The process of transferring music to your favorite portal device can be frustrating. Let’s face it, regardless of whether it’s the well-known iPod or  even the widely popular Playstation Portable (PSP), you will find restrictions that need to be understood, and steps that have to be followed properly to transfer songs on to either music platform.

How to Download Music to iPod

So how do I download music to my iPod?

Downloading music from your hard-drive to you iPod is carried out with the program known as Itunes. This program comes with your Ipod purchase or could be downloaded at http://www.apple.com. The software is important because it not just permits you to buy from the popular Itunes music service, it’s also the only way you can transfer songs onto your Ipod.

So let’s look into the Itunes software, and much more specifically, the Itunes library that’s used to transfer songs from your hard-drive to your iPod. You’ll find it on the left hand panel of the program. Your library contains all your songs, movies, and podcast that you want to transfer over. Via the Itunes library, you’ll have the ability to use their drag-and-drop feature for easy and fast transfer to your iPod.

Prior to we move one to the next step, it should be made clear that songs which are downloaded from P2P clients may not show up on the Itunes library. You must add them manually, because you’ll not have the ability to transfer any songs until they’re integrated into your Itunes library. Doing this is simple. Click on file>add file to library, locate the file you would like to add, and press enter to complete the procedure. There is also the ‘add folder to library’ function which permits you to transfer a whole folder of songs into the Itunes library. This is quite handy to have if most of your songs are stored in one place on your tough drive.

Alright, let’s get back on track here. You know the proper steps in which to keep your Itunes library updated now, and the last step is really a breeze. Plug in your Ipod to the USB port in your pc, and you’ll notice the new option to add songs from your Itunes library to the Ipod. Click and drag your files into the Ipod transfer screen and then you’re carried out! You’re now ready to explore the fantastic world of music with out the burden of a big cumbersome computer to haul alongside you!

Downloading music to your PSP

The typical misconception about the PSP is that it’s just to play old Playstation games. It’s not. Increasingly more it’s being used as an excellent option to an MP3 player, and the high quality is just as good. There are however some drawback in the PSP that will make downloading music to your player extremely frustrating.

Lets get down to the drawbacks first, and what you need to know to begin downloading files onto your PSP. The first is that some file extensions won’t work. For example, each and every song downloaded from the Itunes music service won’t work on the PSP simply because the .m4a extension, which is associated with Itunes, is not compatible with the PSP. Furthermore, if you’re a user of another popular music service such as napster, you’ll discover that music downloaded from their service has restrictions placed on their files that will also not work with your PSP.
You will find a couple of options to work around that. The first way to get around this problem is with the use of an audio conversion program. This software will convert a format such as the .m4a extension to an extension that is compatible with your PSP like the .MP3 format.

Presently, the only extensions that work with the PSP are the MP3, AAC, and WMA formats. Prior to you proceed on, make sure that your files end within the proper extensions!

The next step would be to make sure your memory stick, which is where your songs will probably be stored, is formatted properly. It’s a fairly easy process. Turn on your PSP, go to system settings, and then format your memory stick. A music folder ought to automatically appear which will be used to location your music in.

From that point, connect your PSP to your pc, via a USB connection. Once that’s carried out, a new diskette folder ought to appear in your ‘my computer folder’, in which to drag and drop music files to play on your iPod.