Can't get standalone music player to work on MySpace?

I have an iMac G4 which runs on OS X 10.2.8. I believe this means that I can't download Standalone Music player (which is used on mySpace.com) because you need 10.3.9? Can I download some sort of software to upgrade without paying a fortune?! or does it mean I can never listen to band's music on mySpace?

Dave's Answer:

I'm pretty confused by your question, because the music player available on MySpace is actually built atop the Flash technology and it shouldn't require any special software or version of your operating system.

Well, that's not entirely true. You might need to make sure that you have the very latest version of the Flash player for your Mac installed, which you can do by going here:

Macromedia Flash Download Center

But since it's all written in Flash, it means that you can theoretically also pull a player off MySpace and drop it on another page too, which is a pretty cool trick!

I'll show you. I'm going to pop over to MySpace and search for "Jazz" by going to the Music section and specifying Genre = "Jazz". I get 1922 matches, but more importantly, I also get the ability to fine-tune my search:

Once I specify that I want only jazz bands in Colorado I get quite a few less matches (and am again reminded just how painfully slow searches can be in MySpace), but it turns out that I want to use the LA jazz band Saturn Jazz for this demonstration.

The trick is that I need to view the source of their page and copy and paste a huge block of code into my own page starting with <script> and ending with </OBJECT>. Once I've done that, I can now have their player here on this page (it's just a Flash object, after all), and invite you to listen to their music:

Click on the "Play" button and see if it works for you, then go and check out Saturn Jazz for yourself.

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Reader Comments To Date: 284

sp0ok121 said, on July 9, 2007 3:17 PM:

how do u put a standalone player on your myspace and put your own music on it?

Derek said, on July 10, 2007 12:56 PM:

How can we get more than 5 songs on our mp3 player?

smitty said, on July 11, 2007 8:26 AM:

i can not get the player to work.what do i do

Jessica said, on July 12, 2007 8:23 AM:

i am an artist on myspace and i would like to know if an artist can have more than 4 songs on myspace.i have seen artists with 9 and more songs on the standalone player.i want to do this too.
-thanks

donnie said, on July 15, 2007 10:04 PM:

how do i get it on my profile

glen said, on July 19, 2007 1:47 AM:

how do i put more than 4 songs on my band's mp3 player??

Aniah said, on July 20, 2007 2:05 PM:

Well i ned helpi dont no how oide my project play list on myspace and t is really reall gtting on my nerves!!!!
Can you help me?????
please and thanks
♥♥

hany said, on July 23, 2007 10:13 PM:

how do i get a standal one player on my page answer back immediatly

Jack said, on July 25, 2007 8:54 AM:

Hey.. i've got my own standalone player.. but i've seen on some other sites you can get two.. if you check www.myspace.com/mcoboi he has two.. one thats comes with the Myspace Music and one in his "About" section.. so could you tell me how i can get two standalone players please.. thank you..

mark said, on July 25, 2007 10:30 AM:

Can you please help me?I downloaded adobe flash player 9 for windows xp home edition,and when I put music on my myspace or try to watch a video on youtube,it'll start to play then it just pause.then a few seconds later it plays then itll pause again.its driving me crazy.Is there a way to fix it? or is there another media player that plays audio and video on web pages?please help.thanks.mark.

Morris said, on July 26, 2007 11:27 AM:

Hey is it possible to put a music player from my bands myspace, into a message? When ever i try to embed it into a message it disappears!

rique said, on July 26, 2007 6:50 PM:

Can someone get me my music code my page is www.myspace.com/riquefwc

adam said, on July 26, 2007 9:31 PM:

How do u make a band page?

Nia said, on July 26, 2007 9:57 PM:

Hey Dave,
I was searching through the net and trying to figure out myself how to get the myspace music player on my own myspace page, or just in a bulletin or something. And I'm pretty decent at html, but I couldn't get this one. I took the whole page source, and posted it to see if the music play would show up, but It didn't.
So I searched, and I came to your page.
So I did as you said, but As someone has already said, It was just a hunk of a code.
Could you try and be a little more detailed with it? Because that would be very much appreciated.
; D Thanks.

- Nia

liz said, on July 27, 2007 10:38 AM:

hey im just wondering if you could help me. I have recorded me singing to leann rimes as thoughh i have had singing lessons and now would like to put it on my myspace profile. Do you know how to do this? please email me to lizzyscott@hotmail.com of you have any ideas. Many Thanxs Liz x

erin said, on July 31, 2007 4:20 AM:

How do I put more than 4 songs on my music player?

Choppa Boyz Ent. said, on July 31, 2007 11:11 PM:

add www.myspace.com/choppaboyent fo more 8 songs on profile

R dot Man said, on August 6, 2007 1:23 PM:

is their any way to upload more then 4 songs on a music myspace player??

ballin said, on August 8, 2007 4:23 PM:

how to add more than 4 songs on myspace

Jonathan said, on August 12, 2007 10:47 PM:

how do i make videos start automatically on my myspace.

CESAR said, on August 14, 2007 10:50 AM:

EY HOW DO I GET THE STANDALONE PLAYER ON MY ARTIST PAGE? HIT ME UP IF YOU KNOW HOW ON MY E-MAIL southern13312@yahoo.com

NISE ODI-C said, on August 14, 2007 5:51 PM:

HEY YOU SAID THAT U HAVE TO FIND THE SOURCE OF THE PAGE TO PUT THE STANDALONE PLAYER ON PAGE BUT HOW DO YOU FIND IT?

Lynxbeatz said, on August 16, 2007 9:32 AM:

i need mo than 4 songs on my page. can u tell me how to do that

LRZ said, on August 18, 2007 5:47 AM:

How can I add bodog as a friend if i cant access their profile?

Brandon said, on August 18, 2007 10:54 PM:

how do u view the source so i can get a standalone music player on my site

juan said, on August 19, 2007 5:21 AM:

were can i get that player thing in myspace ?
and how can i upload my own music
please tell meee :S
heres my email priimooo_saik@hotmail.com
thankss =)

SheSays said, on August 19, 2007 8:01 AM:

Please could anyone in here tell us how to add more than 4 songs? Thanks alot!

Lin said, on August 21, 2007 4:46 PM:

How do i post a myspace music band player on a bulletin?? or is there a code that i need for the music player?? Plz help me out...Thanx

logan said, on August 21, 2007 4:50 PM:

i keep getting LOADING ERROR on our standalone music player on our bands myspace page....how can we fix this?

mike said, on August 21, 2007 8:07 PM:

how do i get more than four songs on my music myspace

Dillimaniaent said, on August 24, 2007 3:15 PM:

i saw the question about more than 4 songs, just wondering what was your answer for it

DJ camz said, on August 26, 2007 9:48 AM:

how do i put more than 4 songs on my music myspace

dj kodac said, on August 28, 2007 8:54 PM:

go to www.myspace.com/borncinnaz and www.myspace.com/kodacvisualz.....they have it!

eden said, on August 29, 2007 3:19 AM:

plz u gonna help im goin' mad i swearrrrrr i wanna get code for the standalone player of my brother but i don t know what to do plzzzzz help me i saw u can do it omggggg

Bobbie said, on September 6, 2007 1:55 AM:

If you want to download songs from Myspace, you can go here to do it:

http://www.myspacegrab.com/

Mert said, on September 9, 2007 12:23 PM:

to get a songs on your band page download an mp3 converter, convert your songs and then upload them

Unique Wilcox said, on September 10, 2007 7:20 AM:

I desperately need a stand alone player on myspace but none of the music codes seem to work. Can you please tell me the name of the gray mp3 player that everyone seems to be using on myspace.com?

Unique Wilcox said, on September 10, 2007 7:24 AM:

I desperately need a stand alone player on myspace but none of the music codes seem to work. Can you please tell me the name of the gray mp3 player that everyone seems to be using on myspace.com?

Nasco said, on September 14, 2007 4:27 PM:

Can somebody help me? I just want to put a standalone palyer on myspace page and i want to upload my own music file how can i do all this??? help me ,please!!

Butta said, on September 17, 2007 9:38 PM:

I have a my space standalone player,but it has

someone music playing..How do I get my own music

in the standalone player? How do I put my own music?
thanks

Chris said, on September 17, 2007 11:26 PM:

Can somebody help me? I just want to put a standalone palyer on myspace page and i want to upload my own music file how can i do all this??? help me ,please!!

ANSWER said, on September 18, 2007 4:19 PM:

BEFORE, YOU JUST HAD TO ADD BODOG ENTERTAINMENT AS A FRIEND TO GET MORE THAN 5 SONGS, BUT THEY STOPPED THE CONTRACT, SO IT DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE....
DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION??

AND I BET YOU AFTER THIS POST,SOME NINKAPOOPS WILL STILL BE ASKING THE SAME QUESTION AGAIN

I BET YOU

Pablo said, on September 18, 2007 8:41 PM:

I am having trouble downloading music from myspace, for some strange reason when I download a song off of myspace it only downloads about 15 sec. worth of the song, I can download from other sites except myspace. can you help me?

daffy said, on September 19, 2007 2:48 PM:

HOW CAN I GET MORE SONGS ON MY MUSIC PLAYER

Seen Loc said, on September 27, 2007 6:54 PM:

Is there a code, or how is it possible to add more than the 4 songs on the standalone player? I have seen other artists with up to 9 songs they are able to put up, and allow others to add to their own web page. I am an artist, and would like to do the same. Please help!

scott said, on September 29, 2007 4:38 AM:

how do i get 6 or more songs on myspace

Lil Feddy said, on September 30, 2007 5:00 PM:

how to copy and paste standalone player

Dayek said, on October 1, 2007 11:27 AM:

Okay, I've installed the latest flash player but I still can't get the standalone player to work.

I'm using OSX, intel Mac, Opera.

Any ideas???

Dayek said, on October 3, 2007 4:21 AM:

Nevermind. Today it worked.

Just forgot to restart after installing ^^;

kevin said, on October 6, 2007 5:20 PM:

Can you please tell me how to copy and paste the myspace music player anywhere on myspace i want??

runnindisradio@gmail.com

Jess said, on October 8, 2007 8:51 PM:

I've found the code yet it doesn't work...please help???

mike g said, on October 15, 2007 11:02 AM:

How can I put my band's stand one player with our songs on the comment' section of myspace? is there a code I need to put to do that. Thanks.

Angel said, on October 17, 2007 2:25 AM:

There are many things undone in that player :-/

Milad said, on October 20, 2007 1:24 PM:

hey. thats good and all. but how do u actually view the source of the page so u can get the code?

Olivia said, on October 29, 2007 12:32 PM:

Myspace music 101
I have some original music on a cd.
How do i put that music on standalone player?
I want to market my music but I need help badly!
Please and thank you

ollie said, on November 16, 2007 4:21 AM:

to get ur songs into mp3 format you can do it in itunes...

go preferences,
advanced,
importing,
then change the import using bit to "mp3 encoder"
then save changes etc etc and when u upload the songs theyl be in your itunes music folder on ur pc!

then just upload them onto ur band myspace

awesomeeeee

jennyrave said, on November 18, 2007 2:24 AM:

yay i now have 6 songs in my player ....
thanks dave

SpratBandit said, on December 12, 2007 11:49 AM:

Dave PLEASE Help me! How Do i get 6 or more songs on my myspace music page? and could u tell me how i can find out my music players code so i can paste my player in bullitins etc? id be SOOOO greatful if you could help me out!
Please Get Back To Me!

Ricky P. said, on January 2, 2008 2:08 AM:

how can i get my song to play when people enter 'view more pics' on my myspace?

nistiya said, on January 3, 2008 4:24 PM:

how do i get more than 1 standalone player on my music page

sami pirkola said, on January 13, 2008 2:53 PM:

I can't find data on how to put more than four songs in MySpace... There are players with at least six songs, how come?

quang said, on January 13, 2008 9:46 PM:

sorry but jus like every body else im stuck n still cant find that code to put the adobe flash player on 2 my regular myspace page

thanx a bunch if u can help me

Chris said, on January 19, 2008 3:23 PM:

Have you noticed that the "add" function does not work!? How do you fix that!?

prisca said, on January 25, 2008 11:57 AM:

you said,
"The trick is that I need to view the source of their page and copy and paste a huge block of code into my own page starting with and ending with ..."

my question is, how do i view the source of the music page to receive the "huge block of code" to place into the html code? Where would the "block of code" be located?

liz said, on January 25, 2008 11:01 PM:

how do you change spanish writing back to english on my myspace profile?

Lisa said, on January 27, 2008 3:54 PM:

hey i have a qestion when i add a song it only will add one when i downloaded a list it will only have one song so how can i get a lot of songs on there Thanks, Lisa

Chris said, on January 29, 2008 1:48 PM:

Prisca-

To view the "source code" where the "block of code needed" is located.. Right-click / click "View Source". (If you don't have that option when you right-click, try another browser like Firefox.)

CJ said, on February 5, 2008 5:12 PM:

Any band website I visit after my browser & computer have been on for long periods of time won't load music player section just says loading & never changes. Is there a way to fix this, like with an update somewhere, or is this just a myspace issue with that part of the site being down temporarily. I run a new hp compaq presario with vista as my os. And everything is fully updated as far as I know including flash player & java.

LeRoy said, on February 5, 2008 6:09 PM:

please tell me how to find the source of the music player.

James said, on February 9, 2008 10:39 AM:

I was editing my band profile and i deleted my standalone player by accident. I wanted to know how to put my player back.

Chris said, on February 12, 2008 2:40 PM:

LeRoy. You need to read. I just put an answer to that question 2 paragraphs above yours. READ!

k said, on March 4, 2008 12:48 AM:

how do i add 7 songs to the band music player

kenny gawne said, on March 8, 2008 6:25 AM:

HOW DO I GET A CODE 4 MY PLAYER ON MYSPACE MUSIC SO I CAN SEND OTHER PEOPLE MY PLAYER ?

dave said, on March 26, 2008 9:27 PM:

One way to get embed or html code for an mp3 player widget is to go to mytuneslive.com

There is a better site at sicklaylist.com, but its not 100 percent DONE. But you can still create some sick little widgets, and pick songs for them, and get the code. All that is working.

With mytuneslive.com, you can upload your own mp3 files, BUT you have to pay $10 one time.

rashad said, on May 7, 2008 6:48 PM:

how did you put that myspace player on this page like you did above??(whats the script code to do that)???

jaimejovan said, on May 25, 2008 2:40 AM:

i had a standalone player playing n working just fine on my space using this trick but 2 week ago i deleted it accidentally n tried to paste it back as in the same way as i did before n now is not working at all..it doesnt appear anything instead appears a white square playing nothing!!same as the one in the top here at this page..so i suppose this trick is not working anymore..any other ideas or help to paste my fav standalone player on my regular myspace page?

on2moon said, on May 30, 2008 1:10 PM:

Hey everybody,

Maybe the most simple way of getting the standalone player is to register as an artist :

Go to music.myspace.com and look for the link in the upper right hand corner that says "Artist Signup" and click on it.

Bye
Manuel

ryan wiseman said, on June 9, 2008 8:36 PM:

i have a band. and we have a myspace profile. But we cant figure out how to get the music player on their. HELP!!

maya said, on July 17, 2008 3:15 PM:

how do i get the music player froma usic page to my myspace...is there a codei can get to put someone music playe from there music page on my myspace???

kenh said, on July 21, 2008 9:19 AM:

Hi uhmmm how do i add another standalone player to my myspace music pagee ?

Felix said, on August 12, 2008 11:15 AM:

I started a myspace page. The first time it was a personal page but it didn't have the music player. I cancelled that page and did it again with a band/artist page. I was asked to add a song. I added the song and it uploaded. I still don't see the default music player on my page. Can you let me know how I can get the default music player on my page? I don't want to use another player that has a bunch of other artists music. I want to put up my own music. Thanks.

katie said, on December 4, 2008 9:05 PM:

every time i go on myspace youtube ect. my musice plays and stops and plays and stops and so on.. how do i fix this problem ? =|

Michael Drew said, on August 30, 2010 5:30 PM:

We are trying to find a music playet that we can embed on our site that houses all of the pertainable music and creates links off to iTunes for purchase.

Using Amazon's version and it limits our design flexibility. Any ideas?

Mark Fletcher said, on February 19, 2012 4:27 PM:

If your on a mac 10.5.8 PPC and you want your Flash Player to work in Safari. Uninstall flash player, restart your mac ( Very important it clears buffer), then install Flash Player 10.1.85.3, this version only, any other 10.1 version will get stuck in buffer mode. Will not work.
http://download.cnet.com/Adobe-Flash-Player/3000-2378_4-11594621.html
You can find it in Archives at Flash Player web site. All the best!
Sincerely;
Mark

I do have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but first I'd like to say thank you, Dave, for all your helpful information by buying you a cup of coffee!

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