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Folks, there are two places you need to look. I explained this in a previous post. What has been downloaded is the PLAYER application (Songbird). If you go to HELP Menu and look at "About" you'll see it says Songbird v1.1.2. THAT'S THE NEW PLAYER. When you fire up the player, it loads the Qtrax WEBSITE which is still 0.6 (on the lower left of the screen). That has not changed yet - but will.
Hope this clears up some confusion. Gotta run....
-KTF!
They are still tweaking and positioning technical assets, so don't be dismayed if you get a few error messages. This is part of the shakeout. Again, this thing is CRAZY fast! Listening to a whole Bob Marley album I just downloaded in a flash!
-KTF
THIS THING IS C*R*A*Z*Y FAST!!!!!! Wow! I don't see the download progress bar any more. There's a popup window that says it's downloading, but it flashes up and goes away so fast, I CAN BARELY SEE IT! Faster than the BLINK OF AN EYE - literally!
I just downloaded an entire album with 16 songs in about 30 seconds! WOW WOW WOW!
-KTF FOLKS.
Reboot your PC and try it from the top again. It does work. What this does is update the player to songbird v1.1.2 but the application itself (at the bottom left of the screen) still says v0.6. That's because portability is not active yet. They want everyone make sure there are no issues with SB v1.1.2.
I expect to see the full launch (with portabillity) sometime this month (assuming no delays).
-STILL KTF!!!!
Try this link and let me know if it helps:
http://music.qtrax.com/loginUserAction.do?action=loginPage
From your browser. Go to www.qtrax.com. If you don't see the new page (see my previous post), then you will need to clear your cache. I always have better luck with Firefox than Explorer.
When you run the install, it will delete your old version of Qtrax (0.6) and install v1.0.
I'm still checking it out...
-KTF!
TO DOWNLOAD - DO NOT START THE PLAYER. Go to www.qtrax.com and click the giant button on the splash page.
HERE"S THE SPLASH PAGE
-KTF!!!!!
SOFT LAUNCH! Full launch will be v1.1 as originally announced.
-KTF!
The site being down is just the juggling of technical assets and the alignment of all their resources to do the soft launch. This is preparation folks, for what is coming - and come it will. Keep your computers on high alert next week. We are ready to rock!
All this talk about no money, no Warner rights, etc. is coming from people WHO KNOW NOTHING of what is going on.
-KTF KTF KTF. Don't listen to the negative banter on this board.
DON'T LISTEN TO ALL THE NEGATIVE GARBAGE ON THIS BOARD.
-KTF and watch closely (I guess everyone already is!).
This is the crap that has caused me NOT to post ANYTHING on here any more.
SUCKS.
Nice one Q!
Launch is on a hair-trigger. Was supposed to be yesterday, but it's on a hair-trigger and will come with no notice! It's coming, fear not.
KTF non-fools!
Should be launching today!!!!
mocho, you are 100% right! The birdies ARE about to leave the nest on their first flight! TWEET TWEET! could be any day now (including today...we'll see!)
KTF!
This is a canned, standard email reply. It's old.
As qurious hypothesized earlier, there will most likely be a soft launch, just to make sure there's nothing that could potentially be a 'gotcha' despite all their testing. It's always scary to flip the switch on a full-blown production system, especially one of this scale. I expect this soft launch to be 'soon' (darn word!) - which means before the end of the month, maybe even next week. But this is just my OPINION!
I AM KTF!!!!! Gettin' ready to leave the nest!
BTW - if anyone was wondering where the 'Tweet tweet' and 'birdie' analogies came from, I made them up based on the old 'SongBirdNest.com' site. That was the SongBird developers website. That URL now points to getsongbird.com. They have v1.1 beta available for downloading and testing if anyone is interested (this is NOT Qtrax v1.1).
Tweet Tweet .... the little birdies are about to take off for their first flight!
KTF!
THE FULL ORACLE ARTICLE
Here's the link to the full article: http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/09-mar/o29medium.html
Good work being the first to find this mocho!
Great things are happening.
I AM KTF!!!!
Right - just like we did at Midem. Nope. That would be treated as the boy crying wolf again. They will not repeat that mistake again. There are things that are out of their control, and they will not go around trumpeting what 'they are going to have.' Been there - done that - got burned.
Like I have said many times before - AK is all about the 'steak' not the 'sizzle.' What is being asked of them by pre-announcing is to stick their heads in the guillotine again. Won't happen. So, yes, we need to sit and wait.
But it will be worth our patience IMO.
I am KTF.
Info? Please..........
Defuser, I don't want to burst your bubble, but the issue is that Qtrax songs, encoded with Windows DRM still will not work on the iPod. Songbird DOES see the iPod and will move songs to it, but they play in silence.
Sorry - but this is being worked on!
I am KTF!
Want the ugly truth? Here are some examples I just picked of the top of my head in various industries. This story is repeated everywhere. To say that the market in general has NO EFFECT on Qtrax is preposterous. If we were in a more friendly venture capital environment, we would NOT be a two cent stock, IMO.
I am KTF!
You all see - she says 'You have a two cent stock."
I thought she owned 10.5+ MILLION shares of this POS stock? Hmmm.....
As for 2,500 shares traded today, well DUHHH, nobody wants to sell today!
Also would love to hear her conspiracy theory on my multiple identities. Could be good for a couple chuckles.
As for credibility - that's for other to decide. I just post what I can and share my views, and always say that it's IMO. People choose whose information they want to believe and trust, and determine for themselves who's just blowing smoke. Sure, I did not expect the deals to take a whole year to put together, but trust me, IT WAS THE LABELS, not Qtrax that made the process excruciating.
Quoting Steve Purdham, CEO/Founder of We7, dealing with the labels is, and I quote from his Midem 2008 interview, "A colonoscopy, with everything that goes along with it, and not with any anesthetic either."
It is truly a MIRACLE that we've gotten just about EVERY MAJOR MUSIC SOURCE -> IN THE WORLD <- signed on, and they HAVE HANDED QTRAX THEIR *ENTIRE* MUSIC LIBRARIES!!!!! HANDED TO QTRAX. GIVEN TO QTRAX on a bunch of hard drives!!!! Think about the magnitude of that action. The music is the lifeblood of the industry, and THEY HAVE ALL PLACED THEIR TRUST IN QTRAX. They've given Qtrax the very asset that is the reason for their existence. Now, that is TRUST. That is not about the immediate initial fees. Qtrax has, on its servers, the lifeblood of the music industry.
Now, am I making this up? I don't think so. Think.
Who are you to yell 'foul' from the rooftops. Give it a rest.
I AM KTF!
Sirocco, if you were AK, what would you be focusing on right now? I will tell you my answer to that question:
I would be laser-focused on my ADVERTISING SALES machine and its productivity. I would be cutting advertising deals. That is a very good reason to hold-off on the launch a bit (while they load Warner). When they do launch, you will see BIG advertisers, not just Google ads.
The platform is ready, we have 3/4 of the music loaded (and loading the final label), the network is ready, the application is ready, portability is ready. And ads are being sold. But it takes time to get the ad materials together and to Qtrax. The ads need to be scheduled and loaded. This is a big logistical process that nobody here is even thinking about. It's mainly administrative, but that's where the money is! So it is VITAL that it's 100% on day one and that ads are pre-sold.
Advertising sales is where the focus is. NOT PRs, not us shareholders. Advertising. That's what generates revenue.
Bringing more investors to this stock helps us stockholders personally, BUT DOESN'T PUT ONE RED CENT IN QTRAX's POCKET! Their focus MUST be on selling ads. That, in turn, will benefit us shareholders, because that is revenue.
OK, I'm tired of posting tonight.
Good night all and I AM KTF !!!!!!!
OK, lets get real. Let's say you own 1,000,000 shares of this stock. That's a big number. But, at 2 cents a share, that's only $20,000. Qtrax is dealing in MILLIONS of dollars. Would you rather that AK spend his time answering questions from people that have $20k stakes, or deal with the labels, the player, the release strategy, international deals, attorneys, CIO, and on and on.
I don't know about you, but I want him focused on THE BIG STUFF. By doing that, he's doing his job. His job is NOT to answer to us small-time investors.
This stock has been trading roughly between 1M - 3M shares (on a good day). that's A TINY amount of money. We need to stop crying that AK needs to pay attention to the individual investor. HE NEEDS TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE COMPANY AS A WHOLE. And that, IMO, is EXACTLY what he is doing! If he wasn't we wouldn't have ALL FOUR MAJORS, a slew if Indies, and LOTS of International deals already in PLACE!
Plus, they are getting ready to FLIP THE SWITCH out of BETA and to a FULL PRODUCTION RELEASE !!!!! THIS IS H-U-G-E !!!!!
And also IMO, you will see the PRs start to roll A-F-T-T-E-R the release NOT BEFORE!!!!!!
Did APPLE Pre-Announce the iPHONE ???!!!!! NNNNNOOOOOOO! You announce when IT IS THERE - not before. As qurious mentioned in an earlier post -- you let the product speak for itself. Yes there will be advertising. But it will be BRANDING, really. This product will sell itself. Word-of-mouth is how successful websites succeed on the internet. THEN YOU REINFORCE THAT WITH BRANDING.
Let AK and his crew (of six - rrrrriiiiiigggggghhhhhhht!!!!!) do their jobs.
KTF!
Crapper, YOU are the broken record. You keep spewing the same CRAP over and over and over and over and over and over and over again (should I go on?)
HOW do you know they have money issues. The truth is YOU DON'T.
As for a great big PR, are you stupid? Advertise what is TO COME?!!! They've already done that once and got burned badly. They will PR WHEN IT"S FULLY AVAILABLE. What is it about that you don't understand. To say 'We've got all four labels and our service will be available soon' is EXACTLY what they did at Midem.
AK is all about SUBSTANCE right now. NO SIZZLE. No pre-announcing ANYTHING. Don't you get that? Did they announce 'Warner coming soon'? NO. Did they announce 'Universal coming soon'? NO. The only 'COMING SOON' they've used lately is on the splash screen. And that is only because the exact date is not yet set. But it will be between now and the end of March is all I can say.
To everyone else, DON'T listen to this broken record any more. It's SOOOOOOOO old. Kind of like the person that won't shut up.
THE TRUTH is that Crapper believes in this product SO BADLY that he WANTS YOU TO SELL YOUR SHARES so he can pick them up for cheap, because HE KNOWS (as the rest of the traders here) that when they announce, THIS WILL POP BIG TIME. What's it called again, oh yeah 'YUMMY SHARES.' I've even used those words because I accumulate on the dips, just like anyone would that had the funds and half a brain cell in their heads.
I AM KTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And how do you think the Warner catalog gets ingested, magically with the wave of a wand? Give me a break - that catalog IS HUGE and it takes TIME to prep, load, catalog, and make the songs available for download.
And if anyone thinks that any NEW competitor can just come along and pass Qtrax on the track, you are sadly mistaken. Any new company will have to go through the same tedious, time-consuming process.
The great news is that Warner is the last one. The others are locked and loaded. NO COMPANY that's not already out there (such as Apple) will EVER be able to catch up to Qtrax - regardless of money. It simply takes planning, time and computer-power to do this. And trust me, Qtrax has PLENTY of computer power.
Why is everyone crying so hard when we are right at the doorstep of success???? Crapper, I get. Everyone else, I don't. BE PATIENT.
And version 1.0 IS ready to go. They are simply ingesting Warner as fast as they can, 24-hours a day.
KKKKTTTTFFFFFFFF !!!!!!!! I certainly am.
This should have said MONTHS instead on MONTH. Sorry.
Well, Warner is done. Wonder where AK got the money? Maybe the Crapper lent it to him.
"where is the Warner news? AK still has not secured money to pay for it.."
In this post, the Crapper says that Warner will take MONTH. This was posted January 16, 2009.
"I agree...this stock has been hyped for a long time by the same crowd! IMO we will eventually get the Warner deal, however it will take months..We have to pay for these deals and they are not cheap..Why do you think AK was out of the USA from May to December in 2008? He was raising capital to pay for the deals we already have in place. know he is scrambling to raise funds for Warner and this is the delay in the PR. I would not get too excited becasue the delays and disappointments are part and parcel of investing in this circus stock. Let us all just hope that we get 10% of the expectations that we all have for QTRAX. My opinion is there are elements of these deals that us common shareholders will pay the price for in the end. I struggle with the conventional wisdom thinking that if this was an industry changer why and the hell does it take half a year to raise funds to pay for these deals..apparently there are many smart people that do not think this is gonna change the landscape of the music industry. I could be wrong and hope I am, however we have a long way to go before anyone take us as a serious contender..we have a market cap of..well I cannot even figure that out cause AK has not kept current with required SEC regs...for many months...
"
Check out post 11271.
-KTF!
If you've followed the Macworld thread, you can see that most people do not see the entire picture. They don't see the entire forest because they are so busy examining the trees.
They don't understand that eventually, Qtrax will work on the Mac and the iPod. The fact they wouldn't (or couldn't) check out the system on a PC is symbolic of their "Macs rule the world" attitude.
They also keep saying that iPods have 50% of the worldwide market. Well, I know a lot of people overseas, and they don't use iPods. Heck, iPhones aren't even sold in their countries (except the black market which requires hacked phones). Now even if it were true (50% of the market), that would soon change as more and more devices begin to incorporate windows media into their phones. Let's face facts - Microsoft has much more influence that Apple does in the worldwide markets. Yes, Macs are nice (I have a few of them), BUT they are still very much in the minority (contrary to what the MW guys want to believe). As people upgrade their phones, they would, be default, be buying Qtrax compatibility (for free because they would be buying a new phone anyway!).
Also, eventually, as Apple did, Qtrax will have to move away from DRM too. It's inevitable. So every one of their arguments, if you look at the with a longer-term perspective, are worthless. They kept steering the conversation back to 'right now.' Very myopic views in my opinion. But they have their heads in the sand.
This type of attitude is the very reason we are still a penny stock. People still can't believe it will work. But it will. Qtrax is going to change the music biz.
IMO!
-KTF!
Quite a discussion at MacWorld.com Check it out!
http://www.macworld.com/article/138802/2009/02/qtrax.html#recommend
-KTF!
These types of articles REALLY show why Qtrax is going to catch on like wildfire. People really don't see the full picture yet. When they can actually download ALL FOUR MAJOR catalogs PLUS the Indies, PLUS international music. Man, oh man! Clear the isles.
We didn't even mentioned the "side" sales that will occur and create revenue for Qtrax - ticket commissions, merchandise, if someone REALLY needs a DRM-Free MP3 version, they can even get that through Qtrax (probably through Amazon) and we will get a piece of that too!
And the guy responded that ad-sharing revenue will DECREASE what's going to the rights-holders, and therefore piracy will continue. WHAT????? One has nothing to do with the other! Piracy is because people don't want to pay to get the music. Revenue sharing has to do with the labels and the artists. They are not connected in any way (except nobody gets paid through piracy). It will create MORE revenue for the labels/artists. The guy is clueless.
Also don't forget that Music is the first target. There's still the Video/Movie market to conquer One thing at a time, though.....
This is going to blind-side most everyone IMO (except for The Faithful, of course!)
-KTF
They did post it! Well glory be!
All gears are moving - they just need to ingest the Warner library (and others). March is very doable. Who knows, maybe sooner! I wouldn't put too much worry into it. When it happens, it'll be huge.
-KTF!
Did you guys read the Macworld.com article? I posted a reply under the handle iTunesIsDead. The guy has no clue, and apple is reacting to the qtrax threat!
I'll be surprised if they post it, but it was just factual in nature - I didn't slam the author. We'll see.
-KTF!
AK, the launch is considered a done deal. The PRs and the marketing plan is already setup and moving forward. They are on to bigger things.
IMO, this baby does NOT need a major launch. The Midem fiasco got the name Qtrax out. True, it was not positive, but people were HOPEFUL and HUNGRY for something like Qtrax. They know the name because they love the idea of free and legal, portable music.
IMO, this thing will be viral in its spread. Did you ever see a Facebook, MySpace, or even a Google ad BEFORE they became huge successes? Nope. It just happens through one person telling ten friends who in turn each tell ten other friends, etc. Viral propagation spreads incredibly quickly. This can happen so fast, it'll make your head spin!
Consider the fact that they already have 300,000 users, with NO portability or advertising whatsoever.
We'll still see negative press about DRM, but that will quickly dissipate for two reasons.
1 - it's just too easy to download and transfer to a device. DRM was a pain for iTunes because you PAID for the track. You just don't download it again for free if you happen to be at a different computer. With Qtrax, you CAN.
2 - I truly believe that eventually, they'll do away with DRM anyway. Remember, this is only the START of Qtrax's platform. Lots will be improved, and lots of positive changes will be made as the service evolves, matures, and proves itself. iTunes will be toast (unless of course Apple just buys Qtrax!).
-KTF as always!
Here's today's announcement on the Warner Site!
http://www.wmg.com/news/article/?id=8a0af8121ed15127011f65e0ea5f5cb0
Here's the part I LOVE:
"About Qtrax (www.qtrax.com)
Qtrax is the world’s first free and legal peer-to-peer music service and showcases an innovative ad-supported downloading model that easily directs revenue back to artists and rights holders. Qtrax has successfully signed licensing deals with major labels, music publishers and leading indies, including: Warner Music Group (WMG), Warner Music International, Warner Chappell, EMI Music North America, EMI Publishing, Sony BMG MUSIC ENERTAINMENT, Sony/ATV Publishing, Universal Music Group North America, Universal Music Group International, Universal Publishing, TVT Records, Beggars Banquet and more. Qtrax will soon provide fans with access to a colorful and diverse catalog with millions of high-quality, high-fidelity digital music files. Based in New York City, Qtrax is a subsidiary of Brilliant Technologies Corporation (OTC: BLLN.PK), a publicly traded technology holding company."
-KKKKTTTTTFFFFFFFF !!!!!!!!
IMO, the launch is NOT the focus at Qtrax. That's an assumed reality. The gears have shifted to much bigger things.
If you choose to believe the negative sentiment, it's your right.
Just remember when I told you my expectation of the 1.0 release WITH WARNER AND WITH PORTABILITY over a month ago. You choose who's opinion you want to believe.
I also want to point out the following in the press release:
NEW YORK, Feb. 11 NY-Qtrax-Warner-agree
NEW YORK, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) and ad-supported music service Qtrax announced today an agreement to make WMG's award-winning catalog of digital music available to music fans WORLDWIDE over the Qtrax service.
Note the word WORLDWIDE!
The PPS movement is just the traders doing their skimming and timing stuff. Pennies in my opinion.
Like I said before - this is just the start.
-KKKKKKTTTTTTTFFFFF !!!!!!!!!!