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Qtrax- a music lesson lesson to be learnt by all

Rating: Moral of the story is first make sure they've signed the contracts
by Tony Dennis

I've been following the trails and tribulations of the freshly launched music service, Qtrax, with considerable interest. After all, it is an ad-funded, free music service. While it only works (and even that's disputable) with PCs at present, hopefully the model can be transferred to the mobile world.

So what's gone wrong? Well, the service was feted with a launch budget of over $500,000 at the music industry bean-fest that is Midem in Cannes. [Lucky beggars. They haven't been forcefully evicted to Barcelona like us.]

Anyway, no sooner had Qtrax - a unit of New York-based Brilliant Technologies - arrived claiming a catalogue of some 25 to 30 million tracks, than all four big players - EMI, Warner, Sony BMG and Universal - all said they hadn't actually agreed deals.

Orange turns up music services with Radio FG

Rating: its all about the Soundtribes or Pikeo and reality radio, man

Orange has teamed up with Radio FG to offer mobile and internet services to users with exclusive editorial and music content.

What?
Basically, Orange customers can now listen to Radio FG live on the mobile device or the Internet when it is broadcast over Liveradio.

What else?
Radio FG can also plug into Orange flagship services Soundtribes and Pikeo.

Soundtribes?

Mobile phones should be car stereo compatible

Rating: Easy swapping between car and handset needed
by Tony Dennis

I thought I'd stumbled across a way to help my mate Bruce Renny at Rok Entertainment get rid of old stocks of rock and pop albums his company produced and sold on MMC cards. The solution should have been to pop them into a car music centre.
But it didn't work. In the process, I discovered the need for a common format between car stereos and mobile handsets. The chief reason Rok's album wouldn't play is that that old spoilsport, DRM, reared its ugly head again.