5 posts and columns on Qtrax

Free Music For Everyone! Rdio Joins MOG, Spotify in the Big Digital Music Giveaway

in Media on September 14, 2011 at 2:25 pm PT

A few months ago, free music looked dead. Now it’s up and at ‘em. Why now? Ask Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook next Thursday.
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Qtrax Actually Otrax

in News on January 28, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Qtrax Suffering From Premature Elaboration

in News on January 28, 2008 at 8:49 am PT

Here’s a savvy way to debut your new advertising-supported music service: announce that it will offer some 25 million songs from “all the major labels,” and then hope that those labels follow your lead. And if they don’t, just hang in there until they do. Which is essentially what Qtrax, which claims to be the [...]

Last.fm Founder Takes Top Honors in First Annual Mark Zuckerberg Hyperbole Competition

in News on January 23, 2008 at 10:56 am PT

Looks like Last.fm co-founder Richard Jones and Facebook founder Mark “Once every hundred years media changes” Zuckerberg have at least one thing in common: a penchant for new-economy hyperbole. Announcing the debut of Last.fm’s “unprecedented” on-demand music streaming platform, Jones–in a moment of Zuckerbergian grandiosity–proclaimed: Today we’re redesigning the music economy.” Which will no doubt [...]