Legal music downloads

[Ixix]

this morning on msnbc i heard that there was going to be a new site that offers free music downloads and is 100% legit. They work with the record labels and make their money with advertising. The site is qtrax.com.

It's going to be made available at 12:00 midnight eastern time. I'm not sure if they are going to protect the files ( i don't think they would...) we'll see how it goes.

kinda looking forward to this, it might be interesting. I just hope it' won't be lame by them having you to force you to watch a commercial before you download.

 

[dgridley]

The files are DRM protected and won't (initially) be iPod compatible.. and there will be ads in the browser.

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

But it beats downloading illegally so I'll be giving it a look! Downloads are done via P2P.

 

[Bill]

The fuiles are DRM proyected and won't (initially) be iPod compatible..

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

But it beats downloading illegally so I'll be giving it a look

Looks like they have bad audio quality too....

Right now I've been using Ruckus, it's free if your a college student. All you need is a .edu email address. Its WMA format with DRM protection, nice quality though.

-Bill

 

[dgridley]

Been waiting to download the P2P browser.. so far can't find a working link.

 

[firefly]

It might be midnight in Australia. The ceo is Australian


only 9pm here...so a few hours to go

Based in NY though...so I don't know what's going on

 

[weblord]

only on win xp and vista
http://qtrax.com/download.php

 

[firefly]

forget what I wrote before...this is whats going on

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23121891-1702,00.html

What a bummer

 

[James]

Wow, I thought this would be to good to be true, It'd suck that you can't put it on your ipod either

 

[sunken]

It sounds like a great concept, radio on demand basically. I just hope it's compatible with Win2K, unlike Netflix and Yahoo's Music service. It's interesting that they got the four big players to go for it.

 

[Ixix]

too bad it's not the way it was reported;....

 

[dgridley]

Looks like it's not gonna happen after all:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...in+chaos+as+record+giants+pull+out/article.do

 

[Ixix]

i'm really sick of these greedy music labels... get with the times already!

 

[dgridley]

Dunno if they resolved their issues but the P2P browser is now available for download.

http://qtrax.com/download.html

 

[Camron]

I tried to get on it but it kept timing out and the program kept giving me errors. It is beta though, so I don't expect it to work perfectly

 

[dgridley]

The Beta is apparently crippled at this point anyway.. you can browse and listen but not download at this point (from what I've heard).. haven't bothered to install mine yet.

 

[commes]

Well I installed it as soon as I can and quite frankly, it sucks. When trying to download music, you have to go on a site through the browser and search for titles, and then those titles come up page by page, rather than all the downloadable files coming up at once. Theres also only 10 or so per page, so it really gets to be a big hassle. Also, it slows down my computer a LOT, so it has caused me to get rid of the horrible program. I do not recommend it at all.

-Commes

 

[dsotmoon]

dont forget http://www.spiralfrog.com , same concept and already live, however they only have one music company on board from what i've read

 

[Cookies]

Although this was a good idea, can they really make enough money from advertising?

Of course they'll make a lot, but the returning profit won't be big.

 

[oxigen]

(in TURKEY) I can't find any music files and can't download. I heard that fewdays ago in local technology channel and download program.
I look about membership or something but nothing, maybe don't available in Turkey for now...
but I know surely that (learn the channel), we can't download music when the program is minimaze :hehe: , so we have to watch advertising... it should be top of the page

 

[firefly]

dont forget http://www.spiralfrog.com , same concept and already live, however they only have one music company on board from what i've read

Shame it's only available to those in the states or Canada