Does Allmusic even work anymore?

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.

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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?

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

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

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

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.

(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.)

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.

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.

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

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

http://images.apple.com/safari/images/performance_2xfaster20070611.gif

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

*groan*

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.

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

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

i wish they had kept "search by label"

Advanced search!

Yep, I get the crash too.

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

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.

firefox.exe - Application Error

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

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.

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)

that is simply insane

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

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

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!

Admittedly I would pick Storm in Heaven.

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.

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

Search is broken for me. Anyone else? I suppose I should just use discogs and wikipedia at this point.

yup. totally.

not just you.

The site was updated today, with a new design... I haven't visited it regularly for decades, but maybe I'll try again.

Rovi, baby

I have other ways to follow Ned these days.

I still like and use Allmusic from time to time -- I appreciate how much time and energy their reviewers put into their work, generally think their ratings are a good proxy for where to focus, and love the ability to navigate through the credits to find connection points to other artists (I wish Spotify would add this). That said, these "improvements" are hit and miss. Visit an individual album's page, and you'll be lucky to finish a review before the motion ads and pop-up vids make you want to close your browser for good. The text is too large and the page far too cluttered to make it an enjoyable experience. My go-to for this stuff is now Wikipedia, which often seems to pull from Allmusic anyway.

you'll be lucky to finish a review before the motion ads and pop-up vids make you want to close your browser for good

I miss the old AMG for sure, but I've started to use Discogs for that now. Wikipedia doesn't really have entries for underground musicians, and their criteria for adding a page for musicians is weird and restrictive. Discogs makes it really easy and so I've found it to be much more complete.

I miss the old AMG for sure, but I've started to use Discogs for that now.

Discogs has started running full-screen ads in the background and it's extremely distracting/annoying.

I think it's just in the last few weeks that allmusic won't let me navigate through more than a few pages with adblock turned on