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How To Set Up A Band Profile On Myspace

This film guides you through the setting up a band profile on popular social networking site MySpace. Learn to sign-up, invite friends, upload music and provide band information easily on MySpace pages.


Step 1:

Signup

Go to myspace.com and click on 'music' in the navigation bar. Then click on 'artist signup' in the top right of the screen. Now fill out the required fields. Enter a valid email address then enter your band's name and a password of your choice. Choose the best genre to describe your sound, enter your country and postcode. Next you'll need to verify your account by entering the text from the graphic in the box, and click 'Continue to my account'. You will be taken to a registration completion screen where you can enter two sub-genres, a website if you have one, your record label if you are signed - otherwise just specify 'Unsigned'. Then click 'Continue'.

Step 2:

Upload photos

You'll be given the option to upload some photos of your band. You can do this later if you like, but if you want to upload photos, click 'Choose file'. Find the photo that you want from your hard drive, select it, and press upload.

Step 3:

Invite friends

Myspace now gives you the option to invite your friends to join Myspace. Enter in as many email addresses as you like separating each with a comma. You can add any extra text in the optional body section. Press 'Invite' once you're happy with the email and recipients. Skip this step if you can't be bothered by clicking 'Skip for now'.

Step 4:

Songs

You can upload up to four mp3s onto your profile that people can listen to when they visit your page. Myspace now gives you the option to upload them. Click on 'Manage songs'.

Here you are given several options. You can decide whether you want to allow users to add your songs to their profile, whether you want the first song on your page to play automatically when people arrive on your page, or whether you want the order of songs played to be randomised when people visit your page.

In the top right hand corner, click 'Add a song to your profile'. Fill out the required fields - the song name, the album it's on, the year of release, the record label if you have one, lyrics if you like. You also have to decide whether you will allow users to rank the song, or allow users to download the song. So tick the necessary boxes and click 'Update'.
Now select 'Choose file' and find the mp3 on your computer's hard drive, and click upload. You will have to wait a while for the song to upload. Once it has uploaded, you'll be given the option of uploading a photo to accompany your song. Go to 'Choose file', select a file from your hard drive, and press upload.

Once this is complete, Myspace will inform you that your song has been uploaded to the Myspace server and must be converted to Myspace's streaming format and transferred to its streaming server. This may take up to 24 hours to complete.

Step 5:

Band information

Once your profile is setup, you can enter all sorts of information about your band. On your profile homepage, click 'Edit profile'. Here you can enter information about upcoming shows, you can write a band biography, put down influences, and change any information about your location or genre.
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Anonymous  (24 days ago)

So like... NOBODY's gonna respond to all of the artists like myself who wanna know how to change our age and gender. I'm also listed as a "100 Yr. Old Female" and that's not a good look... Hit me on www.myspace.com/OfficialRySpace with a response.

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Anonymous  (67 days ago)

Im also listed as a 108 year old female and I would like to change this to something more flattering like male and NOT A ROCKING CHAIR GRANNY

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Anonymous  (81 days ago)

Im not a female and im not 108 i dont know how this happen but please post how to change

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Anonymous  (111 days ago)

hello-can some one ple tell me WHERE THE @#@#$@# DO I BUT THE CODES!!! we are like 5 people here that wants to know! thank you

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Anonymous  (120 days ago)

Didn't work i need to find it out

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1 out of 2 people found this comment helpful Anonymous  (154 days ago)

the way you put codes on a band profile is... 1. go to edit profile 2. go to band details 3. go to the bio and click edit 4. place the code in and click preview 5. it will look weird, but click submit and look at you profile.

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Anonymous  (155 days ago)

how do i add a layout to the band pg????? pls anyone answer send answers to www.myspace.com/sainjimmyslyrics

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Anonymous  (160 days ago)

how do you put music on the page???

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3 out of 3 people found this comment helpful Anonymous  (169 days ago)

CAN YOU CHANGE THE GENDER OF THE BAND? I'M A SOLO ARTIST, AND NOT A 108 YEAR OLD FEMALE AS THE LISTING STATES AND I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH THIS PROBLEM (SEE ABOVE) IF YOU HAVE ANY INFO PLEASE POST IT ON THIS PAGE!! ?

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2 out of 2 people found this comment helpful Anonymous  (173 days ago)

I have just set up a myspace account, I'm a musician and now want to add my music but it appears I need to set up an entirely new account to do so. Seems like I need to register as a musician from the start. When I try to register my music, it tells me my email address is already in use, of course it is. Am I doing something wrong? Help please

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3 out of 3 people found this comment helpful Anonymous  (181 days ago)

Where do you change the gender of the band. When I do a search on a male singer music page I created...it shows him as female & 107 years old. There is not a place that I can find within the settings to correct this?

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Anonymous  (202 days ago)

where to change the layouts on a bands profile ? PLZ anyone?

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Anonymous  (223 days ago)

i want to upload songs to my bands profile but they arnt mp3 and its not working is there anyway they would go on even if they arnt mp3?

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Anonymous  (252 days ago)

i already have a myspace normal account but i'm in a band and they want me to do a myspace music profile. i've tried signing up a few times but when i get to the page where i need to verify my account by entering text from the box, it doesn't show the page, it's just a blank page with something like "4ce9" at the top. Why is this happening? Answer at www.myspace.com/__cordelia or if that doesn't work post it on www.theforged.piczo.com and i'll find it there. Thanks

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5 out of 5 people found this comment helpful Anonymous  (259 days ago)

how do I add a backround to my bands myspace? It says 'edit profile', yeah. but it doesnt let me put polka dots or a plain black backround or anything. help?

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