You may not be aware, but your Sony PSP is capable of playing both MP3 (Music) files, and MP4 (Videos). This makes it a tremendously flexible piece of hardware, and it’s this that makes many Ipod owners jealous!

Transferring things onto your PSP is a piece of cake, providing they are in the correct format. The PSP itself behaves quite a lot like a PC, so if you connect it to your PC with a USB cable, you can transfer files between the two, just like you would with a flash drive or any other removable media. It’s literally a case of using the PC to copy and paste the files, or even right clicking on them and using the “Send" command to send them over to your little PSP. This will work with just about all kinds of file, just make sure it’s a file that the PSP supports or the PSP won’t know what to do with it once it gets there!

You can also transfer music from your CDS, but it’s not quite as straight forward. The transfer part is exactly the same, but before you can transfer the songs you will need some kind of CD ripping software to pull the songs from the CD and store them onto your computer. Just do a Google search for “Ripping Software" and you should find what you need. Once the ripping software has worked its magic you should be left with some music files that you can transfer over to the PSP like before.

The only other major place to get music for your PSP from is from Apple’s Itunes website. It’s possible to do but it’s a little too complicated for my liking, so I don’t do it too often, but here’s how if you want to try it.

First of all just download whatever you want from Itunes onto your computer. Next you will need to get some PSP video convertor software, because the Itunes sites holds its songs as MP4s, which is often associated with video. Once you find your software, run the MP4s through it and convert them into MP3 format. As soon as they are changed over to MP3s, you can begin transferring them directly over to the PSP via the PC, just like before.

So there you are. I don’t know if PSPs will ever take over the popularity of the Ipod for listening to music, but it’s definitely a flexible little piece of technology, and when did you last play NFS on an Ipod?