This blog entry is somewhat a formal protest against MySpace's policy of deleting the Playlist.com's media player widget.
I have always loved all genres of music (except for Polka... I despise polka). So, it stands to reason that I would WANT music on my profile page. Unfortunately, the MySpace Player limits you to 10 songs. How is a music lover like myself supposed to choose just 10 SONGS?! So, I chose to put my playlist from Playlist.com on my profile page since there is wider selection of shared media to choose from AND max limit is 100 songs.
Now MySpace has banned the Playlist java player widget and will forcibly remove it from your profile anytime you insert the script onto your site.
Playlist is in league with Sony BMG and uses the SAME technology of file sharing that the MySpace Media Player uses, so on what ground does MySpace stand in denying its users the choice of Playlist over their UGLY eyesore of a player?
What's next? Are we going to be forced to put MySpace Video on our profiles instead of YouTube? As it stands, it too requires special coding to put onto your profile page like Playlist.
As it stands (because of MySpace's ban on many web addresses that cannot be linked on your profile page... so if you have that nice family website on geocities? forget linking it on your MySpace profile page) I have been forced to make another profile page on Gaia just to link my Playlist to. (Gaia doesn't ban Playlist from their profiles).
The more and more I am a member of MySpace.... the less and less I like it. I don't misbehave, I don't promote pornography, I don't spam other users with useless drivil and yet I feel like I am being punished somehow. I would just like a profile that I could enjoy and be proud of and share with my friends. Is an eye-pleasing java script media player that can hold more than 10 songs REALLY that much to ask?