mass download of music to ps3?

trixter · 02-05-2007 08:18AM #1

I have been looking for a way of transfering many many gigs of songs and other content to my ps3 for easier playback in the livingroom. I tried the usb method (aparently sony doesnt like the driver in my phone, wm5storage, which emulates a usb mass storage device) and was unable to get that done so I looked for network solutions.

The best that I could find were red kawa and others that are basically a webserver and some dynamic content that exposes your harddrive.

This is cumbersome since you must select each movie/music file seperately and approve the download and all. Knowing that the ps3 and psp have some network link they can use, I was wondering if anyone was aware of any better tools that would run on either linux or windows xp that would allow me to transfer en masse to the ps3.

Thanks

Ciaran500 · 02-05-2007 08:41AM

http://forums.qj.net/f-ps3-general-72/t-ps3portal-10-released-101448.html

No idea how good it is, but worth a try.

peepingtom · 02-05-2007 08:45AM

can you not borrow a usb harddrive?

trixter · 02-05-2007 08:49AM

Ciaran500 wrote:

http://forums.qj.net/f-ps3-general-72/t-ps3portal-10-released-101448.html

No idea how good it is, but worth a try.

that is a web page like red kawa and others. Its not anything special in that regard, and it would still require me to select each and every file individually.

trixter · 02-05-2007 08:49AM

peepingtom wrote:

can you not borrow a usb harddrive?

I dont know anyone with one that I could borrow. My phone works with many operating systems as a usb drive but the ps3 doesnt seem to like it, while its only 2GB its still enough to do more mass transfers than what I currently am doing

Ciaran500 · 02-05-2007 09:01AM

Can you burn them to DVD's and pull them off that?

Gran Hermano · 02-05-2007 09:59AM

I'm guessing you're using a 2gb memory card in your phone, if so
have you tried putting the card into a card reader and connecting
it to the PS3?

trixter · 02-05-2007 10:19AM

Ciaran500 wrote:

Can you burn them to DVD's and pull them off that?

I probably could, but didnt want to use that many DVDs. That is why I hoped for some network method ... its kinda a shame that sony didnt make it easier for something to either write to the internal disk or include built in network file sharing.

I could use a flash mp3 streamer but that kinda defeats the point of what I want. I am kinda suprised that there are so many websites talking about 'psp hackers' and 'ps3 hackers' and no one has yet looked into the protocol the two use to talk to each other (or if they are google isnt being helpful). It appears to me that 'ps3 hackers' really means 'insert CD into drive and run something someone else made' - not that different from just playing a game, but ohh its running linux now.

sigh, I wil continue to look for something that might make transfering data easier, I refuse to buy a usb drive just for this. At some point I have to learn more about the ps3 anyway, since I do plan on porting freeswitch.org to it (and not in linux that already works).

Ciaran500 · 02-05-2007 10:21AM

Use a RW DVD? Can you get a lend of a iPod or some other HDD mp3 player?

trixter · 02-05-2007 10:23AM

Gran Hermano wrote:

I'm guessing you're using a 2gb memory card in your phone, if so
have you tried putting the card into a card reader and connecting
it to the PS3?

yes I have I even made sure that the power cord was plugged into the ps3. I made the directories (a few different ways, just to be sure, and caps were correct as indicated). I am thinking its the filesystem, and I am unprepared to format it at this point. Why I wanted some form of network based transfer system (which would be faster anyway since it would take me many cycles of filling and emptying the 2gb card).

mass download of music to ps3?

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