I am still stuck with it for what it's worth. SOmeone wanted a listen, and they came back and says the player opens but they hear no sound, I tried it myself and sure enough - silence?

Ditch it, use soundcloud. Do not look back.

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I am still stuck with it for what it's worth. SOmeone wanted a listen, and they came back and says the player opens but they hear no sound, I tried it myself and sure enough - silence?

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Or use something like Reverbnation which allows you to embed their page into other web pages. Soundcloud may do the same thing although it isn't as useful when it comes to things like gig notifications.

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What on Earth is right with Myspace

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Who's space ?

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Be fair, Murdoch lost over $1/2 billion when he sold it. So Myspace was good for that!

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That's what we've been recommended to do, but unless I'm missing something, you can't customise your page in Soundcloud, all you can do is just upload songs. How do you get photos, band biographies and so forth onto Soundcloud or am I missing the point of what the site is supposed to be about?

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That's what we've been recommended to do, but unless I'm missing something, you can't customise your page in Soundcloud, all you can do is just upload songs. How do you get photos, band biographies and so forth onto Soundcloud or am I missing the point of what the site is supposed to be about?

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Create a facebook page and install bandpage by rootmusic. This will integrate your soundcloud into facebook. Its the best thing to do in 2012 - it gives you accurate statistics as to how many people are on your page, talking about you, listening to you...

Soundcloud is for hosting music only. You can then embed the player into other sites such as Facebook.

http://soundcloud.com/pages/widgets

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Or use something like Reverbnation which allows you to embed their page into other web pages. Soundcloud may do the same thing although it isn't as useful when it comes to things like gig notifications.

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We use a widget from Reverbnation for gig listing and a widget from Soundcloud for Playing tunes on our website.

One benefit is that you can log in to either from anywhere to update things when necessary, without having to get involved in HTML code.

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FB that's where I have a problem - Zuckerberg is typical of how the media works, in so much he has friends that have friends - there were other FB alternatives that came along before he stole the idea, but somehow, he managed to get FB mentioned interminably on TV, Radio, newspapers - how? even though he plays fast and loose with user data.

But anyway that's another subject, suffice it to say I intend to become one of that rare species that does not have a FB account, I do not drink CokaCola, nor eat MacBurgers, so am buggered if Zuckerberg is going to given permission to stick his nose into my data

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Ditched my FB account years ago - along with MySpace. I have no social networking site presence at all now, don't use Twitter, and haven't had a mobile phone for more than two years. I still manage to survive, amazingly enough.

soundcloud is defo the way forwards and the bandpage app is also quality as mentioned before, we also extensively use reverbnation which has a heap of handy gadgets and functions for musicians defo ditch myspazz asap

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Ditched my FB account years ago - along with MySpace. I have no social networking site presence at all now, don't use Twitter, and haven't had a mobile phone for more than two years. I still manage to survive, amazingly enough.

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Well, I'll go t'top of our stairs! Thought I'd be the only one on the planet without a FaceArs* account!

In the greater scheme of things if anyone really needs to get in touch, they will.

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soundcloud is defo the way forwards and the bandpage app is also quality as mentioned before, we also extensively use reverbnation which has a heap of handy gadgets and functions for musicians defo ditch myspazz asap

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I do have an account at ReverbNation but find the interface confusing, MySpace going the same way. That being said, it looks like it is worth getting my head aruond ReverbNation, it does seem to offer a lot of utilities, I just find setitng up all these profiles dull as ditchwater, but that's a musician's lot these days especially I suppose, have to be as much a designer as musician. Soundcloud seems OK too.

I just get this sort of feeling that MySpace might be able to re-establish itself with some clever slick design and marketing. It was great at first, almost the simplicity of Soundcloud but more bits and bobs in able to customize a page, now it is the equivalent of ther postie deciding to dump all the junk mail through one letter box, it is so cluttered.

While I was having a look at my MySpace profile, all manner of adverts come up including the video for madonna's latest single, so out of interest, I watched it(well some of it) goodness me, poor Madge, it's woeful, she ought to take up knitting or something!

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I honestly don't get Twitter, nor these facebook apps. Just seems like all this technology demanding ever-ready attention is just so much noise. I mean, there's only so much a man can take of being spammed by virtual farm animals every twelve seconds.

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Well, I'll go t'top of our stairs! Thought I'd be the only one on the planet without a FaceArs* account!

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I honestly don't get Twitter, nor these facebook apps. Just seems like all this technology demanding ever-ready attention is just so much noise. I mean, there's only so much a man can take of being spammed by virtual farm animals every twelve seconds.

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If there's anything that makes my foot itch, it is being nagged and deluged with barrowloads of poppycock and all the rest of the insignificant details of life. I was on the train t'other day and had to listen to some woman banging on about 'the fabulous, awesome, fantastic, really surprising NVQ results that her class had got, some 30 odd of them' I had to sit there and listen to a blow by blow account and each and everyone of her charges. Now I have never known anyone fail an NVQ so why it should be all that remarkable I don't know.

But, I was almost moved to getting out my marker pen and writing in big letters on the newspaper lying on the seat beside her - "If ever there was the electronic equivalent of the Chinese Water Torture, then you are it, death by a 1000 wows"

Did Rupert Murdoch not take over MySpace? Most of the young artists left it three years ago and none of them uses it now. I expect Facebook will go the same way. MySpace was a good medium for musicians, but for some reason everything got tinkered with, like the mess of Beatport. That is the Internet unfortunately.

As for being spammed by facebook and animal farms etc, the best thing to do is never join them. I never have, but I joined twitter just to tell James Lance how good he was in Being Human.

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Thing about MySpace is that it was *ALWAYS* buggy, right from the start, long before Murdoch took it over. It was always crashing and not working properly and being a right PITA. And it was always a user-unfriendly mess to navigate, and to edit, and the page layout was a mess.

The surprising thing to me is that even after all that money got poured in, things didn't improve. No matter how many re-launches it went through, it stayed buggy, and editing it remained a PITA, partly because they kept changing everything around all the time, and it got even messier. Once alternatives came along, people and musicians gladly jumped ship.

I find Facebook a bit of MySpace-style PITA as well, but it isn't such a disaster area as MySpace. That's one thing it has in its favour. No matter how badly designed Facebook is, it isn't as bad as MySpace (I still hate it though).

I agree, but so many people are leaving Facebook due to the Press exposing privacy policies. You have to ask yourself, what next? I think we have to go with whatever is free exposure, and get on with it really.

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