Engadget notes that you can download music to your PSP via WiFi.
This could come in handy to swap out some new tunes on the go. The how-to essentially involves a shareware application called Dot Tunes to serve your iTunes library over the web. The interface includes a method for downloading new tracks, so you can suck down new tunes to your PSP from the local wifi coffee shop or wherever.
You know who’s good at that; Rich MacKinnon of Austin’s Less Networks. Austin’s annual South By Southwest Music Festival provided a huge BitTorrent file (2.6 GB) of more than 750 songs, from the festival. Free. It could be downloaded into an iPod for festival goers.
The music hotspots let fans search for shows by time, venue, genre or band name, and then listen to a full-quality MP3 of the band. A smaller BitTorrent file (345 MB) of 30-second song clips was also available. BitTorrent is the free peer-to-peer file-sharing application.
Austin Wireless also provides hotspot access to more than 175 newspapers and magazines in a deal with NewsStand. The NewsStand offering will include such publications as “The New York Times,” “Texas Monthly” and the “Austin-American Statesman.” Unlike most of the services offered via the network, such as free Internet and iTunes access, having the ability to download NewsStand publications will cost users.
Austin Wireless is behind the Texas-based Austin Wireless City Project, designed to deliver free Wi-Fi access to the public. The project consists of 75 locations in Austin and 117 locations worldwide — Less Networks helps support the global locations.
The basic concept behind Less Networks is that premium services can subsidize “free” WiFi access. It’s a concept we’ve been promoting for five years. Sony’s Playstation Portable could be just the platform to do it.
How’s that for public service. You might even get a grant!
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