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Moovida, the free media player - Jamendo (Thanks, Jutta!)Moovida Media Center now offers Jamendo's creative commons music library. Access over 20,000 albums straight from your living room TV!
Moovida, the free and open source media center for Windows and Linux, has integrated Jamendo in its new interface. With the aggregation of Jamendo to its content catalogue, Moovida brings a new dimension to the promotion of free culture: over 20,000 albums by 9500 artists can now easily be browsed on a TV screen, from your living room couch.
On a streamlined and easy-to use interface, the artists' creations are at the heart of Moovida: the artwork and songs are the center of attention and presented in a attractive layout. Also offering free content from other sources, Moovida is the cutting edge application when it comes to media convergence. From photos and videos to music, Moovida presents all types of local or online content in the same place. It transforms a Windows or Linux computer into a real theatre.
Jamendo open music comes to Moovida open media center
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Lovely! Jamendo seems to have been pretty savvy about expanding their reach and repertoire of music to more sources where indies can be heard, including Jamendo PRO with the ability to opt-in to commercial opportunities.
I haven't used Moovida yet but was impressed early on by Jamendo's very community-centric approach to not just site dialogue to buid a fanbase, but stats. (E.g., they differentiate between "discoverers" who listen from "promoters" who actively share your stuff, and "involved fans" who donate to support you.)
This affects me because I've piano music on Jamendo, who I thank for exposing me to new audiences!