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Brower-based music

Jamendo is an online music sharing community where users can stream and download a wide variety of music. What sets Jamendo apart from similar sites is that all of its music is licensed with Creative Commons or the Free Art License, making it legal to copy, share, and edit songs found there. Jamendo Radio is a Chrome extension that lets users control Jamendo from within their browser. It's not the most intuitive add-on we've ever seen, but once we figured it out we found that it worked well.

Jamendo Radio installs easily and appears as a small icon … Read more

Legal music sharing

Jamendo, a Luxembourg-based music service that launched back in 2005, takes a different tack than most mainstream music sharing Web sites. Namely, the legality is not questionable because the service is positioned rather strictly as a tool for indie artists to make their songs readily available in the name of expanding exposure and attracting more listeners. It hosts music of varying licenses, and gives users and professionals a place to discover and download tracks either for free or by purchase.

Jamendo is great for indie stuff since you can stream tracks an unlimited number of times without being registered. It … Read more

Webware 100 winner: Jamendo

Site: Jamendo.com Category: Audio & Music

Jamendo is a music sharing site. It hosts music of varying licenses, and gives users and professionals a place to discover and download tracks either for free or by purchase. By early 2009, the site had close to 20,000 albums published to it, many of which hold a Creative Commons license that lets users download tracks for free.

The service launched back in 2005 and is based out of Luxembourg.