Sony PSP Media Manager | 
 enlarge | From: Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment
Category: Software
List Price: $29.95
Buy Used: $3.05
You Save: $26.90 (90%)
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 3241
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 100728
UPC: 855309777661
EAN: 0855309777661
ASIN: B000E45MRS
Release Date: February 27, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 |
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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(R) Duo media
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
Vista Users September 24, 2007
A. Sheed
This is a great product I use it almost daily. Download has always been quick and easy for me. However, this is not for Vista users, even though it does say XP or later, which really sucks, because now I have to go out and buy it again when they have upgraded.
 Easy, easy, easy!!! Just the way I like it! March 15, 2007
David
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently purchased a PSP and therefore was unfamiliar with it. I read of all the problems converting video to .MP4 format and transferring data to the PSP in general. Purchasing the Sony Media Manager software was an excellent decision! For $24.99 you'll get the proper USB cable and the software on CD. The software installs easily and flawlessly. The very first time I used it there was no need to even read the directions. It's a very intuitive, simple, drag and drop software application. In no time at all I had transferred photos, music and video to the PSP. The software did everything for me automatically and everything worked flawlessly. Easy, that's for me!
 Additional Garbage November 20, 2006
D. Jones (Iraq)
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
This product is futher reason why the PSP is a failed system for anything, but video games (that is unless you have a playstation 2 were the games cost at least $10 less I would't bother) The video transfer is useless unless you already have an encoder program on your computer. The files once bragged and dropped are put in to it's own filing system not yours. If you want to organize your photos for get it. If you think you can create your own musical playlist anyway you want think again.
The Media Manager is is less like a helpful employee and more like a tyrant boss complete with whip.
I usually like Sony products, but the PSP is a money pit and this is just one of the snakes at the bottom.
 This software would be over-priced if it were free May 20, 2006
Jason M. Schmitz
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
PSP Media Manager does a few things right. When it does manage to convert a video file it automatically resizes it, letterboxes it, and copies it to the right folder on your memory stick.
Unfortunately that's about all it gets right. Relying on the outdated video for windows api means that if you don't have the right codecs installed, PSP Media Manager can't decode your video. Sometimes even having the right codecs installed isn't a guarantee of success. If your videos are encoded with Xvid, Divx, or H264 your chances of success are better than fifty percent, but not by much.
PSP Media manager also relies on audio compression manager codecs to decode audio multiplexed into video files. If you happen to have a video file with ac3 audio (a non-standard, unofficial format for .avi files, but common nonetheless) don't even try; it seems bizarre that the program can handle the ac3 audio from an unencrypted DVD without trouble, but can't handle the same audio format in an .avi container. Even fairly common formats such as mp3 are difficult to make work. What's worse, if it can't decode the audio, PSP Media Manager doesn't bother to tell you that it failed. The program copies the video to your PSP without the audio, leaving you to find out later that you've got a silent film on your PSP.
PSP Media Manager makes copying media to your PSP reasonably easy, though if you've got a large media library, you'll find it difficult to organize with this program. Everything is converted to the appropriate format, and copied to the PSP on the fly. This isn't a big deal for audio and photo media; such things don't take long to convert and you won't really notice what's going on in the background. Unfortunately doing this with video files takes a long time on even the fastest of computers. Unless you've got a memory stick reader that you can use instead, your PSP will be tethered to your computer for the duration of the conversion process. If you've got multiple videos to convert, don't bother starting until bed time, that way you can let it run over night. Just remember to check the converted files in the morning -- In case PSP Media Manager left the audio out. It would make much more sense to convert Video to a folder on your hard drive, to be synced to the PSP later. This would also mean that you could store more videos in PSP format than one memory stick can hold. I don't generally know what I intend to watch a day in advance; wouldn't it be nice to have a library of pre-converted videos to chose from, rather than waiting 45 minutes while this program converts the video? Of course, if your willing to navigate the PSP's file structure and copy things manually, you can have such a library. This software is supposed save your from that chore though.
If all you plan to put on your PSP is audio and pictures, PSP Media Manager is the best software you'll find for that purpose. Best among a field of poor offerings isn't much to brag about though. PSP Media Manager is a failure at handling video. I've tried many of the other programs available and they aren't much better for various reasons; many of them are worse. PSP Video 9, a free program, answers many of the issues I have with Sony's software. I have yet to find a video file PSP video 9 can't convert. PSP Video 9 doesn't need a PSP connected to convert video either, it lets you store videos on your hard drive to transfer later, and it hides the PSP file system from you while providing a reasonably friendly interface to manage your video files. One thing PSP Video 9 will not do, is automatically letterbox the images in order to maintain the correct aspect ratio -- the one thing I do like about PSP Media Manager.
Great, Easy to Use Product May 10, 2006
D. Rihal (East Lansing, MI USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This software is the best for using the PSP to its full potential. It's easy to convert video files to the PSP's mpeg-4 format, and backup music, videos, images, and gamesaves to a backup file in your computer.
Great Buy.
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