JukaForever

What I get to look upon everyday in front of me
 

 
what posters do you have in your room?

You might note that I bolded and capitalized the word "INTENTIONALLY", you know, to put emphasis on the fact that I was referring to uploaders who know exactly what they're doing.  ; )

Well said, I don't really care much for credits for the same reasons.
 
On the bitrates, its actually pretty hard to distinguish 128 to 320 MP3, especially with a genre of rock where there is a lot of distortion in the music. The differences can be much more obvious with none electrical instruments and you have the ear to hear for the notes played. The main reasons for obvious bad 128 is the encoding by ones like Windows Media Player or other suspect software that does weird stuff such as lowering volumes and reducing dynamic range to reduce file size.
 
I have done my fair share of ABX with 128, 192, VBR V0, 320 and FLAC as well as MP3 vs AAC. From my findings, VBR V0 and up is pretty much transparent to CD quality but it is pretty hard to ABX 320 MP3 and lower bitrates especially VBR ones. I suggest people test it themselves and see their limits of audible difference between the various bitrates. I use LAME encoder and have settled with VBR V0 if I were to compress to MP3 but still understand that the lower bitrates are still hard to distinguish from each other.

Your write-ups are awesome, for the introduction of the artist especially while listening to a sampler at the same time. 

I had most of my first Japanese music collection downloaded from various sites but I was an avid CD/DVD buyer ever since I was able to work when I was younger. I wasn't much of a downloader since I didn't have to and anything I downloaded was free such as mixtapes. Since a credit card was needed for overseas purchase, I couldn't really do anything about downloading until I had to turn of age when the bank could finally accept me. So now I upload as a sort of repayment to the community? as way to give thanks back as well as let something happen to some person what has happened to me which is discover new wonderful music to listen to.
 
Special shout out to those that upload such unobtainium amazing stuff that I would never have probably discovered them myself.
 
CAT5, how come you didn't answer your own question?

Question for the uploaders in this forum or other site, what is the most downloads you have for a single release? Assuming you have a way of keeping track. I am genuinely curious.
 
Mine is Light Bringer - Scenes of Infinity MP3 ver with about 1100 DLs so far. I didn't expect so many, I thought it would be something like 300-500.
 
Interestingly things I noticed go through my uploads, most of the comments I get in 4shared are those that are Spanish. And none of my lossless uploads get past 20 DLs which is why lossless is now a request only for me to do.

oh wow, I guess you have the record so far and I didn't expect that band to have that many interests...well I am not much of a fan of Oshare Kei but that is interesting.
 
I don't think youtube view count = popularity necessarily. A better, although minimally, away to assess popularity is the relation between view count AND likes ratio. There are many indie artists that have like ratios of 1000:1 with maybe 10k views while other more "popular" artists have large view count and terrible like ratios. So I don't think view count really equates being liked for their music.
 
I noticed that Russia has many sites with flac uploaders as well, the download speed is pretty slow in comparison to servers closer to me but no sense to cry over it.

I don't really care about an artists personal life. But if I were to look at it that way, it is just a basic question of morals I guess. A very weak one at that since if you look at people in general, a great majority of which will also spend money on stupid shit but that stupid shit would be a matter of opinion. So should we stop paying people money and leave them jobless too??
 
People will look for contentment differently, to some it maybe spending money on expensive materials, consuming illegal substance or obtaining sex and to some ice cream is plenty.
 
 
Music wise, I pay for the music first and foremost and other merchandise second. I am currently in a falling out with Hizaki and camp. It's disappointing personally since he one of the first artist I have grown to love for the work and I have to ultimately stop supporting after so long, I just can't dump my money on a shitty sounding band.
 
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I don't think artists gain much from CD sales though, I was under the impression live gigs generate more revenue. 

Quite old news, I am already waiting for their next collab. If you haven't tried Delicious by Gacharic Spin yet, I recommend you to do so as the energy is brought over from DOLL$BOXX right after.

Don't bother with amping unless the headphone really needs it

Don't bother with amping unless the headphone really needs it

But he is a vampire, he will live forever. Besides, graves are dirty and too confined.

But he is a vampire, he will live forever. Besides, graves are dirty and too confined.

Juka... brown really isn't your color bring back the silver hair!

Current system is fine right now although I would like the people more versed in proper tagging to do so for the uploader. Some uploaders are just bad at tagging, including me.

I am pretty sure my mom has no specific musical interest but my dad, I guess, used to(too busy and saving money is a higher priority for him) listen to jazz or whatever the "hell, earth, wind and fire" and beatles. However, I got my dad hooked into a Wu-Tang album and even asked me if he can take the album with him overseas, his favourite rapper is now GZA. My mom can hum along with Versailles though, she didn't seem to mind me forgetting and leaving the Holy Grail CD in her car for like 4 months.

Vo.百合(yuri) has mentioned in his twitter:
 

Last 3 releases of Capella

So I really like this group so far and found this interview
 

 
which defo deserves more views if you are a Capella fan. I liked the explanation of their previous singles and it matched my emotional response to the song even though I didn't know what it was about at that time.

Crepes. 
 
Instant point for you. Actually I'll use any chemical in a spray bottle to kill them .___. I used got 2 b glue hairspray on one once... it froze instantly so i told it "That's right you sit there and think about what you did."

Top 5 countries you'd like to visit and why?

no
 
I use hairspray to kill spiders too ^.^
 
If it didn't have its bad nutritional value, what junk food would you have as part of a daily meal?

Actually I don't think Denmark and Sweden is very similar. I know for sure (because I've done it) that teenagers go by boat to Denmark to buy liquor. But maybe that's just because you can buy alcohol at the age of 15 instead of 22 as in Sweden. I do however recall that it was also cheaper. But it was a long time ago now so

I don't mind sharing personally, it's how I discover new artists all the time, its just the attitude of the people that requests stuff that is very irking

Well..... At least they look fantastic!
 
Nostalgie is way better than Scarlet which is absolutely boring as hell and sounds exactly like Aria to me.

The real X or more specifically Hide and Taiji together with the rest of X