How to Autoplay Shockwave Flash on MySpace
When someone visits your MySpace profile, you may want to add a touch of your personality by automatically playing a Flash video or song clip as soon as the page loads. Making your Flash file auto-play requires only two tiny tweaks to your embedding code and takes just seconds. Keep in mind, however, that not everyone appreciates it when a website plays video or music right away; keeping this setting turned off gives visitors the choice to play your Flash file at their discretion.
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Instructions
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Sign in to MySpace.
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Go to "Profile" and "Edit Profile" and choose the area you want your Flash file to appear in (i.e., "About Me").
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Paste the following code in that box:
<OBJECT WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
STANDBY="Loading Flash file" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="http://www.domain.com/your.fla">
<PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
<PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
<EMBED TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" SRC="http://www.domain.com/your.fla" WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0" ShowDisplay="0" autostart="0"> </EMBED>
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Change "http://www.domain.com/your.fla" to the URL of your Flash file in both places it appears in the code.
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Change
<PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
to
<PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="true">
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Change autostart="0" to autostart="1" to make your Flash file play automatically when the page loads. (To stop it from playing automatically, change the "1" back to "0".)
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Tips & Warnings
If you already have code to embed your Flash file, look for fields called "autostart" and change their values to "True" or "1."
