How do I get MP3 format files out of my iTunes player on my Macintosh? I want to know because I have a new Sony PSP unit and really want to copy some songs from my computer onto my PSP unit. Thanks!
This isn’t quite as simple as you may wish, because what I’d love to see is that you could highlight a set of songs or albums, then choose “Export” and there’d be a folder created on your desktop with perfectly named MP3 files, neatly tucked into folders. Alas, that’s not to be.
Instead, you need to do some of this yourself. Here’s the fastest and easiest way to do this:
First, open up your iTunes player and select a sample track that you’d like to copy onto your Sony PSP. Now, with that track selected, choose File -> Show Song File. You’ll be shown the folder that contains that track and all the other tracks from that particular album. It looks like this:
Here you can see that I’ve highlighted the brilliant Louis Jordan rendition of “Five Guys Named Moe”. Notice here that it’s in MP3 format, though the filename isn’t particularly friendly. I’ll fix that in a moment.
Plug your Sony PSP device into your computer, then make sure that the PSP is in “USB Connect” mode (see my article Copying photos and music to Sony PSP for details of how to get your PSP plugged in and working in USB mode). You’ll see the PSP appear on your desktop: open up a Finder window and navigate to where you can see the “MUSIC” folder within the “PSP” top-level folder.
Now go back to the iTunes Finder window and hold down the Option key while dragging the icon for the desired song into the MUSIC folder on your Sony PSP device itself.
Now, if you’re so inclined, rename the music file to something more logical like “Five Guys Named Moe.MP3”.
That’s basically all you need to do. To copy a bunch of files, just select them all then Option-drag them en masse onto your Sony PSP device.
If you have a Windows PC you should find a similar feature in the PC version of iTunes that’ll let you identify
the source MP3 songs.
It’s also worth noting that there are some nice freeware and shareware music management applications that you can download from a site like VersionTracker, Mac or PC, that’ll make this process even easier.
Hope that helps you out!
I was so happy with how easy you made this, I just bought you a latte! Thank you!
Re: Ondrej
Thanks, works great!
How Can I export my mp3 files from my Itune to my PC?
Thank You!
Peter Turner
I’m going back to Winamp. F*ing useless Apple.
If you want to export music from iTunes, try this application … it is written for adobe AIR than you need to install this one first if you don’t have it.
http://code.google.com/p/ihandler/
Works perfectly … it can export albums, artists, music and everything is well organised … works on Windows as well as on Mac.
Okay I have a psp I just broke my ipod nano and i’m trying to get everythinq on here all my itunes music and stuff . but my computer wont recognize it? can you please help before this weekend !!! Thank you, I really need help!
Use Switch – shareware or freeware. It is a very powerful and easy to use tool to switch different media formats..
ffmpeg is useful and free for converting individual tracks to mp3 from mpeg4.
Music Man also has a very useful batch converter which ffmpeg never had, to convert loads of tracks in one go to mp3, though it’s 15-days shareware.
i can’t get on songs onto my PSP still
i have iTunes
i did everything on this page
including
impoting iTunes as MP3
but it doesn’t work!
also when i click show file as
it doesn’t show all the songs on the album
Jennifer
p.s. i have windows xp
Im trying to put mp3 ringtones into my Motorola v265 phone to do that how do i export songs from itunes? What is a option key? how do i turn .mp3 to .mid?
i opened up itunes but when i did the show song file bit it came up differently to what your pic looks like. plz help!
Please tell me how to add my songs from my ipod (through my laptop with itunes) to my new motorola slvr phone.
Um, that’s an awful lot of rigamarole to pull that off. Any particular reason not to just drag from the iTunes playlist to the PSP’s Finder window? Unless a PSP is special, that should result in copies of the files that the playlist entries point to on the PSP–it’s certainly what happens with any other storage device you can mount on the desktop.
This will only work if you have configured iTunes to import as MP3. It doesn’t seem to be the default setting. If you look in Preferences and find the Importing tab, you can choose what type of file you want iTunes to import the song as.
I’m having trouble finding a decent tool to convert those .m4a files to MP3s. Any advice on that, because it’s most likely what folks will need.
Who doesn’t love proprietary DRM lock-in? Go Apple!
Thanks for the help, there is a possible solution at least.
Okay so this helpes a ton!! But when i do show song files it shows me, but instead of saying MP3 like yours it says MPEG4
Ugh i was soo close now i have no idea what to do HELP PLEASE !!
DEAR DAVE
I HAVE A PSP AND HAVE READ YOU INFO ON HOW TO DOWN LOAD MOVIES ON TO IT, I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS WITH MOST OF MY MOVIES, BUT I HAVE GOT A DISK AND WHEN I DOWN LOAD IT, ITS ON THE PSP, AS I CAN SEE IT WHEN IM CONECTED TO THE LAP TOP, IT IS DEFFENTLEY ON THERE BECASUE IT SHOWS THE MEMORY HAS BEEN TAKEN
BUT I CANT FIND IT ANY WHERE ON MY PSP ANY IDERS
PLEASE HELP IVE 2 LITTLE BOYS SAYING IM DOING IT ALL WRONG, DOES THIS MEAN THE PSP CANT READ THIS FILE ITS THE SAME FORMAT AS THE OTHERS IVE DOWN LOADED.
PLEASE HELP DESPERATE MUM