Myspace Music Problems

Category: Myspace

"I added a song to my Myspace profile, but it won't play automatically. Other Myspace profiles have music that starts playing when I visit them. How can I make sure the music plays when someone views my profile on Myspace?"


Myspace Music Won't Play?

myspace musicI hear this question from Myspace users a lot, with some variations on the theme. For some, the music will start automatically when the Myspace profile is viewed, but it doesn't work all the time. Others complain that it never starts automatically. And some report that the music starts playing, but stops part of the way through the song.

NOTE: If you have questions about how to ADD music or a sound clip to your Myspace profile, see my article Add Music to Myspace before continuing here. For an example of a profile that has BOTH music and a sound clip, see Bob's Myspace profile.

The first thing to check when you have this problem is your Myspace profile settings. Login to Myspace, click on Edit Profile, then click Profile Songs. If the box next to Enable My Profile Song to automatically start is NOT checked, then click to check the box and press Submit. Reload your profile and the music SHOULD start.

If the music still doesn't start automatically when you view the profile, or it starts and stops, then most likely it's a Myspace internal problem. With 70+ million people pounding the Myspace website, there are times when the service just can't keep up with the demand. Because music requires a lot of bandwidth (network resources), it's likely that under the covers, there are multiple servers that pump out the music files when profiles are viewed. If one or more of those servers is bogged down or has crashed, the result might be that some Myspace users will see this "no music" problem and others will not.

Are Your Speakers On?

Another possible cause could be that the song was removed by the artist, or replaced by a new version. Try deleting the song from your profile, then re-adding it. If you've done that, and checked the Enable My Profile Song to automatically start box, then it's probably a temporary Myspace problem outside of your control.

Problems With Autostart?

The instructions above are for the music player that Myspace adds to your page when you pick a song from the Myspace music library. If you have used the instructions in Add Music to Myspace, to add your OWN music file to a Myspace profile, and you have noticed that Myspace strips out the AUTOSTART option in the EMBED code, here's good news.

After entering the EMBED code as shown in Add Music to Myspace, save your profile. Myspace will turn it into an ugly but equivalent OBJECT tag. You can then add a <param> statement to the OBJECT code. Try <param name="autostart" value="true" /> OR <param name="autostart" value="false" /> depending on your needs. I know this sounds like voodoo, but once you go back in to edit the code a second time, it should be obvious where to put the PARAM statement, because there are a bunch of them.

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Posted by:
Jenny
21 Dec 2008

Bob, Thanks for your site, and your info is always right on the money.


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robert
24 Dec 2008

WOW THANKS ALOT THIS HELPED ME ALOT :}


Posted by:
PacoTheTaco
26 Dec 2008

Hi,
I recently added music to my myspace profile, but every time I go to my profile it doesn't play.
What's going on and how do I fix it?


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Posted by:
sean
31 Jan 2009

For some reason whenever I upload my songs to myspace they are sped up really fast, almost 3 times as fast and I can't figure out how to fix it. It's doing this on multiple songs and myspaces. The song is 7 minutes long could that be a factor?


Posted by:
Joe
16 Mar 2009

My myspace music account isn't showing my bands genres. What is going on can anyone help me?!


Posted by:
ATTWD
16 Apr 2009

hi i have a myspace band profile, and when i select "allow users to download songs" it dosent work.... the player just wont let people download them

i read on yahoo someone else having the same problem but there was no solution posted

thanks


Posted by:
pressgirl
29 Apr 2009

I can play and hear myspace music videos but am unable to hear just band songs in music catagory using myspace players? Any help??? Can't browse catagories...


Posted by:
Bill
18 May 2009

Hi, I've been having problems with my myspace band/music page.
For about 4 months everything worked fine. The first song that plays automatically when you access my page all of a sudden started getting cut halfway through and then it would advance to the next song. So then I re uploaded that song (lost my number of plays but I figured that I'd rather have it play right than worry about the number of plays). Now the number of plays has stayed at 0 for at least three days and I know damn well its been played a lot. What is going on?


Posted by:
grun-g the undead
27 Jun 2009

hi i have a myspace band profile, and when i select "allow users to download songs" it dosent work.... the player just wont let people download them

i read on yahoo someone else having the same problem but there was no solution posted

thanks


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