Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

The ambitious ad-supported music service Qtrax has announced a deal with its second major label: Sony. As part of the deal, Qtrax will offer Sony's digital music catalog for free to those who install its music downloading client. As with Qtrax's deals with EMI and Universal , Sony only agreed to license its regular digital music catalog, consisting of the same music it has already licensed to digital music stores like iTunes and free, ad-supported sources such as SpiralFrog (updated - see below). Qtrax's ultimate goal, however, is to go far beyond that, [...]