Posted Apr 25, 2006 at 04:01PM by Ian S. Listed in: Firmware
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We received notification via email (thanks, yoyoboymartin!) of a new feature in Firmware 2.70 that went unmentioned by Sony regarding the MP3 player. Before, in order to assign album art, you had to use a program like Sonic Stage to embed it within the MP3 file. Now, with the new version out (2.70), you can simply put the JPEG file in the same folder as the music, creating the art for the playlist. Very useful when trying to organize your music, but more importantly... Could this lead to a new exploit? While it would be pretty silly of Sony to make the same mistake twice, all you hackers out there in forum-land will surely take a look at this and see what you can do! Meanwhile, we'll keep you posted here at QJ.


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   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » whats?

so, what if your running sonic stage? it doesnt put music in the music folder. then where does the jpeg go?

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » 2.60...

ummm i dont know about other people who put music on their PSPs...but when i rip "legal" cds' into my psp (fw 2.60) i already have the album art on it....and i could easily remove/add different album covers by changing the settings on the folders

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » yes!

fan bloody tastic! The Loader off the memcard should come in handy too! Fanjita you legend, do it again!!! ;)

   by overflow.tiff - 2006-04-25

overflow.tiff seeks revenge!!!???
i'll look into this.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » lmao

if it would lead to a exploit then why would they put it in?....

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » 1.0

This was in 1.0..

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » wow

this site sucks

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » When?

When will people learn not to make posts like "first post, i own all"?

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   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » well

they keep cracking the firmwares... so why not this?

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » Agreed

Agreed #9

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » 13

why are you here then? checking the news.....?!

   by kevin102 - 2006-04-25
 » yesss

fanjitaaaaaaaaa u got sum hacking to do lol

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » @17

"N00b" and "newb" both mean "newbie", which means a newcomer to a particular field.

"N00b" is the "1337" spelling of "newb".

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » Oh yes

"N00b" is sometimes taken to be offensive, in some cases. :/

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » tsk tsk tsk.........

Don't you realize Sony wants us to use homebrew. Just think about it .......people that try to hack this in their free time have been able to do it. They have probaly 15 workers working on one small feature and they have been programing for a long time and have jobs don't you think they can outsmart a couple of people that are fooling around with it (no offense to anyone that takes programing very very serously, just in general). This helps keep people interested in the psp why do you think you come back and check this website everyday? Let me answer that HOMEBREW. The only reason they don't make it easy is because they try to avoid piracy and it wouldn't be exciting anymore if sony gave up.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » def

n00b being not knowing the rules, hence the offensive

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » dumb

first of all, you could do this before, so this is no big deal.

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   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » lol

so does anybody know if it works?

   by Elliott M - 2006-04-25
 » @23

i really wish that you are right, but i kind of doubt it

   by kevin102 - 2006-04-25
 » yesss

fanjitaaaaaaaaa u got sum hacking to do lol

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » Don't totally know what this means

What Does this mena exactly?

   by overflow.tiff - 2006-04-25

corrupted pictures wont show up under music in anyway.
clever sony, real clever.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » so

well the art thing is really gay but the new exploit if found would be awsome! and why would anyone want to upgrade when 2.0+ is at its peak right now?

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » PSPSPSPSPSPSPS

It means he plays his PSP in the shower. Fanjita couldnt hack a clock to tell time

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » Been there

This feature has been in the PSP at least since 1.5 because all I do is throw a folder.jpg file in with my mp3's and it picks it up.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » wtf

umm wtf i got 1.50 and can view album art by just dropping my music into music folder,so how the hell is this anything new??????????

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » wow hahahaha

wow man this is old old old i have album art on my 2.0 even before i upgraded to 2.0 all my music had album cover this news is noob news lol

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   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » LOL

this isnt new..qj is just tarded.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » this is retarded

who ever was saying all that stuff and acting gay there *****ing stupid because thats like that with my 2.5 so ***** u

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-25
 » ^

Your two dads



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