Various useful sites

utilities

• Weeb shit reverse image search
• Everything else reverse image search
• Track packages within the UK
• Track packages from Japan - TODO, may not be correct
• pat gif generator
• bonk gif generator
• HH:MM:SS -> Seconds
• Seconds -> HH:MM:SS
• cloudconvert - convert x format to y format with minimal effort
• Lua beautifier
• DeepL - Machine Translator. better than google.
• Check for non-ASCII characters
• IBM Watson Speech-to-text
• Generate keyframes on windows (see the fansub meta-guide for what this is)
• English to カタカナ converter
• One-line HTTP server - Don’t use this for things you’re going to expose to the outside world!

music

consuming

• Audacious - best player
• Phonograph - best android player
• decent, reasonably-priced headphones

finding

• The YouTube algorithm
• last.fm - track your listening, take its recommendations
• Xerf Xpec - youtube channel with really good city pop, j-fusion, stuff

obtaining

• How to rip CDs in a right-thinking manner
• JPopsuki Asian Music tracker. private.
• Soulseek
  • Better client - the official one is garbage
• RecordCity - Japanese record site I have purchased from in the past

making sure it’s good

• What spectrals are and how they should be
• EAC log checker

weeb shit / japanese stuff

a lot of overlap with piracy/dodgy stuff, because where else do you get it (in good quality)
(no, crunchyroll and funimation are not good quality.)

• Nyaa - CJK content tracker. The only one worth caring about for anime.
  • The Deks - list of best releases
• JPTVClub - Japanese TV tracker. Pretty good for live-action and raw .ts files, shit for anime. private.
• Kitsunekko - Japanese subtitles for anime
• Animetosho - grabs attachments (including subs) from nyaa, and some other public trackers. also mirrors to various file hosts, but the links die in like 5 minutes so don’t even bother.

日本語

stuff that’s in japanese, for japanese people

• radiko - Official Simulradio site, has like every station (except NHK, sort of)
  • rajiko - Bypass geo-restrictions, download timeshifts, make live recordings
• Dodgy TV streams Dead.

free crap

piracy / dodgy stuff

• Working Sci-Hub mirror (in the UK)
• Torrents -> GDrive - May get you banned from Google Colab.
• snowfl - Torrent Meta-search. bypass blocks, kinda
• Vimm’s Lair - ROM site
• Dodgy curiositystream accounts
• Free* Google Team Drive *you pay by risking that one day it’ll get nuked by the people whose google cloud plan you’re using (and it’s google they’re mining your data etc etc)

not piracy

• Free Domains - Won’t be trusted by most things. If you forget to renew it they’ll take it and make you pay for it. You do not own the domain.
  • tl;dr: you get what you pay for

yet to be sorted

• Check for non-ASCII characters
• TL of my pfp source
• Video Player Recommendations
• 角松敏生 fan blog (has old radio recordings) - 日本語
• git guide
• Fontdrop - Get info about a font
• Time.is - ez world clock
• mpv manual
• Temporary Aegisub Docs
• Crunchyroll Downloader
• Funimation Downloader
• [insert video site here] Downloader
• Organised E-Hentai tag listing
• Manual last.fm scrobbler
• Deezer -> Spotify & others
• :deep: statement generator
• Nice meme!
• Dictionary