Does Allmusic even work anymore?

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I've been trying for the last couple of weeks on at least 5 different computers with different connections. I jsut get a time out error. Does anybody else have any luck?

Why do most great things get so crummy after awhile?

― Sven In Rome, Saturday, 25 June 2005 20:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

it's still working, and it's still sucking.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 25 June 2005 20:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

I had the same problem. You have to put the www.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 25 June 2005 20:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hey, that's it! Thanks a lot!

― Sven In Rome, Saturday, 25 June 2005 20:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

If y're on Firefox go here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=748

and install the Greasemonkey extension. Then go here:

http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts

and install the relevant Greasemonkey scripts. Then All Music will be much more like it used to be.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 25 June 2005 20:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

No it's working fine for...

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Saturday, 25 June 2005 20:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

Roffle.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 26 June 2005 00:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

hahaha

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 26 June 2005 04:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

it be goin' good for me yo

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Sunday, 26 June 2005 05:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

At least they got rid of the "Read More" on their album reviews. That is usually all that I use, so it’s kind of like the way it was before.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 27 June 2005 04:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

My major problem with allmusic continues to be how it's set up and I get really pissed off when I try to read a review and I get a message that says something like, "We've detected that your computer is on a connection that blah blah blah...", and they try to block me unless I register. Usually if I go back on the address bar and click a few more times, I can get through. I think one way to deal with allmusic's new site is....

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 27 June 2005 04:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

There are some searches that get especially confused; I searched under artist name for "Books," and it sent me directly to a "Richard Earl" page. I had to go to the "wrong person? more matches HERE" link and then hit the "Popular Music" tab because the default "All Music" tab listed "Richard Earl" first.

― Leeeeee (Leee), Monday, 27 June 2005 05:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Well that streak went out the window. The next thing I look at has a "Read More" on it. Most albums I have read recently didn’t have that but not all are like that.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 27 June 2005 05:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

I really dislike how you have to be a member now to search by style.

― TODD DID YOU SHAVE YOUR-- OH MY GODHEAD (David Allen), Monday, 27 June 2005 06:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

i very easily get a message that says that i have to log in or something as i have been using allmusic too much. after something like 10 clicks which is the equivalent of two album reviews. i am registered but i have forgotten my password or it does not work. i hardly use allmusic anymore these days. and it was so great 4 or five years ago. i even bought the 97 pop/rock book at the time.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

Why they ever changed it I'll never know.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Gavin Rossdale takeover at Allmusic.com. I find it hard to believe that someone would approve something so obtrusive.

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Sunday, 18 September 2005 14:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

You lost me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 September 2005 14:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

maybe it's just for me, but gavin rossdale is everywhere when you open that link. it's makes the album description pretty much unreadable. i'm all for commerce, but that's a bit overwhelming.

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Sunday, 18 September 2005 14:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

But it's a song review. And, admittedly, I have my ad blocking software turned out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 September 2005 14:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

Turned out? Turned ON. Still early for me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 September 2005 14:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

okay, i'm not that advanced. here's what it looks like for me:

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Sunday, 18 September 2005 14:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

...yeah, definitely trade up for ad blocker software.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 September 2005 14:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

i wish they had kept "search by label"

― amon (eman), Sunday, 18 September 2005 15:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Is anyone else having problems using Allmusic with Firefox? Whenever I try to open the front page, I get the error message "firefox.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close", and then Firefox closes down. This has only happened for a week or do, but I haven't changed my settings in between or anything, so I have no idea what is causing it or how to fix it. Any ideas?

― Tuomas, Sunday, 30 September 2007 11:11 (5 years ago) Permalink

Don't know, but it isn't happening to me. Try reinstalling Firefox?

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 30 September 2007 11:14 (5 years ago) Permalink

I did that, but it didn't help. :(

― Tuomas, Sunday, 30 September 2007 11:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

Backup your current profile, make a new one and try again? (don't forget to backup your current one - or at least keep a copy of the bookmarks.html file that contains your favorites)

how: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

― StanM, Sunday, 30 September 2007 11:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

Amazingly, the site just keeps getting more and more user-unfriendly as time goes on: Harder to read, longer to load, sluggish beyond comprehension, endless ads you have to shovel through. And right -- five years ago, it seemed indispensible. Weird.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 30 September 2007 14:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

(Actually, that's only sometimes the case. Sometimes it works better; mostly, I'd just say it's erratic. But today I am feeling cranky about it.)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 30 September 2007 14:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

I use Firefox at home with it, no problem.

Xhuxk, there was talk on another AMG thread on here a couple of months back where a regular employee noted that there's a difference between the AMG site and the database itself, which the site showcases and which is what is licensed out to other places like iTunes. The database generally gets a higher priority than the site as a result when it comes to how smoothly things run, etc.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 September 2007 15:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I've found the AMG site's performance to have degraded so much that I hardly use it at all anymore---maybe once a month at most. I used to visit it daily. On the other hand, it is a free (ad-driven) resource, so I can see why they wouldn't want to spend much money on it. But the performance is definitely having an impact on my use, and I gather I'm not alone in this.

― Euler, Sunday, 30 September 2007 15:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

it works okay for me most of the time, i use firefox too maybe that's it.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 30 September 2007 16:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

yes, i have the same problem with firefox. i just try to avoid using the 'back' button and there are less problems.

― poortheatre, Sunday, 30 September 2007 16:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

http://www.apple.com/safari/download

― stephen, Sunday, 30 September 2007 18:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

*groan*

― StanM, Thursday, 17 January 2008 08:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

When I open the AMG start page on my home computer, Firefox always crashes. I have no idea what's causing this: it just started to happen one day, without me doing anything that might've caused it. Also, I've never encountered this problem with any other sites. It's quite irritating.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 17 January 2008 09:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

I use firefox, with no add-ons or extensions, and that's never happened to me. It's just incredibly slow.

― nate woolls, Thursday, 17 January 2008 09:43 (5 years ago) Permalink

Now I have to go to AMG via a link to some review, and sometimes it still crashes.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 17 January 2008 09:44 (5 years ago) Permalink

i wish they had kept "search by label"

Advanced search!

― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 17 January 2008 12:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yep, I get the crash too.

― tommytannoy, Thursday, 17 January 2008 12:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

AMG is now designed to crash if your taste in music sucks.

― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Thursday, 17 January 2008 15:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

AMG is now designed to crash if your taste in music sucks.

phew.
guess this is why its been brilliant today.
no hang ups or anything.

― mark e, Thursday, 17 January 2008 15:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

firefox.exe - Application Error

The instruction at "0x60ca44ac" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read".

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 17 January 2008 15:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

solution: only the home page makes it crash (usually) so just stop loading it after the search bar has loaded at the top of the page.

― Simon H., Thursday, 17 January 2008 16:15 (5 years ago) Permalink

homepage:

Documents (2 files) 30 KB
Images (87 files) 230 KB
Objects (1 file) 117 bytes
Scripts (11 files) 193 KB (205 KB uncompressed)
Total 495 KB (506 KB uncompressed)

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 January 2008 18:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

that is simply insane

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 January 2008 18:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

Word from the folks on Oak Valley is that Macrovision (remember them?) is dumping some major cash into AMG and hoping for a pretty serious overhaul to get rid of a lot of bloat (though they say they're going to remove bloat but become a portal wtf?)

Anyway, from friends that work there, there's going to be a hiring push soon to get a lot of the backlog sorted.

― I eat cannibals, Thursday, 17 January 2008 21:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

I do like the new request system they've set up for asking for reviews, and there are other things afoot.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 January 2008 21:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

DONT LISTEN TO THE COMPANY STOOGE GUIZ, HES GOT AN AGENDA TO GO WITH HIS HAIRCUTT

― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 17 January 2008 21:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

Allmusic's 'similar albums' auto-prompt advises that fans of Into the Labyrinth by Dead Can Dance might also enjoy The Verve's Urban Hymns. Thanks for the suggestion, Ned!

― °™ (Pillbox), Saturday, 18 August 2012 12:24 (9 months ago) Permalink

Admittedly I would pick Storm in Heaven.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 August 2012 16:30 (9 months ago) Permalink

as would I, every day of the damn week - but even Verve's early records (aside, I guess, from being vaguely 'ethereal') make for a left field point of comparison w/ DCD.

― °™ (Pillbox), Saturday, 18 August 2012 18:15 (9 months ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

Some cheesy pop-ads these days- haven't been there in ages, when did that start?

― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2013 19:26 (1 week ago) Permalink

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