31 days.. give or take

So it has taken about a month to get the music from various places, discs from all over the place, my bedroom, the basement...  And those spools of dvd full of music and the repeats that are likely there.. Actually I know they are there..  A 32 (29) GB flashdrive that is nearly full and backed with a SD card that isn't full but has music that needs to be run through.. Then there is that question looming, if it all won't fit at 128kbps why not take it down to the next setting??  Truth is that would be fine but there is a part of me that wants this to be quite listenable and not be shitty.. So this needs to be the cutoff.. Also a lot of the music I was getting from the dvd discs is stuff that I already have.. Just cleaned up because it is from disc and gotten from a place where you used to could get music fairly easily.. (wink wink)  The music that will eventually be on the 32GB drive will be everything that I want to have on the computer.. There likely will be more but this is to be the "A"  rating stuff, the no shit this is the best of what I got on here.. You want to share??  Here's my  F drive and this really is me.. There is nearly nothing from American music from the last ten years..   What blows me away is the music I have.. I haven't listened to compact disc in quite a while..  I set the roku to whatever radio app (channel) and enjoy it that way.. If I get a mp3 player it will have to be able to handle the 32GB that I currently have.. And the number of songs on that??  Good question..  It is many.. Found all four Wrabit albums... Seven GUN albums..   Have had some of that on tape.. What blew me away the most.. Most of the compact discs I made with that old Pioneer disc recorder are still usable..  blew me away.. The lifespan of burned discs from a computer is about five years, some last longer.. These discs.. The Gun double set and Wrabit were the first three I did and all three are in excellent shape.. All done in 2001...  Think where you were in February of that year.. i was recording my record collection to disc, and most of the time these sessions were done at a bright and early two in the morning to keep the front door closing downstairs from making the arm and needle on my turntable from jumping out of the tracks being played..  yeah, it was that important..    And now they are pretty much all available to be listened to..  Took about a month to load the music and still there is some that needs evaluated as to weather I want all that or not..  Changing the files to 128kbps sample rate.. Went through updating to windows 10 and return from that abyss, and continued on..  Then I will load the music to computer to do full evaluation and check of the tracks that are doubled up.. Which will be kept, which will be deleted.. This is the first time I included live tracks en mass..  Last time it was all studio no matter what.. This time live was taken and decided to double the tracks, get the studio and the live where it seemed like a good idea.. Started from Z and went to A... Zevon To Abba..   Took longer than I thought   And then check the