Use PSP as a media player of your iTunes music library, remotely
The PSP firmware 2.6 supports Podcast partially. Here “partically” means it only supports streaming of mp3 files, not downloading to your memory stick.
I first thought this is a bullshit, however now I tend to think this is a nice thing. You don’t have to care about the memory stick available size, and you don’t have to synchronize PSP and your home PC music library with a crappy Sony’s software.
So here’s a hack to play iTunes music library on PSP via wi-fi.
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Upgrade your PSP firmware to 2.6
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Install and setup Apache to mount your iTunes library (e.g. My Documents/My Music in win32, /Library/Music/… for Mac OSX)
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Install the recent version of mod_index_rss which supports RSS 2.0 enclosures (Not sure how we can do this on Win32 box)
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Subscribe to mod_index_rss URL (like /path/to/dir/?rss) on your PSP RSS reader
Now it’s done! the mod_index_rss module automatically serves RSS 2.0 with enclosures pointing to mp3/m4a files, which can be fetched on-demand from PSP. Now you can listen to your iTunes Music Library @ home from anywhere you’re connected to Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is now available in anywhere, esp. if you’re in Tokyo or San Francisco, right?.
Well, the step 2. and 3. might be a bit painful for Windows32 users but if you have ActivePerl, writing a perl server script (using HTTP::Server::Simple) to do the same thing will be trivial.
By the way David and I started the rework of Trickster 2.0 this weekend (inspired by the mp3tunes.com Oboe locker thing) and it’ll be a lot of fun.