Cool trick: listening to your music while browsing the internet

Last night I stumbled across a neat thing with my PS3. It might be old news to some (all?) of you but I thought I'd share it for people whodon't know it yet.

When you play your music (I'm using media server w/ TVersity), you can tap the PS button, which brings you back to the XMB. From there you can browse the internet, run a slideshow w/ your jpeg, etc. Tapping the PS button brings you back and forth to the music player and the place you've been. This allows you to skip over your collection of mp3s/music files.

So you can basically run a slideshow with background music, or browse the internet while listening toyour song collection. Kind of like a PC, but better! Because it's your PS3 and it's hooked to your big screen TV and sound systems (presumably).

Perhaps it's common knowledge but it's new to me.

I wonder if this is true for PSP as well, I have to try it out.

old news, its exactly like pressing the home button on psp

Always could do this, can do it with photos too. Neat, but we need in game now though...

LOL! So all this time I've been lamenting about how I could do other things w/ the PS3 while playing mp3s(w/o having to stare at the music player's screensaver) for nothing?

Now if only Sony releases an e-book reader on the PSP (instead of homebrews), sitting on the john would be more enjoyable.

old news, its exactly like pressing the home button on psp

-MoOkS-

when you're listening to music on the psp, and you press the home button and then try to go on the internet "or do anything else", the music will just stop......so i think this is a new thing for the ps3 :)

Last night I stumbled across a neat thing with my PS3. It might be old news to some (all?) of you but I thought I'd share it for people whodon't know it yet.

When you play your music (I'm using media server w/ TVersity), you can tap the PS button, which brings you back to the XMB. From there you can browse the internet, run a slideshow w/ your jpeg, etc. Tapping the PS button brings you back and forth to the music player and the place you've been. This allows you to skip over your collection of mp3s/music files.

So you can basically run a slideshow with background music, or browse the internet while listening toyour song collection. Kind of like a PC, but better! Because it's your PS3 and it's hooked to your big screen TV and sound systems (presumably).

Perhaps it's common knowledge but it's new to me.

I wonder if this is true for PSP as well, I have to try it out.

RogueFish

hey that is cool i never knew that an im going to try it in a few.

Last night I stumbled across a neat thing with my PS3. It might be old news to some (all?) of you but I thought I'd share it for people whodon't know it yet.

When you play your music (I'm using media server w/ TVersity), you can tap the PS button, which brings you back to the XMB. From there you can browse the internet, run a slideshow w/ your jpeg, etc. Tapping the PS button brings you back and forth to the music player and the place you've been. This allows you to skip over your collection of mp3s/music files.

So you can basically run a slideshow with background music, or browse the internet while listening toyour song collection. Kind of like a PC, but better! Because it's your PS3 and it's hooked to your big screen TV and sound systems (presumably).

Perhaps it's common knowledge but it's new to me.

I wonder if this is true for PSP as well, I have to try it out.

RogueFish

Thanks dude, but this was a function from 11/17.:)

as mentioned before if you try to browse the web while listening to music on the psp, the music shuts off. i thought this was the same for the ps3. i knew you could multitask music and pictures, but i didn't think the music would stay one when you got online.

thanks for the notice.

yeah i found out about it a few weeks ago.

old news, its exactly like pressing the home button on psp

-MoOkS-

except you cant run pictures or internet or music all at the same time on PSP