About 8 months ago, when I first got into torrenting, the first thing I uploaded was my Celtic music collection. I had been working on it for years, and was (am!) very proud of it. Since I’ve been doing this, I’ve learned a lot about how to fix tags and so forth, as well as significantly adding to it from various other torrents. The torrent gathered a lot of nice comments – thank you all – and some helpful comments.

Since then, the size of the thing has increased hugely. Not only through many purchased albums and some rare finds at garage sales and old record stores, but through some other torrents that are often very badly seeded. I am retorrenting the whole thing now as a version 2. I want to thank all the other uploaders who have helped make this possible, and pass along to any reader that you can surely search for the original torrents if you don’t want all the other accompaniments. I have normalized and corrected tags as far as I could, but these databases are faulty, and I am sure some mistakes remain. I have also converted all formats to mp3 for the iPod crowd and because FLAC sucks. Some of the purists are going to be pissy because I have reduced many 320 kbps recordings to 128 for the sake of saving size. Again, if you deeply care about bit rate you can find a lot of this collection in separate torrents at higher bit rates if you search individually, but they are usually badly seeded.

The torrent is quite large, but I am not using ZIP or RAR, so that people can pick and choose. Please help me keep this seeded once it is up, and all comments are welcome.

The original version is still out there and quite well seeded if you want to start with something smaller, and I want to make a major plug for another recent torrent – HISTORY OF IRELAND IN SONG VERSION 3. A helluva lot of work went into that one.

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