A MySpace portable audio player? (Design your own!)
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted November 7th 2008 2:39PM
posted November 7th 2008 2:39PM
MySpace has long been associated with music, and the site's recent push into commercial sales has prompted rumors that it might release a device of its own -- "it's possible," said the site's co-founder Chris DeWolfe when asked about it yesterday. For the time being, however, the social networking site will be wisely concentrating on what it does best: maintaining the world's foremost photographic archive of suburban tweenagers flashing gang signs and providing a much needed creative outlet for people with names like IfUaHATERthenDon'tbeHatin, « ASHLEE » and Psycho♥Rée. And to keep you entertained as you wait for another episode of MySpaceTV's Sorority Forever, feel free to check out the MySpacePMP Blingee after the break.
Update: We've found ourselves so visually inspired by the concept of a MySpace player that we've decided to run a Photoshop contest (that grandest of traditions) to see what you can come up with. Fire your best 'shops on over to contests at engadget dawt com, and together we can create a brighter future.
[Via Electronista]
Update: We've found ourselves so visually inspired by the concept of a MySpace player that we've decided to run a Photoshop contest (that grandest of traditions) to see what you can come up with. Fire your best 'shops on over to contests at engadget dawt com, and together we can create a brighter future.
[Via Electronista]
Does it automatically play crappy music every time you go to a different screen like the real MySpace?
No, it only plays top 40 tracks to individualize your page as unique
All I know is that I'm listening to Supertramp, John Denver, and The Beatles right now. Full albums on Myspace is the most awesome thing on the site.
you're listening to all three at the same time??? You're amazing!
Zing!
Somehow I picture the people who use MySpace already have a few iPods hanging around the house, and won't be needing this.
stickers and ponies and myspace.com!
is it just me or do i spy a zune!
If you don't and you happen to work for the CIA, that explains a WHOLE lot.
Albeit an old Zune, in a chunky case... they've come a long way...
That's absurd!
Your name is brilliant!
Well done, well done...
OMG, ROFL
*puke*
oh god no. So does this thing only play Chingy and Fall Out Boy? This has FAIL written all over it.
HA! Believe it or not I didn't even see the Chingy picture until after that first post. I guess that answers my question...
I don't believe it.
What is the obsessive need these days to post pictures of yourself with the amount of alcohol you have consumed and flashing gangsta finger signs?
Because it's hard core and badass. Obviously you wouldn't understand, "Jeff". What kind of screen name is "Jeff" anyway? God, you're so uncool.
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jokes.
You mean gang signs, right?
I'm calling it, best Engadget picture of 2008.
We have a lot of fierce competition for that. An Engadget poll will decide.
My personal favorite is the sad faced Motorola logo!
Dear god, lets hope they dont.
It could be the crappiest product in history, yet it would still sell like hotcakes.
ha! man myspace sucks...
Can we just nuke myspace from the face of the planet? Most god-awful cesspool ever. The sites make my ears and eyes bleed. I can't imagine anything of value ever coming from it.
you must be 40 cuz like ZOOOMG myspace rox and like u can talk 2 frnds n stuff n deal w/ dramaz cuz middle skool is tuff n stuff, like ya know?
You should have a doctor check that...
LOLWUT
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all your glitter are belong to us
THAT IS FROM ZERO WING
CAPITAL LETTERS ARE THE MOSTEST SARCASTIC
WE ARE THE ROBOTS.
I find it hilarious that phanbouy has fans that have fans, and yet, we accept this as normal.
Then again, "creepy stalker crowd" is what I expect to associate with anything MySpace anyway these days, haha
MySpace - A place for pedophiles.
Andrew, I didn't know Flashpoint was on myspace
Wow, the cover actually looks like a gif made in the early 90s.
Myspace itself looks like a GIF made in the early 90s.
Myspace itself looks like a GIF made in the early 90s.
People still use MySpace? Seriously? I left after the customization went over the edge and I couldn't even load some of the profiles without some gay song starting and all these gay backgrounds..
u r gay, methinks
While that thing looks crappy, if you could load Rockbox onto the ROM, I think all cosmetic deficiencies would be forgiven. Those developers are so desperate to port Rockbox onto just about anything.
Developer 1: Hey Jim, did you see that Myspace is releasing a new mp3 player that will stream the same stale, old, unoriginal songs in order to pander to their teenybooper audience?
Developer 2: Yeah, I heard. Sounds like a failing media company struggling to stay relevent. Their downfall will be them transcending their online medium into a physical medium. This will continue until they a mere shadow of their former self and a punchline to a lame joke.
Developer 3: It's gonna have a hard disk and open source documentation for developers!
Developer 1: Is it going to be ugly as sin?
Developer 3: Of course.
Developer 2: What are we waiting for. Get coding!
Of course this is dramatized. Still gotta love the Rockbox though.
Zune! lol
interesting that you used a Zune as a template for your myspace PMP disaster. That is exactly what myspace should do. They should team up with Zune to make their platform cross compatible with the Zune social. The device already has wireless capability to stream dreck from myspace artists pages as well as listen to what other myspace friends dreck is playing.
if they create a PMP that is geared solely to their service it will fail hard. I suggest they do that before MS does something like buy up Facebook and integrates Zune into it.
I would seriously consider leaving Zune if they integrated MySpace into it. Facebook on the other hand...
It plats "I Kissed a girl" over and over again until another crappy song comes out.
Stupid - at BEST they can create a stand along SW player for the PC, or even just an extention to their downloadable IM client.
Otherwise, a WASTE OF TIME. Just like when AOL tried to make something with AOL Radio... hahaha
lets hope that this device doesnt crash everytime you load a new page or list.
i wouldn't buy this