KK’s PSP Radio brings Shoutcast and more to your PSP

There’s a lot of homebrew in the PSP scene but to access it you’ll have to do more than just mod your handheld. A labyrinth of unnavigable forums holds the mythic keys to custom firmwares, kernals, and plugins that are are required just to do something seemingly simple like listen to a shoutcast station.

That’s what’s so brilliant about KK’s PSP Radio, you don’t have do anything more elaborate than load up pspradio.co.uk on your PSP’s web browser. The site walks you through a series of screens from which you save a handful of files to your PSP. The site knows what to name them and where to put them and after a few minutes of saving and clicking the ‘NEXT’ button you’ll see something similar to the screen above.

Click ‘Find Music’, enter your desired search string and wham-o, you have all of Shoutcast at your disposal. You can save any station to your own presets for quick access, you can browse and post to the PSPRadio Forums, download skins and animated visualizers (there’s only a couple right now), log into MSN Mobile and access your PSP browser’s bookmarks to pseudo-surf the internet. All this while your selected station is playing and displaying track info at the top of the screen.

It’s absolute genius and it performs outstandingly well. And with no modding required there’s no excuse not to give it a shot for yourself.