Playstation3 - Help please

duksbak
duksbak Posts: 134
edited July 2007 in Video Games
I have not been having much sucess at using a thumb drive to play content on my PS3.

My PC died, and its going to be a while before I can get cash to build a new system. In the mean time, I have been trying to get the PS3 to reconize and play back MP3 files using a thumb drive. If I can get that going, I might be able to get my HDD in an enclosure so I can have all 105G of MP3s (as well as movies and pictures) to playback on my PS3.

I reformated this thumb drive I have in a fat32 and got the PS3 to reconize the drive, but when I put some MP3 files on it, my PS3 still reconized the drive but couldn't read the MP3 files.

Does anyone have an external HDD hooked to their PS3? What could I be doing wrong, or what could I do to make this work?
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited July 2007
    I've never tried playing off of a thumb drive before. This seems to suggest that you need to put the files in a properly labled folder: VIDEO, PICTURE, or MUSIC.

    http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3media&thread.id=57277

    What format is your HDD? The best way to play off a HDD is not through USB. It's actually to upgrade the internal drive of the ps3 for a direct SATA connection. Standard 200+GB SATA 2.5" laptop drives are drop in replacements for the internal one in the ps3. Or you can connect a 3.5" SATA drive if you don't mind having the sata cable coming out of the drive door to an external drive. Here's a step by step video on how easy it is:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJrLMZw0Jp4

    And here are some great software tools for file conversion and tranferring files over a network to the ps3:

    http://www.redkawa.com/
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited July 2007
    Ive heard that it will take up to a 750 gig drive formatted fat32.

    I thought you could simply connect and external HD by USB2 also right?
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited July 2007
    I just think that unless you move your hdd a lot and want the portability, the native SATA connection if far better than usb for whatever media files you play off it. And 3.5" drives are cheap. A 750GB ps3 boot drive. Now wouldn't that be something. I think I saw one for only about two franklins...
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  • duksbak
    duksbak Posts: 134
    edited July 2007
    Thanks for the info...

    My PC broke so I only have access here at work, and can't click on links because I can only view websites of product we sell (like this one). I would love to buy an external but even a sale one at like 69.00 is still 69.00 I can save to dump into building a new pc. So I have my HDD from my broken PC I wanted to just put in an enclosure (like 25 bucks, cheap) and run though my PS3.

    This is what I have been trying to do and have been really unsuccessful at it. I have not tried to do the labeled folders. Ill try to do that with a thumb drive and if it works, I can take my HDD to a friends house and try to file all my pics movies and MP3 files that way.

    I have connected my HDD to my PC via USB using an enclosure and my PS3 didnt see it. Like mentioned before, the only way I got my PS3 to see anything was that thumb drive formatted in a fat32, ...but than couldnt read any MP3's directly on it.
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited July 2007
    Well, if your hard drive is SATA, a small enclosure for it is only $15-$20. Then bring your ps3 over to your friends house. Transfer all your files to his computer (the drive has to be reformatted to be the ps3's boot drive.) Make the drive the ps3's boot drive, and transfer all the stuff over the network using redkawa's file server. Things are still more portable and flexible if you just get a new computer and use a DNLA compliant media server like WMP 11. The ps3 should recognize files served from that platform. Post if you can get your hdd to work with USB, though. I'd be interested to hear if you can get it working.
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  • duksbak
    duksbak Posts: 134
    edited July 2007
    I havent given up, I think I can get it to read via USB.

    I had my old PC set up as a media server via WMP11 before it broke down. It was an old Emachine I had for about 5 years, I have had it pretty maxed out in upgrades untill lightning took out the processer, MB and ram ; ;

    All music I have now is what I have fed to the PS3's HDD with my own collection of CD's. I have lots more music (paid for and not) on my old HDD (Its an old drive, connected it with an IDE cable so I don't think its a SATA).

    Ill update when I get it to read my files via USB.

    Wish me luck.
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