How to put a song on Myspace?

Subject: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 May 08 - 08:49 AM

Well, I expect everyone in the world knows the answer to this,except me. But I'm pretty stupid, and I started a Myspace page and put a CD in my computer and had a go. After about a million attempts I gave up. The CD is in the computer all right, and I go through the Myspace instructions as best I can, browse and locate the relevant track in my computer, and tell Myspace to upload. And after a bit of cogitation it always says it doesnt like my file, delete it and try again.
What am I doing wrong? Myspace says something about uploading mp3 files...maybe my song isn't an mp3 file? If so, how do I turn it into one? Or maybe my song is too big, too many bytes?(though you'd think Myspace would tell me if that was the case). But if it is too big, how do you make it smaller?
Somebody out there must have had the same problems as me to start with, but has now cracked the secret. Do share!

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 May 08 - 09:06 AM

Greg

I had exactly the same problem and googled the solution from this site

I found it worked

Simon

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: Bill D
Date: 20 May 08 - 09:21 AM

Songs on a regular CD are not in MP3 format. There are several ways to convert them, but it does require some sort of software capable of doing the conversion. (This is commonly called 'ripping' a CD to MP3 format.) Ordinarily, you 'rip' and put the MP3 files to a directory on your own computer, then upload from there.

Greg...I am not sure how familar you are with using software, but you would need to get something such as Simon suggests, or one of half a dozen other programs to do the conversion. One frequently mentioned 'free' one is Aud\ograbber at this site. It is free, pretty easy and works.

   Failing that, you'd need someone to do the tricks for you.

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: treewind
Date: 20 May 08 - 11:04 AM

If, when you follow the "open file " dialog to upload your file, you are navigating to the CD, then what people said about MP3 files is the answer.

You need a special program (but they are plentiful and free) to "rip" the audio from your CD to a file on the PC. The program may offer the option of saving in MP3 format in which case your problem is solved; alternatively it will save it as something.WAV and you'll need another program (also plentiful and free) to convert that to MP3 format.

Google for:
CD audio ripper
and
MP3 encoder

Anahata

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 May 08 - 11:29 AM

Simon, et al: a million thanks. Life is so easy when we have a resource like MUdcat where nice clever people are waitring to give so generously of their time and expertise.
And to prove it, this ought to be the brass section of a song off our second album, that I have just been playing about with, re-editing

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=379248804

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 May 08 - 11:30 AM

Oh well, can't win them all. I hoped that would be blue and be a link.

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: open mike
Date: 20 May 08 - 11:31 AM

I have had problems with this too, it seems much easier to put video on the myspace page.

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 May 08 - 11:40 AM

Shallow Brown (Boat Band brass section) on Myspace

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 May 08 - 11:41 AM

Well, that's cracked the technology. I'll start pimping up the Myspace page a bit and adding a few pix and videos and things. Thanks all.

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: Rasener
Date: 20 May 08 - 11:57 AM

Greg
Interesting tune. Sounds a bit trad jazzy to me.
Les Worrall

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 May 08 - 12:13 PM

Well, it's a Bahamian/New Orleans brass style arrangement of the Caribbean shanty Shallow Brown. I might put the vocal up there as well, now I have cracked this Myspace technology. This was from the second Boat Band album(all sea-songs and tunes), shortly to be reissued in glorious technicolour on one of these new-fangled compact discs.

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 20 May 08 - 12:17 PM

New Orleans funeral even...

Thanks Greg (and other contributors) for this thread - Frogette sorted out a Myspace site for me last year, and Doug Bailey has agreed I can put up tracks from the Wildgoose CD I made with MCP when I've worked out how to do the techie bits....

Doug's clearing out the Wildgoose stock cupboard, so I'll be picking up the remaindered Dark the Days at Chippenham next weekend - collector's items!

Kitty

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: frogprince
Date: 20 May 08 - 01:32 PM

I like it, but is it really just 28 seconds long, or is something "sticking" after it plays that much?

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 May 08 - 01:41 PM

Well, when I put it on it played right through. But I often get that sticking when I play Myspace songs, and especially Youtube videos.Is it something to do with storage ca[pacity in our computers or something? I can't understand much of this stuff, to be honest.

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 May 08 - 04:27 PM

Funny, I had two tunes up and running, and now they have both vanished. What's going on then? When I go into the song managing bit, it claims I've still got two up. But there's nothing there. Computers. Bah!

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: open mike
Date: 20 May 08 - 04:41 PM

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Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 20 May 08 - 05:45 PM

I've just heard Gypsy Princess and Magic Island Merengue - great stuff!

Kitty

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: greg stephens
Date: 21 May 08 - 07:39 AM

I've put another tune on, then it's gone stuck on me! I think I'm allowed six, but I've only managed to get four on so far. I shall persevere.Sixty something people have listened to tunes already. That's interesting: where do they come from?

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: greg stephens
Date: 21 May 08 - 07:40 AM

Wow, it's just shot up to 101 listens! We're in the big time here.

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: Fidjit
Date: 21 May 08 - 08:31 AM

It's good fun Greg.

Keep 'em coming.

Chas

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: GUEST,Confused
Date: 21 May 08 - 09:31 AM

All the links on Myspace are in Japanese? - or is it just my computer?

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: GUEST,John from Elsies Band
Date: 21 May 08 - 10:09 AM

I, like the guest above, am confused and would welcome any advice or observations on the following. I recieve attachments on my e-mail for songs or text and the result of downloading is in "Wordpad" in "gobbledegook"(that is Greek, Russian and a very wide range of symbols). My system is "Windows ME". Is there any way to convert the offending nonsense into the correct English format?

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 21 May 08 - 11:30 AM

With all the technologies at our fingertips, I can still sometimes see the wisdom of going back to the old days of oral dissemination of music...

Keep it live!

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: frogprince
Date: 21 May 08 - 12:46 PM

All your stuff is playing through fine for me today. You guys aren't half bad. When do you expect to play in Michigan? : )

Subject: RE: How to put a song on Myspace?
From: greg stephens
Date: 23 May 08 - 06:39 AM

Frogprince: I would love to come to Michigan.Particularly as I am Cornish, and the most interesting thing I know about Michigan is that there is a very Cornish part of the state, presumably with a mining connection, where you can buy pasties from vans. Is this true?
Anyway, kindly advise about Michigan festivals that have budgets to support UK guests.
Thanks
Greg