Comments on: Solution for stopping music from playing when visiting a myspace page

By: PF

PF — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:16:14 +0000

Yet myspace still allows ‘TuneBoom’ and other Playcount inflators that allow shiity garage bands to make it seem like their crappy songs get 300,000+ plays when in fact most of these plays result from the software fooling myspace’s player to think 300,000 people have hit the play button when only 1-1000 have, in reality. In Myspace’s TOS they Clearly DONT ALLOW THIS…. But do they enforce it…. NOOOOOOOO…..

By: juan

juan — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:38:02 +0000

kiero subir mas tracks a mypsace como hago solo me deja subir 6¡¡ gracias¡¡¡
n_n

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:16:08 +0000

Well I was able to do it with my Firefox browser and adblock installed. I play with my host file a lot, but never thought to alter it for myspace The technique I use takes about a minute and a half. It's over here

By: Kerry

Kerry — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:20:48 +0000

Any other solution? When I’m at work I add people to my business account, but I can’t start,run on my work PC and the myspace option doesn’t work for me either.

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:03:41 +0000

This won’t work in the longterm, because it assumes that the source DNS/rDNS of the music server(s) is content.music.myspace.com.

Assuming MySpace ever change server/DNS naming conventions (which they have now, due to requiring more and more servers to handle load and content), this becomes completely redundant.

Solution? Boycott MySpace

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:41:50 +0000

doesnt work

By: toccovender

toccovender — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:26:19 +0000

yea but what about when u put music on your myspace with the embed tag so you can have multiple songs on you myspace. it doesnt let you use autoplay=”false” ive tried everything but it doesnt work

By: Defunct Bung

Defunct Bung — Fri, 25 May 2007 05:40:25 +0000

Hey, thanks, the official music disabling option doesn’t work for me either.
Used to, when it first came out.
Not sure when it stopped..

I actually blogged about this music playing nonsense and a workaround back in April of 2006..

I’m not using a computer with any blocking software on it at the moment though, so this should help.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:25:04 +0000

Thanks for this. Changing Music Settings in my MySpace account settings didn’t work for me either.

By: Lance Johnson

Lance Johnson — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:44:16 +0000

for xp users it’s: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts”

By: Beverly Luketin

Beverly Luketin — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:43:16 +0000

Running firefox, adblock: http://lads.myspace.com/* will get rid of the music too.

By: Chell

Chell — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:32:44 +0000

Oh yah, this oughta make many web surfers very very happy. Thank you so much for sharing. Um, no laughing at my stupidity, but for anyone running Ubuntu, the file is /etc/hosts. Thanks again!

By: josh

josh — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:30:49 +0000

This is similar to a technique used to block web ads from particular servers – the technique works well for that, I can say. To see that in action, I run a script on my local box so that something actually is returned from 127.0.0.1:80 – I tried posting the script here, but it got picked off by the spam filter – so – I made a blog post of my own with it, and here’s the link to that post.

By: John

John — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:35:42 +0000

Alex has tried that and claims it does not work.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:58:10 +0000

You could do that, or you could check the button labeled “Disable Band Songs From Automatically Starting” under music settings.

Silly software engineers.