No problemo, I really love the PS4, but that doesn't mean the system is without faults :D

Oh well there is one massive reason you can't rip your music from CD's into the PS4's HDD.... it can't play Music CDs at all, like... if you put a audio CD in there it just spins up for a second and does nothing with it. But yeah I remember you could just fill a usb stick with mp3s and copy them all onto the PS3 HDD for storage.

That said though... the PS3 could not play Audio from the HDD during all games, I still remember laughing our ass's off in a mates place because every time we finished a game of Street Fighter 4 the PS3 would restart the MP3 that he had put going before we started to play our rounds, but in game the audio playback would stop and restart again on returning to the menu for a minute... think we heard the start of "back in the new york groove" about 100 times that night lol. The ps4 on the other hand can have spotify running during all games, and it has a very nice volume slider to adjust so you can get a perfect mix between in game SFX of cars in driveclub and your own custom soundtracks.

Oh... there is one time the PS4 can't have music playing! When remote playing to the Vita, it does not allow you stream Spotify to the Vita from the console.

Just grab a PC

Something to do with security reasons i think? I know that Bethesda couldn't get mods on PS4 because of Sonys propitiatory formats the PS4 requires.

if you have a smart TV, it'll have a usb port, you can just stick in an external hdd, or a flash drive to watch your movies, pictures or w/e, it can even do that wireless.

See. That's the kind of comment I respect. We all love our consoles and have our favorite companies but sometimes, we get blinded.

It is really sad how bad the PS4 is for pictures and videos. I really wish Sony would loosen the regulations on downloading and veiwing files. I would love to be able to view and download pdf files for banking, and upload/download family videos and photos on Play Memories.

I would love to see Firefox and VLC Player come to PS4 and PS4 Pro. If Sony is serious about changing peoples view on consoles, then they have to change their ways. PSVR and PSVR are not going to have an iPhone like effect like they want if they keep up this overly controlling position. The controlled ecosystem is great for keeping the system secure, and delivering quality content, but going to overboard cripples the system.

One of my greatest joys last gen was using my PS4 browser to download movies, mp3s, images, and animated themes via the browser. If they were going to allow this, I'm sure we'd have it by now but really hope they bring it back. PS3 only did everything.

Yeah oddly my Sony Home theater system in my basement plays all files..

however my PS4 in the Guest Bedroom does not :(


Odd...

Might be an idea to get a Plex account. my mate has one and he has set it up on a local 6TB server in his home. it pays everything and it's very fast.