Jamendo

Infobox Online music service
service_name = Jamendo
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opened = January 2005
pricing = Free
platforms = Platform independent
format = MPEG Layer 3 (.mp3), Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)
restrictions = None, Creative Commons Licenses, Free Art License
catalogue = 7000+ artists, 10000+ albums
preview = Entire song
streaming = Yes
burning_copying = Allowed
trial = None
protocol = Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http://), BitTorrent, eMule
availability = WorldWide
features = Tags, Free downloads, Community
support =
homepage = [http://www.jamendo.com/ www.jamendo.com]
footnotes =

Jamendo is a music platform and community combining:
* Creative Commons/Free Art License licensed music
* BitTorrent and eDonkey for full album downloads
* Ogg Vorbis and MP3 encoded audio files
* An integrated rating and recommendation system
* Tags and reviews to discover artists
* Voluntary donations to artists through PayPal

All music on Jamendo is free to download and licensed through one of several Creative Commons licenses or the Free Art License, making it legal to copy and share, as well as to modify and make commercial use of for some, depending on the license. Jamendo allows streaming of all of its thousands of albums in either Ogg Vorbis or MP3 format, and downloads through the BitTorrent and eDonkey networks.

There are more than 10,000 albums available for download now on Jamendo. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8383]

According to one article on Jamendo's business model, [ [http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6138 TeleRead] ] Jamendo's use of voluntary donations represents the first serious attempt for a file sharing site to provide a direct way to pay artists. In January 2007, Jamendo provided an advertising revenue sharing model for artists. [ [http://www.jamendo.com/en/static/help_revenueshare/ Jamendo site] ] While sites such as YouTube are still implementing plans to offer artists a share of their advertising revenue, Jamendo claims to let artists keep 50% of the revenue generated and almost 100% of the donations that Jamendo visitors give, go to individual artists.

Based in Luxembourg, Jamendo is multilingual. While the website was primarily in French at first, there are now complete, official versions in English and German available as well, along with as of September 2006 incomplete versions of the site in Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Italian.

The name is a portmanteau of two musical terms: "jam" and "crescendo". [ [http://www.jamendo.com/en/static/faq/ Jamendo FAQ: What does "jamendo" mean?] ]

In April 2008, Jamendo launched a special interface for searching for MP3 and Ogg Vorbis torrents. [ [http://torrents.jamendo.com/ Jamendo Torrents] ]

Integration with media players

Jamendo has possibilities of integration within media players. Since the 0.9.6 release, Rhythmbox can browse and play all the Jamendo free (as in freedom) music library, download the albums, and make donations directly from within the application.You can also download and play albums from Jamendo using Amarok2. [http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/514-Jamendo-downloads-now-working.html]

Notes

ee also

* List of record labels
* Magnatune

External links

* [http://www.jamendo.com Jamendo]
* [http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6138 Jamendo, a business model that works] by Robert Nagle.
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8518 Jamendo Publishes their 10,000th CC-Licensed Album] Cameron Parkins, June 20th, 2008