hide music player

Before talking about the new myspace music player, let me tell you the epic story about all my problems in getting the new music player.

I was reading on forums, I read in Tom’s blog, I read everywhere about the new MySpace music player and how you could add multiple songs, and have multiple playlists and I wanted it soo badly. I went to the help center, I read how to add the player and what to do it step by step, but surprise, I couldn’t follow the steps because I did not have the “My music” button and a lot of other features they were describing.

I went crazy trying to add the music player, I even created a second MySpace account and SURPRISE, here it was, nice and shiny, the “My music” button. Ok, it works for the new account, but why not for the old account too? And after hours of searching and tormenting, I noticed that I was on the MySpace Australia server, you think it would not make a difference but it does. I edited my profile, I switched to the USA server and voila, the features were all there. The conclusion: not all MySpace servers have the latest updates, there is the possibility of having some buttons and features on some servers and other features on other servers. I have a friend on UK server and he does not have the features either. (this is true today November 07, 2008, maybe in time they will fix these differences)

Ok we are back in business, I can finally play, analyze, assess the New MySpace Player.

Add the New MySpace Music Player or change the old music player to the new one
After I moved to the USA server adding the new player was easy, I searched for an artist, I clicked to add her song on my profile as usual, and a pop-up window showed asking me if I wanted to switch to the new player or keep the old one…what do you think I answered?

New MySpace Music Player Features
You can add as many playlists as possible, but only one will show in your profile, the one called My Profile Playlist. You usually can add as many songs possible, but in your Profile Playlist you can add only 10. All this things are being managed from “My Music Page”.
Also you will have a personal music player – a pop-out music player so you can browse the internet and work on your computer while still listening to music on MySpace.
You can also buy music on MySpace. Learn about all the features here: http://www.myspace.com/aplaceformusic

How do you delete songs from the new myspace music player
Go to Music, then click My Music, if you have 2 songs or more you have a playlist. Go to My Profile Playlist, the one in red, and delete each song by clicking the little x to the right of the song. Refresh the page after every delete.

How do you go back to the old Myspace Music Player, how do you delete the new music player, how do you downgrade back to the old music player?
Go to manage your play list and delete all but the one song you want to keep then the new myspace music player transforms into a single song music player.

Hide the new MySpace Music Player
Myspace has made it easy to hide the New Myspace Music Player but then it wont play; here are some simple steps:
Go to manage your playlists, click on the red one called “My Profile Playlist” and notice in the top right the check box called: “Display on My Profile”. Once you click that little checkbox to hide it, go look at your profile – It will be hidden.

Now if you want to hide the new myspace multi-song player and still have it play the song use the code below (Pay attention, this code is valid today 9/25/2008, they are still making changes to the player, read Tom’s blog to understand the issues you may be having. New features are always a little glitchy at first. You may need to adjust the -25 number to another number depending on what other code you may have in your profile

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table.interestsAndDetails {margin-top:-25px;}
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If you still have the old player and want to hide it, read the article about it here: hide myspace music player