Almost a year ago since the Sony PSP launched in the gaming



market and what impact it‘s made. The Sony PSP has many

features and aside from games, I find that the music feature

of the PSP is one of the most attractive features. I‘ve

enjoyed listening and downloading music from the internet

and on my Sony PSP where most of them requires MP3 format. I

then started to wonder why MP3 is the most used format

instead of other formats such as Wma, AAC or Atrac3.

Originally developed in Germany, a file extension that

encodes music into three layers for the compression of audio

signals known as the MPEG Audio Layer 3 (MP3). To make it

simple, MP3 compresses CD-quality sound by a factor of about

10, while retaining most of the original fidelity, for

instance, 30 MB CD track can be compressed into 3 MB MP3

file.

The MP3 files can easily be transferred across the internet

since the files are relatively small. Nowadays, more and

more websites allows you to download MP3 music from the

internet for free and some may charge you for a few bucks.

The most popular ones such as Napster and Kazaa often allows

you to download it for free. However, it creates a problem

for them as they apparently violated the copyrighted MP3

files and as a result facing unnecessary charges. Here are a

couple of websites that I can think of:

http://www.realmusicnow.com

http://www.mp3-freebie.com

http://www.mp3musiq.com

http://www.mp3advance.com

http://klitetk.com

Is not just that MP3 can be found on the internet very

easily but can also be converted from music CD. The process

of converting a digital audio track from a music CD to the

MP3 format is widely known as "ripping". Music CDs can be

converted to MP3 very easily using a stand-alone program or

a function in a software-based media player such as Windows

Media Player 10, Real Player, iTunes and others. Windows

Media Player 10 can rip the MP3 bit rates from 8 kbps to

320 kbps but on average 128 kbps (kilobits per second) can

be considered the norm of good quality MP3 files.

In my opinion, MP3 rates the best for converting and

downloading music files quickly and easily. However, some

disadvantages might disappoint us PSP and music fanatics

since we‘re finding the lowest possible MB (megabytes) that

stores in our PSP memory stick. First, it’s difficult to

convert music files provided by commercial online music

distribution services such as Sony’s Connect and iTunes

Music Store. The supported and protected Digital Management

Rights (DRM) music files aims to control and restrict the

use of digital music. Also, the DRM technology installed on

software-based media program such as Windows Media Player 10

makes it very difficult for us to convert online-purchased

music files into MP3.

Second, the highly compressed and quality audio of MP3 files

uses more of our memory stick capacity compare to Atrac3.

The Atrac3 music format compress audio CD files to the

lowest possible MB along with the same if not better audio

quality than the MP3s. This can be good news for us music

fanatics who wants to enhance music collection on their Sony

PSP. Unfortunately Atrac3 is less user-friendly than the MP3

which disappoints most of us.

Regardless of this, everyone should get their MP3 and

download it to their PSP. MP3 is the most standardized

format and widely accepted throughout any software-based

media player or converter. You can download or convert it to

your Sony PSP very quickly and easily with its more

intuitive and user-friendly approach.

So, start download MP3 music to your PSP today!