Reddit, I've taken some time to crawl the internet and combine my findings into a single collection to share with you all. I'm going to post this around in various places because I believe that this should be shared with as many individuals as possible.
I made sure to crawl a large variety of websites and eliminate any duplicate files (I did this via checksum not filename and kept the longest file name). However there's a large amount of files that aren't as descriptive as others due to the way they were hosted and the way the page displayed the track data. While a humungous amount of these are clearly obvious, some may not be, just a warning!
That being said, this is the largest midi collection on the internet spanning numerous repositories past and present. I've done a lot of work to crawl hundreds of sites, download their entire publicly available midi (I didn't crawl paywall content but I've peaked behind and it's not much better than what's available in public), keep the best named uniques and organize them into a folder.
Genres include: Pop, Classical (Piano/Violin/Guitar), EDM, VideoGame, Movie/TV Theme
I made this collection with the intent of ensuring that a large amount of well created music wasn't lost due to the sands of time or the frustration of 5 file downloads per hour restrictions. I feel like all producers could benefit from having a profoundly large swath of midi files at their fingertips for inspiration, reference or remix purposes. This is a large collection, with a large amount of content creators, too many to reference here and their identities are generally impossible to know. Some will be spot on and miraculous; others will sound like total garbage. I didn't go through it by hand due to not having 15 lifetimes of spare time. You get to download the collection and taste de jour.
This is a reference tool kit and like all things, is not flawless but does the job well. Also I discovered that many sites with impressive looking file counts don't even come close to their listed size; not all but most are running 1/10th of their posted file counts. Enjoy and make lots of music!
130,000 Midi File Collection 3.65Gb Uncompressed / 1.02 Gb Compressed ZIP ||
https://mega.co.nz/#!Elg1TA7T!MXEZPzq9s9YObiUcMCoNQJmCbawZqzAkHzY4Ym6Gs_Q
Pastebin Sample of Structure: http://pastebin.com/Q50iwHmb
With Love,
The Midi Man
:-)
Edit: Looking for some Song Stems to accompany your MIDI :)?
https://www.reddit.com/r/SongStems/comments/1vqwj2/i_got_more_stems_than_ive_got_gray_hairs_and/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SongStems/comments/17eiwr/hey_guys_i_finally_got_my_16ish_gig_stem/
These guys have done fantastic work; it's about 27Gb combined and quite comprehensive. Get on those remixes!
edit2: MagnetLink for Torrent provided by /u/trentula -- thanks bud!
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7E26D029E2D0A0635E26C445594AC4D44E217A95&dn=130000_Pop_Rock_Classical_Videogame_EDM_MIDI_Archive%5b6_19_15%5d.zip&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80
edit3: The Drums of Passion are here for your pleasure: https://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/3anwu8/the_drum_percussion_midi_archive_800k/
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