Jamendo is a music platform and community. All music on Jamendo is free to download and licensed through one of several Creative Commons licenses or the Free Art License, making it legal to copy and share, as well as to modify and make commercial use of for some, depending on the license.
Jamendo’s use of voluntary donations represents the first serious attempt for a file sharing site to provide a direct way to pay artists. 100% of this goes directly to In January 2007, Jamendo provided an advertising revenue sharing model for artists.
They published 16592 albums and 507162 active members now.
Magnatune also do the same business model. Their tagline is “We are not evil”. Magnatune makes non-exclusive agreements with artists, and gives them fifty percent of any proceeds from online sales or licensing. These kinds of policies were very unusual for a record label in 2003–2004. Users can stream or download music in MP3 format (no DRM) without charge before choosing whether to buy or not. Buyers choose their own price, from US $5 to $18 per album, and may download music they have purchased in WAV, FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and AAC encoding formats. Music files sold by Magnatune do not use any form of digital rights management to prevent customers from making copies of music files they have purchased; and actually encourage buyers to share up to three copies with friends.
Rhythmbox media player has builtin support for these two.
– from wikipedia.
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