Jamendo
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| Opened: | January 2005 |
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| Pricing: | Free |
| Platforms: | Platform independent |
| Format: | MPEG Layer 3 (.mp3), OGG Vorbis (.ogg), FLAC (.flac) |
| Restrictions: | None, Creative Commons Licenses, Free Art Licence |
| Catalogue: | 3000+ artists, 2000+ 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 |
| Website: | www.jamendo.com |
Jamendo is a music platform and community combining:
- Creative Commons/Free Art Licence 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 Licence, making it legal to copy and share, as well as to modify and make commercial use of for some, depending on the licence. 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.
According to one article on Jamendo's business model [1], Jamendo's use of tipjars and donations represents the first serious attempt for a file sharing site to provide a direct way to compensate artists. In January 2007, Jamendo provided a revenue model for artists that is extremely generous to artists. While sites like Youtube are still implementing plans to offer to artists a share of advertising, Jamendo claims to let artists keep 50% of the revenue generated and 100% of the tips that Jamendo visitors give 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 and Italian.
The name is a portmanteau of two musical terms: "jam" and "crescendo".
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- Jamendo
- Jamendo, a business model that works by Robert Nagle.
