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."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Hrm... why give your money to a clueless old-skool consumer electronics concern when you can get something that comes out of the box with

• a polished user interface
  
• extensive API accessible through both HTTP and a persistent socket interface
  
• a plugin architecture for your own perl add-ons
  
• active hacker community
  
• full protocol docs published and supported by the manufacturer
  
• damn there's too much to list - just go to the site.