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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by hammerhands[/i] [br]Can anyone point me to a good music reference site? I was using allmusic.com to research discographies. It changed recently, they make you "sign-up" to access Credits. Credits had a list of albums that the musician had appeared on. It's useless to look up a Jazz musician's discography and only see albums where he is the leader. What a joke. As much as I like this forum, I refuse to sign-in to most websites. Give me your cookies, give me your pop-ups, but I have no intention of inching toward the pay-to-learn model. Why can't I find one myself? There's another sore spot. I've been playing around with this 'Internet' since the time of Archie and the Lynx browser, when Usenet was the preferred communications vehicle, even before smileys. There was, for a short time, a balance between the quantity and quality of content but now there is so much garbage for and so much manipulation and commercialization of search engines that a non-specific search (one of less than eight words) yields many dozens of garbage links. Garbage in, Garbage out. I don't have the inclination for this anymore; I spend so much of my life looking for lost objects, I refuse to bring this psychotic behaviour to the web. I spent 30 minutes following links and leads and came up empty. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.