Talk:Jamendo

flac?

Well flac would be nice. But still i can't find any trace of it on the jamendo website.

Why is the music available in MP3 and OGG?

We provide music in the MP3 format for compatibility with most software and hardware music players. We also provide music in the Ogg Vorbis format because of its technical superiority and freedom from patent and royalty issues. Once registered on jamendo you may tune your preferences to download or stream music in either format.

--from the FAQ.--NESFreak 16:27, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes I think there is sadly no Flac download :-( I just uploaded an album, "Afternoon", in flac format but was only able to download it in OGG or MP3 format. At least they didn't sample rate convert it from 48KHz to 44.1KHz.

I guess this is what's called "original research", right?

There is a discussion thread here on their site where they say they use Flac internally but not for download yet [1]. The end of the thread indicates that they will add it in the future. On this basis I will remove Flac from the article for now.

Regards Bksimonb 15:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Logo-mauriz.png

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Fair use rationale for Image:Logo-mauriz.png

Image:Logo-mauriz.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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Stats in the info box

I just found on this site that there are not 4000+ artists as the infobox says but "only" about 3550 artists represented in Jamendo (as of november 2007), whereas that page says something about 337259 artists. So there seem to be some inconsistencies both within Jamendo and between Jamando and Wikipedia. Anybody an idea how to deal with this? - Torstenphilipp (talk) 17:03, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Jamendo publishes dumps with artists, albums and tracks details. A simple analysis of the database can give the exact numbers. emijrp (talk) 12:10, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

2010-12-18

Using the last database (2010-12-18), these are the results:

>>> f=open('db', 'r')
>>> raw=f.read()
>>> import re
>>> len(re.findall('<artist>', raw))
22344
>>> len(re.findall('<album>', raw))
42554
>>> len(re.findall('<track>', raw))
270975

I'm going to update the infobox. emijrp (talk) 12:26, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

'good' music

"Some consider this irrelevant, since there is no quality control and to find 'good' music, one might have to sift for hours." -- IP 85.166.238.16

What is good music? You like Jazz, I like Rock, etc... And Jamendo site has rating system, ordering of albums by number of downloads and by number of playlists which include the song. So, it's not too difficult {only for me? :)} to find good music ("good" from my point of view) at Jamendo. -- AKA MBG (talk) 14:53, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Taste, as noted, subjective. Music on commercial radio, or many of the corporate record labels, it can easily be argued, is of questionable quality, and the control comes from people who are not focussed on art. Jamendo is a valuable, forward-thinking and acting music resource and community. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.155.181.243 (talk) 08:42, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Examples of notable bands

Can we improve the article by adding examples of well-known bands, who upload albums on Jamendo? 95.56.169.16 (talk) 17:03, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Removed the notability tag

For some reason, it was tagged as lacking notability. Jamendo is pretty well-known I'd say. It has been mentioned many places, for instance, TorrentFreak.com a few times, and it has a huge user-base. I can't imagine why someone would try to get it deleted for lack of notability. Makes no sense to me. Deleet (talk) 16:15, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

+1 -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 12:37, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

I reinstated it due to lack of verifiability. Notability cannot be established by hearsay, you need to provide actual cites by independent reliable sources. See WP:NRVE. Right now, of all the cites, we have Alexa ranking which like google doesn't count to establish notability, one blog post which doesn't count as a reliable source, and one Radio interview, which is not enough coverage to call significant (I could easily dig up radio interviews with some of my relatives, that doesn't make the pass WP:BIO).--70.80.234.163 (talk) 15:32, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

So, we've got ourselves a bureaucrat here. How nice. 'hiding' behind the usual rules. I wonder what would happen to Wikipedia if people actually followed your advice. We would need to delete half the encyclopedia. Oh well. I can't be bothered to convince you, so I'll just remove it again in the future and hope you don't notice. Deleet (talk) 06:55, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Jamendo claims to have "12,000 customers worldwide" and "has redistributed several hundred thousands of euros to its artists" according to their latest blog post here. But I guess that source wouldn't count due to being "self-published", right? Does anyone have other sources to support those numbers? Also, Jamendo gets mentioned right after iTunes in this 2012 Hadopi report as a platform "promoting responsible use". There's also a very detailed case study article on Jamendo here, but I guess due to being a wiki page it again does not count. Is an archive.org mirror a suitable way to verify the existence of a notable amount of more than 50000 Creative Commons licensed albums? And official Jamendo staff or artists regularly participate at music events, like: Midem, all2gethernow, Open World Forum, MaMA. And here's an excellent article about Jamendo on torrentfreak.com from July 2011. --Tddt (talk) 17:28, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Business model section - outdated

As far as I know Jamendo has removed its advertising revenue model completely. Its main revenue is through JamendoPRO now, which was launched in 2008.[2] --Tddt (talk) 17:48, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Bittorrent defunct, OGG status uncertain

The official bittorrent distribution support on jamendo.com is defunct for quite a while now. OGG files are still available via their API and via various browser addons, but working, direct OGG downloads via their website are again not available for quite a while. --Tddt (talk) 17:56, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

It has also long since removed the ability to search by license. It has pretty much become another label. 75.167.87.218 (talk) 00:06, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Website type

Why is this considered a BitTorrent website? BreakingMad (talk) 19:42, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

It provided a tracker in the past. --AVRS (talk) 21:08, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Recent statistic allegation

https://twitter.com/Jamendo/status/979369577044938752

"Only 6% of our tracks are under CC-BY. As a private individual, you can download & stream for free, without any ads, all the music of our catalog. In the meantime, artists earn revenue by licensing their music to professionals. It seems pretty fair for everyone :)"

2600:1014:B11B:2937:7CBF:7F4B:120D:CD84 (talk) 21:02, 29 March 2018 (UTC)