You just have to have Python (the programming language) and mplayer (a supremely versatile media player) installed.

Here are some links:
www.python.org/download/ — the 2.6.5 framework is fine
www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html — a little ways down the page where it says binaries… i’d get the one for windows that says “recommended” out to the side… aside from that, i can’t say… i don’t use windows.

Good luck!

This code only works for Linux I assume? I tried it with Windows and it didn’t work. Though I have absolutely no experience with programming.

here’s a little script that’ll play streaming radio from FM Jaga once an hour FOREVER! All you need are Python and Mplayer.

import os, time
URL=’http://simul.freebit.net:8310/fmjaga’

while 1 < 2:#forever ; )
os.system('mplayer '+URL)
time.sleep(3600)

www.ppstream.com/

It works impressively well as a Japanese dub. The places are ambiguous (“the city”), the character names are weird anyway, and there’s not much in the way of written language visible, so it doesn’t have that “Americans in America doing American things but speaking Japanese” feeling that some dubs do. Plus, it also has gun violence!

I can totally see why khatz watched/s so much Star Trek. It’s probably good as a dub, for the same reasons. It seems entirely reasonable to me that the crew of the Enterprise would be Japanese. Or, at least as reasonable as a French captain with a British accent.

DEATH BY JAPANESE!!!

I’m finding it harder and harder to keep an interest in anime these days though, especially the new ones, but I try.

I found a nice website for Asian media though to help with my immersion (movies, tv, anime), with full DVDs, so you can switch audio and turn subtitles on or off to what you want. It’s a private torrent tracker so that means you need to be able to keep a good ratio on the site (i.e. you need to upload more data than you download).
The site’s called Asian DVD Club (www.asiandvdclub.org). It has a lot of DVDs to download in Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Russian, among others.

Other than that I tend to watch Western movies dubbed into Japanese on www.nicovideo.jp too.

I’m also currently trying to read my way through a bunch of manga, and that’s probably the most satisfying aspect so far to me. It really hits home what you’re doing when you can read through pages of stuff you love so much.

The environment’s taken a while to set up but it’s definitely keeping me motivated now.

@kendo

theres too many good TV shows to be limited by embedded English subs, I usually just open a window and cover the bottom portion of the screen. I know it’s pretty simple, but it gets the job done ね

“THE last time Ishinosuke Uwano saw his brother, his sisters and his home town…he was a 20-year-old soldier heading for almost certain death on the battlefields of Manchuria. Yesterday, 63 years later, he returned to a country transformed — an old man barely able to remember his native language…

“I have not spoken Japanese for more than 60 years,” he said in Ukrainian through an interpreter…”” bit.ly/905yAf | Mr Uwano comes back from the dead to say ‘Good Day’ – Times Online

Ebbinghaus and Wozniak’s research would suggest that since intervals grow longer with spaced repetitions, there may come a point where the interval exceeds the natural lifetime, and therefore the a piece of knowledge could go un-reviewed for the rest of one’s life with a 90%+ probability of never being forgotten. But then…few people SRS their native language yet.

Like you said, definitely a matter of use it or lose it. Uwano-san demonstrates that perfectly.