Myspace and the Soundcloud player

this only seems to work in firefox 3 though, in w explorer 6.0 the myspace player remains visible. I havent tried it in w explorer 7. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

And me: http://www.myspace.com/jamesweston :) (I've never uploaded any tracks to MySpace though) ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

Lol, could that be the simple way of removing the myspace player, unload all your tracks????

I'll prob stick with putting a picture in place of the myspace player. Can someone let us know if this works please?

Cheers,
Seymour ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

Seymour, I've never uploaded any tracks to unload. However, I do remember the MySpace player appearing on my MySpace Music profile some months back and then disappearing again a few days later with no intervention from me. They like to fiddle :) ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I removed all my original myspace player songs, which in the beginning made the player to disappear :-) Great I thought, this was easy.. but after a week or two the Myspace player pops back again?! As J-dubay says, Myspace probably like to play mouse and cat.. I think they're doing all they can to remove 3. part stuff from the profiles, completely stupid if you ask me. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

Hi Steen,

Good to get some feedback on people trying this.

Soundcloud seem to be having bandwidth problems (since start of 2009), we have found sometimes the player doesnt load. There is another thread related to this, with Soundcloud saying these are temporary problems that they are looking at fixing.

Is the problem that you can never see the SC player, even after repeated refreshes? Check on our page as well (link above) to see if our player is working at the same time. Can you post a link to your site as well, I'll try and take a quick look this evening and see if I can see any problems.

Further to this, I found the gig listing section was hidden when you hide the myspace player gap, spent a day trying to work around this. The only fix for this that I could find was to shift everything on the page up, which was far too much work. Instead I left the gap and stuck a picture in its place instead. This is by far a better solution than hiding the gap I think, I will post this code later (or again, check our site out).

Cheers,
Seymour
http://www.myspace.com/theacolytesband ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

Hi Steen,

Havent time to test this until this evening but for the div.scPlayer try removing all the previous text on the line, ie instead of this:
table table td.text div.scPlayer { display: block; height: 300px; width: 570px; }
table table td.text div.scPlayer object { display: block; height: 300px; width: 570px; }

try this:
div.scPlayer { display: block; height: 300px; width: 570px; }
div.scPlayer object { display: block; height: 300px; width: 570px; }

Let me know if that gets you any further.

Cheers,
Stephen ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

Hi Steen,

Checked out your page, I'm guessing you've changed the code from earlier? I could see the SC player in FF (all displayed correct), but in IE7 the myspace player was still displayed, as well as the SC player.

Regarding IE7, it is a nightmare coding CSS for, IE6 is even worse. I'm still unable to fully fix the page so that the SC player is shown and the myspace player is hidden, as well as the myspace player gap.

I would suggest this as the best alternative, hide the SC player, but not the gap, add the SC player to the myspace 'Musician Details' section, then use CSS to move it over the myspace player gap (and resize if necessary). On our band website I've done this with a photo (the 2 photos on the page should be beside each other but I used CSS to move it into the myspace player gap:
http://www.myspace.com/theacolytesband

To achieve this try:

<style type="text/css">
object { display: none; }
div.scPlayer
{
display: block; height: 228px; width: 426px;
position: absolute; top: 230px;
}
div.scPlayer object { display: block; height: 228px; width: 426px; }
</style>


As before, this hides all objects (youtube vids etc) on the page, then shows the SC player, and after that moves the SC player to a set location on the page. You might need to change some of the values, height etc to make it look perfect, but other than that it should work ok (note this is untested - although I've got the same thing working with my main pic).

Lastly, remember to surround your SC player with a div element as in the previous post.

This code also has the added bonus that it doesnt hide the gig list like the other code did.

Cheers,
Seymour ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

Hi Steen,

I test the code usually on FF, IE6 and IE7, bit of a nightmare CSS on both IE versions though.

I'll check your page this evening, at work at the moment so cant really browse myspace. :-)

It shouldnt be too difficult to widen the table to your set width, although an easy fix you could try would be to put a transparent png (only needs to be 1px high) image into your 'Musician Details' section (remove space on image tag):

< img src="myImage.png" style="width: 570px" />


The other fix would be to identify the container itself (the table element probably) and expand that one.

Cheers,
Seymour ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

Hi Steen,

Checked out your page again. Its not possible as far as I know to expand the tables width with the way myspace have their page layout. What happened on your website was the SC player pushed out the table width, so the CSS code setting the table width was ignored, but you still saw the correct width due to the SC player. Now that you have taken the SC player out of the normal flow of the page (by setting the 'position: absolute') the table reverts to its normal width. I'd suggest as above, create a 1 pixel high image which is 570px wide, then add it to your page with the img tag. I'd use black as your background boxes are black.

Let me know if this works ok.

Cheers,
Seymour ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

actually just reverted the myspace to the previous layout, as we just released our first ep and are getting quite some traffic. so can't afford not to have players... ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )