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For the Italian television channel, see All Music. All Music (formerly Rete A) is an Italian Free-to-air Television station which broadcasts Videos and Music programmes
Allmusic
URL http://www.allmusic.com/
Commercial? Yes
Registration No
Available language(s) English
Owner Macrovision Corporation
Created by Michael Erlewine and Vladimir Bogdanov
Launched 1991
Current status Online

Allmusic (previously the All Music Guide) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it In the Philosophy of language, a natural language (or ordinary language) is a Language that is spoken or written in phonemic-alphabetic or phonemically-related Macrovision Corporation is a globally-operating US-based company that develops and markets licensing, Access control, and secure distribution technologies Michael Erlewine (born July 18, 1941 in Lancaster Pennsylvania) is an American Musician, Astrologer, and Internet Vladimir Leonidovich Bogdanov ( Владимир Леонидович Богданов in Russian) (born on May 28[[ 951]] in Tyumen Oblast, Metadata ( meta data, or sometimes metainformation) is "data about data" of any sort in any media All Media Guide (commonly known as AMG) is the company which owns and maintains Allmusic, Allgame and Allmovie. Allmusic was founded in 1991 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine and mathematician Vladimir Bogdanov, Ph. Michael Erlewine (born July 18, 1941 in Lancaster Pennsylvania) is an American Musician, Astrologer, and Internet D. , as a guide for consumers. Its first reference book was published the next year. AMG predates the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site. The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. For other uses see Gopher. Gopher is a distributed Document search and retrieval Network protocol designed

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Content

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 Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Marisa Brown, John Bush, Al Campbell, Matt Collar, David Jeffries, Katherine Fulton, Thom Jurek, Andy Kellman, Jason Lymangrover, Andrew Leahey, Steve Leggett, Scott McClintock, Greg McIntosh, Heather Phares, Tim Sendra, Sean Westergaard, Ned Raggett, William Ruhlmann, Richie Unterberger, Opal Louis Nations, John Phillip Roberts, Eugene Chadbourne, Jo-Anne Greene, Scott Yanow, Eduardo Rivadavia, Jason Ankeny, Ken Dryden, Roxanne Blanford, and Greg Prato. Stephen Thomas Erlewine (1973? is senior editor for Allmusic. John Bush may refer to Jeb Bush, full name John Ellis Bush US Al Campbell (b 31 August 1954, Kingston Jamaica) is a Jamaican Reggae singer active since the late 1960s Ned Raggett (born March 2 1971 in Bremerton, Washington) is a library assistant freelance writer and music journalist Richie Unterberger (b 1962 is an American author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing Eugene Chadbourne ( January 4, 1954 in Mount Vernon New York) is an American, Improvisor, Guitarist and Banjoist Scott Yanow (born 4 October 1954 in New York) is an American Jazz commentator Roxanne Blanford is an African American freelance Journalist, Marketing communications officer Publicist and music reviewer born and based in [1] [2]

Allmusic's database is licensed and used in point-of-sale systems by some music retailers. The database consists of:

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. Although having high internet traffic ratings on par with other music related websites, the Allmusic website often suffers from slow speed or total inaccessibility . [3]

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 ( WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Yahoo! Musicmatch Inc, is an audio player that manages a digital audio 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 metadata. MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City.

Allmusic is also used to provide metadata 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. See also Critic. A review is an evaluation of a publication such as a movie, Video game, Musical composition iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application introduced by Apple Inc Zune is a brand of digital media players and services sold by Microsoft. eMusic is an Online music store that operates by Subscription. Amazoncom Inc ( is an American electronic commerce ( E-commerce) company in Seattle Washington.

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. Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America.

AMG LASSO

The Allmusic database was made available in 2004 as part of the AMG LASSO comprehensive media recognition service. AMG LASSO is a media recognition service launched by the All Media Guide in 2004 The LASSO media recognition service automatically recognizes CDs, digital audio files, and DVDs. After the media is recognized, the service delivers related metadata content from All Media Guide metadata databases. All Media Guide (commonly known as AMG) is the company which owns and maintains Allmusic, Allgame and Allmovie. Metadata ( meta data, or sometimes metainformation) is "data about data" of any sort in any media

References

  1. ^ Greg Prato. Retrieved on 2007-03-29. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King
  2. ^ AMG Editors. Retrieved on 2008-03-19. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
  3. ^ Alexa ratings of Allmusic.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-02. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks. 1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good

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