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All Media Guide (commonly known as AMG), is the company which owns and maintains Allmusic, Allgame and Allmovie. AMG was founded in 1990 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine.

AMG offices, Ann Arbor

The company was founded in Big Rapids, Michigan in 1991, in order to create a comprehensive archive of all music. AMG moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan 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 (now Rovi) announced on November 6, 2007 that it had agreed to purchase All Media Guide.^[1] 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 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.

Products[link]

Lasso[link]

In late-2004, AMG launched a new product called LASSO. AMG LASSO is a media recognition service that automatically recognizes CDs, DVDs, and digital audio files such as MP3, Ogg, AAC, and WMA files. Once media is recognized, metadata from AMG's All Music and All Movie databases is delivered directly to the player. LASSO is available as an SDK 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.^{[citation needed]}

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A media guide is a sports-related press kit, distributed as a book or binder, and published by American sporting teams before the start of the sporting season. It features information relating to the team players, history, statistical records and other similar items. Media guides are usually distributed to sports journalists to assist in their broadcasting of the team game.

While generally not sold in retail stores, media guides for professional sports teams are often available in their online stores or home web sites. Many major college and university sport media guides are available in electronic format for free on their home web sites. Following the end of the season, the printed media guides are often discarded or given to fans of the team.

Media guides have existed since at least the 1970s and provide one of the few detailed sources of comprehensive historical athletic data before the Department of Education and National Collegiate Athletic Association requirements of the 1980s.

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• Press kit

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