No joy with Firebird.
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Yep. I've heard that the new site doesn't work with Mozilla/Firebird. Idiots.
Yeah, I hate the new allmusic interface. It looks like they organized a crack team of experts in dambuilding to create it.
What's weird is that it's gone live even though it doesn't seem to be finished. I just checked the "What's New" page in the new Help Center and got a page of "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit" etc. Idiots.
IE's market share is actually declining for the first time ever, and Mozilla/Firebird are increasing their market share. A dumb time to switch to an IE-only site. (But maybe they intend to support Mozilla/Firebird/Opera, and just haven't gotten it working yet....)
edit: I just got it to load in Mozilla/OS X.
but more importantly, the entry on me has lost all but my Lothars credit!
Clear Channel owns it now, and you're one o' them pinko types, so it's not surprising. </lying through my teeth>
maybe they intend to support Mozilla/Firebird/Opera, and just haven't gotten it working yet...
You would think they'd get the bugs worked out *before* they went live.
Huh. So the Lothars are "followers" of Brian Eno....
I actually have never heard any Lothars. I should remedy that....
Also:
Notice: You are accessing allmusic.com with a browser that is not currently supported. The appearance and functionality of the site could be impacted. allmusic.com is optimized for Internet Explorer 5.5 and above for Windows.
Fuck them.
edit: Same warning on Safari 1.0.2. I deinstalled IE on my Mac so I can't try that....
I found the contact page to submit comments. Here's what I wrote:
1. Not convinced yet that the new design is an improvement over the old. Other than the song samples, I'm not seeing why it's better.
2. Why go live with the new design when then are still unfinished pages? In searching for contact info, I found a few populated with latin gibberish.
3. In this day and age, when more and more people are moving *away* from the Windows/IE combination, it's inexcusable that the new design doesn't work on Macs or on Mozilla/Firefox!
4. Worst of all, my own personal entry seems to have been stripped of all my musical credits save for one band. What's up with that? Note: the "worst of all" part is a joke (barely).
Did I mention they were idiots?
I also sent a note to the freelancer who's reviewed the Lothars stuff. He wrote back:
"I'd say, send notes of strongly worded but polite complaint. It will benoticed..."
So get to it folks! uhhh... as long as you've got IE on Windows...