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SpiralFrog, the ad-supported free music download site, may finally be back on track to launch. The company says that it will be ready to go live later on this year, and has sent out invitation emails to a select group of private beta testers.

After a pretty severe executive shakeup, and too much media coverage to save face with its delayed launch late last year, many speculated that SpiralFrog would never happen. With the ad-supported model, which shows ads while you wait for your music to download, many speculate that SpiralFrog won’t be successful either.

So far it’s signed Universal Music Group for the majority of its offering of 770,000 songs in its music library, which could be somewhat limiting, if SpiralFrog’s hope is to encourage music discovery and anti-piracy. Additional limiting factors include the fact that songs are Windows compatible only, meaning you can play songs on your computer or Windows Media-compatible player, but not your iPod. We’re all hoping that SpiralFrog can pull through and prosper, partnering with additional music labels along the way.