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Hieronder de info zoals ik die in de betreffende groepen heb geplaatst:

NOTES ABOUT THIS SET and DDSI numbers
Complete Abbey Road Sessions (Purple Chick verson 1.1 with patches)

The Beatles
January, 1969
"A/B Road" session tapes
Also known as The Nagra Reels

COMPLETE SET version 1.1
83 CDs
2187 tracks
97 hours, 44 minutes, 7 seconds

Twickenham Studios (Part 1)
Apple Studios (Part 2)

You need Purple Chick's "A/B Road" series. Period. No doubt, using "Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image" as a template. Purple Chick has compiled every extant moment from the Nagra A and B rolls and edited them together in sequence.

In January, 1969, virtually every moment of The Beatles' rehearsals and recording sessions were captured on audio tape as part of the project that ultimately became the film "Let It Be." For the first part of the month, at Twickenham Film Studios in London, The Beatles' performances were only preserved on small 16 minute long mono tapes (known as "Nagra" reels) that were recorded for use as the film soundtrack.

Two different tape recorders were running (usually off of the same sound feed), resulting in what was termed "A" and "B" roll Nagra recordings. The "A" rolls generally ran the full 16 minute length of the tape. The "B" rolls were more fragmentary, but often captured performances or dialogue missed while the "A" roll operator was changing reels. In addition, once the sessions shifted to Apple Studios on January 21st, Glyn Johns began recording multi-track tapes of The Beatles' sessions which, again, sometimes captured performances not heard on either the "A" or "B" roll Nagra recordings.

In 2004, Purple Chick collated these recordings, and issued them in a series of CDs called "A/B Road."
These are now the most readily available source for the "Get Back" sessions material.

I started trying to collect this set 6 years ago. It gets seeded all kinds of ways. One disc here, one disc there. Very frustrating to try to collect a set this big that way. Like most people, I only had some pieces.

A gentleman named alGo did manage to collect these though, as they were first being posted. He notes:

This was all downloaded from easytree and then later dimeadozen. It was upped by PC_Eclipse and later by hexer, and, supposedly, they got their sets directly in flac format from Purple Chick (mmm PC and PC_Eclipse. Never thought of that. Who knows...).
They were seeded in small batches of maybe two or three cds. I've made one directory for each day and then put the correspondant discs there, like it should be.
Some of the uploaded files had defects and patches were uploaded. Those patches are already applied, as was a later patch from PC to one of the tracks. So this is AB road 1.1 instead of 1.0.
In a disc or two an 'unofficial' patch was uploaded and suggested too. I have NOT replaced the original PC track, but I've put them on a directory inside that disc so everyone can judge and replace it where neccesary.

Some of the first batches (that started with the appple sessions) were originally in shn format. Personally, I can't stand shn so I reconverted them to flac level 8 using Flac Frontend. Hope no one really minds about it.

So, alGo did a lot of further work to organize this set. I was still unhappy with having to reference a track list document to browse 2100+ files, so I have named all the tracks, combined into a single folder and added FLAC tags. This is the most complete presentation of this historic set, of thousands of reels, you will find anywhere. All tracks have been meticulously labeled to include all info for easy browsing, including the DDSI take numbers.

DDSI numbers were published by Doug Sulpy when these tracks were initially pieced together and cataloged, in order of recording, for the most part, and presented in the book, "Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image (DDSI).

TRACK TITLE FORMAT IS:
Month.Day - Disc-Track - Title DDSI#.flac
example:
Jan.02 - D1-35 - Sun King 2.24.flac
Not all tracks from Purple Chick were assigned the DDSI numbers,
so some are just in-between takes.