Adding a myspace music player



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Any thoughts on what works best for music players? My best friend has me do all his tech work for him. He was in a few different bands and wants to add a player to his page to highlight his previous work. I'd like it to look just like the player in band profiles. Aside from appearance does anyone have experience with what sites will host the music and not flake out. Since he was in the bands and wrote some of the songs himself copyrights are not an issue. We talked about making a band profile for him but he wants to retain the look of a personal profile not to mention all his friends and comments. Any way, thanks in advance. 

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Re: Adding a myspace music player

Update:

I put in the MySpace player and so far it's been 12 hours and no problems. Here's a weird one. When I saved the changes (whole other nightmare, yay security changes) and them went back and looked at the code I got a nice surprise. MySpace had added some code to what I put in. They added some code that's necessary I suppose to having a functioning player. They added things like allow script access and quality settings. Weird huh? Anyway have a look if you like.

www.myspace.com/treeplaysbass

I'll let you know if it gets him deleted. However with all the other breaches in TOS that are out there does it really matter.  

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Re: Adding a myspace music player

That is why I recommend getting FLAMPlayer....you can host it yourself, and just copy the code to whatever profile you choose.   Of course, I've never checked, but I don't think that violates their TOS. 

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I didn't read every word of their TOS but it seems there are no limitations on embedding a third party player. I guess that'll be the way to go. Man that really burns me up about embedding a band's player in another profile. Why would they care? Big jerks! Oh well, this isn't even my profile I'm talking about. I'll go through all this and he may decide not to mess with it. If he decides not to use a player I'll punch him in the arm once for each of you.

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Re: Adding a myspace music player

Shoot!!!!

Reading the myspace Terms of Service:
 
"Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:.......for band profiles, copying the code for your MySpace Player and embedding it into other profiles."
 
Dammit.
 
Taking them off now. If only I could log in and didn't get the damn "Server busy" message.

 



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Man that sucks. I figured it was against TOS. I might do it anyway and see how long he can get away with it. That would suck if they  deleted his profile for it.

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Re: 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! 



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Re: Adding a myspace music player

elleohelle,

You really got me thinking after I looked at the profile you made. I spent some time looking at his band profile. I looked through the page source and found the code for the band's player. I pulled the code that would link to the player. I added it into my about me section on my profile. It had to go outside the style tags. Well it worked. His bands player was on my page. Fully functioning. Now all I need to do is figure out how to move it to cover the extended network banner. Maybe a simple div? I don't know much about making a div from scratch but I can learn. Haha. Man that was exciting. I think what I'll do is create a fake band profile with the songs he wants. make it so that page is "hidden" to some degree and paste that player code into his profile. Hopefully MySpace doesn't shut that down. Technically it will be a legit page. Thanks for stoking my imagination. Here's the player code from his old band.

<embed src="http://lads.myspace.com/music/musicplayer.swf?n=aHR0cDovL211c2lj

Lm15c3BhY2UuY29t&t=6APzaJRvj62e01FBa6/nt75HKGrI82t3rBPrkrK5j4Keo

mQiDwGzw9JfoErA1wcSvgCKm4NI8ZBY+GFRi9bgBQ==&u=LTE=&a=0&d=MT

A0MzIzMDkwXjExNzcwOTUxMzU=" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF
width="450" height="345" name="mp3player" align=""
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"> </embed>

 

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Re: Adding a myspace music player

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!

 

 



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Re: Adding a myspace music player

It was in my personal profile. I took it out already but here's a screenshot.

Feel free to play with it. I won't get a chance to get in his profile till monday or tuesday. He's out of town.  

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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.

 



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Re: Adding a myspace music player

I run a large music site, based around EDM (electronic dance music) and of course, have streaming and downloadable music.   I use Flamplayer  (www.flamplayer.com).   Works great.   I break down the mixes by dj, giving each their own playlist of mixes.   For a couple of them that have requested it, I give them the code, with their own playlist, and they can implement it on MySpace.   Have had no problems, and when I add a mix to their playlist on my site, it automatically adds it to their player on MySpace.

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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.  

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NO - I think they must be having a problem with it today. I have two other friends that have it too and it's missing from their profiles today also. It was there last night. I tried looking from IE and it's not there either. Who knows but I do like it - maybe check back later and it will be there (I hope).

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

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Re: Adding a myspace music player

Hey P_to_the_izzle

I sent you a email via myspace

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Re: Adding a myspace music player

If being myspace-legal isn't an issue, check out what I did for this band profile:

Primary one - myspace.com/trevortanner

On the left table, there's a link to "more songs" that takes you here:

myspace.com/trevortannertunes

Everything's hidden for contact/friends/etc. and there's a vacation response if anyone tries to message it.

With any standalone, outside player, users can't add the songs to their profiles. This way, they can.

So my suggestion is to make a dedicated music profile - add bodog so you can have five songs - hide friends, make a contact table that "hides" the links to contact and link it from his personal myspace. 

 

 



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He wants a player on his page. He has a profile for his last band and we talked of stripping it and using it for this but he prefers a player over a link. I did see your previous post elsewhere so I had pitched that to him. It's a great idea, just not his cup of tea. 

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Re: Adding a myspace music player

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.



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I've seen two good ones (I have loudfusion on mine and a good friend has projectplaylist) Hope these help - sounds like your a good friend Laughing

projectplaylist.com and www.loudfusion.com

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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.  

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Re: Adding a myspace music player

Yup project playlist is the way to go

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Re: Adding a myspace music player

Well, I don’t think it’s ‘legal’ according to MySpace, but I use the standalone player from project playlist.  



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Thanks, I'll look into it. 

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