The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. AMG was founded in 1991 by Michael Erlewine as a guide for consumers and published its first reference book the next year. AMG's database is licensed and used in point-of-sale systems in record shops and in most online shops that sell music. The database consists of: Metadata (Greek: meta-+ Latin: data information), literally data about data, is information that describes another set of data. ... All Media Guide (commonly known as AMG), is the company which maintains All Music Guide, All Game Guide and All Movie Guide. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Michael Erlewine (born July 18, 1941 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) founded the All Music Guide in 1991. ...

• Basic Metadata: names, genres, credits, copyright info, product numbers, etc.
• Descriptive Content: tones, moods, etc.
• Relational Content: similar artists and albums, influences, etc.
• Editorial Content: biographies, reviews, rankings, etc.

AMG content is created by professional data entry staff, editors, and writers. The writer network includes over nine hundred music critics who review albums and songs, and write artist biographies. Reviewers include 'Blue' Gene Tyranny and Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Blue Gene Tyranny (born Robert Sheff in 1945 in San Antonio, Texas) is an avant-garde composer and pianist. ... Stephen Thomas Erlewine is a music journalist and the Senior Editor for All Music Guide. ...

All Music Guide also claims to have the world's largest digital archive of music, including approximately six million songs fully digitized, as well as the world's largest cover art library with over half a million cover image scans.

The Allmusic.com website is a sample of what is available in the database. The site was launched in 1995 as an online demonstration for potential database licensees of the breadth of content included in the database. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

All Music Guide data is also used by the Windows Media Player and Musicmatch Jukebox to identify and organize music collections. Windows Media Player is a proprietary freeware software media player used for playing audio and video on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. ... Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, made by Yahoo! Musicmatch, Inc, is an audio player that contains a powerful media library. ...

AMG headquarters are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Official language(s) English de-facto Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 11th 96,889 mi² / 250,941 km² 239 miles / 385 km 491 miles / 790 km 41. ...

AMG LASSO

The All Music Guide database was made available in 2004 as part of the AMG LASSO comprehensive media recognition service. The LASSO media recognition service automatically recognizes CDs, digital audio files, and DVDs. After the media is recognized, the service delivers related metadata content from AMG metadata databases. AMG LASSO is a a media recognition service launched by the All Media Guide in 2004. ... All Media Guide (commonly known as AMG), is the company which maintains All Music Guide, All Game Guide and All Movie Guide. ... Metadata (Greek: meta-+ Latin: data information), literally data about data, is information that describes another set of data. ...

External links

• All Music Guide
• All Movie Guide
• All Media Guide Stats Page
• All Game Guide
• All Media Guide
• AMG Lasso
• AMG Tapestry
• AMG Tapestry demo