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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. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fp
    you fucking suck and i hope you die
    seriously. fucking die.

  2. you like goatse? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i know i sure as hell do, but not as much as you!!!

  3. I didn't want to get Timothy pregnant, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    so I blew my load in his EYE!

  4. Who in the hell... by josh+crawley · · Score: -1, Troll

    Would buy this crap if they cant even trust their own protocols? Couldnt they even use a standard interface? NooOOoooo. They use some non-standard crap that has to be patched together by perl.

    It should be called Crapium.

  5. Re:Just thought of it ... by B3ryllium · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yup, I knew full-well how stupid the joke was. I just enjoy it.

    All your base are belong to us. :P

  6. Re:ratio estimates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    dear moderator,
    i just bitchslapped you in meta-mod, asshat.

  7. Moron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're just sprouting nonsense to hide the inferiority of your hardware product.

    Stupid fool. Get a fucking life!