New Ideas

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    automate "Member of"

    rootsmusic · 1 · Last reply by Zac

    (I'm sure this idea is easier said than done.)  An individual artist's Member of field can be automatically populated by group names whose album credits that individual artist as a group member.

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    AllMusic's 2026 Five-Star Album Update

    Matski · 2 · Last reply by Matski

    Visiting your website recently has led to some unexpected surprises for us regular users. For anyone here who hasn't noticed yet, over one-hundred albums from AllMusic's database were re-rated in the last week and I'd say that the majority of them were worthy call-ups.

    The update did bring about some ideas that I'd like to ask your editorial team about:

    1. After a previous update like this one, I asked your editors if there were releases in those freshly updated discographies that were also worthy of a new four-and-a-half star rating where there no longer any. They kindly responded to that
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    Remembering Chuck Negron

    Ken MacLeod · 0 · Posted

    I found out today that Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night has passed away. I just thought it would be nice if you could post something in his honor on your main page. Thank you.

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    Boris & Squarepusher Review Requests

    Matski · 0 · Posted

    Happy New Year to the team at AllMusic!

    Given that we're now at that time of the year where hardly any new releases, I was wondering if your writers would be willing to respond to a request to fill in some of the blank spaces on your website.

    With it having been the album's 25th Anniversary last year, it would be great to finally get a review for Flood by Boris - a monumental album, generally considered by fans to be on par with the likes of Feedbacker and Pink.

    Another discography currently with some empty spots is Squarepusher's. Both the playful Hello Everything

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    Pandora

    Jeff Wiederholt · 1 · Last reply by Zac

    Please add Pandora as a preferred music streaming service on AllMusic.

    Thanks.

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    Please add YouTube Music, Tidal and Bandcamp as streaming services

    Mark Bartlett · 3 · Last reply by Zac

    Not all of us use Spotify, Amazon and Apple for streaming.  YouTube Music is great for allowing the user to 'fill gaps' in their music libraries by uploading tracks, Bandcamp are by far the best financial supporters of musicians, and Tidal are well-regarded for their sound quality.  Please consider adding all three to the list of streaming services that we use.

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    Review for "Meat Beat Manifesto's" album "Actual Sounds + Voices" was just posted in AllMusic! If anyone's interested in reading and participating, please visit the page in the Allmusic website.

    Marcio Hendrik · 0 · Posted

    My review for "Meat Beat Manifesto's" album "Actual Sounds + Voices" was just posted in AllMusic! If anyone's interested in reading and participating, please visit the page in the Allmusic website.

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    Unranked Kenyan Musician TRIPL N, formerly Triple eN

    TRIPL N · 2 · Last reply by Zac

    All you need, in one link. https://linktr.ee/theetripln

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    All of the mysterious titles of CD Baby origin on AllMusic

    James Ware · 2 · Last reply by James Ware

    all of the non-UPC releases from cdbaby.com, you should show their provenance. In fact, you are PROBABLY the last other people with a physical cache of the medium and music to this extent. 

    The beauty of the non-UPC releases is that there would be minimal legal issue if you set up an archive of it on archive.org. Granted, there will be a few stakeholders here and there that have probably created digital rights in the meantime. But most of them have simply moved on. They'd suck if they opposed such a wonderful archive anyhow. I'll throw some pennies at them

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    Request to add EP to Allmusic

    Shay · 2 · Last reply by Zac

    Hi, please add this EP to Allmusic. I have compiled the information for this collection and the credits.

    Album Title : Ali Hosseinzadeh Singles, Vol. 1

    Artist : Ali Hosseinzadeh

    Composer : Ali Hosseinzadeh

    Type : EP

    Format : Digital

    Release Data : 2022-03-16

    Barcode : 5063010607541

    Album Genre : Pop

    Label : Ali Hosseinzadeh

    Track Numbers : 4

    Track 1 : Yerooz Miyay

    Time : 3:03

    Track 2 : Gerye Dare

    Time : 2:52

    Track 3 : Sahme Man

    Time : 2:48

    Track 4 : Afsaneh

    Time : 3:14

    Track Credits

    Yerooz Miyay

    Produced By Ali Hosseinzadeh

    Guitar (Electric) By Ali Hosseinzadeh

    Guitar (Classical) By Amir Tabari

    Gerye Dare

    Produced By Ali

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    Request to add similar albums to this record

    stick · 1 · Last reply by stick

    Hello, I would like to request to add Similar Albums and Moods and Themes to the album Yadet Biar by Ali Hosseinzadeh. Information on similar albums Moods and Themes as well as Genre and Styles of the album Yadet Biar is given here. Please update this album. (https://www.allmusic.com/album/yadet-biar-mw0003357482)

    Genre : Pop

    Styles : Electronica, Iranian, Middle Eastern Pop, Persian,

    Recording Location : Tehran, Iran

    Similar Albums : 

    Donya By Arash (https://www.allmusic.com/album/donya-mw0001672827)

    Pop Corn By Shadmehr (https://www.allmusic.com/album/pop-corn-mw0003009958)

    Tanhaee By Andy (https://www.allmusic.com/album/tanhaee-mw0000233876)

    Taj-E-Taraneh By Ebi (https://www.allmusic.com/album/taj-e-taraneh-mw0000592775)

    Moods 

    Melodic

    Yearning

    Regretful

    Gloomy

    Dramatic

    Themes

    Heartbreak

    Loss/Grief

    Separation

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    linking external reviews

    rootsmusic · 1 · Last reply by Zac

    Since you "don't have the staffing or bandwidth to implement other data sources at this time", how about letting users to link reviews from professional critics?  Because Xperi has downsized its editorial staff, you've allowed users to write user reviews.  But most users aren't as eloquent and as knowledgeable as professional critics, so many user reviews aren't professional quality.  Moreover, user reviews are more likely to be motivated by favortism or by personal hate.

    By linking to external reviews from professional critics, Allmusic would still be the one-stop website for users to find professional reviews despite fewer being penned by

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    "Ride the Cliché" or... Just a Mystery?

    Marcio Hendrik · 0 · Posted

    Hello AllMusicians,

    Yesterday I went to the vinyl store to check the naivety of the phonorecord industry - or worse - of the consumer. 

    Have you guys noticed that "Tate McRae" album just coincides with... Deftones latest ? 

    Or is it the same woman ???

    Please help me out to uncover this mystery!

    Marcio Hendrik

    Composer and Editor

    artigoaudio.com

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    Please add more preferred streaming services

    Elektronen · 2 · Last reply by Zac

    Hello. I would like to see Bandcamp added to the available preferred streaming service choices. Thanks.

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    enable multiple selections for credits at album-level

    rootsmusic · 0 · Posted

    On an album page, I'm hoping that it's easy to enable multiple selections for credited roles (like the credits section on an artist page).  Doing so would be especially helpful for credits of multi-disc albums.

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    outsourcing data-entry

    rootsmusic · 0 · Posted

    Not only are there missing albums, but Xperi's data is also becoming more and more incomplete for albums that its editors aren't reviewing.  For many of these albums, Xperi has decided to skip data-entry of track listings or credits or composers.  If Xperi is earning more from its customers, the customers are getting less data in return.

    I think that Xperi would be happy to reduce its workload for data-entry to only albums that its editors are reviewing.  By reducing its workload this way, Xperi would cut its operating costs.  I also think that Xperi would be willing to pay

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    expand user base

    rootsmusic · 2 · Last reply by rootsmusic

    In order to survive, Allmusic needs to expand its user base.  Doing so will add more subscribers, at the risk of pandering to commercialism, minimizing indie artists and feeding into the marketing cycle.  If social media pop can become viral, then Allmusic should jump on the TikTok bandwagon.

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    An export feature would be nice

    Sheldon Zimmerman · 1 · Last reply by Zac

    An export feature would be nice in case your site ever goes down and I lose all my data like I did the last time your site went through a reorganization.

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    make credits page more useful

    rootsmusic · 2 · Last reply by rootsmusic

    Garth Hudson was so talented and musically brilliant on a variety of instruments.  I'm revisiting his credits playing on other artists' sessions.  Since there's no advanced credits search (which would be a better idea than this one), below are some ideas to make the credits page more useful.

    1. Allow filter to exclude composer as credited role.
    2. Add filter for main albums and EPs.
    3. Show editor ratings.
    4. Show icon if editor reviewed album.