Major Disappointment of the Year

Posted by: David Stewart on 08 December 2002

CD-Now's highly informative and useful web-site, complete with comprehensive discographies, artist biographies, recording credits etc. disappearing and being swallowed up by Amazon.

Suddenly all the interesting stuff has gone and all you get now is a carbon copy of Amazon's own anodyne and superficial site, which on a rating of 1-10 scores about minus 3 for content and usability.

That really is my 'downer' of the Year - what's yours?
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David

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Posted on: 08 December 2002 by David Tribe
If you go to www.allmusic.com you will find what I belive to be the source of the content used in the cd now bios etc.. I did not do an exhaustive comparison, but it seemed that the cd now info was a "lite" version of the AMG offering.

DCT
Posted on: 08 December 2002 by fred simon
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Originally posted by David Tribe:
If you go to http://www.allmusic.com you will find what I belive to be the source of the content used in the cd now bios etc.. I did not do an exhaustive comparison, but it seemed that the cd now info was a "lite" version of the AMG offering.

DCT


Yes, that's right. The only caveat, and it's a major one, is that AMG's information is not always accurate. For instance, under my own listing, some (but not all) of my recordings are listed, as well as those of an older tenor sax player also named Fred Simon who played with Lionel Hampton and dizzy Gillespie as far back as the 1940s. No matter how many times I've written to politely ask them to amend their info (they provide a form to do so) they have never even responded, much less correct the mistakes.

Bottom line: all info on the web is suspect until proven accurate.
Posted on: 12 December 2002 by David Stewart
Having looked at the AMG web-site in detail, it seems the information is much the same as that which CD-Now used to have but it won't allow you to link directly to an artist profile, so it's virtually useless for my purposes.

I use the Music Collector cataloguing system and had set it up so there was a direct link to each artist's profile on CD-Now, which was very useful. These links are now dead and I can't re-link them to AMG - so a useful facility is now caput thanks to Amazon.

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