New Ideas

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    add release info to Advanced Search

    rootsmusic · 1 · Last reply by rootsmusic

    In Advanced Search, please add release info.  I'm particularly interested in release info's "tribute" tag, because editorial coverage of tribute albums has been diminishing.

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    Where are those best tracks indications? I miss them. Can you return with the suggestions of best tracks?

    Melvin S Kohane · 3 · Last reply by Zac

    Where are those best tracks indications?

    I miss them.

    Can you return with All Music best pics? Albums and tracks?

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    Comments on new design

    Miomir Krsmanovic · 2 · Last reply by rootsmusic

    Firstly I will say that I'm your paid subscriber and that the wealth of information on your website is extremely valuable for me. I couldn't imagine my life without allmusic.com. Now about the new design, I have few comments to make while I still remember how the old site was. Search field I think is unnecessarily long, secondly sorting before was possible with a single click on a header. Now you have to click once on the pull-down menu and then 2nd time on the actual attribute. To me that sounds like double the work. Also before when I saw

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    Put Song Recommendations Back In!

    Please put the "best songs" recommendations back in for each album.  That was my single most used feature.  Why would you take that out?

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    Thumbs down feature

    Charles Alvarez · 4 · Last reply by Charles Alvarez

    All Music must do away with the “Thumbs Down” feature as there are trolls that “thumbs down” many of the truly informative reviews just for the sake of the feature being there.  The worthless reviews often stay up while I’ve had many posts removed. Is this something the admins can check on? 

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    Mid-year best so far?

    joe s · 1 · Last reply by joe s

    Please consider having a middle of the year "best of 202# so far...". Wouldn't need to be as extensive as the year end review, maybe a handful of albums from each of your critics. It would be a nice way to catch up with albums you highly recommend that people may have overlooked rather than wait 'til the end of the year. thanks.

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    1 star user reviews

    joe s · 3 · Last reply by Zac

    User reviews are mostly useful and helpful. However, I see way too many 1/2 start or 1 star review for albums that have average critic and user reviews of four stars or higher. Why do you allow those when clearly these people have agendas against the artist or genre and very likely didn't even listen to the album? You should at least require they explain themselves instead of one sentence comments. The latest I saw was Jessie Ware/That feels good, but there are many examples.

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    priority for reviews

    rootsmusic · 0 · Posted

    Zac explained: "Some albums tend to be announced, released, charting, and then practically forgotten within a matter of days, so we’re trying to prioritize coverage on the ones with some staying power."  Given a cut in the number of reviews, I agree with his theoretical explanation of Allmusic's priority.  Unfortunately in practice, Allmusic hasn't been very good adhering to that explanation.

    In terms of recording types, I'd prefer that Allmusic first prioritize reviews of original recordings (and reissues).  There can be few exceptions to this first priority if a live album or cover/tribute album is exceptional.  Even with original recordings

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    add instruments to Advanced Search

    rootsmusic · 0 · Posted

    Allmusic blogged about a "new wave of Cosmic Americana".  If Advance Search adds instruments as a filter, then pedal steel guitar can be combined with filters for "album moods" (and possibly "genres & styles") to try returning albums that could exemplify that undefined style.

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    review requests of underrepresented voices

    rootsmusic · 1 · Last reply by rootsmusic

    Overall, Allmusic's coverage of underrepresented voices is good especially for major-label artists that other publications also cover.  Major labels are rarely willing to take a chance on underrepresented voices, and their marketers may not know how to market music that doesn't fit programmed radio formats.  So simply advancing from indie releases to a record label's backing is a career milestone for underrepresented voices!  Sunny War has just reached that milestone, and many publications have reviewed her new release.

    Jake Blount has also reached that milestone, but I suspect that your editors slighted his release because they still consider Folkways Recordings

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    Expand International Genres and Sub Genres

    Will Whitney · 3 · Last reply by Zac

    I suggest expanding / separating international music genres. African music, for example, now has several very prominent, and very distinctive sub genres in the mainstream that are not represented here (Afrobeat, Afrobeats, Afro-pop, High Life, Amapiano, etc) that it should stand alone as a category, the way Latin is a standalone genre.

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    advance search result add user rating column

    joseph banks · 1 · Last reply by rootsmusic

    In advance search feature, it would be nice to add user rating column, so we can sort by that category.

    regards

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    The most unpleasant website I've every used

    Michael Mchlb · 1 · Last reply by Zac

    Just the most unpleasant website I've every used  - literally the most unpleasant, the most difficult, the most problematic. I know it's about monetizing but you couldn't be more annoying if you were actually trying to annoy. I click on something and an ad gets in the way, I try to type and suddenly I am clicking on an ad, I close out an ad and another ad pops up, I try to scroll and nothing happens or it causes a different ad to get in the way. You are a great resource but I am going to do my

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    Can you remove the thumbs down on the reviews? It hurts feelings or make it optional and for some you can disable?

    Britney · 1 · Last reply by Britney

    i dont like the thumbs down thing on allmusic. it hurt my feelings. I decided to delete my post on Taylor Swift's midnights because  crazy meanies keep on disliking it! It's driving me nuts! 

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    Add an entry?

    Lisa Dendy · 1 · Last reply by Zac

    Can you add an entry for Fievel is Glauque? Saw them this past Friday and they were incredible.

    https://fievelisglauque.com/

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    UFO’s live album Stranger in the night

    Arthur Laurey · 0 · Posted

    Since several YouTube blogs rank this album in AllTime Top 10 Live (Hard) Rock albums, as a standard procedure I checked AllMusic. To my surprise AllMusic doesn’t mention this album in the pretty long UFO Biography, on the other hand the AllMusic Critics Review starts with ‘Often overlooked live album’. Therefore my sugquestion is to mention and probably praise this album in the UFO Biography. You’re welcome & thank you.

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    lowly-rated albums don't deserve full reviews

    rootsmusic · 0 · Posted

    I'm suggesting time-management for your editors to review more deserving albums.  They shouldn't write full reviews for one-star ratings.  Rate one-star and skip the review!  I don't expect reviews for albums that were rated below 3-stars, which I doubt many users would read.

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    Advanced Search - Sort by Artist

    Matski · 2 · Last reply by Black Dragon

    Is there any chance of implementing a toggle to the artist name column, in the advanced search? Having the ability to order between artists alphabetically or reverse-alphabetically would be very helpful. It seems odd that the other three columns have this feature but this one doesn't.

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    willing to have fewer bios for more reviews

    rootsmusic · 1 · Last reply by rootsmusic

    I've praised Allmusic's bios when my expectations have been surpassed.  But frankly, most bios are like encyclopedic overviews that copy info from the discography into narrative form.  Rarely do bios go deeper by including a critical perspective of the artist's career development within the historical context of popular music.

    So to me, the most valuable sections of a bio are its "member of" and "collaborated with" sections because these sections help me to explore the artist's other projects.  As long as these sections are kept updated, then I'd be willing to not expect that the narrative bio be updated or