Or is it just a joke? "Based on emails we’re getting, it sounds like Qtrax hasn’t atually signed all four labels - at least one or two remain on the sidelines. Silicon Alley Insider says three of the four labels have confirmed that they AREN’T in, making Qtrax look like a bit of a joke right now (I won’t use the word “fraud” until this all sorts itself out and I’ve had a chance to talk directly to the company)." http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/27/free-legal-p2p-music-downloads-told-you-so/
― zeus, Monday, 28 January 2008 11:09 (eighteen years ago)
The qtrax site has the software as being 'available Midnight EST' but it does not say *which* midnight.
― Mark G, Monday, 28 January 2008 12:04 (eighteen years ago)
Not compatible with iPods = forget about it, this will be a failure.
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 January 2008 12:49 (eighteen years ago)
Matt DC my gut says "that's right" but I wonder. The depth of the catalog here could attract plenty of sign-ups and from there it'd be a question of whether portability trumps having all that stuff ready to play through your home speakers - pretty decent hook, that.
― J0hn D., Monday, 28 January 2008 13:58 (eighteen years ago)
So if you have an iPod and iTunes is your "platform," so to speak, will you have to use a different platform (WINAP or something else) to play songs from Qtrax?
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 January 2008 15:16 (eighteen years ago)
For MattDC: "The company also promises that its music downloads will be playable on Apple Inc.'s iPods and Macintosh computers until April 15."
― zeus, Monday, 28 January 2008 15:19 (eighteen years ago)
I wonder how the adverts will work. I'd guess most people would be like me in that the media player will be minimised or hidden behind other windows. Doesn't seem like the most effective way to target customers, unless they're using some annoying popups or even worse have audible adverts between tracks.
― Billy Dods, Monday, 28 January 2008 15:20 (eighteen years ago)
"The company also promises that its music downloads will be playable on Apple Inc.'s iPods and Macintosh computers until April 15."
Only until April 15? So if something is downloaded between now and then, and stored on iTunes, it becomes invalid/inaccessible on April 15?
I'm trying to learn more from the Qtrax web-site, but -- perhaps not surprisingly -- it's loading very, very slowly.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 January 2008 15:25 (eighteen years ago)
It strikes me that the competition here isn't really iTunes or any other paid download services, the competition is Limewire/Slsk/Bittorrent/other free and illegal P2P apps. I suspect that if people are willing to pay for downloads, they're willing to pay and aren't going to switch to a free but restrictive ad-supported model.
The question is whether people who don't usually pay for MP3s will be encouraged to switch over to a legal app.
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 January 2008 15:30 (eighteen years ago)
No matter how good it is, I have no plans to drop my eMusic subscription. But I'm happy to draw from more than one source if (a) the other is legal and free and (b) they don't disrupt the system I now have and enjoy.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 January 2008 15:32 (eighteen years ago)
And it's over.
It was a good 10 minutes of hope, tho.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 January 2008 16:30 (eighteen years ago)
um, it's not over yet tho.
― Mark G, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:36 (eighteen years ago)
lololol.
on channel 4 news it said you would hear an ad *every time you played the track*. so fuck that basically.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:45 (eighteen years ago)
oooh, it'll be just like playing "The Who Sell-out"!
― Mark G, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:49 (eighteen years ago)
What a fiasco.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 January 2008 22:14 (eighteen years ago)
Now the player is available to download, but there's no songs available. As the linked article notes, at the moment, Qtrax is just an empty platform with ads.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 04:33 (eighteen years ago)