.... Thank you for this information. I am slowly developing the idea of a music catalogue for audiophiles and collectors that would require tight data entry controls to ensure integrity of materials and either "sight of record" or many sources to corroboate the information. But each time I pause for breath the project expands and the technology demands seem to rise. It is growing out of a need to catalogue over 100,000 records as there are certainly many duplicates there and it is getting hard to remember what one has and what one doesn't have.The "Abrams files" are a set of text-based data files compiled by Steve Abrams, which provide label/number/matrix/credited artist for about 300,000 78rpm phonorecord sides, give/take. They do NOT include classical-series phonorecords...and their
However, they provide a foundation on which to construct the ultimate 78rpm database...a list of EVERY 78rpm disc ever issued...!