Qtrax Debuts Legal P2P With 30 Million Free Downloads. Promises iPod Compatility.
UPDATE: Read the latest news on Qtrax’s botched launch here.
Hypebot has a story that three of the four major label groups EMI, Warner Music (Warner, Elektra, Atlantic, Rhino) and Universal Music are denying that they have deals with Qtrax. Stay tuned…
Qtrax.com enables you to get onto popular file-sharing networks to search for music. But to keep things legal, when you download the songs you’ll have to do it on a player that runs ads to pay for the track and DRM to prevent you from burning copies to a CD. and to copy the number of times you play the song to pay the so they can pay the artist. (We have not tested if you can around the burning with the usual hacks.) On the bright side, Qtrax downloads can be stored on PCs and transferred onto portable music players.
The site has special sections including ‘Last Night’ where users can search for newly added tracks from live concerts that were recorded the night before. It will also feature music videos, documentaries, interviews and reviews
And in a promise not made by any other ad supported download service (like WE7 or Spiral Frog), Qtrax says that its music downloads will be playable on Apple iPods and Macs as early as March. “We’ve had a technical breakthrough which enables us to put songs on an iPod without any interference from FairPlay,” said Allan Klepfisz, Qtrax’s president and chief executive.
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Qtrax launches tomorrow, Monday the 28th
This won’t work untill they get it Ipod compatible but I have to say this seems like it has some potential as opposed to lame stuff like Zune etc…
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Thanks Glenn for the correction. A notice of the new deadline was added to the Qtrax front page after I wrote the article on Sunday morning.
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