by C. S. P. Barnes

Created on: September 12, 2008

So you want to hide the music player so that it plays on your profile but folks can't see it. There are two ways that you can accomplish this task.

The first way is to copy the Cascading Styling Sheet (CSS) code below and then paste it in the beginning of the About Me section of your MySpace profile. You can also add it to the very end but that is your choice.

<style>
td td embed, td td object { position: absolute; top: -700px;
left:-600px; }td td td embed, td td td object
{ position: static; }
</style>

A small warning and an important item of note is that this code may move some of your other stuff around, specifically other embedded objects. An example of an embedded objects aside from your music player may be a video that you have available for playing. The instruction in the codes say, "Hey take all those embedded objects put them on top of one another and then move them out of sight". If you play with the "top" and "left" parameters, you will understand that these are the location markers. They act as coordinates, if you will, and the closer the numbers get to zero, the more apt you are to begin to see them on the page.

The second way is to set the 'visibility' option of the item to 'hidden' like in the code below. Again, if you want to use this, copy the code and then paste it inside your About Me section of your MySpace profile.

<style type="text/css">
td td embed, object, pram, embed{height:0; width:0; visibility:hidden;}
</style>

You could have varying reasons for wanting to hide your music player. Perhaps you want the music to play but you don't want your visitors to be able to turn it off or know what song is playing or where it is playing from. Perhaps you feel that it gets in the way of the flow of your profile and aesthetically removing the music player is the right decision to make. Both of the examples laid out above will work.

If want you really are trying to do is make sure that the player doesn't play automatically or you want to remove the song that is now playing then follow these instructions.

1. Click Edit Profile
2. Click Songs and Video
3. Here you can remove the audio song from your profile by click the Remove button or click the Account Settings>Miscellaneous Settings link.
4. In Miscellaneous Settings, it will let you set whether your audio player will start automatically with your song.

As always, have fun making your profile reflect the uniqueness that is you.

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