Download over 25 million songs FREE... and Legal!!!! QTRAX!

RiDE · Jan 27, 2008

Wow! Check it out.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3261591.ece

PowerBookG4 · Jan 27, 2008

That looks promising provided we can get the songs to our ipod!

D3v1L80Y · Jan 27, 2008

Here are the important parts from the article:

Article said:
The gamble is that fans will put up with a limited amount of advertising around the Qtrax website’s jukebox in return for authorised use of almost every song available.

Qtrax files contain Digital Rights Management software, allowing the company to see how many times a song has been downloaded and played. Artists, record companies and publishers will be paid in proportion to the popularity of their music, while also taking a cut of advertising revenues.

Ford, McDonald’s and Microsoft are among the advertisers signed up to support what is thought to be the world’s largest legal music store. The service says that adverts will be nonintrusive and will not appear each time a song is played.

As with iTunes, customers will have to download Qtrax software. They will own the songs permanently but will be encouraged to “dock” their player with the store every 30 days so it can gather information on which songs have been played.

Concerning the last paragraph quoted, I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it will be quite a while before any Mac-compatible software version emerges (if ever).

bubba · Jan 28, 2008

D3v1L80Y said:
...I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it will be quite a while before any Mac-compatible software version emerges (if ever).

Their site says Mac version will be available March 18 ->
http://www.qtrax.com/download.php

Kukla · Jan 28, 2008

RiDE said:
Wow! Check it out.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3261591.ece

ok.. i'll check it!! =))

PowerBookG4 · Jan 28, 2008

all we need is a version that will allow transfer to our ipods.

(Will this kill iTunes?)

knightlie · Jan 28, 2008

Something doesn't sound right with this. The record companies are denying reaching any deal with these people, and this "getting around" iTunes to use their own DRM sounds dubious at best. I wouldn't touch it, personally.