All Music Guide

All Music Guides (literally, “the guide of all the musics”), or AMG , is a base of Métadonnée S devoted to the Musique. Founded in 1991 by Michael Erlewine, Archivist specialized in the field of the popular cultures, and by Vladimir Bogdanov, doctor in mathematics, it belongs to the American company All Media Guides, created in 1990. In the beginning, database AMG wanted to be to be a “guide of the consumer” of music. The first reference book stamp AMG was published in 1992, i.e. before the advent of the World Wide Web. The very first version of the site put on line on Internet, in 1995, was based on the protocol Gopher.

The contents of AMG are the fruit of the work of a team of secretaries, editors and writers professional. The network of writers includes/understands more than nine hundred critical musical which comment on the albums and the Chanson S, and write the Biographie S of the artists. The most known criticisms are Stephen Thomas Erlewine, William Ruhlmann, Richie Unterberger, Opal Louis Nations, John Storm Roberts, Eugene Chadbourne, OJ-Anne Greene, John Bush, Jason Ankeny, Thom Jurek and Andy Kellman.

Database AMG, commercially exploitable under license, is used like tool by certain retailers of music. It includes:

Of the Metadatum S basic: names, kinds, rights, copyright, references, etc
Of the descriptive contents: styles, atmospheres, environments, topics, nationalities, etc
Of the relational contents: similar artists and albums, influences, etc
Of the leading contents: biographies, criticisms, classifications, etc

All Music Guide is asserted moreover as being the most important base of filing musical in the world, including approximately six million digitized songs , as well as the largest library of small pockets on a sphere scale, with more than one half-million of scannées images.

The allmusic.com site provides only one sample of the total contents of the database. It was open in 1995 in order to offer to the potential purchasers of the license of the product a demonstration in line of extended from its possibilities.

The base All Music Guide is also used by several generations of Windows Media Player and Musicmatch Jukebox for the collection of relative informations to the musical data present on the computer of the End user, at ends of identification and fitting. Windows Media Player 11 and the integrated musical shop Urge of MTV still widened the use of data AMG in order to include the possibility of recovering new metadata, such as for example connected artists, biographies, criticisms or lists of reading.

All Music Guide is also used per number of online music stores - of which ITunes Store, EMusic, AOL and Yahoo! - for the recovery of data such as references catalogs, biographies of artists, criticisms of albums, information on connected artists, lists of reading, etc

The seat of AMG is located at Ann Arbor, in the Michigan.

AMG LASSO

Since 2004, the database All Music Guide is available within the framework of the service of recognition of musical media AMG LASSO, which allows the automatic recognition of the CD, of the audio files and DVD. Once the media were recognized, the service recovers in the base All Media Guides the metadata which are associated for him.

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