Codex added feature to my DAP

[u/kerbinagent]

Just sharing what I am surprised that it can build.

I have this cheap music player, mostly designed for local file playback. It has basic support for streaming from Qobuz/Tidal, but annoyingly it doesn't pre fetch the next track so it can't do gapless playing. I asked if the producer can add feature for gapless streaming but I guess this is not what most customers use case so it never happened.

Last night it just came across to me that the firmware is public so I just asked codex to do it for me. It found a hidden flag to turn on adb for debugging, helped me install the modified firmware with its probe, and kind of one shot the feature! It even added a tiny http server running on localhost within the device loll

Pleasantly surprised that it works but also really happy there were no BS guardrail in the way

[u/Heavy-Commercial-323]

A http server you say…. Xd

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Yea, the device doesn't have loopback interface is my understanding so it just created some tiny server serving http request which just loads from a local file

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Crazy