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):
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
- go to
START -> RUN
- type the following:
wordpad "c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" - Add the following line to your hosts file
127.0.0.1 content.music.myspace.com - Save the file and quit
- Restart your web browser
- No more music. If you want to turn it back on, remove the added line.
You could do that, or you could check the button labeled “Disable Band Songs From Automatically Starting” under music settings.
Silly software engineers.
Alex has tried that and claims it does not work.
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.
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!
Running firefox, adblock: http://lads.myspace.com/* will get rid of the music too.
for xp users it’s: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts”
Thanks for this. Changing Music Settings in my MySpace account settings didn’t work for me either.
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. :)
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
doesnt work :( :( :(
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 ;)
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.
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
kiero subir mas tracks a mypsace como hago solo me deja subir 6¡¡ gracias¡¡¡
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