Kerblam! by Christopher

Monday, July 16

To fool the cablemusic.com player into giving you 64k streams, do this:

Open the stream of your choice. For instance, Drum and Bass/Jungle can be opened by going to:
//www.cablemusic.com/cmcPlayer/player.asp?n64k=0&program=Jungle

Now, in this URL we can see a variable to disable 64k streams. Hah hah...

In hunting through the HTML code for the player window, I came across this subroutine in the Javascripts:

function set64k(b64k)
{
// JMH b64k = 0 ;
g_b64k=b64k;
SetCookie(g_cs64k,(g_b64k ? 1 : 0),dexp,'/','cablemusic.com');

}

Therefore, to enable the 64k streams just change the n64k=0 (off state) to b64k=1 (on state) in the URL.
This'll change the cookie to use 64k streams. However, to open the new 64k streams you have to choose
your station of choice from the little pull-down menu in the centre-left of the player console. That'll
open the 64k stream. Also, if you mouse over the preset buttons you'll see "Station Name (64kbps)".

This will tell you that you've accessed the 64kbps streams - which are apparently "down" at the moment. heh.

*methinks they couldn't afford the bandwidth costs hehe*

And thus concludes my tutorial for today. Class is dismissed children; don't torch my car like you did last lunchtime. ;)

Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted
into his blog at 7/16/2001 11:16:00 AM. Roughly.
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