[78-L] Abrams files in EXCEL form

iñigo ciadelgramofono at yahoo.es.invalid
Sun Mar 20 14:49:40 PDT 2022


Some weeks ago someone (pardon my bad memory) marveled about including all Abrams files in a single practical database in EXCEL spreadsheet. I mentioned I had done it, and here it is, together with all Abrams original TXT files, as per October 2003; in this link you'll get my files, shared for anyone's interest.

- LABELS & SONGS files: LABELS has the introduction and explanations on the format of the txt files; SONGS is a list of all tune titles with composers.
- 72 LABEL files total 52.4Mb (each file has the sides sorted by issue number)
50 MATRIX files total 39.7 Mb (same information as above ---allegedly--- but sorted by catalog number instead)
1 XLS file with 339414 registers (made using all files, I don'r remember if it was the LABEL or the MATRIX series) total 26.5 Mb
The XLS file has the dates as given by Abrams (mm/dd/yy), but also arranged in an additional field as yyyy.mmdd for ease of sorting by date correctly.

https://app.box.com/s/0oecnoawed26kz3eafckmyz98u3zlgqs

The real goal now would be to repeat that using the tables in The Online Discographical Project https://www.78discography.com/, which started from these Abrams files, and those of Settlemier, but may be more updated. Maybe these are directly copiable into EXCEL... 

Inigo @ Madrid, SPAIN


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