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thanks so much!
Thanx - gaRr
<ul id="quote"><h6>awjus wrote:</h6>I tried your tip, but the changes never seemed to take effect. it warned me that it would take up to 24 hours, but nothing ever happened. am i missing something?
thanks so much!</ul>
Of course, you always have the option to delete your myspace account and start anew.
http://editprofile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseac...
but add the mytoken data from your current session (just login to myspace, click to edit your profile and then copy the code from the end of that URL)
these might work also, but be warned, I think you can only convert once and then you can't convert back....
To Film Maker:
http://editprofile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseac...
To Comedian:
http://editprofile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseac...
but be warned, I think you can only convert once and then you can't convert back....
- don't just click the link above
- copy it into your browser
- BUT add the mytoken data from <span style="text-decoration:underline">your</span> current session
- (just login to myspace, click to edit your profile and then copy the code from the end of that URL)
eg: your token bit looks like this:
<font color="red">MyToken=234ab1cd-5678-321b-8st9-44a12qwe4r06</font>
so the complete URL might be:
<font color="blue">editprofile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=BandProfile.convert&</font><font color="red"><span style="text-decoration:underline">MyToken=234ab1cd-5678-321b-8st9-44a12qwe4r06</span></font>
but be warned, I think you can only convert once and then you can't convert back..
Really hoping I can get your method to work. I've copied and pasted your link and added the token string from my existing session, but it's just not having it.
It looks like it's gonna work, the Edit "Band Profile >> Edit Band Bio" page opens, but no changes I make in there make any difference, they don't even get saved. If I go to the Basic Profile tab, the options in there are grayed out and nothing's selectable.
I think the first thing that should happen is some text should display warning that the change to a band profile is irreversible which I have to accept- that's the stage that isn't happening.
Anything else you can think of to try?
Thanx :)
-C-
It is not working right now.
I don't know what to suggest. This worked on a dummy account i created last week. And again earlier today on another one. The Filmaker and Comedy ones are working at the moment but not the Band one. I can only assume that Myspace have changed one of the Coldfusion back end files.
If I find a new URL that does it I'll certainly post it.
Sorry !
I Did manage to convert one using this method below - but only one.
What I mean is I created two new normal profiles tonight - one has converted and the other hasn't... I don't know why but I am sure i did the same both times but now I am getting too frustrated to try again - so by all means try the following but no guarantees...
Ok, this is a bit more complicated, please read it all carefully and remember i had one success and one failure with this method...
Maybe you can create a test profile yourself so you don't mess up your actual profile...
Method:
Okay, so you have a normal, non-music, non-comedy, non filmmaker profile.
Login.
Click to edit your profile.
the URL in the address bar is like:
profileedit.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.interests&MyToken=234ab1cd-5678-321b-8st9-44a12qwe4r06
now paste this into notepad (I know we don't want a comedian profile - read all of this before you do anything!!!)
<font color="blue">collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=comedian.convert&Mytoken=</font>
and add the Mytoken data from the URL
<font color="red">234ab1cd-5678-321b-8st9-44a12qwe4r06</font>
making
<font color="blue">collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=comedian.convert&Mytoken=</font><font color="red">234ab1cd-5678-321b-8st9-44a12qwe4r06</font>
put that back into the browser address bar
this will take you to a page with a question,
Do you want to convert your profile to a comedian profile?
BE CAREFUL HERE.... Don't CLICK THE LINKS
If you carefully put the cursor over the
[Yes, convert it to a comedian profile]
You will see the target URL in your status bar. The bit we need from the target URL is the long long long HASH code....
I suggest you RIGHT CLICK (carefully) the YES link and choose
Copy Link Location
or
Copy Shortcut
or Whatever your browser has as the option to copy the URL of a link...
Paste the URL from this link into Notepad... it will look a bit like this:
<font color="blue">collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=comedian.convertProcess&hash=</font><font color="red">d2d92eb96ffa2135ad0%471e5e520HELc46BIGf44aASS0569931b41774b039baef181f6dc7a2a551a6458a8de22446cc76d57ea84c455b04a1d307d4ac33049dd2d92eb96ffa2135ad0471e5e520c46f44a0569931%b4</font>
OK so far? Ok. We need to change a little bit in the middle:
Where it says
<font color="red">fuseaction=comedian.convertProcess</font>
we will change it to
<font color="blue">fuseaction=BandProfile.convertProcess</font>
so it will now say
<font color="red">collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?</font><font color="blue">fuseaction=BandProfile.convertProcess</font><font color="red">&hash=d2d92eb96ffa2135ad0%471e5e520HELc46BIGf44aASS0569931b41774b039baef181f6dc7a2a551a6458a8de22446cc76d57ea84c455b04a1d307d4ac33049dd2d92eb96ffa2135ad0471e5e520c46f44a0569931%b4</font>
This is the URL to put back into your browser.
<font color="green">Obviously the HASH code has to be the one created in your browser while you are logged on - the code shown here is just made up and will not work so try to do as I have suggested</font>
If you have followed it as above you will go to the page where you can update the band bio info - as seen before - still no prompt as you've just hacked the comedy prompt page - but now if you click View Profile you should hopefully see the Myspace Music bar is now on your profile as it is now a music profile...
Hope that works for some of you. Personally I think Myspace is just buggy.
I have three musician friends that need this fix badly...if anyone gets it...please let me know!!! Thanks!
Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:41 am
was nonsense. just realised what i've done. sorry about that.
while testing our different ideas with a couple of accounts i had a few browsers open and i thought i had converted a non music profile when in fact i was looking at a dummy band profile i had created as such.
sorry about that :(
but i did convert an account last week with the other method above. its obvious that myspace have changed or disabled the bandprofile.convert script for some reason.
<ul id="quote">
If you have created a personal user page in error and would like to convert to a band page:
1) Click on the following web link,
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Ban...
2) Logon as requested with your email address and password in the fields provided.
3) Read the information listed and click the Convert Me button to make the change.
Sincerely,
MySpace.com Customer Support Team
That's from myspace</ul>
The only problem is, as to why this link we are all using isnt working is.... Their is no fukin convert me button :(
Anymore help from anyone who maybe has managed to contact tom would be most appriciated, Maybe we should all message him at once to get away from counting his cash and get it sorted!
my2c
It seems the only way is to cancel and recreate your profile.
you have to reconnect with your contacts from scratch so save or print your friends page
good luck
my new page (my old page links to the new, best of both worlds i guess)
http://www.myspace.com/gluttonchops
and since I now have a band page, my old page has a song on it from the band page and the default on the band page is diferent from the song on my old page.
i've tried everything above, including trying to contact myspace (if you know how to get their attention, please let me know!) but i'm still at a loss. it's too bad when you sign up for a normal account you're told you can upload music and videos, but they neglect to say you can't upload your OWN until after you're signed up!
if anyone finds a way that works, PLEASE let us know - thanks!