# Why does Myspace music player REFUSE to work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 13, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-myspace-music-player-refuse-to-work/609350 "2012-01-13T00:18:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-myspace-music-player-refuse-to-work/609350/1 "2012-01-13T00:18:40Z")
I hate everything about Myspace. It’s a disgusting, overengineered, frustrating, ugly, hideous, convoluted piece of buffalo shit. I hate this site with such an unbelievable passion. Yet, for some bands, it’s the only way to listen to their music without buying their CD (which I would readily do, in this case, except they’re not on iTunes and I don’t want to wait a week for a physical CD to arrive.) I’m trying to listen to some songs, and yet the music player absolutely REFUSES to fucking work, and it’s driving me absolutely nuts. [Here](http://postimage.org/image/7h97fc7on/) is a screenshot of the error message I get. Flash player refuses to work, and tells me I need to update Flash, restart the browser or refresh the website. Guess what, poppyseed-brains - I already DID ALL THAT! And it still isn’t working! What more do I need to do, catch a Trailways bus to Myspace headquarters and fucking fellate the CEO? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-myspace-music-player-refuse-to-work/609350/2 "2012-01-13T01:54:18Z")
Do you use an ad blocker and/or script blocker? Didja turn it off? Did you try using a different browser? ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-myspace-music-player-refuse-to-work/609350/3 "2012-01-13T02:51:46Z")
MySpace was the best choice for bands to post their music 7 years ago when there was no better choice. It’s a different online music world today: Last FM, Bandcamp, ReverbNation, SoundCloud, and other sites that f\*\*\* up far less on the audio and technical end. MySpace will follow the business direction of buggy whips if it doesn’t modernize (and it hasn’t yet last I checked at least) in the near future. I couldn’t even post a single 20 minute song (too large of a file) when I tried to start a MySpace music page…albeit that was a while ago. Anyway, most bands and musical solo artists have at least one page in addition to MySpace assuming they have a MySpace page at all. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-myspace-music-player-refuse-to-work/609350/4 "2012-01-13T03:11:38Z")
You mean, they have a CD you could buy, but they’re not on YouTube? You can download \*\*almost anyone’s \*\* music at Amazon for 99 cents a song. I have gotten some pretty danged obscure stuff from them. (mostly when I can’t find a song on YouTube.) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-myspace-music-player-refuse-to-work/609350/5 "2012-01-13T05:36:32Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > You can download \*\*almost anyone’s \*\* music at Amazon for 99 cents a song. No, you really can’t. At least 20% of my music collection can’t be found at Amazon, which I know for sure because I spent months last year trying to get album info for a few thousand songs, many of which neither Amazon or itunes carries.