No Sound on myspace with Firefox

Sharon

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Jul 10, 2006, 1:43:01 AM7/10/06

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While browsing through some myspace pages I noticed that the music for
pages with music added does not play in Firefox, but it plays just fine
in Internet Explorer. This happens on any page that has music added. The
usual procedure for adding music from myspace artists is as follows:
"Adding a song is easy. Visit Myspace Music
(http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music) and find a song
you want to add. If the artist has given permission to share the music,
you'll see an "Add" link next to the song. Click "Add" and the song will
play on your profile!
I do not know what player they use, but as I mentioned the music plays
automatically in IE but not in Firefox.
Any ideas?

Sharon

Moz Champion (Dan)

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Jul 10, 2006, 1:54:00 AM7/10/06

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test
go to http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music
and click on the 'click to listen' on the MySpace Exclusive (for me it
was Jamie Kennedy)
Do you get a new page and does the music play?

Sharon

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Jul 10, 2006, 2:21:10 AM7/10/06

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I got the new page but the music didn't play automatically. I think I
did discover the problem though. I have Flashblock installed and it was
apparently blocking the music from playing. I tried to list myspace.com
as an allowed site but that didn't work since each myspace page as it's
own unique url. The only way that I can get things to work right is to
disable Flashblock. I guess I can't use Flashblock if I want to hear
the music, but at least I've discovered what the problem is.

Philip Chee

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Jul 10, 2006, 8:44:07 AM7/10/06

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On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:21:10 -0700, Sharon wrote:

> I got the new page but the music didn't play automatically. I think I
> did discover the problem though. I have Flashblock installed and it was
> apparently blocking the music from playing. I tried to list myspace.com
> as an allowed site but that didn't work since each myspace page as it's
> own unique url. The only way that I can get things to work right is to
> disable Flashblock. I guess I can't use Flashblock if I want to hear
> the music, but at least I've discovered what the problem is.

Go to the Flashblock options dialog (Tools-> Extensions-> Flashblock->
Options) and then manually add "myspace.com". This should whitelist the
whole domain including subdomains.

Phil
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Irwin Greenwald

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Jul 10, 2006, 2:44:03 PM7/10/06

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I use the following in userContent.css in the profile chrome folder to
disable flash unless I click on the entry. Works fine on the site you
cited.

/* Prevent flash animations from playing until you click on them. */
object[classid$=":D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"],
object[codebase*="swflash.cab"],
object[type="application/x-shockwave-flash"],
embed[type="application/x-shockwave-flash"],
embed[src$=".swf"]
{ -moz-binding:
url("http://www.squarefree.com/turing/clickToView.xml#ctv"); }

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