Posts Tagged with ‘free-music’

Bad news for multiple fans of the music mixtape startup Muxtape - RIAA has shut the service and no one even seems to have any details. What probably happened is that RIAA has realized that users uploaded and shared tons of music and invited their friends to stream it while online radio sites are supposed to pay huge licensing fees for a very similar type of activity.
The site itself is down and shows only the text “Muxtape will be unavailable [...]

Qtrax finally launched, reaching a milestone that many thought would never happen. After huge delays in getting up and running, some of which led to contracts with record labels expiring and then having to be renewed, they are up and running.
Well, sort of.
Qtrax’s launch was supposed to provide free and legal music from EMI and Universal, with more labels in negotiations. But after all the delays, there are still far too many things missing. One being a version of the [...]

For those of you who have not yet heard of Qtrax, it is an upcoming peer-to-peer (P2P) music service, aiming to offer free high-quality music from major labels in exchange for being served advertising while utilizing the Qtrax website and service. Think of the free model in use at SpiralFrog for an idea. In fact, some former SpiralFrog executives have signed on to perform consulting for Qtrax.
Despite seeming to be a completely legit service however, there is apparently a misunderstanding [...]

Everyone knows that Apple has the most successful online music store, with iTunes selling more than 3 billion songs.
Recently Amazon entered the digital music market with AmazonMP3, offering only DRM-free songs at a price more affordable than the $1.29 customers pay for non-DRM tracks on iTunes.
Now, according to Nick O'Neill of AllFacebook, Facebook could be the next company to take on iTunes. While this sounds fishy, as no one has received any previous word of such news, it does seem [...]