25 million songs for free download?

Subject: Re: 25 million songs for free download?

armchair_warrior wrote: did the riaa did something right for a change?


http://qtrax.com/

doubt it. Sounds heavily DRM-d and there's conflicting stories about iPod compatability (which has 70% of he digital music player market).

I'll give it a year. Don't give them your money if it's subscription-based.

On mature reflection, Qtrax is immensely weird and most unlikely to be as advertised. It wouldn't be the first time that the unholy nightmares of venture capital, the music industry and online dreamers have spawned something unable to survive in an oxygen atmosphere – but if you fancy a laugh, pop onto Google News and read what various newspapers reported yesterday compared to what's coming out now. Ah, hubris.

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007187o-2000331777b,00.htm

The first legal music file-sharing service that would have allowed music lovers unlimited free songs appeared to be unravelling today, 24 hours after it was announced with much fanfare in Cannes.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3264556.ece

They haven't quite finished the virus that will be encrypted within each song, which will report back to the RIAA about the contents of any hard drives attached to your computer.

They were done with it but then their 11 year-old nephew figured out at the last minute that it would fail if a black pen or gum wrapper were left within 8 feet of the computer.

That, and the fact that DeCSS Jon seeded the crack on thepiratebay.org before it was posted.

Okay, so I'm now in.

Although Qtrax app skin is customized, on the inside (preferences menu, etc.) it looks like a modded Firefox browser.

Their main http://music.qtrax.com service URL was also down late last night (when I last checked), but it's up now.

The "register" link that supposedly calls a javascript register() function call fails, and merely calls a blank tab.

But, I snooped the URI conventions they are using elsewhere, and from those was able to successfully extrapolate the needed URI, as follows:
http://music.qtrax.com/register.do?action=register

Registered successfully, confirmed by email, and logged in to check things out.

Top 5 downloads:

1) Song: On Rainy Afternoons
Album: Wet
Artist: Barbra Streisand
Downloads: 13

...

Ha. Kids these days.