All Media Guide (commonly known as AMG), is the company which owns and maintains All Music Guide, All Game Guide and All Movie Guide. Generally a company is a form of Business organization. The precise definition varies allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Allgame (previously All Game Guide) is a commercial database of information about Arcade games Computer and video games, and Console manufacturers Allmovie (previously All Movie Guide) is a commercial database of information about Movie stars movies and television shows. AMG was founded in 1990 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Michael Erlewine (born July 18, 1941 in Lancaster Pennsylvania) is an American Musician, Astrologer, and Internet
The company was founded in Big Rapids, Michigan in 1991, in order to create a comprehensive archive of all music. Big Rapids is a city in the US state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 10849 Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. AMG moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1999. Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) AMG was a business unit within Alliance Entertainment Corporation until early 2005. Alliance Entertainment Corporation is the world's largest independent distributor of music movies and game software Yucaipa Companies, a multi-billion dollar fund based in California, retained ownership of AMG. The Yucaipa Companies LLC is a Los Angeles -based Holding company that was founded in 1986 by its billionaire chairman Ronald Burkle. Macrovision announced on November 6, 2007 that it had agreed to purchase All Media Guide. Macrovision Corporation is a globally-operating US-based company that develops and markets licensing, Access control, and secure distribution technologies Events 355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. [1]
AMG has created a large database of metadata about movies, video games, audio books, and music releases. Metadata ( meta data, or sometimes metainformation) is "data about data" of any sort in any media These databases are used for point of sale systems in tens of thousands of stores globally, for CD and DVD recognition in software media players such as Windows Media Player, SimpleCenter and Musicmatch Jukebox, and for providing content for a variety of websites. Point of sale or point of service ( POS or PoS) can mean a retail shop, a checkout counter in a shop or the location where a transaction A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio
In addition to selling computerized access to its databases, AMG sells several dozen print compilations of its information.
Products
Lasso
In late-2004, AMG launched a new product called LASSO. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " AMG LASSO is a media recognition service that automatically recognizes CDs, DVDs, and digital audio files such as MP3, Ogg, AAC, and WMA files. AMG LASSO is a media recognition service launched by the All Media Guide in 2004 A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression To learn how to create video or audio files for Wikipedia and its sister projects check WikipediaCreation and usage of media files. Advanced Audio Coding ( AAC) is a standardized lossy compression and encoding scheme for Digital audio. Windows Media Audio ( WMA) is an Audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. Once media is recognized, metadata from AMG's All Music and All Movie databases is delivered directly to the player. Metadata ( meta data, or sometimes metainformation) is "data about data" of any sort in any media LASSO is available as an SDK for personal computer software developers, and an embedded version of LASSO is available for consumer electronics devices. A software development kit ( SDK or " devkit " is typically a set of development tools that allows a Software engineer to create applications
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