How to Put Music on the PSP

So you are wondering how to put music on the PSP? Well, really it is quite simple. Obviously, the first thing we need is a PSP and a computer. In addition to this we need a mini USB cable and some MP3 files would help.

Now I'm assuming that you are unfamiliar with your new PSP Otherwise you would already know how to put music on the PSP. Firstly, we need to scroll to system settings. Here, we click on the "X" button, then we scroll down to the "format memory stick", and once again, click "X". This will bring up a prompt which asks you "do you want to format the memory stick?" here we choose "yes" and click "X". Now why do we do this you ask? Well, when we format our memory stick the PSP automatically creates the folders that we need to play music, games and movies.

The one other thing we might want to consider is the size of our memory stick. Most PSP come with a standard 32 MB memory stick, which is really only big enough to hold six or seven songs of decent quality. Your best option is to buy a larger memory stick. They now come in a variety of sizes ranging from 32 MB all the way up to 4 GB, and obviously the bigger your memory stick the more music you can place on it.

Now to get the music onto the PSP, all we have to do is plug our mini USB cord into our PSP, and then plug the other end into the computer. Once we do this we simply need to scroll to the USB connection on our PSP and click "X". This will prompt a window to open up on your computer which will ask what you want Windows to do, from here we choose "open folder to view files using window explorer".

This will open a new window which will contain the contents of your memory stick. In this window you should see a folder named "PSP", we need to double-click on this. This will of course open the folder and from here you should see another folder named "MUSIC". This is where we place our music. Now depending on what firmware version you are running on your PSP, you could put MP3 in there or if you are running at a later firmware version you could put MP3 in addition to WMV in the folder.

All you have to do from here is copy and paste your selected music in to that folder. Once you have done this simply press circle on your PSP to exit the USB connection, and then navigate to the music option on your xmb menu on the PSP, from here you click "X". Now you can select the songs you want to listen to, and this is how to put music on the PSP.