Filed under: Audio, Internet, Beta, web 2.0
Qtrax free, legal music service continues to frustrate potential new users
When the sevice originally launched, users weren't sold on qTrax because of its lack of major-label artists. Yesterday, there was a beacon of hope: at long last, agreements had been reached, hands shaken, and qTrax was ready to offer tracks from big names like Kanye and Britney.
With Brad otherwise committed, I volunteered to give the updated qTrax a try.
Yesterday, I was thwarted in my attempts by a broken download link. Today, I'm greeted by a blank black box, which yesterday contained the usual spiel about "our fancy new service that you're going to love." If you ever get to use it, that is. Better still is the fact that I can't close the "welcome" window today. Yesterday, at least, there was an x for me to click on.
Don't get me wrong - I understand that there's probably a massive amount of work going on behind the scenes at qTrax, and that yesterday's news likely resulted in increased traffic, but come on, fellas! You're launching a legal P2P music service. Please make sure it's available for people to see it in action when big news like this hits.
Am I wrong, or is this precisely the kind of thing that contributes to downloaders turning to alternative P2P sources, like bittorrent?
With Brad otherwise committed, I volunteered to give the updated qTrax a try.
Yesterday, I was thwarted in my attempts by a broken download link. Today, I'm greeted by a blank black box, which yesterday contained the usual spiel about "our fancy new service that you're going to love." If you ever get to use it, that is. Better still is the fact that I can't close the "welcome" window today. Yesterday, at least, there was an x for me to click on.
Don't get me wrong - I understand that there's probably a massive amount of work going on behind the scenes at qTrax, and that yesterday's news likely resulted in increased traffic, but come on, fellas! You're launching a legal P2P music service. Please make sure it's available for people to see it in action when big news like this hits.
Am I wrong, or is this precisely the kind of thing that contributes to downloaders turning to alternative P2P sources, like bittorrent?
The big story this week was undoubtedly the 
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