NewDatabaseDumps

New Jamendo database dumps

URLs

• http://img.jamendo.com/data/dbdump_artistalbumtrack.xml.gz : updated each night (Changes only happen on weekdays, Monday to Friday)

What the data structure looks like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<JamendoData epoch="1227647795" documentation="http://developer.jamendo.com/en/wiki/DatabaseDumps" type="artistalbumtrack">

<Artists>


  <artist>
    <id>22</id>                                          <!-- internal jamendo ID -->
    <name>Lonah</name>                                   <!-- display name -->
    <url>http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/lonah</url>    <!-- jamendo url to artist -->
    <image>http://imgjam.com/artists/l/lonah.jpg</image> <!-- artist image url -->
    <mbgid>79239441-bfd5-4981-a70c-55c3f15c1287</mbgid>  <!-- musicbrainz ID (may be blank) -->
    <location>                                           <!-- structure about the main location of the artist -->
      <country>USA</country>                             <!-- ISO code of the country -->
      <state>CA</state>                                  <!-- ISO Country subdivision (states in the US, "departments" in France,  ...) -->
      <city>San Francisco</city>
      <latitude>-0.229498</latitude>
      <longitude>-78.5243</longitude>
    </location>


    <Albums>
      <album>
        <id>116</id>                                     <!-- internal jamendo ID -->   
        <name>Pieces</name>                              <!-- display name -->
        <url>http://www.jamendo.com/album/116</url>    <!-- jamendo url to album -->
        <id3genre>43</id3genre>
        <mbgid></mbgid>                                  <!-- musicbrainz ID (may be blank) -->
        <license_artwork>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0</license_artwork>
        <releasedate>2008-02-25T15:37:58+01:00</releasedate>            <!-- ISO-formatted date -->
        <filename>Lonah - En chantant</filename>         <!-- Usual directory name without extension -->
       

        <Tracks>
          <track>
            <id>234233</id>
            <name>En chantant!</id>
            <filename>01 - Lonah - En chantant</filename> <!-- Usual filename without extension -->
            <mbgid></mbgid>                               <!-- musicbrainz ID (may be blank) -->
            <numalbum>1</numalbum>                        <!-- Track number in the album. starts at 1 -->
            <id3genre>13</id3genre>                       <!-- Standard ID3 genre, 0 to 79 (cf below in Misc.) -->
            <license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</license>


            <Tags>
              <tag>
                <idstr>rock</idstr>
                <weight>0.46</weight>                <!-- weight always between 0 and 1 -->
              </tag>

              [...]

            </Tags>
          </track>

          [...]

        <Tracks>
      </album>

      [...]

    </Albums>
  </artist>

  [...]

</Artists>

</JamendoData>

Data not in the dump but easily fetchable with the IDs

(Please replace {TRACKID} and {ALBUMID} in these urls by the numeric IDs found in the dump)

• MP3s for streaming : http://api.jamendo.com/get2/stream/track/redirect/?id={TRACKID}&streamencoding=mp31
• OGGs for streaming : http://api.jamendo.com/get2/stream/track/redirect/?id={TRACKID}&streamencoding=ogg2

• .torrent file for download (MP3 archive) : http://api.jamendo.com/get2/bittorrent/file/plain/?album_id={ALBUMID}&type=archive&class=mp32
• .torrent file for download (OGG archive) : http://api.jamendo.com/get2/bittorrent/file/plain/?album_id={ALBUMID}&type=archive&class=ogg3

• Album Covers are available here: http://api.jamendo.com/get2/image/album/redirect/?id={ALBUMID}&imagesize={100-600}

Misc.

• everything is in utf8
• bittorrent OGG archives have usually less seeds than the MP3 archives and thus are longer to download
• ID3 genre list : http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/MP3-HOWTO-13.html#ss13.3