The PSP Media Manager lets you take advantage of all the extra power held in your PSP. It's far more than just a game system -- the PSP is a digital photo album, movie player, and portable music device all rolled into one. PSP Media Manager is the easiest and fastest way to move content to your PSP for portable playback and sharing wherever you go. Two-paned view lets you see media on your PC and PSP system at the same time Podcast and video blog support -- download and encode feeds for PSP playback Back up game saves, copy saved games between your PC and PSP system, delete game saves that you no longer need, and move game saves across Memory Stick Duo media
* Simple drag-and-drop tools let you preview photos, videos, and music on your PC -- simply drag them to the My PSP pane
* Turn photos into thumbnails, or rotate them before transferring -- supports all popular image formats including. jpg,. bmp,. gif,. png, and. tif
* Transfer and manage all popular audio file types -. mp3,. wav,. wma,. ogg, and. m4a
* CD extraction lets you transfer your CDs to your PSP system
* Enjoy. mp4,. avi,. mpg,. mov,. wmv, and other popular video formats - or convert them to high-quality Sony AVC/AAC video for optimized viewing
Most Helpful Customer Reviews 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful: By Mike F. Schmidt (Odessa, FL USA)
Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars
If you don't mind allowing this software to manage everything for you its own way, it's probably fine. I paid for the software and now I use Windows Explorer to manage my PSP.
First of all, it insists on making a complete copy of your memory stick when you run Media Manager. I use 4GB memory sticks to store videos and music and I don't really need an extra copy of all of that clogging my laptop's hard drive. I'd rather not make a copy, but that's not an option that I can uncheck anywhere. I have to manually stop the process each time I run Memory Manager or insert another memory card.
Second, if you didn't use Media Manager to put the files on your PSP, for some reason Media Manager won't show them to you. I can see hundreds of mp3s on my PSP from Windows Explorer, but Media Manager shows me an empty window. I can't even browse what's already on the PSP with this software. OK, it finally figured it out, but only after I allowed it 3.5 gigabytes of my precious disk space to make full copies of everything.
Third, I expected a drag and drop video functionality. The main reason I wanted this software was to provide me a failsafe way to encode mp4 video to the PSP. I've used other software and got tired of renaming files for the PSP to recognize them. Unfortunately, even if I have the codec installed on my system, Media Manager will not find half of the videos on my PC. I assume they're a format MM doesn't understand. I even had a .mp4 file that I've played on the PSP so it obviously recognizes it. But MM wouldn't show it as a video I could transfer. I had to copy it with Windows Explorer instead.
Suggestions:
- I'd love to see the Media Manager use codecs from the codec folder the way Windows Media Player does. I could install a codec and all of a sudden, Media Manager could interpret the video and move it to the PSP for me.
- I'd love to see the PSP read pdf documents. But, in lieu of that, maybe Media manager could convert pdf to html for me so that I could read them on the PSP.
- The Media Manager ought to be able to read the PSP without making a full copy of everything, and ought to allow me to turn off that behavior.
- I would like to make playlists with Media Manager that show up on my PSP, but can't do that either.
This is decent software if you want to back up your memory cards, but isn't worth paying extra. It ought to be bundled with the PSP, and many of us still wouldn't use it. With a little extra expertise, Windows Explorer and a free mp4 video encoder will do everything this software can do.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful: By R. Frank (Phoenix, AZ)
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
This product works exactly as advertised for moving music, video, and RSS feeds to your PSP. I've used it in conjunction with my DVR to put numerous episodes of Seinfeld on my PSP for those short airplane trips, as well as full length movies for the longer trips. The RSS feature is nice because it not only lets you select your own, it also has some good presets to get you started.
While most of the transferring of files to your PSP can be done using Explorer, Media Manager is a very useful product for getting videos and music in the right format, folder, and with the necessary thumbnails on your PSP.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful: By R. Jensen "www.motorspanish.com" (Norfolk, VA USA)
Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars
Do not buy this software! Buy the new Vista compatible update directly from Sony for $16.95. This version is superior because it includes more codecs and a way to backup game demos.
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* Simple drag-and-drop tools let you preview photos, videos, and music on your PC -- simply drag them to the My PSP pane
* Turn photos into thumbnails, or rotate them before transferring -- supports all popular image formats including. jpg,. bmp,. gif,. png, and. tif
* Transfer and manage all popular audio file types -. mp3,. wav,. wma,. ogg, and. m4a
* CD extraction lets you transfer your CDs to your PSP system
* Enjoy. mp4,. avi,. mpg,. mov,. wmv, and other popular video formats - or convert them to high-quality Sony AVC/AAC video for optimized viewing
Most Helpful Customer Reviews 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful: By Mike F. Schmidt (Odessa, FL USA)
Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars
If you don't mind allowing this software to manage everything for you its own way, it's probably fine. I paid for the software and now I use Windows Explorer to manage my PSP.
First of all, it insists on making a complete copy of your memory stick when you run Media Manager. I use 4GB memory sticks to store videos and music and I don't really need an extra copy of all of that clogging my laptop's hard drive. I'd rather not make a copy, but that's not an option that I can uncheck anywhere. I have to manually stop the process each time I run Memory Manager or insert another memory card.
Second, if you didn't use Media Manager to put the files on your PSP, for some reason Media Manager won't show them to you. I can see hundreds of mp3s on my PSP from Windows Explorer, but Media Manager shows me an empty window. I can't even browse what's already on the PSP with this software. OK, it finally figured it out, but only after I allowed it 3.5 gigabytes of my precious disk space to make full copies of everything.
Third, I expected a drag and drop video functionality. The main reason I wanted this software was to provide me a failsafe way to encode mp4 video to the PSP. I've used other software and got tired of renaming files for the PSP to recognize them. Unfortunately, even if I have the codec installed on my system, Media Manager will not find half of the videos on my PC. I assume they're a format MM doesn't understand. I even had a .mp4 file that I've played on the PSP so it obviously recognizes it. But MM wouldn't show it as a video I could transfer. I had to copy it with Windows Explorer instead.
Suggestions:
- I'd love to see the Media Manager use codecs from the codec folder the way Windows Media Player does. I could install a codec and all of a sudden, Media Manager could interpret the video and move it to the PSP for me.
- I'd love to see the PSP read pdf documents. But, in lieu of that, maybe Media manager could convert pdf to html for me so that I could read them on the PSP.
- The Media Manager ought to be able to read the PSP without making a full copy of everything, and ought to allow me to turn off that behavior.
- I would like to make playlists with Media Manager that show up on my PSP, but can't do that either.
This is decent software if you want to back up your memory cards, but isn't worth paying extra. It ought to be bundled with the PSP, and many of us still wouldn't use it. With a little extra expertise, Windows Explorer and a free mp4 video encoder will do everything this software can do.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful: By R. Frank (Phoenix, AZ)
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
This product works exactly as advertised for moving music, video, and RSS feeds to your PSP. I've used it in conjunction with my DVR to put numerous episodes of Seinfeld on my PSP for those short airplane trips, as well as full length movies for the longer trips. The RSS feature is nice because it not only lets you select your own, it also has some good presets to get you started.
While most of the transferring of files to your PSP can be done using Explorer, Media Manager is a very useful product for getting videos and music in the right format, folder, and with the necessary thumbnails on your PSP.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful: By R. Jensen "www.motorspanish.com" (Norfolk, VA USA)
Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars
Do not buy this software! Buy the new Vista compatible update directly from Sony for $16.95. This version is superior because it includes more codecs and a way to backup game demos.
Click To Get A "PSP Media Manager"
