I wish I could take the credit for this, but I have to give it’s due to Corey Coleman, an indie musician from Buffalo, NY. It all started with a post on Music Think Tank when Andrew Dubber declared October 24th, 2010, “Global Quit Myspace Day” due to their inability to do something “great” with every band on the planet.
The comments is where some amazing thought went down and Corey laid the following comment that I recommend you all go and do right now on your Myspace page.
…Until next October, here’s a way to improve the experience for you and your fans. In response to Rich Dale’s comment above, there is a way to replace the Myspace player with the Bandcamp player. I did it at my myspace page
I believe the code is
<style>
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{
display:none;
}table table table td div
{
display:block !important;
}</style>
Just put it at the beginning of your “Musician Bio” section and then paste the Bandcamp embed code after it.
So there you have it. Get rid of the super compressed, load-hogging Myspace player in favor of the sleek download, streaming, payment and email generating player by the cool folks of Bandcamp (on our list of Music Marketing 101 Tips).
Here is a screen shot of Corey’s Myspace page where you can see the Myspace player removed in favor of the BandCamp one. Great move Corey and one I hope many bands take note of.
You may also note that Corey is using his Myspace page as a place to send people to more accessible points including his
- Mailing List (managed by FanBridge)
- His Facebook Fan Page
- BandCamp page
- Personal Blog – Making It
- Twitter Account
Feedback and Homework
I’d love to see some more screenshots of people getting rid of the Myspace player. Anyone that sends one to marketing@genyrockstars.com will get the photo featured in an upcoming post.
Also, I’d love to know your thoughts on this great little trick. My guess is that you could use any player that fits your fancy including ones from our friends at ReverbNation, Grooveshark or Audiolife.
Till next time rock stars.
-Greg Rollett
6 Comments
Mojo Bone
on 26th Oct, 09 06:10pm
I have featured SoundClick and ReverbNation widgets on my MySpace http://myspace.com/thereverendmojobone in the past, but didn’t know a good way to remove the MySpace player.
@BushwoodBand
on 26th Oct, 09 08:10pm
Greg – Thanks for the heads up on removing that piece of shite myspace player. seriously that joke of a player has yet to work smoothly on any computer ive tried it on. i love bandcamp’s site too and was probably one of the earlier adopters as i had found out about it a while back. i put ALL of my music on there – its just so simple. but one thing they dont have is a way to make a music player for the artist/band’s entire bandcamp catalogue. even in your example, he had to use 2 bandcamp players… i went with the reverbnation “all-in-1″ widget for now – check it out on my band’s page
http://www.myspace.com/bushwoodband
or on twitter: http://twitter.com/BushwoodBand
Corey Coleman
on 27th Oct, 09 12:10am
Well Greg, you sure know how to make a guy feel clever
Glad I could help.
- Corey
gregrollett
on 27th Oct, 09 10:10am
@Mojo Bone – glad I could help and pass the word along
@Bushwood Band – great job and cool use of the Reverb player. Let me know the next time you come into Orlando for a show. I’ll try and rally some troops.
@Corey – it’s always good to share a little link love. Keep up the good work
@BushwoodBand
on 28th Oct, 09 09:10am
@gregrollett we’ll actually be up in otown (our former home) on saturday nov 7th playing at central station! come out if u dont already have plans and definitely rally some troops if possible – thanks again brotha
Justin Boland
on 31st Oct, 09 09:10pm
DAMN this was awesome…I totally missed that. Thank you, man, this here is solid gold.