lotta AMG threads obviously but i wasn't sure which one would be best to put this on, so hey a new thread why not:
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/allmusic-com-shutting-down-folding-into-1005051732.story
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:01 (fourteen years ago)
Going to be weird saying I write for AllRovi.com now but hey.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:06 (fourteen years ago)
did you lobby for AllRaggett.com?
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:08 (fourteen years ago)
Ha. That explains the weird transitional page I got when I went to allmusic.com late last night. It was offering me allmusic.com plus separate links for games and movies.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:10 (fourteen years ago)
xpost -- Ever so tempting.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:11 (fourteen years ago)
good riddance to that awful website design. but i see that allrovi doesn't let you open certain pages in a new window so fuck it too.
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:13 (fourteen years ago)
All Raggett, all of the time...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:13 (fourteen years ago)
you know, I complain a lot about living in an age when everything gets focus-groped to death, every move micromanaged & overanalyzed, all surfaces buffed to an irritating, lifeless sheen. so in the spirit of fairness, I want to take my hat off to the stone fucking genius who thought changing "AllMusic" to "AllRovi" was a good idea.
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:14 (fourteen years ago)
lol focus-grope
lol
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:15 (fourteen years ago)
suddenly I want to be in marketing
― goth barbershop quartet (DJP), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:15 (fourteen years ago)
Rovi???
― skip, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:16 (fourteen years ago)
gonna kickstart the inevitable phase of the thread where we just google image search "rovi":
http://www.dailyartfixx.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/rovi-jesher-who.jpg
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:18 (fourteen years ago)
all ravioli, all the time
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:21 (fourteen years ago)
Rovi’s VP of Marketing Dave Jordan told reporters: “We think there is a better entertainment experience out there and we want consumers to use our site to learn about it. Once they experience the richness and features we provide, they might start looking for it in other devices and want to connect where ever they are. Of course, that is on top of the benefit to Rovi which is to showcase our data and services as an inspiration to our customers and future developers”.
hard not to feel inspired by such bold artistic vision
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:24 (fourteen years ago)
Weird to me that instead of artists they have "people" as a search filter.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:26 (fourteen years ago)
I feel less like I'm searching for musicians and more like I'm looking for the latest gossip.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:27 (fourteen years ago)
Well, I definitely prefer the design to the most recent allmusic layout.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:30 (fourteen years ago)
Well, the first thing I thought of was my old faithful video camera, the Ruvi.
And I thought, I know, I'll Google Image Search for a nice pic of it.
Ah.
(summary: NSFW. But why?)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:33 (fourteen years ago)
shoulda called it allzavvi.com
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:39 (fourteen years ago)
allna'vi.com, with everything in papyrus font
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:40 (fourteen years ago)
it's allrovi now, baby blue
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:45 (fourteen years ago)
http://leilshishi.com/assets/images/rovi_page1.jpg
― buzza, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:45 (fourteen years ago)
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Wednesday, March 2, 2011 10:45 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
^^ winning
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)
only Hitler would hate AllRovi.com
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)
yes god that quote was painful to read
― dell (del), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:49 (fourteen years ago)
i just read about this rovi company as i'd never heard of them before, and realised they used to be known as Macrovision, the company behind pretty much all the anti-piracy techniques used over the last 20 years - starting with video cassettes..
― Night Nurse with Wound (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:55 (fourteen years ago)
I bet John Galliano hates it too.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)
oh shit I see what they did there
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)
Oh Macrovision!
That's a name from (my) past, yes...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)
xp (re: macrovision)
new display name testing 1, 2, 3
― Rovi Wade (some dude), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:57 (fourteen years ago)
hahaha
― goth barbershop quartet (DJP), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)
hahahaha Hey Jude.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)
Wow, did they get a blind monkey to create this interface? FFS! Genre and year are flopped, it's not in chrono order, and for Allmusic's issues, it was a fabulous way to get tips on where to start with a band, easy look at albums ratings (whether one agreed or not), chrono order of albums, which albums tracks appeared on, etc. It's a daily visit for me.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:35 (fourteen years ago)
The site smells like it was put together by suits who 1) don't use the web much and 2) don't care about music. Oh well, what do I want for free anyway...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:36 (fourteen years ago)
Current method:
- google.com- search 'site:allmusic.com "<artist name>" discography'- artist's discography is usually first result
Future method:
- cry
― Head goes goes goes (Schlafsack), Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:38 (fourteen years ago)
what benefit did they get out of changing it??
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:40 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.littleboxofideas.com/images/blog/inspirations/monkeylogos/monkeylogo11.png
"get off my dick, Gerald McBoing-Boing"
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:42 (fourteen years ago)
it seems to run faster than allmusic which is good
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:46 (fourteen years ago)
for Allmusic's issues, it was a fabulous way to get tips on where to start with a band, easy look at albums ratings (whether one agreed or not), chrono order of albums, which albums tracks appeared on, etc. It's a daily visit for me.
otm & r.i.p., this new interface & layout looks like shit
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:50 (fourteen years ago)
I think the interface is an improvement here at a glance.
― Mark, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:52 (fourteen years ago)
EMPOWERMENT
― j., Thursday, 3 March 2011 03:05 (fourteen years ago)
i would just like to point out i have been lol'ing in this thread
god bless us, every one
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 3 March 2011 03:07 (fourteen years ago)
it sucks that you have to click your mouse about 30 times just to see a complete list of influences (ahem, influencers) and followers.
the findr function is hilariously useless. I just imagine someone walking into a record store and asking, "do you have any easy listening shit from the '80s or '90s, let's say 40% chill and 100% negative, that's suitable for soundtracking a road trip? (actual result: Radio Thailand: Transmissions from the Tropical Kingdom)
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Thursday, 3 March 2011 03:30 (fourteen years ago)
let's say 40% chill and 100% negative
prison burzum?
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 3 March 2011 03:33 (fourteen years ago)
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Thursday, 3 March 2011 03:33 (fourteen years ago)
at least they acknowledge that Songs of Leonard Cohen is 100% chill and 100% negative. fucking right, any other figure would be an insult.
loooooool @ prison burzum
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 3 March 2011 04:16 (fourteen years ago)
I was, at that LenCo one.
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 March 2011 09:35 (fourteen years ago)
goodbye allmusic :(, hello wikipedia
― rockapads, Friday, 4 March 2011 17:40 (fourteen years ago)
keep reading this as AlRoker.com
― ilxor astro-ilx? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 March 2011 19:17 (fourteen years ago)
so is it just a matter of days before allmusic goes offline? it's still 100% intact with no mention of Rovi aside from a little link on the bottom right-hand corner of the page.
I did some sleuthing via google cache, and it's interesting that (on pages like this one) they originally just imported data directly from allmusic to allrovi without changing stuff like layout, discography order, the AllMusic tag in the titlebar, and so on. I'm not sure why they bothered to make the new site public before it was even finished. a little unprofessional imho.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 4 March 2011 20:18 (fourteen years ago)
("interesting" being a relative term)
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 4 March 2011 20:19 (fourteen years ago)
no mention of Rovi aside from a little link
and, uh, this:
http://allmusic.com/img/AllRovi-music.gif
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 4 March 2011 20:22 (fourteen years ago)
AllRovi.com brought to my mind a site by a Borat/I Kiss You kinda guy. Come, friend, see my many opinions of beautiful musics.
― bendy, Friday, 4 March 2011 20:47 (fourteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/Descendents_-_All_cover.jpghttp://img4.myrecipes.com/i/recipes/ck/04/03/easy-ravioli-ck-592279-l.jpg
― kelpolaris, Friday, 4 March 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)
"I'd just like to thank all the shareholders who've made Amazon.com the online titan it's become. As of today, we're taking the vision & success of Amazon.com and moving it forward, to better serve our connected world. 'Amazon.com 2.0,' you might say. So everybody please change your bookmarks & tell your friends about Amazfresnel.com...for a better tomorrow"
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 4 March 2011 22:15 (fourteen years ago)
otm
― blud money (sic), Friday, 4 March 2011 23:48 (fourteen years ago)
faceborscht
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 5 March 2011 02:31 (fourteen years ago)
MyScheiss
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Saturday, 5 March 2011 02:49 (fourteen years ago)
ILXanadu
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 5 March 2011 02:50 (fourteen years ago)
oh who am I kidding I would migrate to ILXanadu in a heartbeat
We should rename the site right now!
― rittah shpoaht (Abbbottt), Saturday, 5 March 2011 02:51 (fourteen years ago)
I Love Rovi
― Rovi Wade (some dude), Saturday, 5 March 2011 02:53 (fourteen years ago)
I Rove Music
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 5 March 2011 02:55 (fourteen years ago)
No one made a Karl Rovi joke yet?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 5 March 2011 03:02 (fourteen years ago)
Mars Rovi
― kelpolaris, Saturday, 5 March 2011 03:15 (fourteen years ago)
Land Rovi
― kelpolaris, Saturday, 5 March 2011 03:20 (fourteen years ago)
YamTube
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 5 March 2011 03:49 (fourteen years ago)
Facekindle.ws
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 5 March 2011 05:58 (fourteen years ago)
I'm getting used to it, on second visit it wasn't as terrible as it looked on the first visit.
I just don't like being exposed to more evidence that the film industry has contaminated the music industry. But so far, the most offensive thing is the terribly non-descript and cheap looking domain name.
― Funye West! (u s steel), Saturday, 5 March 2011 14:02 (fourteen years ago)
Is that other content, like the Whole Note and the allmusic blog, moving over to the new site?
― President Keyes, Saturday, 5 March 2011 14:42 (fourteen years ago)
the influences/followers color-spectrum deal on allrovi pages is actually pretty good. thumbs up to allrovi.biz
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 5 March 2011 16:14 (fourteen years ago)
ts: "rovi" vs. the 2012 olympics logo
― een, Saturday, 5 March 2011 16:27 (fourteen years ago)
I still use it like I use IMDB but really, these sites need to hire professional information specialists so that their information is better organized. Or do they?
― Castle Law! (u s steel), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:09 (fourteen years ago)
site is weird. Number one on their Top Selling albums list is some guy named JD McPherson.
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:24 (fourteen years ago)
I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, sites like this are indispensable, better than scouring YouTube or whatever...but they certainly could do a lot better!
― Castle Law! (u s steel), Monday, 25 April 2011 15:14 (fourteen years ago)
When are they actually going to shutter allmusic?
― Land of Rap and Homies (kkvgz), Monday, 25 April 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)
had no idea this happened until now . . . don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head . . .
― markers, Monday, 25 April 2011 15:59 (fourteen years ago)
tfg ^^
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 01:49 (fourteen years ago)
http://imageshack.us/f/847/allrovi.png/
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:31 (fourteen years ago)
http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/7945/allrovi.png
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:32 (fourteen years ago)
i dunno ... i think the site is really really ugly right now
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)
still weirds me out so much when i'm listening to an album on spotify and i scroll down and there's a capsule review credited to "Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi"
― mylo & xylotis (some dude), Sunday, 30 October 2011 03:24 (thirteen years ago)
Ugh, it's like the Qwikster that never went away.
― lite-brite phrenology (reddening), Sunday, 30 October 2011 05:31 (thirteen years ago)
They screwed up changing the name of the brand. At least 'allmusic.com' still works
― answering_machine, Sunday, 30 October 2011 09:42 (thirteen years ago)
Bon Rovi
― Turrican, Sunday, 30 October 2011 09:49 (thirteen years ago)
Rovi Wan Kenobe
― answering_machine, Sunday, 30 October 2011 09:53 (thirteen years ago)
why did they change the brand? the name was perfect...
― The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. (stevie), Sunday, 30 October 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago)
'music' is too narrow - obviously music is just one kind of thing. rovi is infinite
― Local Christian Blues (schlump), Sunday, 30 October 2011 11:13 (thirteen years ago)
I keep forgetting what it stands for and have to look it up: MacROVIsion!
― rustic italian flatbread, Sunday, 30 October 2011 11:17 (thirteen years ago)
ugh
― answering_machine, Sunday, 30 October 2011 11:33 (thirteen years ago)
Should have called it RONI instead.
― Mayne of Fules (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 October 2011 11:51 (thirteen years ago)
Izzo (R.O.V.I.)
― difficult to adjust to ilxor being a low frequency poster (ilxor), Sunday, 6 November 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago)
Now look at what your naysaying has done:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/rovi-shares-38-7-after-a-bleak-forecast-and-ceo-succession-dithering/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago)
i still go to allmusic.com all the time!
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah, I hope someone has ripped the entire site in advance of company failure.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:04 (thirteen years ago)
i blame-a myself-uh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago)
after all this it never amounted to much of a difference eh? granted Rovi didn't own them for long
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 16:29 (one year ago)