The proper place where the PSP looks for your musicįiles is inside the MUSIC folder which is inside the PSP folder in the root directory of a properly formatted PSP System it's drive F, but will probably be different on yours). Next we find our destination folder, which is located on our PSP currently connected as an external drive (on our We've made a folder cryptically named SOURCE on our desktop for this First, we'llĬhoose the Source folder from whom all MP3s flow. Since it's the first time you're launching it you'll be prompted to set up some configuration details. It will prompt you to make sure your PSP is connected to your computer via USB, so go ahead and hook 'em up: When you launch Shuffler for the first time, Well, as long as it's got the proper file structure already established. Launching it, you'll want to make sure there's a formatted memory stick in your PSP. So first up, go and download Shuffler and unzip it. Tracks from other computers or locations, we get a nice local copy of those files on our desktop when we plug in the Plus, it's a two-way sync, so if we've collected That gets shuffled and synced to the PSP whenever we plug it in. It worked beautifully, and with a bit ofĮxtra tinkering we set up a nice little system to automagically collect new podcasts and MP3 files in a source folder Hard drive on your computer), we thought we'd give it a try on our Since the utility theoretically works with any MSC-compliant device (i.e., it shows up as an external Level, for those who don't want to use iTunes or who prefer the drag and drop method of getting music on a digitalĪudio player (as well as adding a handy two-way sync feature, for getting new files off the DAP and onto your desktopĪutomatically). ITunes' new " Autofill" feature for use at the file system Little tool that was designed to free the iPod shuffle from iTunes for music management. U-Robot folder scripting utility (free, and also optionalĮarlier this week we blogged about Shuffler, a handy.iPodder (optional if you're only autofilling with your own.
This is a fairly simple method of getting your fresh podcasts and tunes onto your PSP, without being tied to any particular music management software application. If you don't use iTunes to manage your music collection, you might want an alternative way to automagically transfer new audio content to your PSP. IPSP offers an easy way to sync video and music to your PSP on the Windows side, with one drawback: its music management functionality is tied to iTunes.