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Cross your fingers - Qtrax is launching again

12 June 2008 20:44 by Rich "vurbal" Fiscus | 2 comments

Qtrax, which bills itelf as "The world's first free and legal P2P music download network," is scheduled to start offering downloads on June 18. You may remember that their launch in January was unique for an online music service. It featured a great deal of hype and an ad-supported client, but not a single song.

In reality the original event appeared to have been timed for maximum exposure at the annual MIDEM music industry conference in Cannes, France. Unfortunately it quickly became more notable for the company's claims they had secured contracts to provide music from every major label, which ultimately proved to be false.

This time around, however, the situation looks much better. For starters they seem to actually have some music now.

One thing that doesn't seem quite clear is where the service will be available. Although the Qtrax website has sections for various coutries, one of the major label agreements cited in ther Press section indicates that EMI songs will only be available to residents of the US and Canada. That makes sense when you consider that the only other similar service, SpiralFrog, has the same limitation.

It also appears they'll be limited to songs from EMI and Univerasal Music Group. Although they've managed to get agreements from the publishing arms of the other two major labels, Sony BMG and Warner Music, they still need permission from the recorded music division of each company.

Permalink to this article | Topics: MP3 & Digital Audio Online music services

Qtrax releases client version 1.0 (15 April 2009)

SpiralFrog kicks the bucket (21 March 2009)

P2P-Next Consortium begins P2P streaming tests (20 July 2008)

First annual P2P conference announced (9 July 2008)

Qtrax launches with just a few songs but lots of headaches (19 June 2008)

Warner Bros. adds content to online distributors (13 June 2008)

SpiralFrog to add songs from EMI (3 June 2008)

Qtrax and Universal Music Group announce a deal for free music (6 May 2008)

Music services pay high price to labels (5 April 2008)

Qtrax client finally available for download - but don't expect any music (28 January 2008)

Qtrax misses launch time - do they actually have a product yet? (28 January 2008)

Qtrax launches today with free P2P music downloads (27 January 2008)

Review of SpiralFrog's free music service (14 December 2007)

SpiralFrogs adds 1 millionth song (11 December 2007)

SpiralFrog debuts with 770,000 songs (16 September 2007)

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21Q (Senior Member) 13 June 2008 18:56
Hopefully. [ + quote]
luckybleu (Newbie) 22 August 2008 19:38
Qtrax has now come along way the site is exellent with tons of major label and indie music new beta 0.5 to be released shortly ...getting better by the day FREE LEGAL MUSIC DOWNLOADS this is awesome [ + quote]