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Geek Culture / Free Legal P2P Music Downloads From This Weekend

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GatorHex
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Posted: 25th Jan 2008 14:00 Edited at: 25th Jan 2008 20:58
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A website called qtrax will open this weekend allowing for the first time 100% legal & 100% free P2P music downloads of 25 million titles.

What's the catch? Not sure yet but to me it looks like you may be stuck with playing it through their media player so they can show you banner adds. We will see.

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Tom J
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Posted: 25th Jan 2008 18:48
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Surely you could just play .mp3 files in something like WMP? How would they force you to use their player?
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GatorHex
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Posted: 25th Jan 2008 20:47
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Dunno, maybe they will use digital right managment like iTunes does to stop the files being redistributed.

I've got a XFi Gamer sound card that can record anything that is playing out the speakers so it wouldn't stop people transfering to their MP3 player if they put their mind to it.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 25th Jan 2008 20:53
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Quote: "I've got a XFi Gamer sound card that can record anything that is playing out the speakers so it wouldn't stop people transfering to their MP3 player if they put their mind to it."


Lol, almost forgot about that feature

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Insanity Complex
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Posted: 25th Jan 2008 23:14 Edited at: 25th Jan 2008 23:16
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Well, if they're making it a catch that you can't actually put the songs to CD/MP3 Player(I'd assume if that's the catch, you won't get the actual .mp3 files), I have a website that is already like a P2P no download site. You can upload MP3's that become available to anyone else who uses the site. It's http://www.deezer.com for anyone who's interested. It has a lot of music that I listen to, although some artists(Rammstein for example) have results that you can't play for some reason. And plus you don't have to download anything for Deezer(flash based). But I'll definitely keep an eye to see just what this one turns out to be.


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Posted: 25th Jan 2008 23:22
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Quote: "I've got a XFi Gamer sound card that can record anything that is playing out the speakers"


My integrated sound hardware can do that. Stop trying to show off when it's nothing special.

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Posted: 26th Jan 2008 04:03 Edited at: 26th Jan 2008 04:03
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I hadn't noticed the "record what i can hear" option before on any of my internals so thought to was a creative thing.

But what the hell if your gona show off with a sound card it might as well be one as powerfull as Pentium 4-3Ghz



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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 26th Jan 2008 04:12
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Is there a noticeable difference using that powerful of a sound card? I never really understood the use of spending more that $40 on a sound card. I have an Audigy 4 and it's pretty nice, 5.1 surround sound and all. I'd rather pour money into graphics.


Quote: "I've got a XFi Gamer sound card that can record anything that is playing out the speakers so it wouldn't stop people transfering to their MP3 player if they put their mind to it. "


Lol, yea, mine can do that too I use Audacity to record if needed. I don't have to do that anymore though, as I am subscribed to Rhapsody and get all my music off there now.

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Quote: "I never really understood the use of spending more that $40 on a sound card. I have an Audigy 4 and it's pretty nice, 5.1 surround sound and all. I'd rather pour money into graphics."


But some of us have already poured our money into everything else and all we have left are little things like sound cards ^_^ Might as well go overboard on that as well.

Actually, my X-Fi Gamer is loads better than the integrated card I had before and I had a gift card so my X-Fi was only like $25. Took advantage of the situation all around and got 5.1 sound system too. Woot.

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Posted: 26th Jan 2008 04:40
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It will allow you to enable EAX HD audio in games like Battlefield 2142 and Medieval II.

The difference it makes to your ears is like using onboard video then swithing to a decent nVidia card for your eyes.

It also improves the quality of you MP3 playback too, but the main reason I bought it was for it's zero lag ASIO2 driver for midi input.

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Quote: "It also improves the quality of you MP3 playback too"


Yeah, that crystallizer filter is really nice Actually, I forgot to try the EAX out in BF2! Must do that.

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Sid Sinister
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Yeah and actually I just remembered reading an article a while back saying that since it takes so much process load off the processor, it's been known to boost FPS a great deal. Good stuff.

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Posted: 26th Jan 2008 12:55
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I get the impression that this QTrax thing is making its money by using ad-supported pages inside the app... I may be wrong though


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