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Heads up: FREE legal music downloads with QTRAX.COM search, download, play over 25,000,000 songs - space-time - 01-28-2008
ripped from SD:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=222073&t=729670
Re: Heads up: FREE legal music downloads with QTRAX.COM search, download, play over 25,000,000 songs - Craig - 01-28-2008
Re: Heads up: FREE legal music downloads with QTRAX.COM search, download, play over 25,000,000 songs - space-time - 01-28-2008
yeah, saw that. Most of us have an XP around. Or run XP on their Intel Mac. or can wait till March. Either way, it's something to keep in mind. I am curious how it's gonna turn out.
Re: Heads up: FREE legal music downloads with QTRAX.COM search, download, play over 25,000,000 songs - ztirffritz - 01-28-2008
LastFM announced that users may now pick out and stream entire albums or individual songs for free.
http://blog.last.fm/2008/01/23/free-the-music
Re: Heads up: FREE legal music downloads with QTRAX.COM search, download, play over 25,000,000 songs - mikebw - 01-28-2008
Only 25 million? Ha.
Re: Heads up: FREE legal music downloads with QTRAX.COM search, download, play over 25,000,000 songs - Anthony - 01-28-2008
It sounds horrible. The only way you can use the internet while music is playing is through their browser.
Re: Heads up: FREE legal music downloads with QTRAX.COM search, download, play over 25,000,000 songs - Article Accelerator - 01-28-2008
Check this:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080127-qtraxs-free-ad-based-p2p-gnutella-meets-zune-esque-drm.html
"The music label-approved service pushes advertisements at users in exchange for free P2P downloads...
"Calling Qtrax "P2P" may be technically right (it is a peer-to-peer based), but it's wrong in every other way. To make its mandatory advertising system work, all Qtrax tunes are wrapped in Windows Media DRM, and the company says that it can (and will) track how you use the music, including how many times you play a particular song...
"Furthermore, by choosing Windows Media DRM, Qtrax has locked itself out of most of the mobile music player world, adopting DRM that only works on Windows and on some players."
Re: Heads up: FREE legal music downloads with QTRAX.COM search, download, play over 25,000,000 songs - Ombligo - 01-28-2008
From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22868682/
The service, which boasts a selection of up to 30 million tracks, also promises that its music downloads will be playable on Apple Inc.'s iPods and Macintosh computers as early as March.
That's unusual, as iPods only playback unrestricted MP3s files or tracks with Apple's proprietary version of DRM, dubbed FairPlay.
"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.
Klepfisz declined to give specifics on how Qtrax will make its audio files compatible with Apple devices, but noted that "Apple has nothing to do with it."
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How long before Apple puts out an update to shut Qtrax out of ipods? I'm guessing March 15.
But should they have the right to? It's not like bricking hacked iPhones as buyers knew they had to use AT&T. In this case iPod owners agreed to nothing and I think should be free to use any compatible music. Locking out a service offering free, legal downloads would really cause the anti-trust folks to strengthen their case against Apple.