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.
