SpiralFrog's "free" music download service goes live

SpiralFrog, the badly named, ad-supported music and video download portal has gone live today after months of beta testing, or so we're told. The site allows users to legally and freely download media from a catalogue of over 800,000 songs and 3,500 videos (most provided by Apple ship-jumper Universal Music Group, as mentioned way back in August 2006), and requires only that users register on the site and log in once a month (otherwise the DRM'd files go belly up). It's not all lollipops and rainbows, however, as just mentioned, the files are full of nasty, fun-murdering DRM which prevents your new tunes from being burned onto a CD. In other gloomy news, SpiralFrog's content won't work on your Mac or your iPod, and can only be placed on two media players or phones at a time. "We believe it will be a very powerful alternative to the pirate sites," said company chairman Joe Mohen, adding, "With SpiralFrog you know what you're getting." Yes Joe, and we know what we're not getting, too.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 19th 2007 9:53PM]

The sites okay considering the downloads are free but the queue is just stupid. You put on tracks and then you type in a verification and have to wait for one file to finish and then you have to manually start the next download. You cannot browse the SpiralFrog website while you are downloading or else the downloads fail. When the downloads are done I found them scattered throughout every user on my windows xp's My Documents. I've only used it to transfer to my Zen so the DRM hasn't pissed me off yet.