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Hacking the Streamium
UVwarning writes "I submitted a review to Slashdot about a month ago complaining about various problems with Philips' streamium MCi-200 (an Internet micro hi-fi system). The main gripes being that Philips controls which Internet radio stations you can listen to and that the PC-link software (which is used to serve MP3s from your PC to your Streamium) only runs on Windows. I managed to fix both of these problems by reverse engineering the PC-link protocol and writing my own pc-link server in perl, which can be run on practically any OS, *and* can trick the Streamium into playing any Internet MP3 stream that you want! This is a must-have for any Streamium user. Here is a more detailed article along with the perl script and an outline of the PC-link protocol."
Philips sues *you* and throws *you* in jail!
Seriously, you're going to taste the blade of the DMCA pretty soon. I mean, what if Philips wanted to sell you this new-found freedom for $39.99 in the form of a "Freedom Xpansion Pack(tm)"?
So get your mirrors on, bitches!
You've just "reverse-engineered" HTTP and XML.
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Taken from slimdevices.com: "SLIMP3 is an MP3 player that streams your music from your computer to your home stereo over your network without loss in sound quality."
WTF
Streaming without loss of quality? I don't know what network the people who make SLIMP3 use but MY TCP/IP network never degrades the quality of the mp3s I transfer over it.
Streamium - Streaming at a premium!
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
What do ya know? Cheaper than the Streamium, yet I can play movies too.
You can play movies without a monitor?
Well, I suppose you can play them, just you won't be able to actually see them.
Mark