Jamendo distributed one million albums
The free social music site Jamendo announced today that it has distributed more than one million downloads of albums that are freely available using BitTorrent technology.
Only albums that have been fully distributed have been counted or as they put it: "this figure is the minimum indicative number of the total of complete albums we have distributed so far".
This is a huge success for sites that believe that drm free music sites can and will succeed in the long run. Jamendo has an incredible download rate of more than 200000 albums every month and the figure increases with each passing month.
The most successful album on Jamendo has been downloaded more than 11000 times which is a huge success for the artist and all other artists as it highlights that the distribution system works and that it can reach a large audience.
Users can listen to and download more than 2800 albums at Jamendo using streams and the bittorrent network.
If you are looking for free music you should definitely visit Jamendo and start listening to some of the tracks suggested there. Below is a short sample of my favorite songs that can be listened to and downloaded at Jamendo. (I'm into Electronica at the moment)
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While the downloads pale in comparison to major commercial offerings, one has to consider that commercial audio albums and platforms have the backing of multi-billion Dollar companies. Jamendo's offering increases each month, and the service will certainly become more popular in the coming years.
Update: Jamendo launched a new version of the website recently that is listing the most popular tracks, artists and channels on the front page instead of albums. The radio channels are sorted by genre, and you can simply click on a channel like HipHop Radio or Electronic Radio to start listening on Jamendo right away.
What I particularly like about that is that you always get a download and share link for each song that is played on the radio station you are listening to. A click on download opens the download option on the screen - the music continues playing - so that you can download it for free and legally for personal use to your system.
Downloads are now available via BitTorrent and direct downloads from the Jamendo website.
The warning message about AAC streams when you load streams is because you don’t have the free Orban AAC/aacPlus Player Plugin installed.
http://codecpack.co/download/Orban-aacPlus-Player-Plugin.html
Justin, thanks for the information.
does this support AAC ? or only mp3 streaming
I’d say it supports all pls streams but I have not tried that so cannot verify it 100%.
Thank you Martin for a most informative and viable solution (it allowed me to play streams from a Netherland internet radio station in my WMP)! Continued success to you!
Barnabas (USA)
Your steps’ recommendation is still valid until 7th October 2012.. Thank you very much !!
Thank you!
You must convert file.pls to file.m3u
because file.pls open with winamp and file.m3u open with wmp.
Hi
2017 still kicking on Windows 7
Thx a ton
Hey, even i can do it, i stumbled through it and it works great! The only instruction advice i will add as i had to figure this out, when the wmp box opens that says save or open the bar on right says wmp click that drop down and select “open pls in wmp” once you do that it will work . Took me quite some time to discover that as i am no computer expert by any means. Having said that, previously i had downloaded codec packages and something about aac. None did any good. This rocks, i listen to a lot of internet radio and a number of them have dropped flash player and getting wmp to work had been a nightmare. So many thanks for this great solution to another problem that Micro-Hell will not even address. Peace- Out
openplsinwmp came in a zip file. I unpacked it, and didn’t find anything that looks like an executable, and even the files in the “doc” folder were in a format windows didn’t recognize. I’m not stupid. you said it would open effortlessly. It didn’t. This a rabbit hole I don’t want to go down.