king ubu Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 I can't open the discography of an artist, it just re-loads the overview page again and again, no matter how often I try (using MSIE, being at work... not sure if it works at home, haven't tried - but then AMG is bad enough only to kill time while at work but looking things up there while at home would be a waste of time anyway...) I tried with the Nat King Cole page, yesterday I tried with others... that site is getting worse and worse, it seems... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted February 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Anyone else has that problem? I've already experienced it last week, on another computer with MSIE. And sometime back Opera was the browser not being able to cope with AMG... (and I kept having MSIE among other reasons for AMG...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 (edited) Anyone else has that problem? I've already experienced it last week, on another computer with MSIE. And sometime back Opera was the browser not being able to cope with AMG... (and I kept having MSIE among other reasons for AMG...) i am a reasonably happy user of msie (at home, not here at work) and never had that problem, the site never worked well sometimes forcing IE to shut down or timing out but the links always worked... will give it a try tonight (should have done that yesterday, sorry...) Edited February 12, 2008 by Niko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted February 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Anyone else has that problem? I've already experienced it last week, on another computer with MSIE. And sometime back Opera was the browser not being able to cope with AMG... (and I kept having MSIE among other reasons for AMG...) i am a reasonably happy user of msie (at home, not here at work) and never had that problem, the site never worked well sometimes forcing IE to shut down or timing out but the links always worked... will give it a try tonight (should have done that yesterday, sorry...) nah, I should have looked up my stuff at home yesterday and shouldn't have started this thread, really... but after AMG was done newly, it repeatedly shut dome Opera for me, too... and the timing out is contstantly there, all of the time (rather unlikely if I'm not doing anything else, but I don't need all that bandwidth I have just to browse AMG... what a waste that would be... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 1960 Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 I've had issues with the slowness of the site and I run off a cable modem. Sometimes the page wont even load.Sometimes when I hit the back button. then fwd button, then the page loads. Server issues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 I have the same problem as Tom. I always presumed the site continues to grow and grow in popularity and they aren't keeping up with server/broadband capacity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 It's been working as usual for me (Firefox, dial-up connection). I can access all pages, though they're a bit slow to load and there's the odd timeout when trying to load a page (which is almost always remedied by retrying). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 I have the same problem as Tom. I always presumed the site continues to grow and grow in popularity and they aren't keeping up with server/broadband capacity. That's how it's always seemed to me too. AMG is a good idea but fails in the execution. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 I'm creating an Excel sheet of all my music, and I've been using AMG to find the years and labels for some of the stuff. I've been experiencing the same thing with the Discography page, at random times. Sometimes it loads fast, sometimes it's slow, sometimes it "times out." The most aggravating thing is when they list the year of the reissue and not the year an album was recorded. There should be a different category for reissue year as opposed to recorded year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjluke68 Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 I'm surprised that they get the advertising that they do considering how often the site times out on me. Do these companies even check out their site when they sign up for advertising? Maybe AMG brings a laptop to the meeting which has a smaller local version that they use to 'wow' the companies with and, obviously, runs much faster. Sometimes it would be quicker to revert to the old AMG book that I have... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 AMG makes most of it's money providing feeds of it's data to most of the online music stores. The website (which despite it's errors, inconsistencies & bandwidth problems) is still the best tool of it's kind on the internet. I wouldn't be surprised if the website isn't highest on their priority list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 1960 Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Despite these problems, I still find AMG a terrific resource. I do miss the Jazz Guide books though. It's been many years since they came out with a new edition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 just tried and i can still open discographies (tested it with sun ra) with ie 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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