As part of a promo for their new brand Frappucinno, Starbucks have put together 10 cool free songs!BUT - they are available from iTunes. Not much use if your MP3 player can’t get access!!

The good news is that PSP gamers CAN get iTunes music onto their PSP’s.  But, before we let you in on that - lets just get you motivated! Check out the free music:

The songs include Frightened Rabbit - “Nothing Like You“ - which can be listed to/previewed in iTunes.

There are also songs from other great bands, including: Macy Gray’s latest song - Kissed It; Hot Chip - “One Life Stand“; Goldfrapp - “Rocket“; Yoav - “Greed“; Shout Out Louds - “Walls“; Wintersleep - “New Inheritors“;  The Bamboos - “On The Sly“;  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - “Bad Blood“;   Wye Oak - “My Creator“. Macy Gray’s song is also a great choice for this Frappucinno Beverage Music Mix as you can see/hear in the vid:

So - How do you get this great free music onto your PSP?

As to getting the files onto the PSP, you have to use a USB cable between your computer and the PSP.  It is not supplied, but is cheap to find anywhere.

1. insert usb into your computer and psp
2. go onto computer
3. click on the harddrive that has psp
4. open it and there should be 4 different choices
5. click on music
6 then copy and paste your desired music from itunes or any other music opperator

And enjoy the free music!

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If you check around the site you will find some guides to getting some free music for your PSP. These are all great ways to get free music - but are usually for music from lesser known or beginning musicians. If you are wanting to get hold of free music from your favorite artists - then you might want to check out cool this site we found. Its currently offering 25 free MP3s - and they are also DMR-free (which means that they can be played on our PSP) and you can choose from any top artist.

The 25 songs are completely free and you get them by signing up for a free trialwith the site. Now you have to give credit card details - so if you don’t have one you will need to get your parents or a friend to sign up for you. Its easy to cancel your free subscription (we’ve tested the system out and it is easy)

So - go check them out. And Enjoy! (PS if you need to find out how to download music to your PSP, check out this link)

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According to a report this week from Cnet News:

Sony has spoken with some of the major recording companies about providing music for the PlayStation Portable.

Cnet goes on to suggest that Sony might consider not making the music available in MP3 format (the most common format) but might try to limit PSP users so that they basically have to buy off  Sony.

It would be hard not to know that Sony are suffering in the recessions as so many people have been chucked out of their jobs there. But the one thing really booming on the internet is music sales. And every big internet business seems to want a piece of that action!

The thing is that Sony already has a piece of this action - as it is part owner of Dada.com - which provides MP3 music on a monthly subscription basis. So it would make sense to just make it possible for PSP owners to get their music from Dada. Its got to be their easiest and cheapest option. We will keep you updated and let you know if they offer any good free trials (they used to have a ‘25 free songs’ trial but that’s been reduced to just three at the mo).

In the meantime, check out this video to get music to play in the background while you are playing a game:

And here is an easy-to-follow guide on how to download music to the PSP - for those who have not worked out howto do it!

And final link - go here to find out how to get yourselves a stack of free music (about 300,000 songs by our count!)

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