Jamendo offers free access and free download of music tracks, published with Creative Commons licences. On Jamendo, the Artists choose to give access to their music for free to the users.

You can download mp3 music via the http protocol for free, legaly and without limitation, by clicking on the download links, directly from our player, from the album page or a playlist. The music is also available in ogg format and via eMule and BitTorrent networks (you can set this option in your preferences).

By providing their music via Jamendo, the artists take advantage of the innovative technologies and comply with the new behaviour related to Internet. Thanks to Creative Commons licences, the Artists can protect their music and give the chance to discover their creations to large numbers of users. We offer...

Yes they can! Jamendo enables all the users to make a donation to the Artists with a minimum of 5 Eur (or Dollars). In any case, jamendo retains as little as 50 cents for financial fees, the remaining sum is directly given to the Artists. Please note that the only Artists eligible for receiving money are those who have opted for the Program 'Donation'. But there is more, jamendo shares 50% of its advertising revenues to the Artists who opted for the Program 'Revenue Sharing'.

Follow the link 'Sign up', type in your e-mail address, choose a Username and a password. Approve the terms and conditions of use of the site. A confirmation e-mail will be sent to you. As soon as you confirm it, your account will go active.

You will make friends, receive recommendations, create your own playlists, select your favorite albums. By providing more information on your account, you will benefit from additional services, to be announced in the coming weeks.

Please check that you did not make an error while typing in - specifically your password. Please also check whether you confirmed your inscription after receiving your login information.

When you download a track, you get it in an mp3 format. If you download a playlist or an album, you get a compressed file (zip format), containing all the tracks. All you need to do is to decompress it and import the songs into your favorite audio player (iTunes, Media Player, Winamp, ...)

We offer serveral ways for downloading music, the simplest one is to click on the download link and the file is saved on your computer. If you are familiar with the tools eMule or BitTorrent, we also offer links to download complete albums via these networks.

Our Artists use Creative Commons licences. To learn more on these licences, visit their site www.creativecommong.org

All you need to do is to go to the Artist's page of the Band and if donations are accepted by creating a Paypal account, you will find the corresponding icon by his name and logo.

Please note that the commercial use of the music (background music of a shop, bar, use for a video, remixing...) depends on the Creative Commons licence selected by the artist. For commercial and free usage, without any payment of Creative Commons music, you need to select the tracks of Artists who have a licence authorizing commercial use of their music. These licences are: CC-BY, CC-BY-SA and LAL (Licence Art Libre). The licences are listed on the bottong of this search page: http://www.jamendo.com/fr/creativecommons/ I you want to access a wider selection of music, please contact us via e-mail: contact@jamendo.com. In the coming week, we will design new programs for our Artists with simplified access to commercial use of a large selection of music.

If you have a doubt about a song or a track... Despite all our efforts, it can happen that some Members do not understand the Creative Commons licences system and/or we did not see that a problem occurred with the copyright of a music track. In that case, please let us know, we will carry out the necessary verifications and take the right measures.

Jamendo offers free access and free download of music tracks, published with Creative Commons licences. On Jamendo, the Artists choose to give access to their music for free to the users.

Yes you do. The Creative Commons licence defines the use that you authorize for your work. You certainly remain its author and keep the rights.

Creative Commons helps you with publishing your works users what they are allowed to do with your music and what you do not authorize to do. When you select a licence, we provide you with tools and tutorials, so you can add information on the rights on your own site or on other free hosting platforms complying with Creative Commons. A detailed description and the full text of the Creative Commons licence are available on the site www.creativecommons.org

You have neither obligation nor exclusivity with jamendo. You can distribute freely and without any payment your music, according to the Creative Commons licence that you have selected. You can do it here or by all other means that you find outside this site. At any time, you can unsubscribe from jamendo and your music will be removed from the site.

Yes you can if the original song is already under a Creative Commons licence and if you respect this licence. But in most other cases, you cannot do it: the music published on jamendo must be under a Creative Commons licence and if the author of the original song did not select this type of licencing, as a general rule, it is not possible to do a remake and licence it under CC.

Jamendo offers to date two financial paths for the Artists : donations and revenue sharing. These programs are present on your Artist page. Additional programs will be available in the coming weeks.

It is not mandatory to open a Paypal account for signing up. But if you want to take part to certain commercial programs, you will need a Paypal account to receive the corresponding revenues.

The only requirements for accepting music on jamendo are: the Creative Commons licence and an « audible » quality of the recording.

Sure you can still sell your CDs. Jamendo offers the opportunity for you to gain popularity and this can only help you to have more people at your concerts and sell more CDs.

It is a piece of html code provided in your administration panel, that is to be placed on your site/blog. Once inserted to your site, it will apprear as a logo and will enable us to check that you are the right "owner" of the music that you published on Jamendo. The address of your page where the logo is located needs to be reported to the administration panel so the licence can be approved.

With a Creative Commons licence, you preserve your author's rights yet you give permission to reproduce and distribute your works under the condition that the users respect the terms of the licence that you selected.

You need to check on all the agreements related to your works. You can only use the Creative Commons licences with respect to your previous commitments. If you have given exclusive rights to a third party, you need to consult this third party before passing your music to us, even if Jamendo does not require any exclusivity. In particular, if you are a member of a Collecting Society (such as SACEM, SABAM, GEMA, PRS, SIAE, EGEDA, ...) you are requested to contact this collective society to check if the use of your music if allowed.

If certain tracks include samples or remixes of copyright works, you cannot publish them on jamendo. What you can do instead, is to tell us which tracks should be excluded and we will publish the album without these tracks.

As many as you wish! And if your album's duration is less than 20 minutes, it will be considered as "short album"

You reamain the owner of your music. You do not lose any right on it, only the distribution of your music is allowed on a free basis.

You are free to remove your music from jamendo. All you need to do is to go to your administration panel et delete your album or your albums. But your music will certainly still be available on Peer-To-Peer networks. However, this music will still be protected by the Creative Commons licence selected by you.

Uploading an album is very simple. You can either use our WebJamloader or upload the Jamloader (quick to install and free). All is explained here: http://www.jamendo.com/fr/upload/ As a next step, you can access form the administration panel all the informations related to your Artist profile and to your album. Please don't forget to fill in your contact details (your e-mail address for instance)! It is important in case we need to contact you for the use of your music (parthership or specific individual request)

The cover needs to be in .jpg format not exceeding 300 pixels.

Your album is probably undergoing the moderation process. It will be published as soon as possible. Our moderation team will contact you in case of an error related to your album.

In fact, we make the transfer of visible accounts (you can see them on your administration panel) on Paypal accounts when they amount a minimum of EUR 100, for transaction fee reasons.

You can add tracks to your album only before it is published. To do so, you need to go to the upload interface, as if you were restarting the upload, but you will find there the tacks that are already there and you will then be able to add more tracks.