Qtrax an elaborate hoax?
Remember that new free, legal music download service we told you about last week? Did it sound too good to be true? Turns out you may have been right. Qtrax was supposed to go live, claiming to offer over 25,000,000 ad-supported songs completely free of charge. As of today, however, the service has yet to be switched on. Instead, they basically have a placeholder for "future music". Further more, all 4 major labels have released statements denying any semblance of a formal agreement with Qtrax. Warner, Universal, EMI, and Sony have all disowned the company once known as Qtrax. We have yet to hear an official statement out of the Qtrax camp, but all signs are pointing to a bluffed product launch. Why exactly they would would bite the hand that could potentially feed them is a bit beyond us, but all of this maneuvering has served to prove that ad-supported free downloads have the potential to spark a great deal of interest.
“great deal of interest”, I don’t think so.
People hate forced advertising…
Idownloaded the product and its cleaner than ruckus, someone pointed it out in the previous post. Qtrax while not the full deal yet could if put out right deliver, sadly ruckus is probably better (even with ads) as the audio quality is 192 instead of 160 which is used by others. I don’t what will come from Q but if they can beat that then maybe a better game is at hand.
I doubt it was a hoax, I think they were hoping to have a high number of sign-ups for the beta so that they could heavy hand the recording industry into dealing with them. I think they got what they wanted, now we have to see what will happen.
Hey victor- I downloaded it too, and i can’t find a way to actually download music… Any luck with you?
If toshiba had done a better job of advertsing their product in the first place they wouldn’t have made such a pitiful last ditch effort now to keep itself alive. Shame on you Toshiba and Microsft for not better informing the massess on what could have been a great mainstream product!! This is just like a bad break up that just doesn’t want to let go. I was a major HD DVD supporter. A little too little to late… Shame
@Kyle
I downloaded Qtrax and I havent found a way to actually download music either….its really starting to get annoying.
Hey, if they can get this into working action then I’m there otherwise I’ll just stick to LW like every other person.
Yeah I’ve got this program here that SHOULD allow me to get any music I want for free, but instead, it sits here taking up space on my hard drive.