Jamendo
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| Opened | January 2005 |
| Pricing model | Free |
| Platforms | Platform independent |
| Format | MPEG Layer 3 (.mp3), Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) |
| Restrictions | None (content available under Creative Commons licenses, other licenses) |
| Catalogue | 25000+ artists 49000+ albums 308000+ tracks[1] |
| Preview | Entire song |
| Streaming | Yes |
| Burning/copying | Allowed |
| Trial | None |
| Protocol | Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http://), BitTorrent |
| Availability | Worldwide |
| Features | Tags, Free downloads, Community |
| Website | www.jamendo.com |
| Alexa rank |  7,901 (January 2012[update])[2] |
Jamendo is a music website and a community of music authors. It bills itself as "the world's #1 platform for free and legal music downloads under Creative Commons licenses."[3]
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, direct download links, and downloads through BitTorrent.
The name is derived from a fusion of two musical terms: "jam session" and "crescendo".[3]
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[edit] History
Jamendo was launched in January 2005. Since then, it has had over 45,000 albums uploaded to the site (as of April 2011).
[edit] Site features
- Creative Commons or Free Art License licensed music
- BitTorrent for full album downloads
- Ogg Vorbis and MP3 encoded audio files
- An integrated rating and recommendation system and tops
- Tags and reviews to discover artists
- Voluntary donations to artists through PayPal
- 7 genre-specific radio streams of music from hosted artists (Jazz, Metal, Lounge, Dance/Electro, Hip-Hop, Rock, Pop/Songwriting)
There are more than 42,000 albums available for download now on Jamendo.[4] Widely varied music genres and styles include: Dance/Electro, Hip-Hop, Metal, Jazz, Lounge, Pop/Songwriting, and Rock.
Based in Luxembourg, Jamendo is multilingual. While the website was primarily in French at first, there are now complete, official versions in English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian available as well (as of November 2008).
In April 2008, Jamendo launched a special interface for searching for MP3 and Ogg Vorbis torrents.[5]
[edit] Business model
According to one article on Jamendo's business model,[6] 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.[7]
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.
Jamendo works with Musicmatic[8] to offer services to professionals on the freemium model.[9]
[edit] Integration with media players
Jamendo has possibilities of integration within media players. The free software media players Rhythmbox (since version 0.9.6), Listen, Totem Movie Player, VLC media player, Songbird, Clementine and Amarok 2 already provide integration with Jamendo.[10]
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ developer.jamendo.com
- ^ "Jamendo.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jamendo.com. Retrieved 2012-01-02.
- ^ a b "Jamendo Press Kit". Jamendo. http://imgjam.com/mandarine/pdf/MEDIAKIT/Jamendo_MediaKit2010_EN.pdf. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
- ^ jamendo.com
- ^ Jamendo Torrents
- ^ TeleRead
- ^ Jamendo site
- ^ blog.jamendo.com
- ^ Sylvain Zimmer in "Les enfant du web" podcast #62 on Oxyradio http://www.oxyradio.net/podcast-163.html - 17th may 2010
- ^ amarok.kde.org
