Jamendo

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**Jamendo** <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:Logo-mauriz.png</td></tr>
Opened:	January 2005
Pricing:	Free
Platforms:	Platform independent
Format:	MPEG Layer 3 (.mp3), OGG Vorbis (.ogg), FLAC (.flac) <tr><th style="text-align:right;">Restrictions:</th><td>None, Creative Commons License</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Catalogue:</th><td>3000+ artists, 2000+ albums</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Preview:</th><td>Entire song</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Streaming:</th><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Burning/copying:</th><td>Allowed</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Trial:</th><td>None</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Protocol:</th><td>Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http://), BitTorrent, eMule</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Availability:</th><td>WorldWide</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Features:</th><td>Tags, Free downloads, Community</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Website:</th><td>www.jamendo.com</td></tr>

Jamendo is a music platform and community combining:

Creative Commons 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 licensed through one of several Creative Commons licenses or the Free Art Licence, making it free and legal to download. Jamendo allows free streaming of all of its thousands of albums, in either Ogg Vorbis or MP3 format, and also allows free downloads through the BitTorrent and eDonkey networks.

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 and Italian.

The name is a portmanteau of two musical terms: "jam" and "crescendo".

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