Jamendo

Jamendo is a Internet site proposer to download legally and free albums of free Musique or under license allowing a noncommercial use. The term of “jamendo” comes from the fusion of “Jam” and “Crescendo. ”

Jamendo allows the direct listening of the files audios (96 Kb/s), but also ensures the diffusion of it on the networks Peer-to-peer EMule and BitTorrent, in particular thanks to software dedicated such as the Jamseeder . The majority of the albums voluntarily placed at the disposal by the artists are it under licenses of the type Creative Commons or License Free Art. They are available under the formats Mp3 (approximately 200 Kb/s) and Ogg Vorbis (approximately 300 Kb/s), this last being a open Format.

A using navigation system of the tags (key word), generated by the listeners, makes it possible to traverse the albums by kind or set of themes. Thus, the classification of the albums is found partly managed by the listeners and visitors of Internet site.

Jamendo proposes to the artists to put on line their music by choosing the license under which the audio contents will be diffused. Each artist has a personal space to announce his topicality, his future dates in concerts and to communicate with his public. Criticisms can be deposited on the albums by the listeners. Moreover, a system of gift to the artists is proposed, as well as a forum making it possible the community to exchange between members, to which the artists belong.

As from its launching in January 2005, in the one year space, jamendo knew to benefit from technical improvements on the level of its internal functionalities, but also of a strong increase in the number of albums placed at the disposal. In fact, more than 2100 albums are added to the list growing during the year 2006 and one is to 3000 at the beginning of April 2007, which makes it possible to discover many kinds and forms of music hitherto unknown. The platform hopes in 2007 to offer new channels of incomes to the artists who wish it.

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