HOW TO FIND CLASSICAL MUSIC ON PAN.BAIDU.

COM
The Chinese internet includes a lot of valuable classical music resources, almost all hosted on
pan.baidu.com. The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways of searching for download links.
Before you start searching for something, remember to check the easy places first. After
completing a long and slow download from pan.baidu.com, it can be annoying to discover that the
same item could have been obtained in a fraction of the time from Rutracker.

Types of pan.baidu.com download links

Some pan.baidu.com links come with a four-character alphanumeric access code that must be
entered before it is possible to view the relevant pan.baidu.com web page, or to download files.
Where links require an access code, it is published with the links, and is usually indicated by the
Chinese characters 密码 (“password”).

Search engines for pan.baidu.com

There are a number of search engines which index pan.baidu.com download links. These appear
to be unofficial, operating independently from Baidu, and the items indexed vary from site to site.
Only links without access codes are included.

In my opinion the best is http://m-real.panduoduo.net/.

About panduoduo.net
After entering search terms in the box, click the blue button on the right to display the results.
Each one refers to either an individual file or a directory. Clicking on a result takes you to a page
that includes the following:

 the name of the item

 the file size (not displayed if the item is a directory)
 a green button which leads to the pan.baidu.com web page for the item.
 the name of the pan.baidu.com account-holder, displayed in blue
 the date and time of the item was added to the account
 a list of other items with similar names
 a list of other items from the same account.
The account-holder’s name links to a list of all their items that are indexed on the site - a very
useful feature.
Points to note:

 Some of the search results may be for links that have expired.
 Where the search result is a directory, you can find out more information about its contents by
visiting the pan.baidu.com web page. You can view image files without downloading them.
 Some RAR and ZIP files may require an extraction password (“解压密码” in Chinese).
Sometimes this will be provided, either in the title of the archive or in an accompanying text
document, but that doesn’t always happen, and sometimes the only way of finding an
extraction is by searching for the original source of the link, typically on a forum post, but this
is very time-consuming and success isn’t guaranteed. You may be able to test for the presence
of an extraction password without waiting for the download to complete by making a copy of
 the partially downloaded file, instructing your extraction software to open and unpack it, and
seeing if it requests a password.
 Before downloading RAR or ZIP files, it’s a good idea to check that the file size is consistent
with what you would expect for the item you’re downloading. For example, there’s a file titled
“Walter Gieseking -《莫扎特无伴奏钢琴作品全集》(Mozart Obras Completas Para
Piano.rar” which measures just 91 kB. It’s probably malware not Mozart!

Other search engines

The only other pan.baidu.com search engine currently operating that I’ve found useful is
http://www.weiyoou.net/. However, it may be possible to discover other useful sites by web-
searching - for example by selecting a panduoduo.net search result and using its name, enclosed in
quotes, as a search term.

Online communities
There are various Chinese online communities where members post download links for classical
music. The one I’ve found most useful is tieba.baidu.com.
About tieba.baidu.com
The site is divided into individual forums, called ‘bars’. The most relevant is the Classical Music Bar,
“古典音乐吧”, and its home page is at
https://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=%E5%8F%A4%E5%85%B8%E9%9F%B3%E4%B9%90

Threads are listed in order of the most recent activity, with the most active marked with a . To
find the music-sharing threads, it’s worth using Chrome’s translation facility. The word ‘resources’
often appears in the title of sharing threads.
Here are some noteworthy threads, although there are many others:

 https://tieba.baidu.com/p/2932090834 - good for Japanese issues

 https://tieba.baidu.com/p/3635377027 - good for CPO
 https://tieba.baidu.com/p/2516022103 - focused on early music
 https://tieba.baidu.com/p/4735349272 - the current request thread - Requests are answered
in comments to the relevant post.
Links are often presented in an abbreviated or obfuscated form, for example “/s/1eR2t3NW
密码：6wxv”, leaving the reader to add the missing “http://pan.baidu.com” to get the complete
URL http://pan.baidu.com/s/1eR2t3NW.
You can sometimes find links by web-searching using the term site:tieba.baidu.com together with
suitable names, but this often fails, as many uploads are identified only by their cover art.

On the right of the Classical Music Bar home page, under the heading “友情贴吧” there are links
to other Bars covering specific areas of classical music: currently the Bach family, Beethoven,
Viennese New Year concerts, Mozart & Mahler. There are Bars for other composers as well, and
for performers including Furtwängler https://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=富特文格勒 and Toscanini
https://tieba.baidu.com/f?&kw=%E6%89%98%E6%96%AF%E5%8D%A1%E5%B0%BC%E5%B0%BC.
Other online communities
There are a number of Chinese music-sharing boards (pt80.net, hifitime.com etc.), but most hide
their download links from unregistered visitors. An exception is http://www.erji.net/. A lot of
material is available there, but I've not noticed much original content. You can see what they have
to offer by web-searching using site:erji.net plus appropriate search terms.
There is also https://www.douban.com/. It includes a lot of information about CD issues, and
users’ comments about them, but download links are sometimes posted, for example at
https://www.douban.com/doulist/3412277/, a collection of recordings on the Altus label. A
site:douban.com web search can sometimes yield useful results. A recent and very active addition
to the site is https://www.douban.com/group/649356/.

Blogs
There aren’t many Chinese classical music sharing blogs, but here are a few:

 http://mcyan520.lofter.com/ is excellent for Alpha, Ricercar, Arcana, Phi & CPO. The
pan.baidu.com links are embedded in the artwork for each post, and the access code appears
below. To search, hit “归档” on the left to go to http://mcyan520.lofter.com/view.
 https://site.douban.com/125823/widget/notes/4885745/
 http://missmin1949.lofter.com/

Weibo
Weibo.com, China's equivalent of Twitter, has some very interesting posts, often with original rips.
The following accounts are particularly noteworthy, but please note that some only upload music
from time to time:

 https://www.weibo.com/hippowitz - links tend to expire after a week

 https://www.weibo.com/seikanji
 https://www.weibo.com/2696357307
 https://www.weibo.com/zjlpiano - vinyl rips
 https://www.weibo.com/2041045250 - vinyl rips
 https://www.weibo.com/keyaozhang - keen on Furtwängler
 https://www.weibo.com/517844133 - also keen on Furtwängler!

Music uploads are usually indicated by displaying the artwork prominently.

To view an individual post, click on the time-stamp. Download links are sometimes included in the
main post, but usually appear in the earliest comment, which is listed last. Look for the 'link' icon
and the access code.
The above links display only recent posts. It used to be possible to browse older posts for
individual accounts using the subdomains tw.weibo.com and overseas.weibo.com, but this facility
has ceased working. Registering an account at weibo.com probably provides more browsing
functionality, but I haven't tried that.
Weibo has a search facility which can be useful. Click on “第1页”, at the bottom of the first results
page, to view further results.
First create an account below

Go to the following site:

https://passport.baidu.com/v2/?reg&regType=1&tpl=netdisk&overseas=1&u=http://yun.baidu.
com?frm=loginpageyun

In the top box select your country code

Then type in your phone number

Create a username
Create a password

Click on the box stating that you have read and accepted the agreement

Click on lower right hand box to have a text message sent to your phone

Enter the code in the lower left hand box and then click on the lowest button in order to
register.

Download the Baidu client for your OS (either PC or Mac)

Once you have downloaded the client program—install it

Run the program and it will take you through a beginning set up
Keep clicking on the right arrow until you get to the log in screen

Enter your username and password

You should now be ready to download a file

There are a lot of available downloads from the http://tieba.baidu.com forum

[This takes time to navigate and locate what you want to download (I am still figuring out how
to search effectively)]

You will need to locate the item you want to download.

They are usually in the following form:
BRW 900120 Britten War Requiem Op66 Mariss Jansons BRSO 20130313 1CD
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1-cK-nv83c5sBKpITPhG4kQ
there will be a four character code that is typically used as a password. In this case the PW for
the above file is: cyiz

Once you have accessed the folder you can click on the folder and then click on the down load
button (it has an arrow pointing down). It will then open your baidu client and will prompt you
to select a folder to download to. Some files download quickly, while others take a bit longer.