All Music Guide

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The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. AMG was founded in 1991 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine and mathematician Vladimir Bogdanov, Ph.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.

Content

AMG 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 Ned Raggett, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, William Ruhlmann, Richie Unterberger, Opal Louis Nations, John Storm Roberts, Eugene Chadbourne, Jo-Anne Greene, John Bush, Scott Yanow, Jason Ankeny, Thom Jurek, Andy Kellman, Ken Dryden and Greg Prato [1].

AMG's database is licensed and used in point-of-sale systems by some music retailers. The database consists of:
  • Basic Metadata: 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.
AMG 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 All Music Guide 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 AMG data to include related artists, biographies, reviews, playlists and other metadata.

The All Music Guide 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, eMusic, AOL, Yahoo!, Amazon.com, and other music stores.

AMG headquarters are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

AMG LASSO

The All Music Guide 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 metadata content from AMG metadata databases.

See also

References

1. ^ Greg Prato. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.

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All Media Guide (commonly known as AMG), is the company which owns and maintains All Music Guide, All Game Guide and All Movie Guide. AMG was founded in 1990 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine.
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Michael Erlewine (born July 18, 1941 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American musician, astrologer, and internet entrepreneur who founded the All Music Guide in 1991.

Erlewine has had several careers.
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Ned Raggett is a freelance writer and music journalist whose work has been published in the Seattle Weekly,[1] the All Music Guide, and Stylus Magazine''.
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine is senior editor for All Music Guide. He is the author of thousands of artist biographies and record reviews, as well as a freelance writer, and has written several liner notes.
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Richie Unterberger (b 1962) is an American author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing.

From 1985 to 1991, Unterberger was an editor for Option.
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Eugene Chadbourne (January 4, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York) is a USA composer, improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. He has also been a reviewer for the All Music Guide (AMG), and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll.
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Scott Yanow (born 4 October 1954 in New York) is an American jazz commentator. Growing up near Los Angeles he wanted to be a jazz journalist early, discovering Dixieland in the Danny Kaye movie The Five Pennies and on a daily radio show while in high school.
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MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network based in New York City.
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Maintainer: Apple Inc.

OS: Mac OS X (10.3+) , Windows XP, and Vista[1]

Use: Media player
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Website: Apple's Official iTunes Website

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eMusic

Opened: January, 1998
Pricing: : Subscriptions starting at $9.99/month
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Subsidiary of Time Warner
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Public (NASDAQ:  YHOO )
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AMG LASSO is a media recognition service launched by the All Media Guide in 2004. The LASSO service automatically recognizes CDs, DVDs, and digital audio files in formats such as MP3, WMA, and others.
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All Media Guide (commonly known as AMG), is the company which owns and maintains All Music Guide, All Game Guide and All Movie Guide. AMG was founded in 1990 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine.
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This is a list of online music databases:
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  • CDDB
  • Choral Public Domain Library
  • Discogs
  • Encyclopaedia Metallum
  • Finetune
  • freedb
  • foosic
  • Gracenote
  • iLike
  • International Music Score Library Project
  • Jamendo
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All Music Guide to the Blues

The cover of the third edition of the All Music Guide to the Blues.
Author Vladimir Bogdanov Chris Woodstra Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Language English
Series All Music Guide
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All Music Guide to Jazz

The cover of the fourth edition of the All Music Guide to Jazz.
Author Vladimir Bogdanov Chris Woodstra Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Language English
Series All Music Guide
Subject(s) Jazz
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