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xBTAx



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:07 pm Reply with quote
The site looks pretty interesting, though I have one big problem with it so far: all the song titles are in romaji instead of being translated.
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HanaBana



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:24 pm Reply with quote
I found the untranslated titles to be a pain too. My biggest problem with it though is that it barely has any of the songs I like on there. I'm not a fan of "Melt", "Love is War", "World is Mine", and others of their kind but rather the songs like "Ephemeral Dance", "Alice", "Hello, How Are You", "Piano Lessons", I can keep going.

Point is they need a way to let users add songs they find missing from the predetermined list of popular titles. I'm sure they have such a thing planned but as it is the site is useless to me.

Edit: I was also logged into someone elses account after I signed up though it showed my name when I was signing up.

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Kit-Tsukasa



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:34 pm Reply with quote
This site is really beta. I was logged into someone else's account when I was visiting O_O
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firedragon54738



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:49 pm Reply with quote
Looks kind of cool ill have to look into it
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Renaisance Otaku



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:48 pm Reply with quote
Yeah, right now it suffers from a bug that swaps one's log-in info with another. I was suddenly Chinese. They say they're working on it.

Right now, the site doesn't have much going for it at the moment. Would be nice if they didn't require a pre-existing service to sign up as well.
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Kougeru



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:55 pm Reply with quote
xBTAx wrote:
The site looks pretty interesting, though I have one big problem with it so far: all the song titles are in romaji instead of being translated.
That's not a problem at all imo. Romaji is just another way of reading the song, while translating the title would be changing the song's title completely.
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Mohawk52



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:19 am Reply with quote
If they tie it in with their KarenT.jp site which has a growing library of user created releases since 2007, and it's in English as well, this could cause me to finally sign up for a facebook account, but only if it proves well worth the risk. Wink
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darkhappy1



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:14 pm Reply with quote
The concept as of now is a bit lackluster, but I still signed up just now anyway. Thankfully this is only Beta, as the organization is horrible and the provided song titles aren't very helpful. I mean, "sizzler hands"? I have to depend on the picture to know what I'm choosing. Also, not enough rock.
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xBTAx



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:24 pm Reply with quote
Kougeru wrote:
xBTAx wrote:
The site looks pretty interesting, though I have one big problem with it so far: all the song titles are in romaji instead of being translated.
That's not a problem at all imo. Romaji is just another way of reading the song, while translating the title would be changing the song's title completely.


We're talking about songs that have been known by English titles for several years now, though- it's confusing for users who probably don't know the romaji titles.
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Emily82LenFangirl



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:00 pm Reply with quote
i wish i had a facebook now Anime hyper

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Mohawk52



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:19 pm Reply with quote
It's not working very well at present. Still a building site. Rolling Eyes
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