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It really does suck!

I actually installed the songbird a while ago and trashed it since I didn't know what it was.

Jan 29, 08 - 10:14 am Comment from: Lurker_PC

Reminds me of CherryOS - full of claims, little more.

Peace.

It's based on Songbird which is only on ver 0.4. What a joke.

Come on guys; this thing is DOA. But we should be nice to the founders and the staff. Some of them really will lose their jobs and probably their life savings.

Jan 29, 08 - 10:52 am Comment from: cptnkirk

What I find funny is that the usual media and local neewspapers are still regurgitating the QTrx press releases about the wonders of this new service with no obvious research or checking the thing for themselves. My morning paper carried the press release almost verbatim today. LOL!

It was obvious to many people that this thing was DOA yesterday even when I was reading yesterday's morning paper.

Free music that's ad supported. Hmm. Isn't there something called radio that does the same thing?

Jan 29, 08 - 11:25 am Comment from: ken1w

I never even "heard" of it, which is appropriate because there's no music to be heard, apparently.

Ad-supported free downloads. And the hard-working artist who actually create the content get screwed over even more... I wonder how they would have been compensated.

Jan 29, 08 - 11:25 am Comment from: ron

SB called Quax!

Jan 29, 08 - 11:41 am Comment from: JadisOne

@barks,

You nailed it.

Man, these people are hilarious. They jump on anything that's an iTunes-killer or something that's iPod-compatible. No due-diligence before running Qtrax's press-release (or any other company's press-release for that matter) is just foolish.

Jan 29, 08 - 12:03 pm Comment from: Jubei

LOL... I bet thousands and thousand of Windows drones like ZuneTonguedInTheButt and those like him who frequent the two "gadget" web sites and constantly post negative diatribes on anything Apple signed up for this crap. Dangle anything free and cheap and they will come without though of the consequences that will haunt them. Isn't that how drones think? LOL

Jan 29, 08 - 12:04 pm Comment from: Ampar

"But we should be nice to the founders and the staff."

No more kindness than to the gambler playing roulette that bets it all on black. At least it wasn't billions of other people's Euros.

Jan 29, 08 - 12:47 pm Comment from: Hm...

@ ken1w,

"Say it ain't so!" How could the RIAA merely wish to line corporate pockets? They've been so diligent at going after those rich, fascist-hippie, college students that all the artists much be rich from the settlements now, too. Right?

What annoys me the most is that I first read about this in our local newspaper , the Herald, and it took up about 24 column inches. In other words, a big story in a big city newspaper chain. You can bet it was printed verbatim from Q-trax press release.
Are all journalists dsck-heads? A simple phone call or two from the Head Office of Southern News to check facts could have prevented this.
We count on the news media to keep us connected to the rest of the world and it proves once again that a Journalism degree is a Play School level program. What's wrong with proper degrees? Perhaps they would learn to think before they pull the trigger!

Oops. I meant Southam News. If they're going to sue me for slander, perhaps I should get their name right.

Jan 29, 08 - 05:56 pm Comment from: Brau

I knew it was a bad joke the minute they said all the majors were on board. Those music industry morons know only one thing; how to screw themselves and the listener so any "free" music would be only available with some kind of Sony-esque Rootkit or some other similar attempt.

never heard of QTRAX. Must be some kind of spam or scam thing. I hate how something from nothing can claim itself to be some kind of authority. It makes me sick.


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