Jamendo: Download Thousands of Free and Legal Music Albums
Written by Ernesto on August 31, 2007Jamendo.com offers over 4000 free music albums, all published under a Creative Commons license. The albums are available in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format, free of DRM of course.
Jamendo is a great place for artists to publish their creative works and make it available to a wide audience. Users of the site can download these albums for free and donate directly to the artist if they like what they hear. Jamendo uses BitTorrent (what else) to distribute the albums, and there is also an on-site player so you can listen to the album before you download it.
Jamendo has a great look and the site is easy to navigate. It supports tagging, playlists, album blogging and all the other features a “social” music sharing community needs. The site continues to grow and they recently received a significant amount of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners, the same people who supported Skype in its early days. With this funding, they plan improve the site and introduce new features.
David Waroquier, of Mangrove Capital Partners said in a response: “With the aim at becoming the biggest independent music portal online, we believe Jamendo is the most appropriate and flexible answer to the current online revolution that the music industry is facing: providing unsigned artists with revenue opportunities all the while enabling the users to listen and download music for free”, said .
Laurent Kratz Founder and CEO of Jamendo was of course very satisfied with the first round of funding they closed and commented: “With this funding, we plan to become the undisputed global player of free music. We are economically supporting and promoting the long tail of music. We have a proven business model where music is not only proposed for free to end consumers but we are also closing an increasing number of partnership agreements and licensing deals.”
All albums are available in MP3 (~200Kbps) and Ogg Vorbis (300Kbps) format, and can be downloaded with your favorite BitTorrent client or Emule. A great initiative that benefits both the artist and the fans, that’s how it’s supposed to be.
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12 Responses
Great site, love it!
Great to know.
Good concept, I will have to check it out.
Definitely going on my favorites. The music on Jamendo is much better than what is on the charts. The RIAA can go fuck itself.
Sounds good….but just a note….when I tried to go to their site…peerguardian blocks it….showing …foundation RESTINA antip2p.
I got PG2 on and the site works just fine for me.
Great concept and I hope this idea grows and spreads.
And I have to agree, better than most of the crap that is on charts and mainstream radio.
a great idea backed by serious people
Jamendo will speed the media revolution :D
h33t where filesharing is an education
Great site.. great tracks ! p2p FTW !
WTF does ~200Kbps mean? Is it 192Kbps? or 256Kbps? If you are gonna give a “geeky” number then give us something more specific.
#9. “WTF does ~200Kbps mean?”
The wavy line usually denotes ‘about’. So ‘~200Kbps’ would be ‘about 200Kbps’
I signed up for this site, it looked promising, but the uploading program seems to be incompatible with 64-bit. I sent them a mail about it and got absolutely no reply, whatsoever. meh.
me gusta la musica
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