allmusic.com redesigned again and it's being a turd

Your browser is probably still caching the old header image.
Try hitting CTRL+F5.

That should do it.

This is happening at the worst possible time, as I am in the middle of a years-delayed iTunes overhaul, hunting down release dates and album titles for thousands of stray tracks... Ugh.

The thing is, greasemonkey can fix the form, but not the function. I'd still love to see AMG implement a useful "advanced search" someday.

THE TRUTH COMES OUT

1997 WILL HAUNT US FOREVERMORE~!

"Typical for the many styles gathered under the umbrella was a focus on danceable grooves, very loose song structure (if any), and, in many producers, a relentless desire to find a new sound no matter how tepid the results."

"The page cannot be displayed"

whats wrong?!

hit F5 repeatedly

...forever you mean

maybe one day...

What's a good alternative to Allmusic.com? Shit's not loading at all the past couple of days.

Uh nevermind, just found that other thread.

love this site. but when it comes to loading issues, it's a turd. what's weird is that isn't even that crazy when it comes to graphics, pop ups etc.

What's a good alternative to Allmusic.com?

en.wikipedia.org

Seriously.

discogs.com for informational purposes

aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHH I can't get in at all.

i was searching for soft machine two days ago and it was coming up with random hip-hop albums instead (lil wayne's 'da drought' and nas's 'illmatic' to be precise).

the unpredictability of this site is just immense!!

eh, I just use Wikipedia for band histories these days. Usually a lot better.

If I need album/track-listings, then Amazon.com all the way

Wikipedia Nazis keep deleting band profiles though, so it's not all that useful for most things I want to look up.

Wiki is good for track listings too. And Rateyourmusic is becoming more and more reliable as well.

Wikipedia Nazis keep deleting band profiles though

Any particular reason?

If they haven't heard of them, they don't deserve a page, or something.

Last week many album pages were missing their reviews. Today some albums pages are only listing the first seven tracks, e.g. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gifpxql5ldae WTF AMG?

Note from Andy K here:

Allmusic Album Reviews Gone

Today they broke all search shortcuts, and the search box can't be selected. Wheeee.

I'm not having any problems selecting the search box.

search box works for me, but why does AMG now look exactly like last.fm?

the new song search really really sucks though. before today, if you did a song search for "cuckoo", you could click on a specific song title (like "the cuckoo") and see a list of all the artists who performed it, and you could sort by artist and composer. it was useful if you wanted to track down cover versions. now you just get a long, disorganized list of artist and song titles with no way to separate songs titled "the cuckoo" from "a cuckoo" from "your new cuckoo". I really hope they fix that. it's a huge blow to the functionality of the site.

Harden broke his beard.

Or rather, Manu broke it for him.

wrong thread! Sorry.

"allmusic.com redesigned again and it's being a turd"

You know this has happened so many times over the years. There is plenty of good information on there, but I rarely use it any more.

I swear it was a better and easier site to use like 10 years ago.

recent redesign is atrocious. some of the most counter-intuitive, uninformative page layouts i've ever seen.

Earl OTM. It seems to lose functionality or become more cumbersome with each "improvement". I still find it very useful despite these setbacks.

Eh, whaddya want for nothing, rrrrrrrrrrrubber biscuit?

y'know, i haven't used AMG regularly in years because of unpleasant redesigns, but just now out of curiosity i went and spent the last few minutes browsing around, looking stuff up, and it's not bad actually. not perfect, but better than i remember it being.

yeah, this seems better than the last version which i hated so much.

i like the new design

feh. red, white and black color scheme is ugly, and there doesn't seem to have been any attention given to highlighting the most important features on each page. if you jump to discography from the main artist's page, you see a list of albums. only if you were to very carefully look around the page would you notice the unobtrusive, grey-on white tabs up top for "compilations" and "singles & EPs". that's just bad design. and unregistered's complaint about the new song search otm. what, i'm supposed to scroll through all 25,000 songs with the word "tomorrow" in the title individually to find the one i want?

the search was the exact same way before

ou see a list of albums. only if you were to very carefully look around the page would you notice the unobtrusive, grey-on white tabs up top for "compilations" and "singles & EPs".

^^if you can't see the clearly labeled "compilations" tab with is literally 1 MILLIMETER FROM THE ALBUMS TAB RIGHT BESIDE IT, then i'm surprised you can even read or type words into ilx

as long as those insufferable fullscreen popup ads are gone rovi's alright w/ me

also that was exactly the same before but it's better now because you don't have to leave the bio tab to view the main albums tab.

(xpost)

oh this looks nice

also remarkably little of substance has changed on the main page, just a different graphical skin and fonts

SO LONG AS YOU CAN FIND ME oh wait.

the search was the exact same way before

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:43 PM (4 minutes ago)

no it wasn't. like I was trying to say out upthread, it used to be that when you searched for something like "girl" + "yesterday", a list of song titles would come up, and when you clicked on "the girl from yesterday", for instance, you'd be able to see all the artists who recorded that song. now you just get an undifferentiated list of songs with "girl" and "yesterday" in the title. in the title, and you can't sort it by songwriter or title. it's completely different.

one improvement I noticed, though, is that they merged the Works and Discography listings for classical artists. before there'd be two separate entries for John Cage — one with his compositions and one with his releases — but now you can access them from the same page.

also the buttons to stream the songs are bigger, which is good.

overall they seemed to have optimized the site for clickthroughs to spotify and itunes and rdio, but it's hardly more useful as a research tool (not that it was ever perfect).

"in the title. in the title" - bleh, typos

like I was trying to say out upthread, it used to be that when you searched for something like "girl" + "yesterday", a list of song titles would come up, and when you clicked on "the girl from yesterday", for instance, you'd be able to see all the artists who recorded that song.

^i guess i never searched in this manner, i always just type in the song title, and that works the same as it did before.

overall they seemed to have optimized the site for clickthroughs to spotify and itunes and rdio, but it's hardly more useful as a research tool (not that it was ever perfect).

as they should, the site has to make money and i don't find it obnoxious at all

the search was the exact same way before

not at all. unregistered otm.

^^if you can't see the clearly labeled "compilations" tab with is literally 1 MILLIMETER FROM THE ALBUMS TAB RIGHT BESIDE IT, then i'm surprised you can even read or type words into ilx

of course i can see it. i see those tabs because i know to look for them, being familiar with the site's basic design from years of use. i can't imagine that a not-particularly-internet-savvy first time user, however, would even think that these options might be available. there's nothing in the page design that draws attention to the fact that you're initially seeing only a portion of the discography. in fact, the elements that might draw attention instead seem to have been intentionally designed to evade immediate notice.

xxpost but it doesn't work the same as it did before (contenderizer otm)! the sorting feature may not have been something that everyone cared about, but I don't see the need to get rid of a useful tool.

I don't think it's obnoxious that Rovi is trying to make money; just pointing it out.

ok i know your trying to contenderize me with this shit but i'm not having it

how in THE HOLY HELL DO YOU HAVE TO BE "INTERNET SAVVY" TO SEE THOSE TABS?

http://i50.tinypic.com/2woepu8.jpg

there's nothing in the page design that draws attention to the fact that you're initially seeing only a portion of the discography.

compilations, singles & EPs, and dvds were separated from the main album in the exact same manner in the previous design

it used to be that when you searched for something like "girl" + "yesterday", a list of song titles would come up, and when you clicked on "the girl from yesterday", for instance, you'd be able to see all the artists who recorded that song.

to clarify, if in the past, you wanted to find a song called something like "spongy mountain" (or maybe it was "mountain of sponge" or something, i dunno), you'd type "spongy mountain" into the search, and it would cough up something like this:

Spongy Mountain - 177
My Spongy Mountain - 118
Spongy Mountains - 32
Mountaintop Sponge - 4
Spongiform M - 1
I Had a Sponge - 1
Mountain Spot - 1

you'd click on a phrase, and it would show you a list of all the performers of songs with that specific title. very handy for tracking down songs whose title you only half-remembered, also for researching variations on a phrase and/or titles involving specific words.

using the current version of the song search function, however, you'd get all 334 results, unsorted and unsortable, 20 at a time, so that you'd maybe have to go through 17 pages to find that one version of "mountaintop sponge" you were looking for.

how in THE HOLY HELL DO YOU HAVE TO BE "INTERNET SAVVY" TO SEE THOSE TABS?

good page design should draw attention to what is useful, and minimize distractions. this design makes useful functions unobtrusive and draws attention to junk.

incredible discussion itt

how in THE HOLY HELL DO YOU HAVE TO BE "INTERNET SAVVY" TO SEE THOSE TABS?

good page design should draw attention to what is useful, and minimize distractions. this design makes useful functions unobtrusive and draws attention to junk.

― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:23 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you are crazy

probably ¯\(°_0)/¯

incredible discussion itt

well, it's a conversation about the design of this one particular website. not sure what you expect...

BOW DOWN BEFORE THE ONE YOU SERVE

http://media.blurt-online.com/cqtuEEeFKNUV_m.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/AllmusicNewMain.png

MY SPONGY MOUNTAIN

OK, I got the search box to work. I had javascript turned off sitewide because their old version was so terrible with it. It seems slightly better than the old version. I like that it shows which albums have reviews on the discography list.