Podcatching with Your PlayStation Portable
Use your PlayStation Portable (PSP) to listen to podcasts.
Sony’s new PlayStation Portable (PSP) unit can play MP3 audio files stored on its memory sticks. You can use this feature to listen to podcasts on the device.
Attach the PSP to your computer using the USB cable. Then select USB Connection from the Settings section of the Home menu. On both Macintosh and Windows the device will appear as a drive. Double-click the drive and navigate to the PSP directory. Cards that haven’t been used in a PSP will not have a PSP directory yet, so just create one.
Once inside the PSP directory, create a subdirectory called Music, and another subdirectory within the Music directory, called Podcasts. The name of the Podcasts directory is really up to you, but the names of the other two directories must be PSP and Music.
Your can download the podcast .mp3 files to the PSP/Music/Podcasts directory using the Finder (Mac OS X) or Windows Explorer. Or, you can set your podcatcher to download to that device directly by specifying that as the storage path for the enclosures. On Windows, the full path will be <drive>:\PSP\Music\Podcasts, where <drive> depends on what the operating system allocates.
On Macintosh, the full directory will be /Volumes/<Card Name>/PSP/Music/Podcasts, where <Card Name> is the name you gave to the card in the Finder. This is Untitled by default. If you want to check the path for yourself, use the Go to Folder command in the Finder’s Go ...
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