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I've had the opportunity to play around with it. It's more a sessionography than a discography--for the collector, it's a very useful tool to find or verify discographical details about the music one has. Not much use, however, if you want to research albums as albums. For example, you can search by leader, musician, tune, or recording session, or for a combination of musicians and tunes (up to three each, combined). There's no list or search function for albums, and no information on composers of songs, recording engineers, producers, any of that stuff. It's strictly who plays what on what tune, recorded when, with whom as leader. In the session details it does say what albums tunes were released on, but except for the main recording session for an album, albums are referred to by catalog number only. It sometimes takes detective work and lots of navigating to figure out what tunes were on what album if you don't already know.
My impression is that it's designed for professional discographers and researchers who can be expected to already have discographies by label that have the per-album view of things.
It's really quite exhaustive, but naturally is not up to date with everything that comes out now - Lord gives regular updates to people who have shelled out dough for the thing. It's not as good for Europe as for the United States. Still, for the period up to, I don't know, let's say 1990, it seems to have everything or close enough. Chris A. spits on it because he has found errors, but a thing this size without any errors is inconceivable.
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