Comments on: Qtrax Really Blows Its Launch

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:42:24 +0000

Why was the name Jonathan taken by someone that’s only going to advertise here?

Anyways, its funny how fast word spreads about the failure that is Qtrax. Its probably related to how much excitement Qtrax created. It just set everyone’s hopes up so that when the news gets out that Qtrax messed up, it would come crashing down. Good job Qtrax.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:49:43 +0000

Forget Qtrax! http://www.gratista.com oh gratista you so good me me baby! No gimmicks, no delay, ohhh yeah

By: Will

Will — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:41:04 +0000

Um yeah, just a page loading that has nothing to do with the service. And funny thing is that it tells you what the admin user account is. Now you only have to crack the pw, half the job is done for you. So so stupid!!

By: UltimateQuiz

UltimateQuiz — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:28:20 +0000

I have downloaded the application, but it won’t let me download any song. Perhaps there is nothing to download, as the labels haven’t signed on…

So much hype and speculation for nothing… :S

By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:25:07 +0000

[...] no deal yet. We’re just talking to Qtrax.” Without the labels on board, there is no service. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/28/qtrax-really-blows-its-launch [...]

By: Q Who?

Q Who? — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:06:47 +0000

Well it looks like they pulled all access to the songs…so what exactly was the whole press announcement and blowing all that money for if you dont actually have a product offering?

By: Matt G

Matt G — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:12:03 +0000

After beating my head against the wall trying to use this application I finally figured out how to listen to some music - I opened a new tab and typed in http://www.imeem.com - problem solved.

By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:23:25 +0000

OMG, I finally tried, and its such a bad joke. Their page has been up for like 2 years or more, but they never had ANYTHING.

The QTrax application is nothing but Songbird branded to be QTrax, they didn’t even hide the XULRunner menues, they just put this together a few months ago, its badly finished, it’s just a webapp on a custom browser.

I can so see this QTrax company being run by a bunch of old farts that couldn’t cut the deals with the Record Labels, and decided to do the unthinkable to see if the record labels would play along once a supposed deal was made public using millions of dollars in publicity.

NOT.

By: CanCar

CanCar — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:04:12 +0000

Music for publicity! it sounds good. At least already the version for Windows is ready, that is what the majority we used. And with the support of great companies - what it increases the catalogue of songs.

But remember - it´s for personal use, not for sale pirates CD.

By: Webrazzi

Webrazzi — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:52:52 +0000

TTNetMuzik.com’un 1 sonundaki değerlendirmesi…

TTNetMuzik.com‘un yayına gireceğini ve TTNet‘in bu konuda fikirleri olduğunu ilk kez gündeme getirdiğimde bazı önemli noktalara da değinmiştim. Bunlar topluluk oluşturabilme, servis kalitesi, üyelik kriterleri/süreçleri gibi ko…

By: VisualBlog - das VisualOrgasm-Weblog

VisualBlog - das VisualOrgasm-Weblog — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:55:31 +0000

Qtrax verarscht uns alle (oder versucht es zumindest)…

Groß war er angekündigt worden auf der Midem-Musikmesse: der Start von Qtrax, eines werbefinanzierten P2P-Netzwerk für kostenlosen Musikdownload. Angeblich mit allen vier Major-Labels im Boot. Doch schon schnell stellte sich heraus, das nicht eine e…

By: fernando

fernando — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:05:32 +0000

I was dubious of the Qtrax announcement a few days ago. Here is my reasoning: iTunes Music Store was released in 97/98? Maybe even ‘96. It took up until late 2007 for DRM-free tracks to become a reality on iTunes/Amazon. It took the music industry roughly 10 years to go from putting their big toes in the digital distribution waters, to allowing users to purchase and listen to their purchases any way they wanted. Suddenly overnight - in music industry time - we’re seeing free music downloads!?! And all that’s required is that the user view ads? Doesn’t sound likely.

Not bein an expert on the figures, but it seems to this layman that the music industry is just now seeing that money ($$$$) can be made from digital music purchases. They’re going to move away from a growing market, to sign-up for an untested business model? Maybe they have, but I am doubtful.

By: tywhite

tywhite — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:35:16 +0000

It’s nice of them to let us download the client, but it would be much nicer of them to let us actually download songs. Are these songs going to be portable at all? My regrets to the great team over at Songbird who got their player dragged into this mess.

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:22:41 +0000

Maybe a lot of thought was needed in the first place, cannot understand why one would spend so much when all the ends have not been tied up.

By: DG

DG — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:26:26 +0000

So it downloaded a song for me. Now will I have the RIAA knocking on my screen and can I use the ‘QTRAX defence’; “They told me it was legal”! I already erased it but the forensic team is probably on the way to my office. I guess I’ll just jump…..

By: Ujwal

Ujwal — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:17:26 +0000

Qtrax, here’s a good business model for ya “Do no Harm !”

in the end, you have to face your conscience, QTRAX !

thats the hardest..

poor them !

Ujw

By: Not MA or M&A

Not MA or M&A — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:53:49 +0000

EH is probably correct but a Co that spends a million bucks to launch and gets as much press coverage as these guys did has to make it at least to the hall of fame, oops, shame.

By: EH

EH — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:35:17 +0000

It’s hard to know what the effect will be. As for ultimately-unavailable listings, wasn’t there another celestial jukebox attempt that had similar problems? Like, sure you can see a zillion songs, but you can only buy from the pool of ~4000 songs that the majors will license for karaoke.

Info: Thanks for the…info, but “greatest fraud” I think “not even close.”

By: InfoBugger

InfoBugger — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:11:54 +0000

Ok…so I downloaded it…searched for songs…when you go to click to download the song it says “Download coming soon” This could be one of the greatest frauds in Internet History!

By: jro

jro — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:09:35 +0000

If this is legit, the labels can now extract some very advantageous terms in any agreement with these guys. If this was actually intended in order to gain some sort of compelling leverage with the labels, what an incredibly bad decision.

By: InfoBugger

InfoBugger — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:05:48 +0000

There are less than 10M tracks available as of this posting

By: InfoBugger

InfoBugger — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:03:39 +0000

EH,

Here is who is involved in the Co:
Allan Klepfisz - CEO
Rick Riccobono - VP of Digital Rights Management
Rebel Digital does all the ad sales
Company phone #(212) 532-2736

Download is now available on the site.

By: sourceroot

sourceroot — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:59:56 +0000

this was an obvious hoax… you sir are a sucker.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:37:14 +0000

Either this is a Viral marketing coup (meaning this was on purpose for a greater benefit down the line) or somebody in his company saying something that isn’t true… I can’t believe a person at the top making this kind of mistake.

Jon
http://woodmarvels.com - Create Unique Memories

By: EH

EH — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:29:53 +0000

Webside, et al: Think of it another way: what do the labels have to gain by rejecting qtrax’ business model?