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We7 will add 400,000 tracks from EMI later this year for both on-demand ad funded streaming and paid MP3 downloads. EMI joins WMG and Sony BMG in signing on to We7's model which plays short, targeted ads before each streamed track. Included in the deal is music from We7 founder and investor Peter Gabriel.

Napster has hinted that the company is up for sale again, saying in its response to a dissident shareholder group that the company is once again exploring possible strategic alternatives, and has retained UBS Investment Bank to assist in the process. The company hired UBS two years ago to explore a possible sale, but no deal emerged.

Starting in late October, We7 will add tracks from Warner Music UK for on-demand, ad funded streaming and paid MP3 downloads. Users can listen to full tracks and albums free on an unlimited basis, create playlists and embed songs almost anywhere via portable widgets.

This was in an email Qtrax sent to users yesterday: Just download and install the new Qtrax player, and you're on your way to a brand new music library featuring your favorite tracks. Check the "Search only available tracks" box to find tracks that are available now, but come back often because we are adding more tunes every day.

This was in an email Qtrax sent to users yesterday: Just download and install the new Qtrax player, and you're on your way to a brand new music library featuring your favorite tracks. Check the "Search only available tracks" box to find tracks that are available now, but come back often because we are adding more tunes every day.

Today there’s a story on ReadWriteWeb about a new look and feel of the Bloglines beta site introduced by the company along with finally making its web-based feed reader ad-supported. True, may of us have already decided that Bloglines has no chances to survive in the competition with Google Reader, the most prominent feed reader as we tend to believe.

Until now, if you wanted to access personalised radio service Pandora on a home music player, you had to pay a $36 annual subscription fee. However, the company has just launched a free ad-supported version of its service with Logitech, enabling people to tune in using the latter’’s Squeezebox home audio player.

Ad-supported music has some bright spots and some low points. I'm not sure where trueAnthem ranks, but I like its business model. The startup raised $2 million and added Adidas as a sponsor. Unlike most free ad-supported music, songs from trueAnthem are available as MP3 files (the ones I downloaded were 128kbps) and begin with brief audio advertisements.

RAWRIP, a new ad-supported music site and distribution service is paying indie artists 100% of royalties earned from downloaded tracks. Fans can stream music free and store songs in personal music libraries. Beyond the site, artists can also sell their tracks via a 'Raw Store' widget that pays 100% from sales on websites, blogs, MySpace, Facebook, etc.