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Trebel is an on-demand music download and discovery platform developed by M&M Media Inc. The company's business model aims to combat digital music piracy by giving users access to on-demand music at no cost while delivering fair compensation to artists and music rights holders.[1]

History

Trebel was initially released in 2015 under the name Project Carmen to students at Ohio State, Santa Monica College, Cal State Fullerton, UCLA and Long Beach State.[2]  In its original incarnation, the service planned to target students at 3,000 universities and 30,000 high schools in the United States.[3] A beta version of the app was introduced in 2016 with content from Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.[4]

Background

Trebel has a patent that allows it to market itself as the only international music service in which users can legally download music and listen to it offline for free.[5][6]

As of March 2023, Trebel has a catalog of 75 million songs from record labels such as Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and hundreds of independent labels.[7][8]

Trebel is based in Stamford, Connecticut.[9] with additional locations in Mexico City, Jakarta, Bogota, Los Angeles and Miami. The app is available in the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and Huawei App Gallery.[5][10][11]

Trebel offers unlimited music downloads that are playable in the app by registered users only.[12]  Offline listening is free to all users and not blocked by a paywall.[13] Users can search for music based on song, artist, album, browsing friends' recent activity, and through other users' playlists.[14][15]

References

  1. ^ "A Free Music Streaming Platform? It's Called Trebel and It's Mexican. - Contxto". contxto.com. 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  2. ^ "Trebel spells trouble for music streaming services – The Retriever". retriever.umbc.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
  3. ^ "New music app "Trebel" provides music offline". The University Daily Kansan. 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
  4. ^ Dredge, Stuart (2018-08-30). "Free music app Trebel is adding 300k new users a month". Music Ally. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
  5. ^ a b "Free music streaming app Trebel going public". Axios. 2021-06-08.
  6. ^ Patent # US20070219949A1, Mekikian, Gary, "Electronic Media Download and Distribution Using Real-Time Message Matching and Concatenation", issued 2007-09-20 
  7. ^ Vega, Lina Vargas (2023-03-15). "Trebel es la aplicación que permite escuchar música de forma legal y gratuita sin gastar datos". Forbes Colombia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  8. ^ Semana (2023-03-09). "Le llegó competencia a Spotify, así funciona la 'app' que deja escuchar música gratis y sin gastar datos de teléfono". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  9. ^ Schott, Paul (2018-09-12). "Stamford-based Trebel Music puts faith in downloads". StamfordAdvocate. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  10. ^ Lipps, Michael (2015-10-01). "Trebel the rebel: New music app is changing the game". The Daily Beacon. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  11. ^ "Free Music App TREBEL Files For IPO, Hoping To Attract Millions of Pirates * TorrentFreak". Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  12. ^ Stroud, Kayla (2015-09-25). "College-based music app offers free music to students". The Spectator. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  13. ^ Apostolakos, Pari; Block, Thomas (2018-08-30). "TREBEL music app provides free offline music to listeners". The Daily Illini. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  14. ^ Infante, Jude (2018-09-17). "TREBEL Music: A novel and effective approach to free music with few troubles". The Daily Campus. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  15. ^ Davis, Adam (2016-03-21). "Trebel Music app strikes chord, but needs tuning". Technician. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
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