Qtrax

The service is 100% advertising supported and there are no registration fees or download fees.


Description
The service was announced at the 2008 Midem conference, with the company claiming to have the support of the music industry especially the big four music companies: EMI, SonyBMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. However, all four companies had stated that no deals had been inked at the time, although some earlier deals were still in existence with some of the major labels and publishers. Since Midem deals have been made and announced with EMI and Universal Music Group for the music rights and EMI, Warner Chappell, Sony/ATV and UMG/BMG for publishing.
Qtrax currently has over 800,000 songs which can be downloaded and played as often as the consumer wants as long as they are connected to the internet.
In late February 2008, some songs became available to download on Qtrax.The songs are all by bands who belong to TVT Records, such as Sevendust, Ying Yang Twins and New Year's Day .
On June 18, 2008, Qtrax offered its first downloads from Universal Music Group and EMI and since then they have been adding music daily from Universal Music Group, and EMI record labels. Downloads are currently only available in the US but other countries are expected to be available soon.
The files have Microsoft's Windows Media digital rights management technology applied, restricting usage of files.Songbird itself is based on components from the Mozilla project. A version for Mac OS X was scheduled to be released on May 18, 2008. However, the Mac OS X version remains unreleased and the Qtrax beta download page no longer mentions a specific release date.
Contracts
As of March 12, 2008, Qtrax began to sign contracts with some major record companies.