I'm pretty all over the place with music. Sometimes I write little folk pop songs. Sometimes I compose elecrtonic & video game music. & sometimes I also like to play around with writing procedural music programs!
In 2023 I put together a big archive of many of my old music projects & released it as Nash's Mega Music Bundle on itch.io. It's about 700MB, so I wanted to make sure itch was getting a little money whenever people downloaded it, so it costs $3 over there. However! Really I want them to be free downloads, so recently I have created a .torrent file where you can get the whole bundle (or your pick of the contents) peer-to-peer style--for free!
I'm working on organizing this a little bit better & creating a directory with details about the tracks & the different projects in the bundle, but it's going to take a bit, so for now I'm just sharing the torrent file & this Full Track List PDF.
If you're new to or unfamiliar with torrenting: You'll need a BitTorrent client (a program that opens the torrent file & uses it to coordinate your downloads). I use Transmission, which seems to be a pretty common one (it came installed by default with my OS). Torrenting is a way of sharing files between a variety of computers instead of downloading them directly from a single server. Your BitTorrent program will let you download the music from my bundle, and if you leave it running it will also share it with other people who might be trying to download it. That cuts down on server costs, so if for some reason a million people suddenly get interested in one of my old songs, my website won't crash & everybody will still get to download them!
You may have heard of torrenting in conjunction with pirating, as people often pirate media through torrents. But torrenting itself is not illegal--it's the copyright infringement part that makes it pirating. In this case, I'm the rights holder to all this music, and I'm giving you permission to download it for free & also to seed it to other torrent users (they call it 'seeding' when you share the file you downloaded with others). But please note! All other rights on my music are still reserved!! So while you're free to torrent them, that doesn't include permission to modify them, republish them, or use them in other works or for promotional purposes. If you want to use one of my tracks for something extra, reach out to me to see if it's alright. I also prefer if you direct people to my site to download the .torrent file itself, rather than redistributing it, since a file hosted elsewhere could have been manipulated to direct to a different download.