Adding a myspace music player

it's a crap shoot.

We discussed it and decided it's not worth the risk - of course, can't take it off until myspace lets us edit personal profiles again. Grrr.

Great idea though - and I believe one could argue that since it's a musician's personal profile simply showing his OWN music (not someone else's) now that they've disabled the option of changing a personal myspace into a band one, it's legit.

But myspace doesn't give users the opportunity to defend themselves. Sooo... we're following the rules. 

Good luck if you decide to keep yours! 

Whoa, Izzle - now that's awesome!

One of "my" band members has a personal profile but also has one of my music-only creations for his solo stuff that we never quite got off the ground. Maybe I should look into it, esp. now that he's coming home from Iraq next week.

Gosh, I wonder if I can add a second music player to the existing band profile, and not use the link as I do now. I did that a year ago anyways, my skills have improved since. I should clean it up anyways.

Can you PM the profile you did? I would love to see it.

Those darn extended network banners - hate hate hate em.

But as much as I am all about music promotion on myspace, I have to say 3rd party players annoy me. First, I never listen to them and always end up having to turn them off since most of them autostart. Secondly, I've seen the magic first hand of someone hearing a song on someone's profile and adding the artist. Mostly since people are surprised to see one of my guys is still making music, another solo effort. I do believe it ends up selling CDs. Myspace was a huge asset when the band's last CD came out. Sold out quicker than the first - have to blame it on myspace. I think it's crucial that users can easily add songs to their profiles.

But I also realized using this, you do have to edit the music profile and link back clearly unless you want mail and friends req. to that account. If someone adds a song to their profile, the "view" link on the player will take them to the music page. Just realized that one. 

You've got me thinking now, Izzle - thank you! What a cool idea and congrats for figuring it out!

I think I got it working on a BAND myspace. I am not crazy about the location, but looks like it works. Good enough for now.

Odd - the second line for the 4th song doesn't show up (even before I resized the 2nd player), but heck - eight songs are better than five.

Also can't seem to disable the autostart on it - any suggestions? I used the same code you posted, Izzle - with a different URL of course - and changed the size.

Wish we could shrink the friends list, but he's in charge of that - would love to put it on the right side rather than the left. But I like tables to be more or less even.

Here's the profile:

myspace.com/trevortanner

THANK YOU izzle! I want to buy you a cupcake.

That looks good. I'll check into that a little more later, but looks pretty good. I guess all that's left is where to host the music. Thanks to all.  

"I'm just like you only shorter."

Will do. Hopefully it won't end up being filtered.  

"I'm just like you only shorter."

That's a good point - and rereading your post it looks like he's more into showcasing his work rather than selling CDs. 

If you don't care that fans can't feature the songs on their profiles, then a standalone outside player is the way to go. Of course, I don't know nuttin' 'bout those.

Smartmom,

 I looked at your profile in IE and Firefox. I didn't see a player. Adblock picked up what looked like a player but it was just an empty space in the music section. I don't have .swf blocked. Do you ever have that problem? Not being able to see it that is. That's what I hope to avoid. Having to redo it cause some website kooks out. Oh yeah, I'm also cat sitting for him today and tomorrow. Man he owes me big! Haha. He doesn't know it yet but he'll be paying me back 10 fold this summer.  

"I'm just like you only shorter."