Qtrax Overview

The service was announced at the 2008 Midem conference, with the company claiming to have made license agreements with the four major record labels: EMI, SonyBMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. However, all four companies have stated that no deals have been made, and Qtrax has since retracted the claim. For this reason, P2P functionality has been disabled. Qtrax also claims to have...More»

The service was announced at the 2008 Midem conference, with the company claiming to have made license agreements with the four major record labels: EMI, SonyBMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. However, all four companies have stated that no deals have been made, and Qtrax has since retracted the claim. For this reason, P2P functionality has been disabled. Qtrax also claims to have 25 million copyright songs available for free legal download, even though just over 6 million are believed to have ever been digitized The files will have Microsoft's Windows Media digital rights management technology applied, restricting usage of files in as-yet-to-be-determined ways. Songs can be loaded on to portable media players compatible with WMDRM; this currently excludes Apple Inc.'s iPod line of portable media devices, which use FairPlay DRM.«Less