Idolator

EMI has reached deals with ad-supported music services QTrax and SpiralFrog, allowing songs from their catalog to be delivered to users at no cost (well, aside from the opportunity cost of watching ads). Both services now have content from EMI and Universal Music Group available for download, but the majors' deals with the slightly less embarrassingly named QTrax have a catch: See, QTrax had originally billed itself as a free peer-to-peer service, just before the service's disastrous non-launch at the MIDEM conference earlier this year. But the words "peer-to-peer" strike fear in the hearts of major-label execs, so people who want to use QTrax for their legal free music will have to use an alternate downloading method. More »