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More and more people want to download music to their PSP game console.

The Sony PSP was not originally made to play music. It was designed to be a mobile 3D-game engine - just like the game boy was before for the 2D-game world.

It happens quite often however that these technical gadgets get used for other things that what the original creators had in mind.

Actually the PSP is very capable of playing movies and music as well. The sound quality is fantastic.

It can be difficult to get songs on UMD, which is the PSP media format, but you can easily copy your existing MP3 collection from your hard drive on to your PSP.

In case you want to transfer audio CDs to the PSP you first need to convert the music from the CD to files on your computer and then transfer these to the PSP.

To do this, you would need a PSP memory card big enough to store your music files, CD ripping software if you want to convert audio CD tracks for PSP use and a USB cable to connect your computer and PSP together.

You can also get software to make the process quicker and easier. These programs will extract the music from whichever CDs you choose, convert them into the correct PSP format and then transfer them on to the PSP.

Some such software can also compile a music library on your PC for you and remember which songs you have already put on your PSP, so you won’t accidentally put the same songs on twice.

If you want to use a program like this, you just have to ensure your PSP is connected to your computer, start the program and hit “synchronize”. That’s how easy it is.

The advantage when your download music to the PSP is that the PSP does not use a proprietary format like the iTunes software does when connecting to the iPod. So while the PSP is certainly not a full-blown music player it is definitely a game console that got into the groove of MP3 tunes.