PLEASE do NOT strip my credits out of your code. They are harmless. Unlike most sites, My credits do NOT show up on your visible page, there is no reason to remove them. If you make a derivative of my work, you may add your own credits, but leave mine in tact.

I apologize for being less attentive to people's questions than in the past. I hope to return to doing this at some time. But for now I need to think about what I want to do. This doesn't mean I am completely ignoring all questions, if I suspect there might be a bug in my code, or myspace has made some change effecting it, I will still dig in and research.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

MySpace Music Player Skins, Ad Free, No PopUps, Skin or color your music Box, standard player and Band Player

MySpace Music Player Skins


Custom myspace music player skins were my idea, and it was my effort that enabled almost every site, currently offering these skins, to offer them.

All of my code has been moved to my Skin Code Generating tools.

Code Generator Tools for MySpace Music Player Skins

Standard MySpace Player Skins; Thousands of Plain solid colored Skins, Images, options to add borders, adjust size, opacity, transparency, and position.Try out the Skin Code Generating Tool for the Band Page (beta -)

Some quick links to various elements of this article:

If You want to Offer Music Player Skins on Your Site Click Here
Applying/Removing the "official" Myspace SkinsSimple Band Player improvement; Allowing your background to show through your playerTutorial for Band Player Skins I suggest reading the above article even if you use the tool to generate your code.
How the Skins Work, and Some HistoryWhy does the Music Player Skin code on Most Sites have a Bug?
Applying the "official" Myspace SkinsIssues with the "official" Myspace Skins

At this time the music player skins generator offers all of the following:
- opacity/transparency adjustment. You decide how much of the player you want to allow to show through the skin.
- a few thousand background colors. This allows for a few thousand plain colored skins.
- Several images showing the on/off(start/stop), volume, and other controls.
These can be used with the thousands of colors, to make over 100,000 skins.
Many of the start/stop (play/off) buttons are themed, others are simple arrows.
- several hundred image skins.
- Skins with transparency to allow either your page background, or a background color you choose, to show through.
Various patterned skins, combined with different colored backgrounds, turned a few skins into several thousand possible skins.
- Borders
- size adjustment
- player positioning.
Because most sites (even those offering the skins) really don't understand how they work, their code to position the player, will leave the skin behind.
This was the reason I added the positioning option. Many people want to add a custom skin AND move the player.

The ability to size the player, also allows one to use non standard sized skins with the player. The tool is NOT restricted to skins with are the standard skin size.
Nor is it restricted to skins for use with the standard player.

With all of the above advantages, to using my skin generator, over the typical pimp/layout sites that most people use, I do NOT force a visible ad onto your myspace page.
I do not have any pop up ads on any of my pages, and only have minimal advertising neatly contained along the top and sides.

So with fewer irritations, and more options, why would anyone go anywhere else to get a music player skin.

Because I wrote the code myself, I understand it.
I also am very familiar with the myspace core code, and understand what types of other page customizations cause conflicts. This allows me to trouble shoot issues people have with the skins.


I was not the first to offer a skin code generator. A site called Jombley beat me to that. However, their generator, generated my early version of the code. This was the version with the left side div bug.
They had taken my code, and wrapped a generator around it.
Their generator does do some unique things that mine does not do, and mine does some things that theirs does not do.
(I would promote their site and link to their generator, if they bothered to credit me for the code.).

How do I know it is my code?
How does a teacher know when students copy their work from another student?
Isn't it just possible that two students wrote exactly the same paragraph, when there were so many different ways to write it?

Music Player Skins for the Standard Page Music Player, skin it, border it, fade it, color it, size it, position it. More Skins and Skin Look options than Any Other Side. Code kept up to date with myspace changes. No visible ad placed onto your myspace page.


(Includes a technique for removing a Skin you may be stuck with)

Image showing skin applied to the Band Player:



Credit for the above image goes to Giulio Genua.
Giulio has agreed to design skins for others who add him as a friend on myspace. Contact Giulio for more information.

Add color or skin to myspace music player (band player or Standard player)



Offering Music Player Skins on Your Site
I am in the process of working out agreements with multiple sites who have (without my permission) utilized my code on their site.
In many cases the code was taken, not directly from my site, but from another site which copied my code, and then offered it to others for use.
If you are one of these sites, likely you have a buggy version of the code, Please contact me.

If you are a site, not currently offering music player skins, and you wish to do so, I will help you get this set up.
My assumption will be that you are the creator of the actual skins.
I am currently working out some of the details, related to the best options to offer,
Some feedback would be appreciated:

1) How important is it, to the sites offering skins, that the credit be in the form of a visible link, on the user's myspace page?
I prefer to use "hidden" links, where the credit is visible to anyone reading the code, but not necessarily on the person's myspace page.
Users are much less likely to remove such a credit.
But I am willing to make a visible credit optional, as long as the user can choose to hide it.

2) How important is it, that the code be directly on your page, as opposed to having the skin link to my code generator.

A link to my code generator would work like this:
CLICK HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THIS WOULD WORK


The following page has decided to set up their skins using this strategy.
creatiivelytz.com with some very original music player skins you will not find on any other site.


I prefer to set this up, so the skin artists display the skins on their site, and that the code stays on my site. A user would click on the skin, which would take them to my code generator, with the skin of choice already entered into the image field.

Why?
Well it is simple, the skin artist created the skin and deserves all credit for doing so, including any traffic the skin generates to their site.
The code author wrote the code, and deserves the same for their code.

This puts the burden of maintaining the code on me, and I will do what I can to keep it working, when myspace makes changes which break it.
This also gives the user the option of adjusting opacity, re-sizing, adding borders, positioning and more.

But if you feel like you must have the code on your own site:
My ONLY REQUIREMENT is that you credit me with a link in EVERY block of code you distribute, and on each page where you distribute skins.

I would prefer to have the actual skin image libraries reside only on the pages of the artists who designed those skins; and have my site contain links to those pages.
After all it is the artists art, and it is my code.

Advantages of linking your skins to my Code generator
- Support from me if something does not work right
- Users can adjust opacity, add borders, add background colors (very nice for skins with transparent areas)
- I link to you, in my "Sources for Skin Images".

Disadvantages (I hesitated to supply this).
- It does require the user to go through more steps to apply the skin.
(but they get a lot more options,)
- It helps my google rankings, I in return help yours. But if you are ahead of me in the rankings, and you are the sort to not mind using other people's work for your own profit (or you read through the default myspace code yourself, and figured out how to do this yourself), then you will probably decide against linking to me.

Dual Option
Offer the users both the code in a text box, AND an option to pull the skin into my generator to adjust how it looks.
But you will have to maintain the accuracy of the code in the text box.

How the Skins Work, and Some History

I first considered writing code for music player skins, long before myspace offered them. However, there is a reason that my code, was not widely used, prior to that point in time.

My very early music player skin code, did involve making a copy of the player.
I used to explain why, but choose to remove that content.

Question for those who think that music skin code was so easy to come up with that they have the right to just use it, without crediting the source they either completely copied or made a derivative of:
What did myspace change, in their own core code, that made this task no longer require I make a copy of the player?

Copying the player caused various problems in IE, related to BOTH players (the hidden player, and the copy) trying to play. I later found a solution to this problem, but by then the solution was no longer needed.

This is where I had the story about the friend of mine, and the problem they had with their player, that first alerted me that myspace had made a change, that made skinning the player way easier. The same story can be found on createblog.com. However there, it is slightly modified. What is hilarious is that the person claiming this to be their experience, combined my code, with other code, of a completely different style, and one code block actually rendered the other code block broken. In another case, on createblog, the thief used the wrong picture with the code block. I had an image to go with one code example, and they used that image with my other code example.
Why do people do this? Why do people feel they are entitled to claim other people's work as their own?
Profit? In the case of createblog, I don't think those posting my work, and claiming it as their own, make any profit. So why? What is the motive?


The 2nd version of my code (the first version which did not involve copying the player), is the version found on many sites which offer skins. It is in tact, with my original bug.
A few sites have managed to fix the bug on their own. A few others copied my fix (along with its useless content).
A few sites had the bug for months, and then recently fixed it.

Why would this site (wootfreelayouts), credit me initially, (after I told them that their explanation of how the skins worked was incorrect), and then later remove that credit?
They did this several weeks before they actually fixed the bug they copied from me.
Even after they fixed the bug, they had a derivative of my work.
My work is what made their skin business possible.
Does "cut paste slap on logo art" add more value to the end product than code?
(I don't necessarily know the answer, but it is something to think about).


Why do most sites, offering skins, have a bug in their code?
I overlooked a few things when I initially created the code. I didn't even use the most obvious code. I made a few obscure decisions for obscure reasons.
One of those decisions resulted in a bug.
I call it the left side div bug.
I had never seen a left side app (I am not sure if they existed yet).
However, as soon as my code became widely used, reports of the bug started to show up.
I quickly fixed the bug in my copy of the code.

When I initially fixed the bug, I left in a segment, that was useless. I did find a few sites with this version of my copied code, that included the code fix, along with the useless segment of code. (thelolspace.net and a few others)

Why did I use -moz-opacity?
For those who wrote their own code, or slightly modified mine, why did you keep -moz-opacity? If you came up with it on your own, why?
Why not opacity?
(ok, those who read this article before I deleted that information, or those who go through the trouble to dig it out of the google archive can read my explantion.)

The use of the two together is moot.
The same goes for -khtml-opacity and Safari.
opacity works in all but the very old versions of FireFox, Mozilla, and Safari, just as well as -khtml or -moz opacity.

If you have a need for the skin to work on a Mac, ask me. There are some trade-offs, I need to let you know about.

Applying/Removing the "official" Myspace Skins

If you are looking for the "official" myspace skins you want to do the following:
(However be warned, that sometimes these skins get "stuck" and your menu option to remove them just goes away, and you are stuck with the skin.)

- go to your home page
- go into edit profile
- select song and video on profile (look at the blue text toward the top of the page)
- scroll down and you will see a place to select a player skin.
(there were 5 choices last time I checked, and a few of them were cute)
- save

IF YOU want to ADD or REMOVE an official skin, FIRST try the above steps.
If the above steps do NOT work (and they do not for many people) then keep reading.

PROBLEMS with Applying/Removing the "official" Myspace Skins

First try going directly to the link to ADD the skin you want.
This by-passes the menu, that some people do not have:

The following link takes one directly to the stop for applying the skin
Apply Skin 1:Default Skin
Apply Skin 2:Zune
Apply Skin 3:large Zune
Apply Skin 4:Boy with Boom Box
Apply Skin 5:Girl with Boom Box
Apply Skin 6 Lime Digital Player

If you are stuck with a skin you do not like (some people installed a skin before the option went away), and you want to remove it, use the 1st link in the list above.
This will restore the default skin.

IF NONE Of the above choices work for you there is another option.
I have added to code and instructions to the bottom of this post:
CLICK HERE: How to Remove a MySpace Skin (when you do not have the needed menu option

Allowing your background to show through your player
Place this code at the very top of your bio:
<a class=i href="http://xiii.us/ms/music-player-skin">
MySpace music Player Skin Code by Eileen</a>
<style>
table table td.text object,
table table td.text embed {-moz-opacity:0.4}
object {filter:alpha(opacity=40);}
.i {display:none;}
table table td.text table object,
table table td.text table embed {-moz-opacity:1}
table table td.text table object {filter:none;}
</style>
You can replace -moz-opacity with just opacity, however it does have an undesireable side effect in some PC versions of Safari, which prevent the music player from playing.
-khtml-opacity does the SAME thing as opacity in these versions of Safari.
If you do use opacity, instead of -moz-opacity then there is NO need for -moz-opacity or -khtml-opacity.
These were needed in some very old versions of Safari and Mozilla browsers. I am not even sure these older browsers support the wmode needed to make opacity possible on the music players anyway.

Applying a Band Player Skin IF you have a Div Overlay
The location for this code, depends on your div overlay strategy.
If you are using MY strategy, place this code block just AFTER the
!----START CUSTOM CONTENT ----!
which should be in your band members block.
<a class=i href="http://xiii.us/ms/music-player-skin">
MySpace music Player Skin Code by Eileen</a>
<div class="mPlayerDiv">
</div>
Next Place this at the very top of the influences (or wherever you are keeping style blocks.
Modify the top and left values to suit your own profile.
These values should be the same for the div as they are for the object.
<a class=i href="http://xiii.us/ms/music-player-skin">
MySpace music Player Skin Code by Eileen</a>
<style>
div.mPlayerDiv {position:absolute; top:145px;
z-index:8;
left:410px; width:450px; height:345px; background-image:url(http://genuabuilders.com/host/mp02.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:center center;}
.i {display:none;}
object, embed {-moz-opacity:0.4}
object {filter:alpha(opacity=40); width:450px; position:absolute; top:145px; left:410px; z-index:9}
</style>

If you are using someone else's div overlay strategy, the technique is the same.
However, most of the other strategies I have seen do require that you position from top center of the body, instead of top left of a containing div.
In this case you will need your position statement to look more like this:

{position:absolute; top:Ypx; left:50%; margin-left:-Xpx}

As long as you position the mPlayerDiv exactly the same as you position the object/embed; your skin should come out in the same location, as your player.

Applying a Band Player Skin IF you Do NOT have a Div Overlay
This is actually more difficult than if you do have a div overlay.
There is no div under the band player, to apply our skin to, therefore we must create it ourselves.
To do this we can either add code at the end of the Sounds Like, Or at the top of the Bio.
I prefer to add code at the end of the Sounds Like.
The web site, record label and label type are static.
So re-creating them is easy.

Step 1) Place at the end of theSounds Like
<a class=i href="http://xiii.us/ms/music-player-skin">
MySpace music Player Skin Code by Eileen</a>

</td></tr>
<tr>
<td class="genRowH"><span class="lightbluetext8">web page</span></td>
<td class="genRow">your web page here</td>
</tr><tr>
<td class="genRowH"><span class="lightbluetext8">Record Label</span></td>
<td class="genRow">your label here</td>
</tr><tr>
<td class="genRowH"><span class="lightbluetext8">Type of Label</span></td>
<td class="genRow">your label type here</td>

</td></tr></table>
</td></tr></table>
</td>
<td>
<div class="iRightColumnDiv">
<div class="mPlayerSpaceDiv"></div>
<div class="mPlayerDiv"></div>
<table><tr><td style="display:none;">

<table><tr><td>
<table><tr><td>

<style>
td.genRowH {background-color:b1d0f0}
td.genRow {background-color:d5e8fb}
table.friendSpace {margin-left:10px;}
div.iRightColumnDiv {margin-left:13px;}
div.iRightColumnDiv table td img {display:none;}
div.iRightColumnDiv table td {width:auto}
div.iRightColumnDiv table table td img {display:block;}

div.iRightColumnDiv {position:relative; top:0px;}
div.mPlayerSpaceDiv {height:345px; width:450px;}
div.mPlayerDiv {position:absolute; top:10px;
z-index:8;
right:2px; width:450px; height:345px; background-image:url(http://genuabuilders.com/host/mp02.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:center center;}
.i {display:none;}
object, embed {-moz-opacity:0.4}
object {filter:alpha(opacity=40); width:450px; position:absolute; top:10px; right:2px; z-index:9}
</style>
Step 2)Put this at the end of the Bio. This is to get back the balance we lost in the previous step:
</td></tr></table>


How to Remove a MySpace Skin (when you do not have the needed menu option
IF you are stuck with a skin you do not want, that you installed using the myspace OFFICIAL skins, and you can NOT remove it because you no longer have that option:
I recommend the following:

Hide your player using css style.
Copy the player song to a new object, and apply the default skin.

Replace the YOUR-PLAYER-ID with the number of your own player.
You need to do this in TWO places (I explain more below).
Place this code at the top of your interests (IN the General section, at the Top).
<div class="mpDiv" style= width:295px; height:51px; display:block;">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="all" height="51" width="295" data="http://lads.myspace.com/mini/mini.swf?b=YOUR-PLAYER-ID">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="all" />
<param name="movie" value="http://lads.myspace.com/mini/mini.swf?b=YOUR-PLAYER-ID" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
</object>
</div>

<style>
table table div object, table table div embed {display:none;}
table table td.text div object, table table td.text div embed {display:none}
table table div.mpDiv object {display:block;}
table table div.mpDiv {position:absolute; margin-top:-90px; margin-left:-115px }
table.userProfileURL {margin-bottom:30px; _margin-bottom:20px;}
</style>

Locate the URL of Your own Player
You need to view source.
In IE hit view on the top menu, and source from the drop down.
Search the source for this
lads

You will see a line of code that has this in it:

"http://lads.myspace.com/mini/mini.swf?b=YOUR-PLAYER-ID";

You want everything AFTER the b= and before the ending quote:

http://lads.myspace.com/mini/mini.swf?b=MzQyNTU1&o=NzMwMTM5NA==&d=MTIxMDEyNzE3OA==&i=MzI1ODY3NTMw&a=RmFsc2U=&u=MzI1ODY3NTMw

It is a very long value.

The code with the value pasted in:
<div class="mpDiv" style= width:295px; height:51px; display:block;">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="all" height="51" width="295" data="http://lads.myspace.com/mini/mini.swf?b=MzQyNTU1&o=NzMwMTM5NA==&d=MTIxMDEyNzE3OA==&i=MzI1ODY3NTMw&a=RmFsc2U=&u=MzI1ODY3NTMw">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="all" />
<param name="movie" value="http://lads.myspace.com/mini/mini.swf?b=MzQyNTU1&o=NzMwMTM5NA==&d=MTIxMDEyNzE3OA==&i=MzI1ODY3NTMw&a=RmFsc2U=&u=MzI1ODY3NTMw" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
</object>
</div>

<style>
table table div object, table table div embed {display:none;}
table table td.text div object, table table td.text div embed {display:none}
table table div.mpDiv object {display:block;}
table table div.mpDiv {position:absolute; margin-top:-90px; margin-left:-115px }
table.userProfileURL {margin-bottom:30px; _margin-bottom:20px;}
</style>



If you want the player to Auto Play, set this option BEFORE you copy the player.
After you have copied the player, you can REMOVE the song (so that the default player is not there).
You must remove the default player, by removing the song, if you want to set the player to autoplay.
IE will allow the player to be heard, even if it is completely hidden.
You can still use a copy of the player, even if the song has been removed from your page.

If you now want to apply a custom skin, you can.
However, you need to replace this table table div
with this
div.mpDiv

It is actually much easier to add a custom skin now, that we have a class assigned to the div the player is in.
No need to unDo the effect on additional elements.

Code to add a skin to the above copied player:
<a class="i" href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8veGlpaS51cy9tcy9tdXNpYy1wbGF5ZXItc2tpbg==">
Custom Music Player Skins and Skin Code by Eileen</a>
<style>
{! music player skin code author: Eileen http://spiff-myspace.blogspot.com/ !}
.i {display:none;}
div.mpDiv {background-color:f0c090 !important;}
{! border !}
div.mpDiv {border:6px solid; border-color:d87818;}

{! background image !}
div.mpDiv {background-image:url(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u192/hortonsuess/musicskins/animal-print-1.gif);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
background-position:LEFT TOP;}

{! player opacity !}
div.mpDiv object, div.mpDiv embed {-moz-opacity:0.2; filter: alpha(opacity=20);}

</style>
<i class="i">
End Code To Apply Music Player Skin</i>



Some sites using my code without my permission:

sunshinee.com (most obvious case of code theft, related to my mini player code whih I offer here: Reduce Music Player to Just the Start Stop Button.)

wootfreelayouts.com (used to credit me but stopped. I believe this was on the advice of the person who provides the skins to multiple sites. Admitting I was the author, without meeting my requirements for properly crediting me, put them at risk.)
oh-lyts.com
musicplayerskins.net
freeglitters.com
www.static-layouts.com
myspacelyts.net
snazzyspace.com
totallylayouts.com
dolliecrave.com
thelolspace (obvious derivative of a later version of my work)

All of these sites, and many more, are profiting from MY code.
Is that fair? Legal?
Do they Care?
Is there anything I can do?
Does anyone else Care (I have concluded no).

note to self: Try to use your power for good and not evil. Two wrongs do not make a right.

Thank you for Visiting, Have a Nice day


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Skins found in My Music Player Skin Libraries (all found with my music player skin generator which can be found here:
Eileen's MySpace Music Player Skin Code Generator

Hearts and Heart Pattern music player skins:
This library includes several heart patterns, many based on photographs of fabric and other products containing hearts.
Some were made by manipulating images found in the public domain on photobucket.
Some were custom designed for me by a friend.

Rainbow, Tiedie, Neons, Flashing bright Colors:
This library includes some images which I took from the public domain on photobucket.
Some I obtained by taking photos of some of my TieDie clothing.
Some were made using animationshop and paintshop.

Cute Music Player Skins and Cartoon Music Player Skins:
This includes many cartoon characters, along with dinosaurs, and photos of cute animals..
In many cases I searched for the popular cartoon character in a music setting, such as playing an instrument, singing or dancing.
A few involve photographs of products such as Speakers, which included the character.
This library includes several popular cartoon characters, along with cute photos of animals.
Ths library includes, but is not limited to:
mickey mouse, stitch, lilo, flinstones, sponge bob, boots (from Dora), sylvester, tweety, winnie the pooh, anime, cheshire cat, stewie from family guy, lots of hello kitty, betty boop, goofy, simpsons, mario, marvin the martian, precious moments, snow white, sleeping beauty, south park, walle, yogi bear, taz, tinker bell, loony tunes, curious george, cookie monster, elmo, candy, stuffed bears and other stuffed animals, airplanes, cars, happy faces and more.

Artists and Celebrities
This includes both images of music artists, other celebrities, and album art.
I decided which artists to make skins of, by going through the top music charts, both on MySpace, and on the Radio.
The collection includes, but is not limited to:
Jonas Brothers, Kevin Jonas, Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana, Aly and AJ, Cream (album art), Akon, Lil Wayne, Kelly Clarkson, Killswitch engage, misfits, Jesse McCartney, tia tequila, Pink Floyd (album art), Kardinal Offishall, Cold Play, Aubrey oDay (Danity Kane),T.I. TI, Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse, Sprouse Bros, Yo Gotti, Jodin Sparks, Madonna, Katy Perry, Kid Rock, Mason Musso (Metro Station), natasha bedingfield, pussy cat dolls Nicole Scherzinger, Ray J, Taylor Swift, Trace Cyrus,
Amy, tool, linkin Park, Sick Puppies, Vin Diesel (and many more).

Music Player Skins for the Standard Myspace Page
color or skin the myspace Band Player

Sunday, November 11, 2007

MySpace Music Player Skins Position Myspace Music Player

Positioning the Myspace Music Player


How to position the myspace music player using my music player skin code tool

The Tool these Instructions go with can be found here:
MySpace Music Player, Skin, Color, Size, Position and More

This Article is being written at this time, Check Back Later. Feel Free to use the Tool linked to Above, even Without the detailed instructions I will publish here, it works quite nicely.

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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Multiple MySpace Music Players On One Page

How to Place Multiple MySpace Music Players on One page by extracting the object source


This is for the Standard Page Player NOT the Band Player
(it is against the myspace terms of service to do this for the band page player).

Step 1)
View Source

Step 2)
Search for this word:
lads

You will find a line of code that looks like this:
var s = "http://lads.myspace.com/mini/mini.swf?b=MTE5NDA1NjI1&o=ODU4ODE3NTc=&d=MTIxNzg3NzAzMw==&i=MzI4NDgwMDMy&a=RmFsc2U=&u=LTE=";


You want everything that is between the quotes
http://lads.myspace.com/mini/mini.swf?b=MTE5NDA1NjI1&o=ODU4ODE3NTc=&d=MTIxNzg3NzAzMw==&i=MzI4NDgwMDMy&a=RmFsc2U=&u=LTE=


Now you want to use the below code block and REPLACE YOUR-URL (both occurrences) with the above string.
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="all" height="51" width="295" data="YOUR-URL">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="all" />
<param name="movie" value="YOUR-URL" />
</object>
I end up with the following:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="all" height="51" width="295" data="http://lads.myspace.com/mini/mini.swf?b=NTAxNTU1NTQ=&o=MTY1MDY3NTAy&d=MTIxNDUzMzE0Nw==&i=MzI4NDgwMDMy&a=RmFsc2U=&u=MzI4NDgwMDMy">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="all" />
<param name="movie" value="http://lads.myspace.com/mini/mini.swf?b=NTAxNTU1NTQ=&o=MTY1MDY3NTAy&d=MTIxNDUzMzE0Nw==&i=MzI4NDgwMDMy&a=RmFsc2U=&u=MzI4NDgwMDMy" />
</object>


You can now place this object code, where you want this player to show up on your page.

If you want to apply a skin, you need to wrap the object code in a div, give the div a class, and apply the skin to the div class.
(I might help you with this if you ask.)

Once you are finished, you can then change your default player to a new song, and repeat the process.

I have tested this with up to three players. (2 players copied and placed using the above code, and the other set as the song to show on my profile).

The above strategy can also be used to send the player to others, post in a comment, send in a bulletin and more.