Posts Tagged with ‘spiralfrog’

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 [...]

SpiralFrog, a website which for months has been shrouded behind a beta tag, has now officially emerged as a venue on the Web for free music (audio and video) downloads, supported by advertising. The company has struck revenue-sharing deals with various members of the music industry, the largest partnership being one made with Universal Music Group, “the world’s largest record company” and the only major label in SpiralFrog’s list of clients to date. Thus far, the website has secured roughly [...]