Download 2000+ Music Albums for Free

Written by Ernesto on December 25, 2006

Jamendo is a website with a revolutionary model that allows artists to promote and publish their music. Artist have the opportunity to show their creativity to a broader audience, and the public has a place to listen to, download, and share new music.

Jamendo recently passed the 2000 albums mark and currently indexes 2005 Creative Commons licensed albums. The site offers some great features that make it easy to share and discover new music. You can browse their album collection by genre, country, popularity or tags, for example.

If you find an album that you like, you can share it on your blog, write a review, or donate directly to the artist. Some artists will even include the list of people who donated in the booklet of their forthcoming albums. A great site for both artists and fans. Everybody wins, except for the big record labels of course.

The albums on Jamendo are available in MP3 (~200Kbps) and Ogg Vorbis (300Kbps), and can be downloaded with your favorite BitTorrent client or Emule.

If you don't like torrents try MP3 Fiesta. They hold nearly 67,000 albums from nearly 17,000 artists. Prices are around the $0.10 mark for single tracks with full albums coming in at roughly $1.00. Tracks are available from 192kbps and they take major credit cards and PayPal

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1 Dec 25, 2006 at 08:58 by Wagoo

There’s some good music there if you look for it. In my short term searching I’ve found JT Bruce, a progressive rock instrumental artist that is pretty good, as well as many french groups like Svald (Metal with a female singer) or David TMX. Anyone have any other recommendations? (I, of course, am open to much more than rock/metal - it’s just what I initially searched for.)

2 Dec 25, 2006 at 11:54 by Hannes

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/2659/ is some nice hip-hop/trip-hop stuff.

3 Dec 25, 2006 at 12:22 by Adrian

I would recommend you Row Costlow - Solo Piano (http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/889/) if you like some smooth/classical piano tunes. It was actually the track called “Goodbyes” that got me stuck. It reminds me about a different track I heard ones on myspace called “Untitled”, used in some static videos.

Please let me know what you think!

4 Dec 25, 2006 at 13:27 by Ernesto

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Rob CostLow is great. I’ve downloaded the album a while ago, still one of my favorites on Jamendo.

5 Dec 25, 2006 at 21:13 by Kaleun

niiiicccceeee service, really nice

6 Dec 25, 2006 at 21:31 by may

great site

checked it sometime bfore. theres one problem then and now, that is the streaming music. it plays with a lot of breaks. im on a 128kbps connection and the streams are in mp3 64kbps but still doesnt play continuously. seems like the site’s servers are slow or something.
would be nice to hear the music bfore downloading.
other than that, the site is great. i thank the creators for giving us such a platform.

7 Dec 25, 2006 at 22:59 by en3r0

Ya, this is a great service, I’ve indexed some of their music on Legit Torrents (www.virtenu.com/lt).

8 Dec 26, 2006 at 01:20 by Ryan

Very similar to this is http://www.audiri.com/ They have tons of stuff and a similar music player.

9 Dec 26, 2006 at 01:34 by Free Music Fan

Another large collection of free music is available from the South by Southwest annual festivals, showcasing new talent. Google “SXSW torrent”

10 Dec 26, 2006 at 02:41 by smartass

great find i go check me some metal.

11 Dec 26, 2006 at 04:28 by Wagoo

Thanks for the recommendations Hannes and Adrian, the streams of both impressed me so I’m downloading them now.

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