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30-541: Allmusic gave a positive review, commenting that "White sticks with the formula, and ekes out another quiet triumph." By contrast, Slant Magazine opined that "there's a measure of sustained dreariness in the middling fulfillment of low expectations." Victorian America debuted and peaked at #113 on the French Albums Chart . It spent a total of 6 weeks on the chart, becoming her highest and longest charting album to date. Longtime collaborator Cam Archer directed

60-472: A DVD with RipGuard technology. The Analog Protection System (APS), also known as Analog Copy Protection (ACP), Copyguard or Macrovision, was the Macrovision Corporation's flagship product, a copy protection system for both VHS and DVD . Video tapes copied from DVDs encoded with APS become garbled and unwatchable. The process works by adding pulses to analog video signals to negatively impact

90-464: A database engineer, Vladimir Bogdanov , to design the All Music Guide framework, and recruited his nephew, writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine , to develop editorial content. In 1993, Chris Woodstra joined the staff as an engineer. A "record geek" who had written for alternative weeklies and fanzines, his main qualification was an "encyclopedic knowledge of music". 1,400 subgenres of music were created,

120-467: A feature that became central to the site's utility. In a 2016 article in Tedium , Ernie Smith wrote: "AllMusic may have been one of the most ambitious sites of the early-internet era—and it's one that is fundamental to our understanding of pop culture. Because, the thing is, it doesn't just track reviews or albums. It tracks styles, genres, and subgenres, along with the tone of the music and the platforms on which

150-646: A private equity-backed company; and its consumer websites to All Media Networks, a new company, in July 2013. Continuing on this path, the company made a similar announcement in January 2014 indicating its intent to sell the DivX and MainConcept businesses. On April 1, 2013, Rovi acquired Integral Reach, a provider of predictive analysis services. The technology would be integrated into Rovi's audience analysis services. In April 2013, Facebook began licensing Rovi metadata for use within

180-541: A series of publications about various music genres. It was followed by the Required Listening series, and Annual guides. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president and the main editor of the series. In August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its "Top 100 Classic Websites" list. TiVo Corporation TiVo Corporation , formerly known as the Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation ,

210-442: Is a cloud-based service that offers consumers entertainment choices similar to their chosen program, movie, album, track, musician or band. Rovi Advertising Service enables the monetization of entertainment platforms. It places ads that appear as content choices in application menus and user interfaces for set-top boxes, connected TVs, smartphones, tablets, Blu-ray players, game consoles and other devices. Rovi Audience Management

240-618: Is a suite of products (Advertising Optimizer and Promotion Optimizer) combining big data with predictive analytics to provide TV audience insights and advertising campaign management. Ad Optimizer allows provides campaign management and media planning capabilities to TV networks and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs). Promo Optimizer uses past viewing data to enable cable and broadcast networks to create plans for on-air promos. The company historically developed technologies and products that helped protect content from being pirated. Its two core legacy products were called RipGuard and

270-606: The AGC circuit of a recording device. In digital devices, changes to the analog video signal are created by a chip that converts the digital video to analog within the device. In DVD players , trigger bits are created during DVD authoring to inform the APS that it should be applied to DVD players' analog outputs or analog video outputs on a PC while playing back a protected DVD-Video disc. In set top boxes trigger bits are incorporated into Conditional Access Entitlement Control Messages (ECM) in

300-416: The 1990s, Macrovision acquired companies with expertise in managing access control and secure distribution of other forms of digital media, including music, video games, internet content, and computer software. Ryan (founder and CEO of Macrovision from June 1995 to October 2001) and William A. Krepick (president of Macrovision Corporation from July 1995 to July 2005 and CEO from October 2001 to July 2005) led

330-607: The Analog Protection System (APS). Macrovision introduced its RipGuard technology in February 2005. It was designed to prevent or reduce digital DVD copying by altering the format of the DVD content to disrupt the ripping software. Although the technology could be circumvented by several current DVD rippers such as AnyDVD or DVDFab, Macrovision claimed that 95% of casual users lack the knowledge and/or determination to be able to copy

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360-675: The Xperi name and have a combined value of $ 3 billion. TiVo had previously considered splitting out its hardware operations from its licensing operations. The merger was completed on June 1, 2020. In August 2022, TiVo announced the TiVo OS for smart TVs launching in 2023 in Europe with Vestel . Rovi provides guides for service providers and CE manufacturers. Rovi provides entertainment metadata for consumer electronics manufacturers, service providers, retailers, online portals and application developers around

390-581: The assets of Muze, Inc. on April 15, 2009. On July 16, 2009, Macrovision Solutions Corporation announced the official change of its name to Rovi Corporation. Rovi announced its first product on January 7, 2010 – TotalGuide, an interactive media guide that incorporated entertainment data, to search, browse and provide recommendations. On March 16, 2010, Rovi acquired MediaUnbound for an undisclosed amount. MediaUnbound had helped build static and dynamic personalization and recommendation engines for clients such as Napster, eMusic and MTV Networks. On June 16, 2010,

420-674: The company announced the Rovi Advertising Network which bundled guide advertising and third-party interactive TV platforms. On December 23, 2010, the company announced its intention to acquire Sonic Solutions and its DivX video software in a deal valued at $ 720 million. Sonic provided digital video processing, playback and distribution technologies and owned RoxioNow (formerly CinemaNow) an OTT technology provider. On March 1, 2011, Rovi announced its acquisition of online video guide SideReel . The company announced Amoroso's intention to retire on May 26, 2011. Tom Carson, formerly

450-436: The company through an IPO in 1997 priced at $ 9.00 a share. Under their leadership, the company went from a private company with sales of under $ 20 million to a global, publicly traded corporation with annual sales of $ 220 million and market cap exceeding $ 1 billion. In July 2005, the company hired Alfred J. Amoroso as chief executive officer and president to succeed William A. Krepick, who announced his retirement earlier in

480-471: The database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne . AllMusic was launched as All-Music Guide by Michael Erlewine , a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as

510-502: The dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard . After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan , he founded All Music Guide with a goal to create an open-access database that included every recording "since Enrico Caruso gave

540-529: The executive vice president of sales and marketing, was appointed CEO and President in December 2011. Under Carson the company shifted its focus on "growth opportunities related to its core enabling technology and services" and it announced that it intended to sell the Rovi Entertainment Store business. It entered into separate agreements to sell the Rovi Entertainment Store to Reliance Majestic Holdings,

570-621: The industry its first big boost". The first All Music Guide , published in 1992, was a 1,200-page reference book, packaged with a CD-ROM, titled All Music Guide: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes: The Expert's Guide to the Best Releases from Thousands of Artists in All Types of Music . Its first online version, in 1994, was a text-based Gopher site. It moved to the World Wide Web as web browsers became more user-friendly. Erlewine hired

600-566: The music is sold. It then connects that data together, in a way that can intelligently tell you about an entire type of music, whether a massive genre like classical, or a tiny one like sadcore ." In 1996, seeking to further develop its web-based businesses, Alliance Entertainment Corp. bought All Music from Erlewine for a reported $ 3.5 million. He left the company after its sale. Alliance filed for bankruptcy in 1999, and its assets were acquired by Ron Burkle 's Yucaipa Equity Fund. In 1999, All Music relocated from Big Rapids to Ann Arbor , where

630-516: The music videos for "Victorian America" (2009) and "A Shot Rang Out" (2010). The song "Liza" was featured on Pitchfork Media 's Forkcast list. This 2000s folk album-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG ) is an American online music database . It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands . Initiated in 1991,

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660-517: The sale, and as Rovi from 2009 until 2016). In 2012, AllMusic removed all of Bryan Adams ' info from the site per a request from the artist. In 2015, AllMusic was purchased by BlinkX, later known as RhythmOne . The AllMusic database is powered by a combination of MySQL and MongoDB . The All Media Network produced the All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide (at first released as The Experts' Guide ), which includes

690-540: The service. On April 29, 2016, Rovi Corporation announced that it had acquired TiVo Inc. for $ 1.1 billion. The combined company operated under the TiVo brand, and held over 6,000 pending and registered patents. Rovi plans to discontinue in-house hardware production, and focus primarily on licensing its technologies and the TiVo brand to third-party companies. In December 2019, TiVo Corporation announced their intent to merge with Xperi . The surviving entity will operate under

720-473: The software business unit closed on April 1, 2008, becoming Acresso Software . Macrovision also ultimately sold off parts of Gemstar-TV Guide not focused on digital entertainment, including TryMedia , eMeta , TV Guide Magazine , TV Guide Network and the TV Games Network . The company also bought two companies providing entertainment metadata: All Media Guide on November 6, 2007, and substantially all

750-407: The staff expanded from 12 to 100 people. By February of that year, 350,000 albums and two million tracks had been cataloged. All Music had published biographies of 30,000 artists, 120,000 record reviews and 300 essays written by "a hybrid of historians, critics and passionate collectors". In late 2007, AllMusic was purchased for $ 72 million by TiVo Corporation (known as Macrovision at the time of

780-435: The video industry. In 2016, Rovi acquired digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc. , and renamed itself TiVo Corporation. On May 30, 2019, TiVo announced the appointment of Dave Shull as the company's new president and CEO. On December 19, 2019, TiVo merged with Xperi ; the combined firm operates as Xperi. Macrovision Corporation was established in 1983 by Victor Farrow and John O. Ryan. The 1984 film The Cotton Club

810-638: The world. The company has over 50 years of metadata for video, music, books, and games covering more than 5 million movies and TV programs, 3.2 million album releases and 30 million song tracks, 9 million in-print and out-of-print book titles, and 70,000 video games. The metadata includes basic facts, local TV listings and channel line-ups for interactive program guides, original editorial, imagery, and other features. Rovi Search Service allows consumer electronics manufacturers, service providers, and developers to provide solutions that enable consumers to search for and access desired content. Rovi Recommendations Service

840-552: The year. Macrovision acquired Gemstar-TV Guide on May 2, 2008, in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $ 2.8 billion. The combined company would seek to be “the homepage for the TV experience,” said Mr. Amoroso. After the announcement of its intent to buy Gemstar-TV Guide , Macrovision made other changes in order to focus on entertainment technology, including selling its software business unit, valued at approximately $ 200 million, to private equity firm Thoma Cressey Bravo . The divestiture of

870-496: Was an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California . Now operating as Xperi , the company is primarily involved in licensing its intellectual property within the consumer electronics industry, including digital rights management , electronic program guide software, and metadata . The company holds over 6,000 pending and registered patents . The company also provides analytics and recommendation platforms for

900-412: Was the first video to be encoded with Macrovision technology when it was released in 1985. The technology was subsequently extended to DVD players and other consumer electronic recording and playback devices such as digital cable and satellite set-top boxes , digital video recorders , and portable media players . By the end of the 1980s, most major Hollywood studios were utilizing their services. In

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