, you can download them into the PHOTO folder. Once you've done that, perusing the PHOTO folder, for example, will reveal that your pictures are loaded and ready to use: ![]() That's about all you need to do, believe it or not. Copy any music or graphic files you want into the appropriate folders, then when you're done move back up to the list of "Devices with Removable Storage", click on the PSP removable disk and choose Eject. (Actually, sometimes when I do this step Windows XP refuses to eject the disk, complaining that "An error was encountered trying to eject 'Removable Disk (G:)' but I've found if I ignore the error and just unplug the PSP, all is well) Now, to view downloaded pictures on your PSP, move to the Photo area. You'll see one item shown: "Memory Stick" and an indication of how much free space you still have on your Memory Stick Duo. Click on that by pressing the 'x' button and... poof! You'll see all your photos listed. Click on any and you'll get a nice full-screen view. To listen to the songs you've downloaded, go to Music, click through the "Memory Stick" information, and you'll see a list of MP3 files. Click on any of them to have them play. That should get you going with your PSP. The issue of how to download movies, well, that's quite a bit more complicated and something we'll explore in a different article. :-) Useful reference articles: • Download music from your PC to your Sony PSP
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. I just want to say your article was so very easy and MUCH more help then the people at the game stores, and the help desk at Sony. I have been fighting all weekend with the books to figure this PSP out, and wondered " Did I buy another dust collector to hide in the closet from my hubby? " Well the answer is no, after reading your article and following the instructions I am safe from DIVORCE. Now I need help with getting past a stage on Ridge Racer, or some hints, so I must go look.. Thank you for your HELP.... Posted by: Bonnie at July 24, 2005 6:17 PMThanks Bonnie. In terms of Ridge Racer, well, I can consistently get through the first three tracks, then I don't seem to have the steering skills to get beyond it. Yet. :-) Posted by: Dave Taylor at July 24, 2005 7:15 PMi havnt got a psp yet cos up here in the uk there not released until the 1st of september we always get things last anyway i do like how uve left the guide and i am goin to leave it minimized until i get the psp to help me get files onto my psp. so ill say thanks now because i will use it. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: zak at August 5, 2005 7:18 PMHm... I bought a PSP just a little while ago, its version 1.52 (Im going to upgrade as soon as the 2.0 US version comes out). The first time i used it, it was on a windows ME and it worked great. I brought it home and i couldnt make it work on my windows xp home edition OR the xp office, but i could get it to work on another windows ME and my brothers win 98 (ps. i used the SAME usb cable every time). Everytime i plug it in to my xp home or xp office i get the same message saying that "the device is not recognized" or "device has malfunctioned" and i get a nice window with all my usb ports and one of them saying "unknown device". I don't get it, iv heardor PSPs not working on win 98 before, but mine wont work on xp!! My brother's PSP version 1.52 has the exact same problem. Posted by: Figbert at August 8, 2005 7:50 PMHi thanks for showing me how to download photos and music to my psp, all i need to know now is if i can download games onto it. do you know? Posted by: lisa affleck at August 22, 2005 2:21 PMi got a psp and the duo is 1.0 gb. i know that you can download music onto it but i just dont know how. can you please help me? Posted by: brenda at August 29, 2005 5:10 PMhi i accidentally deleted my "PSP" folder and i dont know how to get it back could you tell me. P.S. that article was great :) Posted by: rennoc at August 30, 2005 4:14 AMRennoc, addressed that as an entirely new article here at Ask Dave Taylor because it comes up with some frequency in my mailbag. Please go to: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/i_deleted_my_sony_psp_folders_on_my_unit_help.html Posted by: Dave Taylor at August 30, 2005 5:51 AMdoes anyone got a driver for the psp to connect it to a windows 98 computer whit an usb cable because i want to put photo's and lots of other stuff on it Posted by: piemelbrie at September 15, 2005 4:21 PMi found one but i must pay for it. i just want one for free. Posted by: piemelbrie at September 15, 2005 5:41 PMU helped me out alot but i still dont get how to download the music onto my psp. the folder is madei just cant download for some reason thanks for all your help write me back!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: sidney at October 5, 2005 11:45 PMhow are you supost to download music on psp? Posted by: veronica at October 14, 2005 11:02 PMi dont have a drive g: and when i go to usb mode nothing pops up to install it what do i do? Posted by: johnny at October 20, 2005 1:53 AMAs far as I know, the PSP is only compatible with Windows XP systems: on other systems, even when you put the PSP into "USB CONNECT" mode (you did that, right? And plugged the USB cable into both the PSP and your computer?) nothing happens. I haven't tested it, but there is a chap who advertises a Windows 98 driver for the PSP that you can try: http://win98.drivers.w.interia.pl/psp.html If someone does try it, please do report back what kind of results you had with this driver. Posted by: Dave Taylor at October 20, 2005 2:24 AMi did all the following: p.s.- id o have windows xp and i also am srry for gettin back late Posted by: johnny at October 25, 2005 3:41 AMill answer be checking in tommorow Posted by: johhny at October 25, 2005 3:43 AMi can not listen to mp3 files downloaded to sony psp. followed instructions and when i go to music file it says no tracks listed, What did i do wrong. please help Posted by: areille at November 7, 2005 6:52 PMMake sure, Arielle, that you look *inside* the "Memory Stick" folder on your Sony PSP: the songs don't show up under MUSIC, but under that folder within the MUSIC folder. Posted by: Dave Taylor at November 7, 2005 7:19 PMI got a new computer and want to copy the songs from my PSP to the new computer. How do I get around the message 'The selected tracks originated from another computer'? Posted by: harriet at November 12, 2005 2:08 PMHEY UR ARTICLE WAS GREAT HELP ME ALOT THANK U VERY MUCH,BUT I DO HAVE ANOTHER PROBLEM HOW DO I DOWNLOAD VIDEOS OR RECORDED CLIPS ON THE PSP WELL GET BACK SOON ..DANNY Posted by: DANNY at December 3, 2005 7:55 AMI connect my PSP to my system, and in the tray, it says something along the lines of "PSP Variant 1", or something, but it doesn't install any drivers to make it work properly. The system recognizes it when it's plugged in, but I can't access the stick from the PC. Running Windows XP Home. Posted by: Hypaxion at December 5, 2005 7:53 AMVery weird, Hypaxion. Sounds like you have the wrong driver, but I can't imagine where it came from? Have you added new drivers to your system?? Posted by: Dave Taylor at December 5, 2005 10:18 PMI bought a PSP the day it came out. I wanted to put pictures and games in it but I don't know how! The main reason I wanted one was to be able to play and listen to music on the same portable devuce. But now that I have one, I don't know how to put music in it. Please e-mail me so I can enjoy my PSP! Posted by: Karina at December 11, 2005 12:33 AMi need help.. so if you allready tryed to put pictures onto your psp and it didn't work., you cant do it agin?? help me out... am i wrong.. what do i do? Posted by: OOOO at December 11, 2005 8:00 PMi need to format my memory stick pro duo but i already have saved data on it and i got really far on games and to be able to get stuff on my psp i have have the data deleted so i can format it Posted by: Lewis at December 12, 2005 2:28 PMLewis, you can't save some of the data and delete everything else, as far as I know, though you can experiment if you want. See if you can find the save files on the Memory Stick when your PSP is hooked up to your computer, copy the save files, reformat your memory stick, then copy the save files back. Theoretically should work... Posted by: Dave Taylor at December 12, 2005 4:42 PMneed help... when i connect the cable to my computer and the psp nothin happens... ~~~~~~~~ Dave, I took your advice and successfully put mp3 files onto my psp, but is there a way to put music videos from Itunes onto my psp. When I tried to drag my music videos from Itunes onto a folder there was no VIDEO folder. Is there a different way to put music videos onto my psp or is it just no possible. Posted by: Andrew at December 18, 2005 10:28 PMAs you surmise, Andrew, there's a completely different technique for adding video to your PSP. Please see: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/about_psp_video.html Also, "Who?", if you're running an OS other than WinXP or Mac OS X, you're basically on your own in terms of getting it to work. Otherwise, it should work once you remember to put the PSP in "USB CONNECT" mode once it's hooked up. Posted by: Dave Taylor at December 19, 2005 6:14 AMI have Windows ME on my system at home and it does not recognise the PSP ? Also after calling Microsoft twice trying to get some help ( and didn't !! ), I am still stuck with being unable to make my PC recognise the PSP. Can anyone help with any required WIN ME drivers or step by step guide ..... Posted by: Patrick Van Laere at December 20, 2005 4:49 AMhow can i download music i really need help Posted by: rigo at December 26, 2005 8:29 PMI think that I'm in the same boat as Patrick Van Laere, and i also have a ME Posted by: Frederick at December 26, 2005 9:19 PMi know how to synchronize music onto my psp using media player 10 but when i look on my psp its saying no tracks although the memory has gone down my daughter says that maybe i need to change the format.Also when i look in the music folder for my psp its showing the songs i have synchronized.could you please tell me what i am doing wrong as i have been trying to do it since the 25th december, thankyou debs Posted by: debra adams at December 27, 2005 8:21 AMPatrick and Frederick, I'm afraid I don't know of any PSP drivers for Windows ME, so you might be out of luck. :-( Debra, I bet you still have WMP set to rip and save your audio files in "WMA" format, which isn't what you want. See my recent article on setting Windows Media Player to produce MP3 files (which are compatible with the PSP): http://www.askdavetaylor.com/produce_mp3_files_from_a_cd_with_windows_media_player.html Posted by: Dave Taylor at December 27, 2005 11:05 AMhey dave i have a question, everytime I plug in my usb cable to my pc and psp, i get this window that pops up with 5 options that have nothing to do with what i want. i cant get my pictures into my psp. i need help BAD. i've tried everything u said but i just cant get it to work for me. plz help me!! thanks! Posted by: ismael castillo at December 28, 2005 12:34 AMIsmael, sounds like your system is configured to run a photo capture program each time an external device is connected. Darn tedious. Can't you just quit the program or even just ignore it? Then go to My Computer and find the PSP device? Posted by: Dave Taylor at December 28, 2005 9:42 AMI purchased a USB made specifically for PSP's. Everytime I insert it into my Windows XP computer, I get the following message: One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message. Pleaseeeeeeee help meeeeeeee. Posted by: jodi at December 28, 2005 5:30 PMI get as far as finding driver G but when I try and send a pictures there it give me a message saying cannot find specific file, make sure you specify the correct path and file name. Can you please help me with this. Its a big headache. Posted by: Gabriela at December 29, 2005 9:49 AMyeah u can ignore it but u know how your supposed to find 4 folders on your psp that say music photo and so on? well i only have 2 folders that say "save data" and "system". when I copy photos in EITHER of those two, my psp seems to be saving them, but i dont see them anywhere. Posted by: ismael castillo at December 29, 2005 7:40 PMJodi, try plugging the cable into a different port and, if possible, plug the PSP into a different PC too, just to compare what happens. Gabriela, does your PSP show up on your desktop as "G:" then? And what do you see when you go inside it? Finally, Ismael, you need to reformat your Memory Stick on the PSP itself (which, unfortunately, will lose all your saved games) so all the proper folders are created in the right order. Make sure you do the format *on the PSP* not on your computer. Posted by: Dave Taylor at December 29, 2005 9:22 PMDave, Great site and advice!! Just purchased yesterday and had installed a sweet Eclipse Fujitsu Ten CD8445 in my Expedition http://www.eclipse-web.com/cd/cd8445.html car stereo receiver. Already even have my Sirius configured. It has a slot behind the front panel for the memory stick and can play and read WMA or MP3 files. Purchased a 1GB sony type memory stick today by Lexar at Wolff Camera here in Memphis. Now, I have maybe 700 I-Tunes on my pc. Question - seen your articles abot importing songs and getting them to format as MP3 vs WMA or i-tunes format and how to burn them on cds as MP3s. How then do I take all these I-tunes formated files in the various folders and burn them directly to the memory stick - skipping the cd step? Seems I-Tunes only wants to burn them to my cd burner and nowhere else. May be a silly question but hopefully I don't have to burn to CDs first and then drag from the CDs to the memory stick as will take forever and what a complete nightmare. Is there not a more direct method? Know Apple is big on the song burn limit thing. My library is legit paid for and personal use only and no trouble on burn limits for me yet but I really want to max out the 1GB stick with as many I-Tunes as I can cram on it and stop messing with the CDs. I'm running XP home right now and latest version of I-Tunes. Have a Belkin high speed 8 in 1 media reader/writer on a USB cable to my pc. Help !!!! and Happy New Year! Posted by: Memphis C.A.T. at December 30, 2005 2:41 PMDeleting ALL MY DATA?! lol so if i buy a new memory stick and reformat that, I'll get all 4 folders? Posted by: ismael castillo at December 30, 2005 4:54 PMoh hey dave nevermind, i did what u said and it worked. Thanks for everything!! just one more question though, does a "video" folder have to come up? Because instead of a vido folder i go one that says "common", is that the same thing? Posted by: ismael castillo at December 31, 2005 11:10 PMWorking with video is quite a bit more tricky. Please see: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/about_psp_video.html for more information and details. Posted by: Dave Taylor at January 1, 2006 11:10 AMDave I have another question. i have this 512MB memory stick in my psp and I've only put 25 songs in there and it says theres only 15MB left?!! WHAT HAPPENED??? Posted by: ismael castillo at January 1, 2006 9:40 PMSaved games can take up a LOT of space on your Memory Stick, actually, so is it possible that's what is eating up your space? Posted by: Dave Taylor at January 1, 2006 10:47 PMi found out why i only had 15MB lol, but i still dont get one thing, all i have on my 512MB stick are 32 songs now, and the memory says it has like around 150MB. why did it take so much space, i am sure i have nothing else on my memory stick in the psp AND PC. i dont know what is causing so much memory loss from just having songs. Posted by: ismael castillo at January 2, 2006 2:03 AM i need full instructions on how to work with macs!!!!! hey i got just one question and one comment. question:how and which folder do i use to put videos in. if you can anwser that that would be a great help to me. comment: you are smart... Posted by: rap at January 8, 2006 5:57 PMi have the g drive but i don't have the photo folder or music folder. what should i do? Posted by: andy traver at January 13, 2006 7:07 PMYou steps to downloading things were so easy and they made sense after hours of searching in th PC for help. Thank You sooo Much! Posted by: Morgan Buckley at January 13, 2006 8:15 PMafter i clicked the psp folder there were only 2 folders "SAVEDATA AND SYSTEM" Posted by: X at January 16, 2006 8:47 AMOk, Ok - I have mastered the art of music. But is there anyway I can get ripped music video's off my disk. I have copied them to almost everyfolder and nothing happens but memory is used? Is It Possible for me to put music video's on my psp? Posted by: Jack Townsend at January 17, 2006 2:19 PMJack, please see: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/about_psp_video.html Posted by: Dave Taylor at January 17, 2006 2:29 PMim very surprized that i did it but with your help i did thanks Posted by: angelo at January 25, 2006 10:49 PMI know how to put photos on my folder,but I need to know how to download the pictures onto my psp.Can you help? Posted by: Billy at January 29, 2006 6:00 PMBilly, please see: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/about_psp_photos.html I'm sure you'll find the answer you seek. :) Posted by: Dave Taylor at January 30, 2006 9:33 AMI still don't know how to download music on to my PSP. It shows that it copied them onto it but i can't hear them. What do I need to do? Posted by: Alejandro at January 31, 2006 7:54 PMAlejandro, please check this article out: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/i_cant_get_music_to_play_on_my_sony_psp.html Posted by: Dave Taylor at February 1, 2006 2:28 PMmine doesnt say g it says e and when im done it says it has no tracks so wats wrong i cant get movies or music videos on my psp i can only get music and photos I am planning to buy Sony PSP1001, please tell me can i shoot photos and see movies and maximum memory it can be used. Thanks a lot in advance, with kind regards hey dave how do u put music videos in the psp? i've read here from this website that u put them in MP_root, and then put them n the 1000MNOV1 folder. i lost some memory but the videos aren't in my psp? please help. thanks a lot Posted by: ismael castillo at February 24, 2006 3:55 PMHow Do I Get pictures On My PSP? I have Windows 2000 but when I plug my PSP in nothing pops up. Posted by: Ty at February 26, 2006 6:11 PMIsmael, check out this link: Be warned that the PSP is very fussy about what videos it'll play and I've had lots of problems getting it to like my downloads. Ty, Windows 2000 doesn't support the PSP style of removable hard disk, so I'm afraid I don't know how you can proceed other than to upgrade to Windows XP. Posted by: Dave Taylor at February 26, 2006 8:39 PMI followed your steps as they say, but the names of the CD come up and next to it says 0 tracks which I have 14.HELP ME! Posted by: Stephen at March 6, 2006 6:57 PMDo I need anything for my memory stick duo? Like something to insert? Posted by: Elyssa at April 3, 2006 1:47 PMdave were do i see were i can listen to the songs because when i look it says no tracks found i wanna kill my psp please help me. Posted by: bobby at April 9, 2006 9:35 PMok i also have windows xp how do i get to tha system settings to install the new divice Posted by: A.J. at April 10, 2006 9:18 AMHey dave this tip is not working for me. My PC keeps saying "USB device not recognized" What am i doing wrong? Posted by: kaseem davis at April 16, 2006 12:08 AMThank you so much! I have tried so many websites to try and do this and this site ACTUALLY worked. I was so glad to actually be able to do something with my PSP. At first, it was useless until I came here. Thanks SO much. hey dave i recently bought the usb cable for the psp and i already know how to download images in my psp but i don't know how to download music. I already did everything you told to do but when i download music it says in my windows xp pc computer that its already in there but when i check in my psp it says there are no tracks. What can i do? I already did everything but no it doesnt want to work so i thought you would help me! Posted by: Tony at April 30, 2006 11:38 AMI have followed all your insructions on how to download "photos" on my PSP but i just cant seem to get it to work. Could u please explain detail by detail what I have to do? Thanks! Posted by: Parker Owens at May 25, 2006 6:06 PMi have a psp but i don't know if it works with macintosh. I followed your instructions of how to download mp3 files on to the psp and I still don't have any tracks under the memory stick in the music section. PLEASE HELP ME!!! Posted by: nick at June 13, 2006 2:03 PMok, I just got a PSP, and Im wondering why every time I hook it up w/ the USB cord, nothing happends, I have a windows ME, and can someone please help me as soon a possible Posted by: Justin at June 14, 2006 4:13 PMnvm, I figured it out!!! Posted by: Justin at June 16, 2006 1:37 AMplease help me dowload music onto my psp. i have a mac, with itunes, and i'm so lost. help!! i want to enjoy my psp. :) Posted by: roma at June 19, 2006 2:31 AMis it possible to download music on to the psp from a computer running windows 98 if so please email me and tell me how thank you Posted by: Russell barlow at June 23, 2006 9:24 PMi double click the removable disk g n it said nothin bout psp folder it just said insert disk n when i plug in my usb cable a fotomart pop up the thing that pop up on urs when u did it didnt pop up on mine so could u help me Posted by: tom at July 2, 2006 8:53 AMhow the hell do I get downloaded films onto my psp from a mac, theres GOT to be a way but its causing me serious grief at the mo!! hi plz plz plz could you help me. i bought a psp value pack (white) yesterday and a 1 gb memory card seperately.the memory card is compatible with psp`s but the only problem is it wont get pictures or videos onto it. i have got songs onto it and when i try to put pictures or videos onto it the white bar comes up on my psp and from the removeable disk drive it says its on my psp too but when i unplug the usb and search on my psp its not there. any tips plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Posted by: lewis at August 4, 2006 4:28 PMhi plz plz plz could you help me. i bought a psp value pack (white) yesterday and a 1 gb memory card seperately.the memory card is compatible with psp`s but the only problem is it wont get pictures or videos onto it. i have got songs onto it and when i try to put pictures or videos onto it the white bar comes up on my psp and from the removeable disk drive it says its on my psp too but when i unplug the usb and search on my psp its not there. any tips plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Posted by: lewis at August 4, 2006 4:30 PMdave, im having troubles on connecting my psp to my computer. everytime i connect it it says that it does not have the correct drivers? if you have any info on drivers plllzzz post them. (by the way i have windows 98.) Posted by: corb at August 10, 2006 6:25 PMwhere can u get a USB cable for PSP? I'm just wondering, where do you download music for free and you don't have to sign up for anything and pay? Because I can't figure it out. Posted by: Kirstyn at August 13, 2006 10:43 AMseadog0125, if you have a EB games or gamestop video game store around somewhere, go ahead and look there. Also, one small one with a B cord attatched to it came with it inside the box. Posted by: Kirstyn at August 13, 2006 10:46 AMLewis, how did you get songs on your PSP?!?!?! I cannot figure out how to do that without paying or doing anything stupid like that! Please help Dave or anyone else! Posted by: Kirstyn at August 13, 2006 10:50 AMI really want to know how to download games onto my psp! Buying the games is too expensive. My psp is just boring me to death. PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO DOWNLOAD GAMES. I NEED TO KNOW SOOOOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: Joe McGea at August 17, 2006 8:57 PMthanks for the advice it was helpful peace out Posted by: Davon jackson at August 26, 2006 9:58 PMi dont know how to download games for mac os x, because when i do all it says is this game could not be found.I also want to put a game on my psp. Please help Posted by: axel at September 9, 2006 6:35 PMDave, I know you have alot of posts but I need help badly. I plugged in my psp with the usb 2.0 and i see the E drive, but when i open it up i see no PSP folder or anything. Then when i try to make new folder it say "unable to create folder, the ssytem cannot find the file specified". So can u please help me create the psp folder, and also im running Windows XP Posted by: desperate! at September 23, 2006 6:17 AMhow do you download games on your psp(if posible) Posted by: seth at September 23, 2006 4:16 PMi have a question and sorry if it's already been addressed somewhere, but i've been playing a game on my psp for a month or so now but now, thanks to you, that i know how easy it is to hook it up to my pc for upgrades and such i NEED to know if doing so now will wipe out my game saves? Posted by: Ierin at September 23, 2006 6:46 PMis there any possible way to download music without a USB cord?? Posted by: bob at December 8, 2006 8:49 PMHey i was wondering if you knwo where to get "drivers" for my psp to run on Windows Me edition? Please and thanks.....Write back soo n Posted by: Someone at December 22, 2006 2:05 PMi did everything and the music is on my psp.........it just won't play it's saying that there are no tracks. What do I do now please help me i got it for x-mas and still haven't listened to it. Posted by: rob adams at December 31, 2006 1:14 AMHi I cannot load the fasttracker v7.0 I get an error message. Now what? Help'''''''' Posted by: Kenneth Shields at January 6, 2007 12:45 AMI was wondering if it was possible to put videos purchased on iTunes on your psp. If you drag and drop, the psp says the data isn't supported. I tried transcoding it through psp video 9 and it didn't work. Posted by: david at January 6, 2007 1:23 PMWhen I Copy and Paste my mp3 music files onto the PSP MUSIC File, there is a message saying: " Cannot Copy ( Song Title): Cannot fing specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name." Whats wrong? Posted by: Matt at January 7, 2007 11:32 AMI didn't know I had to format my memory card in the first place, and I have a bunch of save files for my games and when I go to format my memory stick, it tells me I have to erase everything on my memory stick. Can I copy all the saves on my psp to my comp and then put them back on and have them there because I don't want to lose all my process. Thanks for your help. Posted by: David Westerberg at January 22, 2007 5:45 PMThats all very fine and dandy, but my PSP says that formatting my PSP will delete everything on my PSP, and I have Daxter at 98%, Pinball Hall of Fame with everything unlocked, and ATV Offroad Fury 15% complete! What now??? Can I copy my data, and how? Posted by: Kevin at January 24, 2007 9:52 PMcan you put gif on the psp? Posted by: Eric at January 27, 2007 8:11 PMWhen I connect a device to USB 2.0 port it says the device has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it. I have the latest drivers installed for my USB 2.0 card though. Posted by: hina at February 8, 2007 3:12 AMi need to know what a memory stick pro duo is and how to get it, please help me! I have a USB cord and I have already tried to put music on it and it keeps sayin not enough memeory on it Posted by: Alex at February 8, 2007 4:47 PMHi Dave ive had a psp for a while now and you have helped me out of some tight jams. I have a knew problem. I think that i have updated my psp so many times that the computer wont download music onto it any more, i could be wrong of course, if i am could you tell me my problem, and how to fix it of course. The Problem is that the computer just keeps saying error when i finnish copying and then the music files are deleted. Ne way my computer is a windows XP and my music program is windows media player. if you could help and email me that would be the greatest thx. oh and by the way the error code is C00D11CD Posted by: Rainer at February 8, 2007 7:00 PMsrry again but this may be another bit of info you may need, but my mom just finnished having someone wirelessly fix the computer from a virus. Posted by: Rainer at February 8, 2007 7:09 PMim really sorry i keep giving you more info and taking up more space but i would like to know if this is normal. after i double click on removable disk F there are more folders than just PSP. There are: PSP, MUSIC, PICTURE, VIDEO, MP_ROOT
hi i have a ceramic white psp version 2.6 I tried to plug in my PSP but I got in in driver H, and did not get those 4 folders.. just system and sunthing else i can't remember.. what to do? Posted by: håkon at February 13, 2007 12:44 PMhey dave you helped out a lot on my picture problem.could you tell me where the best place is to download games and if possible could they be free i doubt they can be though.:) Posted by: matt at February 13, 2007 8:44 PMI found your site very uninformative, you state the obvious and thanks to you I wasted quite some time reading your useless information when I could have been seeking better information regarding my psp from another website that actually has some valuable knowledge that could help me out somewhat. Thanks Grisly Adams(Dave Taylor)........ Nah Im just kidding your site is pretty decent you helped me out quite a bit actually. Thanks dude!!! Posted by: Bigballs at February 25, 2007 12:00 PMI just brought a new PSP and i have firmware 3.03 installed. I let the PS format the memory stick and the folder structure is: (from windows) Dragging music files into the music folder will work as described above Posted by: Christopher at March 1, 2007 9:12 AMHow can you get windows xp on your psp. Because I heard you could do it from a couple of my friends already Posted by: Raul at March 1, 2007 5:29 PMhow can i get a cord for my psp to put music and pictures on it. Posted by: Joe at March 3, 2007 10:00 AMRaul, the PSP is not a PC, so anything you see that appears to be Windows XP or any other standard PC program running on the PSP is a trick. It'd be cool if you could run Windows on the PSP, but it just ain't so... Joe, the cord you want is a standard "mini-USB" cord that has the narrow connector on one side and a standard USB connector on the other. You can get 'em at Target, Wal-Mart, Radio Shack and just about any other store that sells any sort of gadget. Posted by: Dave Taylor at March 3, 2007 11:10 AMfor some reson wen i plug my cord to the back of the comp and go to settings it doesnt even show that the usb cable was there.............i dont understand............. Posted by: shawn at March 3, 2007 1:14 PMI was reading over everything you wrote and tried it out with my psp. Everything went smoothly until i clicked on the psp folder only 3 subfolders came up they were games savedata and systems how do i get music thx Posted by: tired at March 9, 2007 5:04 AMWhat do you have to call the folder where you save the videos? Posted by: bdriver at March 9, 2007 1:01 PMdosnt work on my psp for some reason???????? Posted by: jj at March 13, 2007 11:57 PMi hook my psp up then when i click removable disk it comes up as psp. when i click that it only comes up with 2 folders which are savedata and system. what do i do know Posted by: chris at March 29, 2007 3:09 PMhow do you insert a 2GB memory stick PRO Duo into a gateway pc properly? Posted by: Myles at April 6, 2007 7:03 PMi need help to put music,videos,and pictures and it's so complicating. can you help me? Posted by: nextairjordan454 at April 8, 2007 7:23 PMhey thanks alot for the information!!!! i have to say im gonna buy a psp ina few days and this sounds like a very helpful thing i have read this 3 times and printed it out, i expect good out comes from this website. i think you should have pictures in all your questions Posted by: matthew at April 15, 2007 2:44 PMyay tks it worked Posted by: malik at April 19, 2007 9:34 PMHi DAVE I NEED HELP WITH MY SON PSP. WE WANT TO DOWNLOWED MUSIC,PICTURE AND MOVEIS. I have a question. I just bought a new Memory Stick pro duo for my psp and it won't read my photos I put on it. It will accept my music files but when I look to see my photos it tells me that there are no photos. Now I made sure that the photos were in jpeg format but I can't figure it out. And I already formated the Memory stick so I'm kinda stuck. So can you help me? Posted by: Tiffany Johnson at May 13, 2007 7:09 AMHi, Thanks in advance! Posted by: Kisha at May 14, 2007 1:42 AMHi, Thanks in advance! Posted by: Elsie at May 14, 2007 1:44 AMhow do i change my psp main menu icons Posted by: tony at May 16, 2007 7:58 PMhow do i tarnsfer music from realplayer or media player to a psp Posted by: mohamed at May 22, 2007 10:39 PMIs this supposed to be how to help you put a PSP drive on your Windows 98 forum or is this for the XP cause he was showing XP and I was searching for a 98 version... Anyone know how to better explain how to make my computer work and if PSP is compatable with Windows 2000 SE? Posted by: Andrew at May 26, 2007 5:52 AMplz give me some info to download stuf on my psp Posted by: mickell at May 27, 2007 6:20 AMthis website has helped me alot, But I am still having a problem. Most of my music is copying onto memory disk(all Mpeg4 format from itunes) and i am able to listen but some music is in that same itunes format but with a lock symbol at the top left of the individual songs in that music folder. On the menu with album names it has those albums names that do and don't work but the ones that don't work it show 0 tracks. Please help. Posted by: John at May 28, 2007 9:18 PMThis does nothing for me. i really need help to download everything. music, videos, pics...etc. Posted by: arielle at June 4, 2007 10:39 AMplease i have no music vidios or photoes please send me some ur friend ahmed Posted by: ahmed at June 9, 2007 10:37 AMhow do I install window xp in my psp? Posted by: tony at July 4, 2007 3:57 AMhey, im having a problem with my PSP.... I want to know do you have to buy the movies or can you download them cause I want to download music videos!!! and the internet won work on my PSP well thanks eanyway hope you reply back Posted by: Roxana Portillo at July 11, 2007 8:54 PMhow to put psphacks on psp? Posted by: ajifowoke at July 13, 2007 6:45 PMHey this info helps a lot. =) can you help me with my psp? I got some short questions and stuff i cant figure out, I have a GateWay, it aint the best of computers but its all i got at the moment, First I hook the Usb cable to computer and psp, and then i click USB connection and it says please wait and is still saying please wait, then nothing happens on computer so i go to control panel and click add new hardware and it says windows will search for any new plugin and play devices, then i click next and it searches. next it says the windows searches for devices for usb devices. after i click next it has 2 clickable dots sorta like check marking spots to pick one of the options. one says search the best driver for your device(recommended) and the other says display a list of drivers in a specific location so you can select the driver you want. I go to the recommended one and it says windows will search for new drivers in its drivers database, and it has a bunch of spots you can click for check marks for it to begin its search with I checked the boxes that say Floppy disk CD-Rom Drive Microsoft windows update and specify a location and under it all it says driver D:\,A:\,C:\CABS,C:\CABS <--- thats all the drivers in the scroll menu. so heres the main problem, I go with one driver but it says Windows was unable to locate a driver for this device, if you do not want to install a driver now click next to search again click back. so i go back to the other driver types but they all say the same thing. plz can you help me out? sorry for typeing so much.
Hey Dave, yall don't even know wat u r talking about so just stop ok!!!!! LOL..... Posted by: diamond at July 27, 2007 4:33 PMyo do you have to format the stick because then ill lose all my memory Posted by: nick at July 30, 2007 5:12 PMis there not away do to this without deleting my stuff Posted by: renton at August 1, 2007 5:38 PMmine shows drive j how can I help that? Posted by: tyler at August 12, 2007 10:40 AMThankz alot better than psp's website! Posted by: joe at August 21, 2007 9:56 AMDave, looks like your website is the place for all the answers. Hope you can help me out with this one. We just bought my son a PSP in America. We are now back in England and he is trying to upload some photos to it. We have gone to my computer, made a file called Photos on the PSP and drug and dropped photos to it, but nothing happens. It looks like there are photos there but then the PSP says "No Images". We'll see if a different cable makes a difference. Also, is there any way to make it work with Windows Vista? Thanks! Posted by: Holly at August 24, 2007 1:21 PMI am having the same problem as a number of your readers regarding downloading music to my psp. It seems taht I dowload them with my windows media player, and the folders show up on the psp, but "no tracks" are listed in the folders. Any help would be appreciated. Posted by: Neil at September 27, 2007 4:54 PMDave man i gots to know how to get music off my i-tunes library. much help needed Posted by: Derrick at October 13, 2007 6:25 PMwhen i download music videos off of limewire my psp it says it is on because the memary goes down but the music and video files say there is nothing i need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Posted by: person at October 16, 2007 9:15 PMi just want to ask where can i download free music video in my psp Posted by: ging at October 22, 2007 9:04 AMI can't figure out how to get music on my psp. And I can't get an internet connection. Can you please help or take me step by step please? Thank You Posted by: Cherita Sawyer at October 23, 2007 12:20 AMYO DAVE LISTEN UP MAN I GOT ONE HELL OF A PROBLEM!!! My psp memory stick indicator keeps flashing amber PPPLLLZZ help me. P.S:i tried your other forums but still no answers so could you plz try nd giv me a solution! Posted by: Shehab Amin at October 25, 2007 5:11 AMIdo have a memory stic,but the problem is that i dont know how to download a vedio or a photo in it.Can u plz tell me how to do that? Posted by: Maanik at October 28, 2007 7:31 AMTry connecting my PSP to my computer but it says that the usb mass storge device has not passed logo testing and recomends that i not continue. What do i do. Im running windows xp Posted by: mat at October 28, 2007 7:50 PMdude u rock thankx a lot Posted by: Gelu at November 11, 2007 2:25 AMthat didnt work, now i have nothing on my psp thanks, how do i get it back Posted by: troy at November 23, 2007 10:35 AMum... how do u get photos or images to my ipod. Posted by: Jin Ju Hwang at November 26, 2007 6:14 PMi tried all of the steps and its only the music that goes on my psp but the other things like photos and videos dont want to go on my psp.. Posted by: gennna at December 1, 2007 8:25 AMthqanks alot 4 da solutions.but what i want now is to watch tv on my psp and activate it.Can u help me with it plsssss.thank u.i am expecting the answer in the next 6 days. Posted by: damayo at December 15, 2007 4:44 PMhow do u get music and photos on a psp? i have no clue Posted by: santos at December 17, 2007 12:49 PMi need help on how to get windows xp into your psp but i dont know how. Posted by: Alijon at December 22, 2007 7:24 PMi have 2 problems 1 my psp does mot have any folders evept memory them my saved games are there what do i do i dont have music pictures or video number 2 my psp connects to my pc but my pc does not respond but it has before Posted by: scott at December 25, 2007 6:36 PMthanks anyway i fixed it it was disabled but i found an easy 2 second download thing its called switch go to http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html to get it then press download it works great Posted by: scott at December 25, 2007 9:25 PMI have a problem downloading pictures onto my PSP. Every time I try to make updates on my xp, after installation, it says "SL17B.tmp has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." And then there is an icon that says close. I click close and I click on the update icon at the bottom right. Another message appears saying The following updates were not installed: "Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1" Then there is another close button. I click close, and there is nothing else i can do. Another thing is that when I go to my G Drive, into my PSP Folder, there are only 2 folders. One says SAVEDGAME and the other says BROWSER. I checked into both folders, and neither one of them had the PHOTO, MUSIC, or VIDEO folders. Someone please help me. Posted by: Kenny at December 26, 2007 9:12 PMhey man thank u so much that is so hard to do on the other sites u make so easy thanks man Posted by: eric at December 29, 2007 9:23 AMHi. Ok, so I put pictures and music on the files just like you said to do. and they are on the memory card when I put it on the computer, and they are on the file with the USB cable. but when i try to go on my psp and bring up the pictures and songs, it says that there are none. what do I do? Posted by: Tabitha at December 30, 2007 12:52 PMI need some help. I have one of the newer PSPs, version 3.6. I'm using a Windows XP OS, and when I go into the folder, there are two folders, SAVEDATA, and SYSTEM. All that is inside SYSTEM, is Browser. And all that is in SAVE DATA, is my game files. Posted by: Needs help at December 30, 2007 6:19 PMThose having the updated PSP problems where it has only the two files in PSP listen up; I finally figured it out. You need to make the files yourself. :P Posted by: Now has more answers at December 30, 2007 7:01 PMI can't find my PSP folder. Help?! Posted by: Sara at January 12, 2008 7:28 PMghjkf Posted by: hashem at January 20, 2008 2:06 PMplz help. when i try to download some games, it says Hi dave .. I've been trying to save images and videos .. But I can't cuz the system sitting change doesn't apear help me !! Posted by: Mariam at January 25, 2008 5:09 AMhi why can't i paste anything in my psp? an error appears please help me!! Posted by: benedict at January 29, 2008 6:48 PMDude!! Thanks so much!! I just bought a PSP and have been wonderin about this!! =D Posted by: Obito Uchiha at January 31, 2008 1:37 PMi put all my media in my psp folders and i pressed eject and it quoted unable to reject what should i do? How to put videos from your computer to your psp. Posted by: Malik at February 4, 2008 3:36 PMevery time i ask for help you give me the same thing thats not working i ask can you help me get on the internet on my white psp but everytime i go to infrastructure mode in network settings but what you tell me to do dont work things that you tell me be a the end so i really need you to help me because i want internet on my psp please help me. Posted by: steven presley at February 7, 2008 6:57 PMHow do we put windows vista on psp2000?????????????? Posted by: yugi at February 8, 2008 2:20 AMHow do I Enable WMA Playback on my PSP. Posted by: Sherry at February 8, 2008 8:27 AMYugi, you'll want: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/can_i_run_windows_xp_or_windows_vista_on_my_sony_psp.html and Sherry, you'll want: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/i_cant_get_music_to_play_on_my_sony_psp.html Posted by: Dave Taylor at February 8, 2008 8:43 AMwhat if the photo isnt jpeg or jpg? Posted by: Joel at February 10, 2008 7:47 PMJoel, you'll probably need to convert it to a common graphical format. If it's PNG, it'd be worth testing, but anything else is probably not going to work properly. Posted by: Dave Taylor at February 10, 2008 10:45 PMHelow , do i need some programs on my computer to download mp3 and fotos to my psp ? where i can download windows xp ? How i can get the 3.90 firmware on my psp? I did everything your article said, and everything looks the exact same as on your page. I can look at the photos I put into the photo file while i'm still on the computer, but when i put the memory card back into my psp it says I don't have any pictures. Can you help me to get my console to accept the pictures please? Posted by: Eiblis at February 19, 2008 12:30 AMYo how do you put some musik videos,songs,or music on without the usb cord because im tryin to do that fo a long time and i cant go to the mall because my moms wont take me so howw you do it cause i only got an adapter thingie so how u do it Posted by: lil killa at February 19, 2008 5:18 PMSeems like you're getting a lot of questions like this one - but I just can't find an answer. Have followed ALL your instructions for downloading music and pics onto psp. Downloaded music no problems - works a treat. Trying to copy pics onto psp - they are showing on computer as being in photos folder on psp but when I look on psp - no pics???? Any ideas???? Posted by: Lisabeee at February 21, 2008 12:21 PMLisabeee, you really want to use the search feature here on the site: I have a number of different articles on pictures / photos and the PSP that I am sure will help you and offer more details than this overview article. Posted by: Dave Taylor at February 21, 2008 11:04 PMi just have one question.. one day while i was browsing the internet on my ceramic white psp a question of wether or not i wanted to save the image. i clicked no and it hasn't showed up since. is it possible to save images directly to your psp, and if so how? i have a 2gb memory stick. xo Posted by: stine at February 22, 2008 3:58 PMomg i need one 4 free how do u do it anyways? Posted by: brenda at February 29, 2008 4:10 PMI am having trouble connecting my psp with my laptop which has windows vista it keeps coming up as an unknown device and wont let me access it how can i fix this Posted by: Colin Fisher at March 6, 2008 5:42 PMI have a Gateway computer and when I have gone to the start then, my computer then i go to drive F it dosent give me the choice of game, music, and photo what can I do to fix it? Posted by: Zach at March 13, 2008 8:05 PMWhen I open up my psp file under removable disk (i:) and there is no Music file. But there is common, system, saveddata, and Game. And there is no memory car file under the main file. Posted by: Austin at April 3, 2008 3:56 PMi have a windows xp and the computer does not recognize device and wont let me put any thing on my psp what should i try Posted by: joe at April 13, 2008 5:51 PMhow do u get gif pics 2 play on your psp? Posted by: joe fish at April 27, 2008 2:22 AMthx sooooooooo much ur my hero!!! THIS WAS RELLY RELLY RELLY HELPFUL I HAVE BEEN TRING TO WORK THIS OUT FOR WEEKS THX HEAP ok when my computer comes up it says removable disk(e:) so wat do i do? bcuz it wont let me put music on there Posted by: quint at May 12, 2008 7:42 AMi lost all my meory howdo i get it back Posted by: anonomous at May 30, 2008 1:40 PMI have a lot to say, but ...
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