All Media Guide
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All Media Guide is the company which owns and maintains Allmusic, Allgame
Allgame
Allgame is a commercial database of information about arcade games, video games and console manufacturers.Allgame is owned by All Media Guide, along with Allmusic and Allmovie....
and Allmovie. AMG was founded in 1990 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine
Michael Erlewine
Michael Erlewine is an American musician, astrologer, and Internet entrepreneur who founded All Music Guide in 1991.- Background :...
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The company was founded in Big Rapids, Michigan
Big Rapids, Michigan
Big Rapids is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 10,849. It is the county seat of Mecosta County. The city is located within Big Rapids Township, but is politically independent.-Geography:...
in 1991, in order to create a comprehensive archive of all music. AMG moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...
in 1999. AMG was a business unit within Alliance Entertainment Corporation until early 2005. Yucaipa Companies, a multi-billion dollar fund based in California, retained ownership of AMG. Macrovision
Macrovision
Rovi Corporation is a globally operating, US-based company that provides guidance technology, entertainment data, copy protection, industry standard networking and media management technology for digital entertainment devices and services...
(now Rovi) announced on November 6, 2007 that it had agreed to purchase All Media Guide. All of its websites are now controlled by Rovi's nameservers.
AMG has created a large database of metadata about movies, video games, audio books, and music releases. These databases are used for point of sale
Point of sale
Point of sale or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs...
systems in tens of thousands of stores globally, for CD and DVD recognition in software media players such as Windows Media Player, SimpleCenter and Musicmatch Jukebox, and for providing content for a variety of websites.
In addition to selling computerized access to its databases, AMG sells several dozen print compilations of its information.
Lasso
In late-2004, AMG launched a tum log pagal ho new product called LASSO. AMG LASSOAMG LASSO
AMG LASSO is a media recognition service launched by the All Media Guide in 2004. The LASSO service automatically recognizes CDs, DVDs, and digital audio files in formats such as MP3, WMA, and others. The service uses CD table of contents , DVD ToC, and acoustic fingerprint based recognition to...
is a media recognition service that automatically recognizes CDs, DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
s, and digital audio files such as MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
, Ogg
Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex...
, AAC
Advanced Audio Coding
Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates....
, and WMA
Windows Media Audio
Windows Media Audio is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs...
files. Once media is recognized, metadata
Metadata
The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
from AMG's All Music and All Movie databases is delivered directly to the player. LASSO is available as an SDK
Software development kit
A software development kit is typically a set of software development tools that allows for the creation of applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, or similar platform.It may be something as simple...
for personal computer software developers, and an embedded version of LASSO is available for consumer electronics devices. It is advisable to use caution when working with such software, as it generates logs at Macrovision that could be used in the prosecution of even unintentional crimes involving copyright infringement of audio-visual works
Copyright infringement of audio-visual works
Copyright infringement of audio-visual works, often referred to as piracy or warez, occurs when unauthorized copies are made of music, movies and similar works. Incidence of copyright infringement has grown dramatically since the late 1970s, as technology has facilitated the unauthorized...
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| valign="top" |Tapestry
|Arranges (music) collections.
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| valign="top" |Data Licensing
|Commercial data licensing of the 3 databases Games, Movie and Music
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| valign="top" |SonicGuide
|Music sampling tool
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