xtrax

Conceived and patented 5 minutes before MP3 players changed our lives forever, the XTRAX system seemed a noble cause at the time.  Permitting the manufacturer to respin their disc player models for the cost of a twenty cent optical IC, the XTRAX system permitted a user to simply blacken out Achey-Breaky Heart and never hear it again, unless he or she erased the little black mark.  XTRAX, a visual system for controlling playback of disc-based media almost made it to prime-time, with Matsushita wanting an exclusive.  That is until free music actually set us free.