All Media Guide (commonly known as AMG), is the company which owns and maintains All Music Guide, All Game Guide and All Movie Guide. AMG was founded in 1990 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine. Image File history File links Amglogo. ... The term company may refer to a separate legal entity, as in English law, or may simply refer to a business, as is the common use in the United States. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... All Media Guide (commonly known as AMG), is the company which maintains All Music Guide, All Game Guide and All Movie Guide. ... All Movie Guide is a free-access, commercial database for information about films and television programs and their actors. ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... Michael Erlewine (born July 18, 1941 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) founded the All Music Guide in 1991. ...

The company was founded in Big Rapids, Michigan in 1991, in order to create a comprehensive archive of all music. AMG moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1999. AMG was a business unit within Alliance Entertainment Corporation until early 2005. Yucaipa Companies, a multi-billion dollar fund based in California, retains ownership of AMG. Big Rapids is a city located in Mecosta County, Michigan. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the railroad company, see Ann Arbor Railroad. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Alliance Entertainment Corporation is the worlds largest independent distributor of music, movies, and game software. ... Yucaipa Cos. ...

AMG has created a large database of metadata about movies, video games, audio books, and music releases. These databases are used for point of sale systems in tens of thousands of stores globally, for CD and DVD recognition in software media players such as Windows Media Player, SimpleCenter and Musicmatch Jukebox, and for providing content for a variety of websites. Metadata is data about data. ... POS must not be confused with EFT/POS and POS Terminal used in Electronic payment POS or PoS is an acronym for point-of-sale (or point of purchase). ... CD redirects here; see Cd for other meanings of CD. Image of a compact disc (pencil included for scale) A compact disc (or CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ...

In addition to selling computerized access to its databases, AMG sells several dozen print compilations of its information.

The current president is Karl Ryser, Jr.

Products

Lasso

In late-2004, AMG launched a new product called LASSO. AMG LASSO is a media recognition service that automatically recognizes CDs, DVDs, and digital audio files such as MP3, Ogg, AAC, and WMA files. Once media is recognized, metadata from AMG's All Music and All Movie databases is delivered directly to the player. LASSO is available as an SDK for personal computer software developers, and an embedded version of LASSO is available for consumer electronics devices. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... AMG LASSO is a a media recognition service launched by the All Media Guide in 2004. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... DVD (commonly known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... A portable MP3 player MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding, lossy compression format, and algorithm, designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio... Look up Ogg in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. ... Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary compressed audio file format developed by Microsoft. ... Metadata (Greek meta after and Latin data information) are data that describe other data. ... A software development kit (SDK or devkit) is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system or similar. ...

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