So after months of funny, odd, and strange front page messages on minorcris.net’s homepage, including at one point advertising free PS3s. Minorcrisis has relaunched as mp3space. Enjoy increased bandwith as members now receive 30GB Monthly transfers, 100mb of space, and 10mb max file sizes.

Dizzler is too big for your myspace layout, and you want it smaller? Well, Dizzler doesn’t allow the option to resize through their music player page, but we can hack around that.

In order to change the size of Dizzler Music Player, take a look at the code

<embed src=http://player.dizzler.com/KmF8NDk1NzEx&ms=1
width=”500″ height=”350″ quality=”best” scale=”noborder” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”
type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” ></embed>

Do you see height, and width? These tell you how long and wide the player will be. So in order to make it smaller, change the value after height and width. A small Size would be height=”250″ width=”150″. Lets Change the Code of the Height and Width to “250″ x “150″

<embed  src=”http://player.dizzler.com/KmF8NDk1NzEx&ms=1″
width=”250” height=”150” quality=”best” scale=”noborder” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”
type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” ></embed>

Now we’re done! Now it should be small enough to fit in your layout, but you won’t be able to read it, but thats something you can’t fix.

Dizzler is the new music player making the buzz around Technorati WTF, although I believe it was kind of spammish since there’s hundreds of stylish music players out there. The biggest difference with Dizzler is that uploading music to a website is no more. There’s no more xml feeds you have to create or finding a webhost that allows you to hotlink. Within the admin menu, you type a song and it will search for any available listings. After a selection of songs will come up. I tested it with my rare hard to find music and surprisingly it found 1 out of the 10 nu-jazz. Thats pretty good for me since I wasn’t expecting any. Choosing a song is when things get a little low quality. Some songs are standard Mp3 quality you’ve come to expect. Other songs sound like they were streamed for 56k modems. Not a very good thing in my book.

Aside from music, Dizzler also has videos, games, and customizable skins. Most of the skins take up a lot of room, you can customize each and every menu and button to fit your needs. Most of the time things won’t match so your better off just choosing a skin already made for you. You can also upload your own logo but the site failed to mention during the upload menu what size your logo should be before it gets highly distorted.

Tips for Dizzler! How to get a song to play first on Myspace!

Type the song you want to search. Click the Heart to Favorite it so that it can be added to your playlist. Click Menu and click Set as Default Song.

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Flektor allows anyone to create their own Myspace widget where you pick and choose which applications your viewers will see first. Now you can integrate all your Myspace crap into one flash app.

Flektor offers a Quick Start for users who don’t want to register to quickly start the basics of their widget. Unfortunately, loading the app is pretty heavy, and does a drain on your resources. Registering is the only option if you seriously want more control over your widgets. Here you can add your own photos, music, and videos. I don’t recommend using Flektor as a music player only because the audio quality is terrible and not worth your time. After you upload your media you can drag and drop them into the time line. You can add special effects such as transitions, or one of its coolest features titled ”Zingers”.

Zingers overlays a special effect over the slide. You can select the “Bus Ad” zinger, which places your photo on the back of a moving bus. You can also add the infamous glitter text for all you tacky girls out there. The customizations are well put as you can edit the size, spacing, and effect of each text on the fly. Tired of seeing too much Bling? You can change it back to normal in just one click. After you’ve finished making your slideshow masterpiece, you can publish it for all to see.

Here are some Quick Tips for Myspace

In the Embed options for Myspace, select “Start Playing Flek automatically.” Add some transition time before your “main attraction”. This is so that your audience has enough time to see your flek before the slideshow finishes. Change the length of a slide by clicking the pencil tool and dragging the duration time to the right. Instead of using songs, add your voice to your Flek for a personal touch. Keep in mind the length of the whole presentation or else you may discover the audio will fade out at the end.

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MyFabrik is actually a storage site for files, images, and songs. However it also contains a small flash music player that you can play on Myspace It can load only one song at a time, but there’s a special way to get the tiny version of the music player onto your site.

First Log In, then click Music, then click Import. Select the song you want, and click Import. The next step is to click on the song you just uploaded and click embed. Here’s an Example

The Following Code is an example of MyFabrik’s Music Player

<div><embed src=”http://www.myfabrik.com/webapps/xspf_player.swf” mce_src=”http://www.myfabrik.com/webapps/xspf_player.swf” flashvars=”autoplay=true&autoload=true&info_button_text=myfabrik.com” width=”400″ height=”170″ quality=”high” scale=”noscale” salign=”b” wmode=”transparent” name=”fabrikaster” align=”middle” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” ></embed></div><div style=”font-size: 11px;”>Powered by <a class=”bmk_lnk” target=”_fabrik_” href=”http://www.myfabrik.com” mce_href=”http://www.myfabrik.com”>www.myfabrik.com</a></div>

Ok now to get the small flash player, copy and paste your embed code that you recieved from the site into notepad. You will then change these areas that I have listed below.

Find the section below in your notepad:

http://www.myfabrik.com/YOURUSERNAME/xspf_player.swf

Change it to this:

http://www.myfabrik.com/YOURUSERNAME/xspf_player_slim.swf

Now change the width and the height to:

width=”200″ height=”15″

Change salign to the letter L as below:

salign=”l”

Once you do this you will now have a tiny flash music player you can put on myspace or other services.

There’s one thing going for iJigg, its tiny and cute flash widget for playing music is very stylish. It fits so well with white layouts and does everything inside its widget just incase you want to embed it for another site. iJigg enforces its rules against music you do not own. That might deter it from the myspace crowd since all music must be original. However people will still get around this by posting obscure music to be hosted.  I support Non-RIAA music and this site encourages it too. Indie bands are encouraged to post their music on their site where users can Jigg to vote for their music.

iJigg Flash Widget is scalable and transparent through HTML editing

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Wow if there’s ever a company to do so many things right, it has to be Media Master. First and foremost the biggest plus I’ve seen is the ability to upload multiple files in one single session. Yes you can do that on other music sites as such but, the difference here is that I can select multiple files and add them all together without having to open the window multiple times. This means basically, you can drag within the window, select the files you want, and Save. This method hasn’t been used in that much online storage sites at all. They expect you to either select one file at a time or install some bulky activeX or Java applet to do the same thing. Besides this, one of its coolest features is playing your music as a radio station. So you can remotely whip up winamp and play the songs you’ve uploaded. Make sure that you drag the files to the Radio tab or else they won’t play. The widget on the other hand is a little uncostomizable, my biggest gripe with it is that its not scalable at all so you have to leave it as it is. The next problem is that I’d like to control what people hear. Instead users have access to your whole music library by clicking on each playlist type. This is not good for the company itself as many people will be putting RIAA music up. The RIAA  can see all those songs and do a DMCA takedown notice for each and every file you uploaded. Its a solid servie but with a little more customizable rules for what others hear, it might actually work out in the end.

MediaMaster does not natively support scalability, and transparency, you must edit HTML to activate.

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