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A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.
Download data is sent downstream to an end-user, upstream from the provider. ISP = internet service provider. Downloading generally transfers entire files for local storage and later use, as contrasted with streaming, where the data is used nearly immediately while the transmission is still in progress and may not be stored long-term.
Munax (defunct) is a company that released their all-content search engine in its first version in 2005. Their PlayAudioVideo multimedia search engine , created in July 2007, was the first true search engine for multimedia, providing search on the web for images, video and audio in the same search engine, and allowing users to preview them on ...
Name Launched Tracks Type Users Genres Headquarters Amazon Music Unlimited: 2016 2000000 Trial-ware — General United States: Apple Music: 2015 45000000
Sound library for professional and free sound effects downloads. CC0, CC BY Free To Use Sounds: Yes Yes Sound effects library with hiqh quality field recordings from all around the world. CC0, CC BY Fulda Symphonic Orchestra: Yes No Choral music CC BY-SA incompetech.com: Yes No CC BY Jamendo: Yes No Lots of unfree, need to use correct filter ...
This contrasts with regular downloads (such as from an HTTP server, for example) that, while more vulnerable to overload and abuse, rise to full speed very quickly, and maintain this speed throughout. In the beginning, BitTorrent's non-contiguous download methods made it harder to support "streaming playback".
Music Engine, was a freeware music player released by Yahoo! in 2005 to compete with iTunes and Rhapsody in the digital music market. Developed side-by-side with MusicMatch Jukebox , another music player acquired by Yahoo! in 2004, [ 1 ] it was designed to be the main client for Yahoo's array of music services , which were centered around Yahoo!
Nightingale is a discontinued free, open source audio player based on the Songbird media player source code. As such, Nightingale's engine is based on the Mozilla XULRunner with libraries such as the GStreamer media framework and libtag providing media tagging and playback support, amongst others.