Places to look BEFORE requesting on the forms

# Places to look BEFORE requesting on the forms ## But some quick notes 1) Search with Japanese/Romaji/English names. 2) Check categories that you may not expect music to be in. 3) Google is your friend. 4) Don't expect everything to exist online, sometimes you have to be the one to contribute and buy it. ## Easily downloadable streaming sites ### [**Deezer**](https://deezer.com) Make a FREE account and use a choice of either Deemix or smloadr. And poof music for free. ## P2P Applications ### **Soulseek** Pretty good with OSTs and anime stuff. Search at different times of the day to maximize results. ## Public Sites ### [**Nyaa.si**](https://nyaa.si/) The first place you should be looking for things. Use the search bar always trying with both the original Japanese/Romaji/English names. If the album you are looking for is from an anime, check the RAW category as many Blu-ray groups (Moozzi, Reinforce, VCB, Beatrice etc) also upload music under the EXTRA/CDs/Bonus folder. ### [**Squid-board.ru (FFSHRINE successor)**](https://www.squid-board.ru/) Good for a variety of things such as Anime OSTs. VGM OSTs, and even English scores. Semi-private as you need to make an account before using the forum. Links are done via MEGA or other file hosts. ### [**hireschushin.blogspot.com**](https://hireschushin.blogspot.com/) Focused on Hi-Res music, this site uses certain liberties to basically release music gathered from the Chinese forums. It is the blog of the Umbrellafactor Discord which will be mentioned below. OSTs, Anime, OP/ED and J-POP can be found here. (If you can't figure out how to download try translating the page). ### [**Mikudb.moe**](http://mikudb.moe/) Focused on Vocaloid as from the name. DDL site using mostly MEGA links. Mixed source of lossy and Lossless ### [**Rutracker**](https://rutracker.org/forum/index.php) Russian public tracker, has a combination of everything. Search with Japanese/Romaji/English names. *Also I've been told that registering there (for using built-in torrent search), using translator and adding "lossless" to search box helps* ## Public Discord Servers ### [**Umbrellafactor (Doujin Music)**](https://discord.gg/QbwYZhw) As mentioned above the discord server has additional content from the blog, as well as the chance to crowdfund purchases from ototoy and mora. ### [**Doujin Music (Doujin Music)**](https://discord.gg/mC4Yp6J) Right now the largest active Doujin community, 90% of rips originate from here. Utilizes DDL links using mostly MEGA. ### [**DoujinStyle (Doujin Music)**](https://discord.gg/z2QDFdA) Second largest active Doujin community, Has mostly a shared community as DM but will occasionally have an upload not on DM ### [**Sittingonclouds.net (Anime/game OSTs)**](https://discord.gg/x23SFbE) Same as Squid-board pretty much but no sign-up required ## Chinese Forums ### [**TSDM**](https://www.tsdm39.net/) Pay to win forum, Purchase points and prestige to access certain areas. Tons of CDs and well worth the money IMO. ### [**Fygal**](https://bbs.fygal.com/) (Formally know as 2dkf, 9moe w/e) Free forum that requires the user to play a game to level up or post your own CDs. Come here if you're looking for music from eroge etc. ### [**ASTOST**](https://www.astost.com/bbs/) No pay to win here, you are judged based on your merit. A forum designed for uploaders and not for leeches. Don't expect to make it very far if you don't buy your own CDs. Tons of old OSTs and Anime Songs. ## Private trackers ### **Jpopsuki (JPS)** Largest asian music tracker, basically has everything in mixed quality. Securing an invite is super easy and ratio is a joke. If you like asian music its a must be place to join. ### **Animebytes (AB)** Focused mostly on Anime, the tracker has a large amount of music. Has plenty of leaks from the Chinese sites so if you want anime cds with logs and cues you can find them here (no BK). ### **BakaBT (BBT)** Now private it focuses on anime collections. Ratio is once again super easy to get. ### **Redacted (RED)** English based tracker (the best atm RIP What.CD). Has Japanese content as well as some game OSTs. ### **U2** Chinese tracker with lots of exclusive uploads, ranging from lossless music to raw BDMVs of anime.