The new allmusic.com sucks

[mrjazzman]

Still, with all its problems, it's worth every penny I've ever spent to use it.      

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Exactly. Frankly, I'm confused by this thread. All of the changes that AMG went through took place nearly a year ago. I wasn't fond of them then, and they're still annoying now, but it doesn't bother me much to use the site. If you're not a "member," then sign up and cookie yourself in. All access and no hassle re: passwords and stuff. Still one of the best (free) music resources on the net.

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The complaints confuse me too, I signed up for free once they introduced that option and find the site as quick and useful as ever. Then again, I am perfectly happy with a PC and IE. I guess I am easy to please.

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the best one or the only one.............

[mrjazzman]

From a web designer's point of view they did actually get things right, but most of them, because of laziness or back engine restrictions, they definitely got wrong:

a) They removed some of the heavy table structures they used to have (good).

b) They use some tables that are completely unnecessary and take away the speed they gained by removing tables in a) (bad)

c) On sub pages (discography) we suddenly have table monsters again. Those are enough to give you the shivers. No idea why they did that. Loading times skyrocket because of that. (very bad)

c) Their CMS, whatever they are using (too lazy to check) is just too slow, or the server(s) they host their SQL databases on just can't handle the tremendous amount of traffic they seem to be having. (confusing and stupid)

d) They only did cosmetic work. Nothing was done in regard to fact checking, etc. (sucks).

good + bad + very bad + confusing/stupid + sucks = waste of time

I haven't used the site more than once a month, perhaps, and am reducing even that. Maybe that's what they wanted all along ... reducing the page hit count? Who knows. These sites (= the management) work in mysterious ways.

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neveronfriday, that was a great analysis

[mrjazzman]

Clearly there's some sort of glitch in how Marty's accessing the site or how it displays to him.  I have no problem seeing JPEGs of album covers either.

Maybe AMG likes Delray Beach but Boynton Beach ... not so much.

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OK, I figured out why I have a problem and it certainly does not reflect well on All Music.com. It seems AMG no longer fully supports a Netscape browser which is the one I primarily use. When I accessed the site via Internet Explorer I got everything as before, i.e., photos of the individual artists as well as album cover jpgs.

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as far as album jpg's are concerned, Wallmart has the best jpg's although their selection is somewhat limited...........

[Jazzmoose]

as far as album jpg's are concerned, Wallmart has the best jpg's although their selection is somewhat limited...........

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Yeah, but that 'sell your soul to the devil' clause always stops me...

[alankin]

OK, I figured out why I have a problem and it certainly does not reflect well on All Music.com.  It seems AMG no longer fully supports a Netscape browser which is the one I primarily use.  When I accessed the site via Internet Explorer I got everything as before, i.e., photos of the individual artists as well as album cover jpgs.

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It also works with Firefox.

[J Larsen]

One of the biggest let-downs for me is that they seem to have gotten rid of the "formal connections" feature. I used to find that very useful.

[Brad]

It serves its purpose. I joined. It gives me basic information. But when they switched over, it took me awhile to realize that allmusic.com wouldn't work anymore, that I had to go to www.allmusic.com

Strange.

[Claude]

It's a good thing that in the discographies, allmusic makes a different section for compilations. This avoids having the original albums of popular artists among loads of "Best of" samplers.

But I noticed that allmusic has an annoying tendency to put albums in the compilations section that are in fact one session, and should be considered an original album. When you look for the new John coltrane "One up one down" or the Monk/Trane "Carnegie Hall" releases, they are not shown in the album section but among the comilations.