Comments on: MySpace changes their Flash/embed filtering again

By: doug

doug — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:54:28 +0000

has anyone found out how to get the FLV player controls to work again? I have an FLV player I wrote in flash and it works fine on a regular web page, but when I embed it into myspace, it plays, but the play,stop,ffwd,rwd controls are all missing!! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,
Doug

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:37:08 +0000

hi everyone, i have a simple solution to all your myspace coding problems, you can view my profile at “myspace.com/mattdonnan”. if you have a large flash movie you would like to preload your best bet is an external preloader, mite i suggest using a program called ’swf lock n load’. if you are looking to have an mp3 player on myspace chances are you will only need one track, a great way is to use the flash ‘media playback’ component. in the options set it from flv to mp3 and type in the url of the song, as this is all coded my macromedia the file itself it small enough to load instantly and it has a built in buffer bar etc. let me know what you think of these ideas by email - mjdonnan@blueyonder.co.uk

By: Revolution Radio

Revolution Radio — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:44:47 +0000

Hi Everyone.
I found this blog while looking for a way to embed a MySpace player into another website (for someone else, I don’t have an artist profile) I too have had problems with Myspace code stripping. My online stationhas had a player for about 18 months on Myspace but I’ve given up on updating the ‘embed’ (for Firefox) with my player.
I was spending a couple of hours each time finding a workaround for it, only to have it killed again a few days later when the goalposts moved.
I gave up on embedding for Firefox & added a popup player instead. Not ideal since so many users have them blocked due to abuse by idiots, but it at least allows me to deliver the content which is what the page is for really.

I’m guessing by the way this thread was left for so long that none of you found a good cross browser solution either.

The one good thing about using the popup solution though is that it’s totally universal. If I can place a link somewhere, I can add the player even here:
http://www.revolutionstation.org/myspace-player.html

Of course, they’re linkjacking now too, by changing all those links to msplinks.com redirects, they’re robbing us all of inbound links and the resulting SEO benefits.

Just thought I’d mention it, might ba solution for some of you or maybe get you thinking laterally to find a way round these obstacles they create.

All the best.

Mike.

By: phil

phil — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:55:50 +0000

Dempsie - Snocap cut an official deal with MySpace

By: Dempsie

Dempsie — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:23:18 +0000

Okay okay…. I found this on myspace that seemed to be working… oddly it worked in a comment that the person had left but not in her profile??? Here’s the code she used…

object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”http://void.snocap.com/s/T3-31324-2ZN3N32MNU-E/” height=”300″ width=”425″>

By: Dempsie

Dempsie — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:59:53 +0000

I don’t get it to be honest… I have a flash-based app on myspace that will not link to another page but will allow emails to be sent from it… maybe this is a way around the block???

http://www.myspace.com/dirtdigitaltv

Could anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial on how to do this email thing in flash thanks!

By: The H1VE

The H1VE — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:29:31 +0000

Well am not sure if this helps any of you but i have media player embedded into my myspace profile take a look http://www.myspace.com/theh1ve i wanted to get my fave online radio station to play in my profile rather than have that stupid flash player that gives you the same track every time you view my page. Nothing to it really however I’ve not seen it done on any other profiles (apart from those that i have told) so maybe I’m the only one that has stumbled across a solution. Also as well as audio streams you can actually stream video too. Hope this helps some of you.

By: dmonkeyjazz

dmonkeyjazz — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:17:43 +0000

Hey guys,

Very interesting blog you have here !
I’ve been exxperimenting a little with flash, myspace and all sorts of code to connect them… check out my site… http://www.dmonkeyjazz.be

I wanted to copy my site, exactly like it is onto my myspace profile, Now I understand that there are loads of restrictions, so the swf file on the myspace server can’t connect with mine, this is a petty because I use a lot of external text files to be loaded into my swf…

The question I would like to get answered is, is there a way to at least make my playlist.xml file load, so that my Radio can do what it was intended for??

Hope you understand all this… kind of hard for me to explain all this in english, also because I merely understand half of what I’m saying myself…

anyways, hope to hear from you !

signing out

By: jon

jon — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:58:38 +0000

I’ve also found that for some reason, the way myspace changes the code prevents controls from showing for .flv. It seems like you can’t post any video unless it’s from YouTube or similar service. No quicktime, no flash video, no RealPlayer.

Really disappointing. I have to post to YouTube and then link from there if I want to post something original. Cumbersome to say the least.

If I’m wrong, I’d love to know the work around.

By: bunnyhero

bunnyhero — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:26:14 +0000

ajmetz, it appears that flash is the only embed they are allowing now. i know that quicktime is blocked, and based on your experience, it seems realplayer is blocked as well. i originally wrote a post about this but i got some details wrong…