New Jamendo database dumps

URLs

• http://img.jamendo.com/data/dbdump_artistalbumtrack.xml.gz : updated each night

What the data structure looks like

<JamendoData>

<Artists>

  <artist>
    <id>22</id>                                      <!-- internal jamendo ID -->
    <name>Lonah</name>                               <!-- display name -->
    <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>                              <!-- 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 -->
        <releasedate>2008-02-25T15:37:58+01:00</releasedate>            <!-- ISO-formatted date -->
        

        <Tracks>
          <track>
            <id>234233</id>
            <name>En chantant!</id>
            <filename>01 - Lonah - En chantant</filename>    <!-- Usual filename without extension -->
            <numalbum>1</numalbum>                   <!-- Track number in the album. starts at 1 -->
            <id3genre>13</id3genre>                  <!-- Standard ID3 genre, 0 to 79 (cf below in Misc.) -->

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


      </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

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