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Guayadeque lets you stream and download any tracks/albums from Jamendo huge music collection. To do so just right-click on any album and choose direct download or via torrent (direct download will be quicker as your album might not have (many) seeds.

To get started open the Preferences window and choose Jamendo. There you can click on the music genres you would like to populate your Jamendo library with. Choose whether you prefer your files to be ogg or mp3. Being developed on Ubuntu, by default Guayadeque uses Transmission as its BitTorrent client. If you prefer another BitTorrent client, you can specify it on the ‘Torrent command’. Once you've done this close the Preferences window and open the Jamendo tab from the View menu and choose what windows you want to show (labels, genres, artists, etc), just like for the Library tab. Guayadeque will automatically create a new database and soon you'll be able to download any album you want.

Note on performance: depending on how many genres you choose on the Preferences window, you could end up creating a new database of many thousands of tracks. In fact on last check you could access nearly 250,000 tracks from nearly 21,000 artists if you ticked all the available genres. This may increase Guayadeque memory consumption noticeably. If you don't use Jamendo regularly (or at all) you should close the Jamendo tab and empty your ~/.guayadeque/Jamendo folder.

Note on Album Covers: Guayadeque will only show/download album art when you actually play an album. Otherwise it will show nothing.