Swap Myspace Player for BandCamp’s

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>

table table td.text div
{
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

Tags: bandcamp, corey coleman, myspace