true... we're not happy with the current state of the jamendo.com website. 2010 was mostly focused on getting close to breakeven thanks to jamendo.pro (which we did). We also did a management buyout from our former VCs, laid of a lot of staff, so all in all, we're just happy to still be there, growing, and hiring again :)
Now we have several ongoing usability projects, we released a HTML5 player a few weeks ago (replacing the old Flash crap) and are now working on layout and stability improvements on the main pages. It will definitely make Jamendo a complete joy to use again, if we can just spare some time from breaking Google easter eggs ;-)
While you're fixing UI please consider fixing Jamendo PRO search interface. Your database seems to have more information than you allow to filter by (I really need to filter by tags, e.g. I want something fast, dark and agressive). I spent days trying to find music for my game on multiple websites and I can definitely say that pretty much everyone's music search sucks. If you make yours awesome, you'll definitely stand out.
yes, good catch. we can improve the interface but also one of our main problems is the reliability of the current tag data, which is too low. We're considering a process with mechanical turk to fix it.
Anybody here with experience with mturk and this kind of metadata tasks ?
I think the site is great!
One minor annoyance: the volume gets reset to about 75% when I close the player completely and re-open it (but not when I switch to a new album with the player still open). The problem with that is that it is too loud for my setup, and I end up having to lower it each time. It would be great if it could remember its last value.
