― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Does "strategic opportunities" actually mean anything, for those versed in corporatespeak?
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 16 July 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teamshttp://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000242.php
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I wasn't trying to be a smartass, at all. In businesspeak anything involving "strategy" almost always means "buying somebody out."
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Strategy can relate to Organic Growth [without Strategic Acquisition.]
Organic Growthhttp://www.exemplas.com/performance/147_2028.asp
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
it's true.
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
"strategic opportunities" sounds to me like "surgical strike." funny how corporatespeak and pentagonspeak have so much in common.
i'm not trying to make this amg thing more than it is.
i really liked amg, i thought a bunch of their reviewers were great, and i liked the simple and easy to use interface, even if it sometimes meant long page loads (i.e. for elvis presley). i use a lot of different computers, so it's unfeasible to keep logging in and out, not to mention the fact that the new interface relys heavily on graphics, thus leaving out all of us who still use (sigh) modems. so i would have to say dud, on the available evidence. maybe it'll improve, though.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 16 July 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
their coverage of Polka---tragic.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I'll bet this has something to do with Microsoft's coming iTunes ripoff.
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
yeah, they always had huge gaps of course, how could they not? the least one could say is that they were always improving, though not at an even pace necessarily. i hope that advance hasn't halted though i suspect it has. better coverage of salsa probably wouldn't show up on the performance reports.
the lies and obfuscation of the (hastily-removed) apologia really seem to signal the end.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 16 July 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
The old AMG...only a memor-eee...
Memories...Light the corners of my mind...misty water colored memooorieeess of the way we were...
― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 16 July 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
That's hardly fair - you had less to work with.
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 16 July 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.mp3.com
they license a lot of Allmusic's material (although some info is not available), so you can use it instead. it's not as good as the old Allmusic, but it's a lot faster than the new one.
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 16 July 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.allmusic.com/old
until someone changes the directory permissions.
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 16 July 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Especially on looking up Doom Metal. this album i've never heard of got 5 stars from 2000? i downloaded some tracks, it's fairly good, but is it worth 5 stars for such a jokey album?
or is this like that moronic "Who Dat?" thing.
― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Saturday, 17 July 2004 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Saturday, 17 July 2004 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Thulsa Doom - Seats Are Soft but the Helmet Is Way Too Tight
― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Saturday, 17 July 2004 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link
i can't afford the time for (and am not impressed by) the new grapics. From the old high content-per-screen site to the new too-many-clicks site, some costing ten seconds, with loads of intermediate rubbish
yeah DUD.so was it too good to be true before, a free lunch ? this new thingie is a real idealogical defeat for the values inherent in indie and so many other musics that AMG (the exception) covers
(can "Premium Users" customise out all this extra baggage with their site preferences ? i haven't had the time to try. i haven't found a "text only" but perhaps it's more reasonable to expect a "text with old-fashioned lo-bandwidth pictures or banners" option)
i'd pay a small-to-reasonable premium (as i do with so many other sites) to avoid most "suggestions" (the pictures) and all "latest" content(the ads) even if i usually don't want to register with _anyone_ connected to the music business. I sure hope AMG doesn't now go down the demographic modelling line just for those advertisers
― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 17 July 2004 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 17 July 2004 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Saturday, 17 July 2004 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Sunday, 18 July 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 18 July 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 18 July 2004 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Sunday, 18 July 2004 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Frank, if you like it more power to ya. I'm never going back. Microsoft's tit doesn't taste good to me.
They could have charged for their service as it was. Big deal, I would have forked over a couple of bucks a month or whatever.
― Bimble (bimble), Sunday, 18 July 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link
According to Alliance Entertainment's press kit:
AMG customers include Barnes &Noble, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Real Networks,BlueLight.com (Kmart), CDNOW, Best Buy,Circuit City, Blockbuster, Ticketmaster,Yahoo!, AOL’s Spinner and MovieFone,ARTISTdirect/UBL.com, and MTVNetworks Europe.
Are they gonna offend AOL (owner of Netscape) and Yahoo! to get in a monogomous fuck fest Microsoft?
― frankE (frankE), Sunday, 18 July 2004 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Sunday, 18 July 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rock Bastard, Sunday, 18 July 2004 09:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Just found out that you can skip the ad blocker notice if you disable all JavaScript (including inline scripts) on the site. It also speeds up the site immensely, although some images aren't displayed and things like the discography browser won't work. But the main content is perfectly visible.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 2 September 2016 06:42 (seven years ago) link
http://tedium.co/2016/09/20/allmusic-database-historic-importance/
― j., Sunday, 2 October 2016 01:35 (seven years ago) link
I finally set AdBlock Plus to make an exception for AMG and lo and behold they seem to have gotten rid of the most egregiously awful video ads that were the point of objection in the first place. Cool.
UI still sucky/slow compared to its heyday, but what a treasure trove nonetheless. I was feeling deeply adrift in my record shopping without it.
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Monday, 7 November 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
I can't use the site at all. Whitelisting the site doesn't work. I even ran a different browser with no adblocker installed and it wanted me to disable it.
― svend, Thursday, 8 December 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
Likewise for me. It's completely broken.
― the_ecuador_three, Thursday, 8 December 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
personally i have found that things have not been too bad recently, but todays visit saw the return of the surround ads.ie. the ads that go around the whole page, take an age to load causing the page to jump all over while they load, and totally look shit.
― mark e, Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link
It is quite distracting when you have two gigantic deodorant cans either side of your page. I abandoned AMG a while back, but sometimes I'll use a different browser without adblock if I have to. Yep it is fucking awful.
― calzino, Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
I've started noticing albums that are invisible/passed-over in the discography browser, though they have entries - e.g. Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic and Hall & Oates Big Bam Boom. Very weird. Both also have no album art though I'm sure they used to (and why wouldn't they?). Very weird and annoying. I worry things are really starting to break down behind the scenes.
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:30 (seven years ago) link
That's...odd. I know both of those very much had reviews at one point.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
They do! Sorry, I wasn't clear - you can totally pull up the individual entries. They've just fallen out of the discography.
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:32 (seven years ago) link
Ad Block blocker is back with a vengeance! I go to "Disable on allmusic.com" and refresh the site only to have it tell me that I still have it enabled.
Friendly lot, you AMG folk.
― Austin, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:46 (seven years ago) link
lol I miss early 2000s AMG
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:54 (seven years ago) link
Memories, corners, mind
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:59 (seven years ago) link
I too got blocked by the ad-block blocker when I tried to look something up yesterday but Chrome also popped up some malware warnings so I just noped out of there
RIP AMG in its late 90s/early 00s form
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 10:50 (seven years ago) link
I think everyone should boycott this type of shit progress.
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 11:23 (seven years ago) link
If you use uBlock Origin (and you should), you can disable all Javascript on the site, inline and third-party. You'll lose a little functionality, but you won't see any more ads or notices.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 11:26 (seven years ago) link
your not kidding it's a proper take down The Man adblocker is that mother!
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 11:31 (seven years ago) link
Yep I'm getting "disable ad-block" pop up even with adblock already disabled, and malware warnings. RIP allmusic.
― Transform All Suffering Into Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 24 February 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
agreed : RIP.
― mark e, Friday, 24 February 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
uBlock Origin, as recommended above does a right job on Allmusic guys
― calzino, Friday, 24 February 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
It does the trick, but I'm so tired of having to go all David Copperfield on websites to function. The pop-ups, the annoying adds, the cookie pop-ups, the 'sign up for our fucking newsletter' stuff. Seeing ads while logged in at ilx. I know this is all 'society is in the gutter' but ~the internet~ is p much dead to me these days.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 24 February 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link
LBI hits the spot.
― mark e, Friday, 24 February 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link
LBI probably doesn't use uBlock Origin.
I hardly ever see anything of the things you mentioned. And when something does get through the filters, 'Block element' is just one right-click away.
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 25 February 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
This was still bothering me, because I did turn off the blocker for them and it wouldn't let me in. Googleing I found the solution, well it works for me.
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/182
The part about blocking first-party cookies on allmusic.com and sidereel.com works.
in chrome it is under - settings - show advanced - privacy settings - content settings - manage exceptions.
The site seems fast too with that.
― svend, Thursday, 20 April 2017 00:48 (seven years ago) link
just when i thought the allmusic experience could not get any worse, they prove me wrong.f*cking ads that pop up and have to be clicked through to get to the review.truly awful.if i created an account and logged in, would there be less advert excess ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
You have to be an advertiser to log in
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
Use an adblocker like uBlock Origin, no ads for me on Allmusic.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
yeah, i re-enabled my ad-blocker - all ok now.i thought the site prevented viewing if you had ad-blockers enabled.but seems okfor now.
― mark e, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
brave browser has an ad blocker blocker blocker.
this fucking internet shit is getting to be like the most pointless chess game ever.
(i highly recommend brave browser, btw)
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
a few weeks ago they stopped letting me use my site search shortcut, claiming i was using it as an api. ok i will not go to your website, congrats.
today they are 404
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 07:36 (three months ago) link
i followed a tip from (I think) Marc Masters that if you subscribe, all the ads go away and the site runs turbo-charged, and this is indeed my experience
it's a no-brainer when i consider how much I've gained from allmusic over the past, I dunno.... 20 years??
― (ㅇㅇ) (+ +), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:37 (three months ago) link
I'm in your skull.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:40 (three months ago) link