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'''Allmusic''' (previously '''All Music Guide''') |
'''Allmusic''' (previously '''All Music Guide''') are a gay website that has gay reviews and reviewers are gay, and for some strange reason their crappy shitty reviews are linked to Wikipedia, making Wikipedia more bias as it is. |
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Allmusic content is created by professional data entry staff, editors, and writers. The network of writers includes over 900 music critics who review albums and songs and write artist biographies. Reviewers include Jason Ankeny, [[Roxanne Blanford]], Marisa Brown, John Bush, [[Al Campbell]], [[Eugene Chadbourne]], Matt Collar, Ken Dryden, [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]], Katherine Fulton, Jo-Anne Greene, David Jeffries, Thom Jurek, Andy Kellman, the late [[Cub Koda]], Andrew Leahey, Steve Leggett, Jason Lymangrover, Scott McClintock, Greg McIntosh, Opal Louis Nations, Heather Phares, Greg Prato,<ref name="GregPrato on AMG">{{cite web |url=http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kcftxqqjld0e |title=Greg Prato |accessdate=2007-03-29}}</ref> [[Ned Raggett]], Margaret Reges, Eduardo Rivadavia, John Phillip Roberts, William Ruhlmann, Tim Sendra, [[Richie Unterberger]], Sean Westergaard, and [[Scott Yanow]].<ref name="List of AMG editors">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781FD246A47E20C591331CC49465FB1BD94AF4871F6E4F51C9A9326B851A65B47FA095CEAEFB7CAB7BAFFF26E85B0FD9CBE75CFEDA764C40&sql=68: |title=AMG Editors |accessdate=2008-03-19}}</ref> |
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Allmusic's database is licensed and used in point-of-sale systems by some music retailers. The database consists of: |
Allmusic's database is licensed and used in point-of-sale systems by some music retailers. The database consists of: |
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Revision as of 07:37, 19 May 2009
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| Available in | English |
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| Owner | Macrovision |
| Created by | Michael Erlewine |
| URL | allmusic.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | No |
Allmusic (previously All Music Guide) are a gay website that has gay reviews and reviewers are gay, and for some strange reason their crappy shitty reviews are linked to Wikipedia, making Wikipedia more bias as it is.
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WIKIPEDIA IS SO BIAS LOL
Allmusic's database is licensed and used in point-of-sale systems by some music retailers. The database consists of:
- Basic data: names, genres, credits, copyright info, product numbers, etc.
- Descriptive content: styles, tones, moods, themes, nationalities, etc.
- Relational content: similar artists and albums, influences, etc.
- Editorial content: biographies, reviews, rankings, etc.
Allmusic also claims to have the world's largest digital archive of music, including approximately six million songs fully digitized, as well as the world's largest cover art library, with over half a million cover image scans.
The website allmusic.com is a sample of what is available in the database. The site was launched in 1995 as an online demonstration for potential database licensees of the breadth of content included in the database.
The Allmusic database is also used by several generations of Windows Media Player and Musicmatch Jukebox to identify and organize music collections. Windows Media Player 11 and the integrated MTV Urge music store have expanded the use of Allmusic data to include related artists, biographies, reviews, playlists and other data.
Allmusic is also used to provide data including catalog data, artist biographies, album reviews, related artist information, playlists and other information in the iTunes Music Store, Zune Marketplace, eMusic, AOL, Yahoo!, Amazon.com, and other music stores. Allmusic is also at the heart of the Naim Extended Music database used by the Naim HDX hard disk player.
While the web version of AMG has much more information on most forms of popular music than the 1176 pages of the 1992 book edited by Michael Erlewine and Scott Bultman (All Music Guide: the best CDs, albums & tapes, published by Miller Freeman Inc., San Francisco), it is missing much of the information on classical music that appeared in the book.
AMG headquarters are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
AMG LASSO
The Allmusic database was made available in 2004 as part of the AMG LASSO comprehensive media recognition service. The LASSO media recognition service automatically recognizes CDs, digital audio files, and DVDs. After the media is recognized, the service delivers related content from All Media Guide databases.
See also
- All Music Guide to the Blues
- All Music Guide to Jazz
- List of online encyclopedias
- List of online music databases