A Sentimental Neducationxp
― Nobodaddy's Fule (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 04:49 (seven years ago) link
Ned, Just Admit It: Raggett on Cali Punk
― chicken lit (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 04:55 (seven years ago) link
RYM users, can you elaborate a little on how you find good music there? This is what I do whenever I'm there: browse through some lists, click an album title I don't know, read some reviews, check out YouTube for some tracks. Is that it, or are there better ways to find more stuff?
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
i do it just slightly differently. i look for albums i find interesting and like, see what lists they're in on the sidebar, click on the lists with interesting looking titles, browse through the lists to see if they're interesting, and then hit youtube for the ones that have potential (sometimes based on the cover as not all of them have reviews). sometimes i'll find users whose reviews i find interesting and see what other records they like that i haven't heard of.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
Arch: Over the past 4-5 years, I've "curated" a list of about 700 RYM users with sympatico tastes. I'll find them from among those who highly rate obscure albums/singles I love, check to see that they have made over 1000 ratings with a diverse spread of scores, then add them as a "favorite" (a nonconsensual friend). When some I find some release highly overrated "by my friends" compared to my tastes, I'll cull the raters responsible (which the interface doesn't exactly facilitate). Over time, my favorites list has stabilized and pretty closely reflects the mix of genres I care about. Every few months I'll run a custom chart of current year releases "As rated by my friends", usually excluding parent genres I've zero interest in. Import into a spreadsheet, cut out low rated but popular (and hence, ranked) releases, or in subgenres I couldn't exclude (eg, I can't exclude "Indie Rock" on the site because I'm interested in shoegaze, which is considered a child genre). That leaves me with 2-300 releases to sample on YT etc.
― Shinzō Abe as Super Mario (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
Thanks you two, that sounds... promising.
Sanpaku, is there a way to keep up with the ratings of your favorite users instead of having to generate a big list every so often?
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 25 August 2016 06:54 (seven years ago) link
User ratings are incorporated in the rankings once every two weeks or so, and you can easily just click your bookmarked custom chart query (I have em for albums, eps and singles in my browser). There's a running sidebar of reviews from individual friends on one's "homepage". But there's no way of looking at how friends in the aggregate have rated releases for the past month or such (like, say, anydecentmusic). The reason I have to dig so far down is that it's the only way of finding obscure but good August (etc.) releases when the chart is already crowded with releases from the past 7 months.
― Shinzō Abe as Super Mario (Sanpaku), Thursday, 25 August 2016 13:19 (seven years ago) link
Cool, I was browsing the site earlier today and I already found two great songs I hadn't heard before ("When It's Over" by the Wipers, and "Talk About the Weather" by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry). Time to register an account!
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 25 August 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
.. and "Talk About the Weather" by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
good call.
― mark e, Thursday, 25 August 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
The Ad Blocker blocker has been removed.
― Austin, Monday, 29 August 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
no it hasn't
― j., Tuesday, 30 August 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
Huh. Well it has been on my end.
(using Firefox)
― Austin, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
hmm, I use Firefox too, but the adblocker warning pops up the instant I enable Adblock Plus or Ghostery.
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 04:29 (seven years ago) link
Try Ublock Origin instead of Adblock Plus - it's better and much less bloated.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 07:41 (seven years ago) link
It seems a bit intermittent. I get the pop up on Chrome at work, but not on Chrome at home, and they both have ABP installed.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
ffs I added allmusic to my Ublock whitelist but it still won't let me into the site. Grrrr.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Haven't had any problems with Ublock for months, but since this morning I'm seeing the notice again. They must have changed something in the code. It will probably be fixed when one of the third-party filter lists get updated.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 1 September 2016 08:07 (seven 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 (six 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 (two 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 (two months ago) link
I'm in your skull.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:40 (two months ago) link