How to streaming your music collection to your PSP
On browsing through the US playstation forums, I found a great tutorial explaining how to stream your music collection via iTunes directly in to your 2.6+ PSP (you'll need 2.6 if you want to stream music).
Tools you'll need:
- iTunes
- RSS server (Windows version | Mac + Linux version)
- Your IP address
Create some playlists as you like, but you must ensure the limit is set to 100. There will be a few default playlists, like 'Recently added' and so on. You may choose to create a playlist for each letter of the alphabet - i.e. so that you can quickly jump to the artists starting with 'U'.
Once you're happy with the iTunes set up (if you're stuck - check out the Apple support web site) you'll need to run the RSS server.
Start the RSS server, and leave it running. This program will serve your songs via RSS and will allow your PSP to connect and bop away to your tunes.
If you want to give it a test, open a browser on the same machine the RSS server is running from and go to http://localhost:8080 and you should see a list of all the playlists you have set up in iTunes.
Now point your PSP browser to http://your IP address:8080 and click on the orange 'add to' RSS buttons to add your music to your PSP.
If it doesn't work for you, but you can see it on http://localhost:8080 it's quite likely that you've got a firewall blocking you from coming in to port 8080. One option is to disable the firewall - but I'm certainly not recommending that! If you can, check your firewall documentation (or Windows help or whatever) and open up port 8080 to maintain control over your machine.
For more information, or help check out the original forum post on the US Playstation Forums.
