2.70 Firmware Features New Album Art System

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.

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.