The All Music Guide provides a comprehensive reference resource for popular and classical music. Macrovision’s editorial staff continuously updates and expands the music database with original content as well as new and historical music data—providing timely, descriptive content on artists from the past and present.

Comprehensive Databases

Coverage of both classical and popular music in the All Music Guide spans a number of years and genres.  Descriptive content for album listings, reviews, individual tracks, artist photos, personnel, and cover images deliver a robust media experience for listeners of all types of music. Content descriptors in the All Music Guide are carefully chosen and weighed, facilitating accurate search functionality.

The All Music Guide’s Popular Music coverage also includes:

• Artist-specific album ratings
• Release information
• Millions of product and performance credits
• Artist biographies
• More than 900 musical styles and genres, with descriptions and associations
• Sidemen credits

The All Music Guide’s Classical Music coverage also includes:

• Composition-level content, including extensive composition descriptions
• More than 850,000 performances
• Ratings of albums, compositions, composers, and performers
• Comprehensive glossary
• Artist biographies

Macrovision offers four license packages for the All Music Guide:

• MusicBasic—includes essential product-level metadata, such as title, artist, UPC, and genre
• MusicNavigator—includes basic package, plus deeper descriptive and relational content that powers navigation and exploration (similar artists, styles, instruments, etc.)
• MusicEditor—includes basic package, plus original editorial content (bios, reviews, etc.) and ratings
• MusicComplete—includes all the content available in Basic, Navigator, and Editor: metadata, descriptive and relational content, original editorial, and ratings

All of the AMG databases are available via FTP download in three formats: Foxpro 2.x, ASCII, and UTF-8. Database sizes (approximate):

• Pop Music
• FoxPro - 765 MB compressed file from FTP site (5.2 GB)
• ASCII - 695 MB compressed file from FTP site (2.54 GB)
• UTF-8 - 674 MB compressed file from FTP site (2.46 GB)
• Classical Music
• FoxPro - 111 MB compressed file from FTP site (896 MB)
• ASCII - 104 MB compressed file from FTP site (536 MB)
• UTF-8 - 101 MB compressed file from FTP site (519 MB

All Music Guide Website

Leveraging the comprehensive content from AMG Data Solutions’ entertainment databases, the All Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/) website provides music fans with a robust resource to learn more about their favorite music.

The All Music Guide website features extensive information about popular and classical music. Highlights include:

• Continuous updates for accurate, timely information
• Historical and current data for artists, songs, albums, and performances
• Editorial content spanning numerous genres for both popular and classical music

All Music Guide Books and CDs

AMG Data Solutions’ All Music Guide books and CDs provide a comprehensive reference resource for all types of music aficionados. The books and CDs both span a number of genres, providing in-depth information on artists, albums, and music from the past and present. The All Music Guide book series also features extensive reviews and ratings. The All Music Guide CD series includes 8 compelling collections of music and is sold at major retailers nationwide.

The All Music Guide book series titles include:

• All Music Guide
• All Music Guide to Jazz
• All Music Guide to Rock
• All Music Guide to Blues
• All Music Guide to Soul
• All Music Guide to Hip Hop
• All Music Guide to Country
• All Music Guide to Electronica

In addition to music and extensive artist and song information, the All Music Guide CD series also features a trivia contest and a “Story Behind the Song” feature. CD titles include:

• American Jazz Singers
• Classic Jazz Solos
• Roots of Rock