How-to: download new tracks to your PSP via WiFi

by Barb Dybwad { Aug 29th 2005 at 8:30AM }

This could come in handy to swap out some new tunes on the go. The how-to essentially involves a shareware application called Dot Tunes to serve your iTunes library over the web. The interface includes a method for downloading new tracks, so you can suck down new tunes to your PSP from the local wifi coffee shop or wherever.

[Thanks, Mark]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Shashwat @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

Do we need firmware 2.0 for this? or can it be done on a homebrew browser?

Monty @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

2.0 firmware only.

Ah, yes -- you want it now, don't you? You can't resist the temptation of the Dark Side.

--Monty

Retro @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

If there was just a hard drive in this "media-playing" wondermachine, we wouldn't need such tricks.

Mes @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

So i guess, Bigger Memory?

ok, see yah going to get my 1 gigger ............

Conrad Quilty-Harper @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

Has anyone released a passive wifi sniffer for the PSP yet? That'd be a major reason for me to get one. Instead of bringing my PowerBook on a wardrive I could bring my PSP.

Rich @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

the alternative for us non-Mac transformed would be ORB?!

hi @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

is the ds going to get a browser?

White Rose Duelist @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

Possibly. But the DS is a game system, and Nintendo and third-party manufacturers are treating it as such. The PSP can do everything but.

Mac the Knife @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

I have tried to make this trick work and have been unsuccessful. I have 2.0, I've downloaded DOT-TUNES, I've published my ITunes to create a web page. I've opened the port to allow access, and the PSP browser will STILL not open the webpage to access my songs.

I would love to hear feedback from people who have actually succeeded in making this work

Anonymous @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

Just another tool for mass piracy.

Simon @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

Has anyone come across anything similar to this for Windows? I've given ORB a try, but I'm not sure if PSP will support the .asx steaming filetype that it uses.

Benson Leung @ Dec 18th 2005 10:15PM

Sweet... And no, it doesn't need to be totally for mass piracy you know... It's great for podcasts for example, to your PSP. Great idea.

But yeah... now people can just download stuff from your iTunes as they please. But the good news is that there's probably nothing that Apple can do to break this in subsequent versions of iTunes. All of the pieces were there previously... the free web server in Mac OS X, the XML (i assume) library file that is generated by iTunes... this just provides a web interface for that.