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Hacking the Streamium

Posted by timothy on from the make-it-do-your-bidding dept.

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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  1. Reaction? by Shishio · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Well I'm too sleepy to think much beyond the fact that Phillips probably won't like this.

    How long before version 2 units that prevent this, or some other propietary work that forces someone to do some more reverse engineering?

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  2. Futuretelling by eddy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Normally this would point back at the pc-link server and the streamium would just access the mp3 file through there, but you could give it a url for some mp3 stream somewhere on the internet."

    I see a fireware upgrade in the near future :-\

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  3. Tomorrows front page by 91degrees · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Phillips starts a tenuous DMCA lawsuit against the reverse engineers