Where do you guys get your Japanese music from? I would use Jpopsuki, but using bittorrent is kinda dangerous at my school.

Depends. If it's a famous band you can usually get some stuff on big torrent sites. For single songs, I usually rip them from youtube. If it isn't on youtube, you can check IRC channels... lots of Japanese stuff on Rizon.

If I really want something which is impossible to find, I ask my girlfriend to buy the CD for me... hasn't really happened yet though, I usually find the music eventually.

jmp3.net is great site they regularly update their songs almost every week you can search songs by Bands (japanese of course) and the best part all free.

oh oh and no stupid torrents all direct download!

jmp3.net was nice, fast downloads. Pretty limited collection though, they didn't have anything by Canary Club or The possible.

wait you something better cause if you do i would like to kno it

I use imeem.com in combination with Free Music Zilla to get most of my Japanese music these days. I also like Hongfire.com or something similar to that, all the downloads are direct and they even had Mean Machine's album "CREAM" which seems to be pretty rare.

Tobberoth Wrote:jmp3.net was nice, fast downloads. Pretty limited collection though, they didn't have anything by Canary Club or The possible.

Weird, I can never get more than 1-2KB/s from there.

Jarvik7 Wrote:

Tobberoth Wrote:jmp3.net was nice, fast downloads. Pretty limited collection though, they didn't have anything by Canary Club or The possible.

Weird, I can never get more than 1-2KB/s from there.

Whew. Thought it was just me. I was getting 3k/s yesterday and was about to post that it was dead slow and torrents were far preferable to me. Then I saw the 'fast' post and decided better of it.

wccrawford Wrote:

Jarvik7 Wrote:

Tobberoth Wrote:jmp3.net was nice, fast downloads. Pretty limited collection though, they didn't have anything by Canary Club or The possible.

Weird, I can never get more than 1-2KB/s from there.

Whew. Thought it was just me. I was getting 3k/s yesterday and was about to post that it was dead slow and torrents were far preferable to me. Then I saw the 'fast' post and decided better of it.

Yeah, I tried yesterday night and I got about 10-15 kb/s for one song. Then I just said screw it and started downloading like 7 or 8 songs at a time and they all seemed to still cap at about 10-15 kb/s, so even that was better than just one song at a time.

I do like the selection the site offers though. They have a lot of artists that I know of, and many new ones as well.

KREVA Wrote:

wccrawford Wrote:

Jarvik7 Wrote:Weird, I can never get more than 1-2KB/s from there.

Whew. Thought it was just me. I was getting 3k/s yesterday and was about to post that it was dead slow and torrents were far preferable to me. Then I saw the 'fast' post and decided better of it.

Yeah, I tried yesterday night and I got about 10-15 kb/s for one song. Then I just said screw it and started downloading like 7 or 8 songs at a time and they all seemed to still cap at about 10-15 kb/s, so even that was better than just one song at a time.

I do like the selection the site offers though. They have a lot of artists that I know of, and many new ones as well.

You'd say "screw it" at 15 kb/s...?

Australia truly is a third world country.

Edit: donations most welcome

The site won't let me download. Firefox will say the download is complete, but the file didn't download at all.

lol i use firefox too and sometimes that happens to me just come back again alter and it might work thats what i do and i've downloaded a crap load of music from jmp3

I use Ares, I get most of my stuff from there.
Its pretty good and hasn't brought any problems on my computer.

cameron_en Wrote:I use imeem.com in combination with Free Music Zilla to get most of my Japanese music these days. I also like Hongfire.com or something similar to that, all the downloads are direct and they even had Mean Machine's album "CREAM" which seems to be pretty rare.

Imeem has been acting like a twat recently.
It won't let me download Midicronica. ;o;

google 'em
tainted-world (rock)
japandata
livejournal communities
sometimes blogs
I download so much, i have like 30gb+ now. some are so hard to find but they mad good so its' worth it.

just keep googling and you'll find the blog/community/forum/etc that has the kind of music you like. just keep branching out, cause mainstream is gonna kill your growth like j-pop as far as lyrics.

or google WITHOUT QUOTES "name of band album megaupload"
or replace megapuload with mediafire.