Jamedo, what have you done?!

Since the 26th of April, Jamendo did a big update. And since... it became worse.

1. You can argue about the colour, I don't really like it. But if you think it will just be about that... Many things seem to go wrong.

2. The player is now attached on the bottom of the window and is not in a separated window as it was before. You can't see the playlist anymore either.

3. You can't comment on an album anymore. You can not rate it either. The search engine became strange, it doesn't work for me at all. Jamendo is now based on tracks only. By the way, you can't download a complete album anymore, you have to download each single track.

4. I liked to see albums from other musicians of my country, well you can't do that anymore.

5. My stats went down. Not that I had much listens, but the few I had dropped to 1 per day since Saturday the 28th. My pageviews went to 0 per day since the 24th (before the update).

My pageviews fell suddenly to 0 per day...

What happened with these statistics? This seems to be true for many other artists. I can't believe that people are not listening to music anymore (or do they as it became more difficult to search for musicians?).

I'm really searchin for something that has been improved, but I don't find anything. At least my widgets to my albums on blogger seem still to work.

Many people are also complaining on Jamendo's facebook sites. On jamendo.fr there are only 16 people who likes the update. It's kind of few for such a big site. Too bad you cannot "dislike" it, I wonder how many people that would be.

Chef Georges explained more about it on his blog. It seems that most of the artists are putting some kind of "ultimatum" to Jamendo.

There are many who are angry about it, and I can understand them. There is a facebook page called Old Jamendo Friends the artists can join to act against this non-respect of Jamendo.

I think that Jamendo will improve their site (for the sake of everyone). If not they will shot themselves a bullet in their head.

Now I'm even more encouraged to not publish my next album for free on Jamendo...

Bye Jamendo, it was nice knowing you...