http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:47:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/2006/09/27/solution-for-stopping-music-from-playing-when-visiting-a-myspace-page/ http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/2006/09/27/solution-for-stopping-music-from-playing-when-visiting-a-myspace-page/#comments Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:36:27 +0000 John http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/329 My friend Alex came up with this solution for stopping all music from playing on myspace pages: associating the music server domain name with a bogus IP address in your local hosts file. If you don’t know what that means, windows users can follow these steps (the hosts file on os x is /private/etc/hosts and you can edit it with any text editor):

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This is how I disable autoplay music on myspace, because like a pirate with a steering wheel in his crotch, it drives me friggin’ nuts. –Alex

1. go to
   START -> RUN

2. type the following:
   wordpad "c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"
3. Add the following line to your hosts file
   127.0.0.1 content.music.myspace.com
4. Save the file and quit
5. Restart your web browser
6. No more music. If you want to turn it back on, remove the added line.

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