PSP Media Manager

by Sony

Product Features

• 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

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000JGW9AE
• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 15, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,339 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #32 in Video Games > Sony PSP > Hardware > Cables & Adapters
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Do NOT BUY. Available for FREE, March 16, 2008

By 

arisrocks - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: PSP Media Manager (Video Game)

http://www.us.playstation.com/psn/mediamanager/

Yes it's from SONY's Playstation site. It's new, they finally succumbed to the pressure that it SHOULD have been included in the first place with the PSP.
I have an XP, it works great for transferring video and music. You don't need it for transferring games/demos.

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Does what it says, but completely inflexible, September 13, 2007

By 

Mike Schmidt (Mississippi USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: PSP Media Manager (Video Game)

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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Essential PSP, January 30, 2007

By 

Mark Fairchilds "college student" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: PSP Media Manager (Video Game)

I didn't think that I would need this at first, but the features are too good to pass up. If you are going to be using the multimedia features of your PSP, definitely consider this software.

The Good: All the recoded videos look awesome, music copies with album art so it looks pretty, save games are backed up just in case you accidentally find the format function, pictures are resized so they load quickly and still look gorgous, and having bookmarks really saves a lot of time with web addresses that can be spent waiting for pages to load (and that takes a while).

The Bad: If music or photos are stored in any folder but the My Music and My Pictures folder on your PC, then the media manager makes a subfolder on the psp for those items. From inside the software, you can't undo this. You have to exit the software and go into the drive through explorer and move the files around yourself. Also, not all videos are recognized by the software. I was surprised that the movie encoded with XVID was able to transcode, but that it wouldn't touch the uncompressed AVI's from my digital camera. <-- Quick Fix: Put your movie into movie maker and save as a WMV. This software also can only use *.url files from the Favorites folder and won't pull firefox bookmarks.

Overall: I would recommend this software. Just be aware that if you don't let Windows run everything right now, then you are going to have to use some work arounds.