• Napster's free, ad-supported music service has been laid to rest. (Digital Music News)

• Australian music sales fell 13.64% in value in the first half of 2007. CD sales were down 15.72% in units and 17.34% in value. Downloads and ringtones rose by 89.67% in unit value and only 47.48% in dollar value. (Billboard.biz)

• Monday Night Football unveiled its new music features last night. Snippets of a song by Kanye West, who has a new album out today, were played before commercials and during the halftime show. In the coming weeks, MNF will offer a prime-time audience for new releases by Foo Fighters, Matchbox Twenty, Kid Rock, Eddie Vedder (who has a solo album coming) and Irma Thomas & Marsha Ball. (Billboard)

• Another CD Baby post. (Why not? They're good stuff.) This time we have a breakdown of the value of CD Baby digital sales at all services. iTunes has accounted for 67.8% of all sales. iTunes Europe is at 5.5% and iTunes UK is at 4.6%. With its other territories, Apple accounts for 82.8% of total CD Baby digital sales. At number four is the best non-Apple store, Rhapsody, which has 4%. Napster is fifth at 3.6%. Further down the list are eMusic (2.3%, which may seem low but this is dollar value, not unit sales), Sony Connect (0.4%) and Ruckus (0.1%). (CD Baby, via Digital Audio Insider)

• SpiralFrog has had a rough four years but doesn't rule out going public. ZDNet points out the company must begin paying the interest on the $10 million in raised through the sale of secured notes. (ZDNet)

• Qtrax, the legal P2P service that will hopefully launch of these years, has hired a chief technology officer. Qtrax's CEO told Silicon Alley Insider the service would be ready by mid-September. Place your bets. (Silicon Alley Insider)