Probably a stupid question. I am currently using a paid version of Rapidgator. It is fine overall. Having checked this post I have however gathered, that debrid services are somehow cheaper. So what are debrid services? How do they work? What is their downside versus a direct Rapidgator approach? Any benefits beyond maybe the price? Would they be used in the same fashion as Rapidgator links? Thanks

 

What I'll never do is buy a premium or subscribe to a debrider service.
So, yes, RG is slow, waiting time is painful and so on. But the ability to download something years after it has been uploaded is priceless.
Of course, faster mirrors are a blessing, but they work only for fresh releases.
RG is certainly a problem for people downloading huge libraries, bundles, ... but single plug-ins weight something like from 5 to 300 mBs.
Downloading a plug-in @100kB/s is perflectly acceptable to me.
[grumpy old man]15 or 10 years ago, downloading a 800 mB movie from a DDL site with a rural ADSL connection was taking a lot more time than what it takes to download a plug-in from RG! Plus, connections are a lot more stable now.[/grumpy old man]
You just need to have a little patience and organization. (Pro tip : you can do other things than watching the progress bar on the screen during a download.)

So, thanks for the RG links, and also for faster mirrors when available.

 

Real-debrid is way cheaper than Rapidgator premium, and you can use it with a variety of hosters. That is a great thing if you use any other sites which have old content. One audio site in particular will not reupload anything until every link is dead. Well, if RG is not the last one standing; you are kind of SOL. One benefit, if you use torrent sites; is that you can get the magnet link of a torrent and paste it into real-debrid. It downloads from the seeders, and then when finished you can download it directly from your debrid account without ever even touching the torrent tracker or anyone sharing those files (seeding). Some of them will even function as torrent seedboxes for files you have them fetch. So they will literally upload files back to clients so you get ratio credit while doing nothing.

It works as a middle-man. When you copy a link in your browser and the url is a known filetype; jdownloader will add it to your downloads list. Like any other download manager. When you first copy the link, the clipboard monitor checks the online status of all the included files for that package first. When you begin a download, the debrid server goes and fetches it, and then you are downloading it from them. Their connection speeds from one server to the other, such as rapidgator; are so fast you will never even perceive a difference to a direct download. It's like audio latency. They have premium accounts on all of those sites. You are not buying files. It's exactly what they advertise; you are buying bandwidth.

 

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MEGA is great for low volume, dunno what it would be like with hundreds and thousands downloading though...

 

This is a completely ignorant comment. Rapidgator or any other free hosts do not slow their free user downloads because of debrid services.

Debrid services pay for an account on those sites, and then milk bandwidth out of them 24/7 without their permission. When those accounts are detected, they are terminated by the hosters. If "slow links" had anything to do with debrid services, Rapidgator and others would not be trying to detect and block their usage constantly.

 

these days, I interpret this more as people who paywall stuff rather than profit from it in any way. in the 90s and early 00s there was always free bandwidth, but that is largely long gone. not being able to afford hosting things will kill the scene for the people who need it as quickly as gross commercialization would

 

thank you for your advice. I was one of the "never pay for warez, no premium anything, if I can get it for free that's what I'll do", but after reading your post and looking into it a bit, it became obvious to me I was wasting so much time and effort trying to stack different downloads at the same time, captchas, switching VPN's, when about 3.50usd would turn the whole process into 1. copy link 2. click download 3. done. jdownloader even takes care of the extraction. after deleting my entire sample collection for the third time, and finally accepting that I have more fun making music with samples, especially to get started, I swallowed the bitter pill of accepting I'd be spending 3-4 weeks at least to get all my favorites back. Now, that will take me 3-4 days, and only that long so I can listen to everything as I go, so I actually know what I have and am not just hoarding audio for its own sake. So yeah, thanks a lot, because time is precious and while I can't get back those weeks I spent getting my collection, I can put that behind me now.

 

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It's amusing some people on here think other people have not tried every method of doing this. Other users are not saying debrid + jdownloader + torrents if needed, via debrid are the best option in 2025 to lie about it. They are the best option, and by a long shot.

You are uploading 0 kbs for anything you download. Compare this with torrent sites. You are sharing a p2p file and if it is a public tracker, and your connection can be accepting peer-to-peer users from anywhere in the world. Even a VPN is not a panacea, or even a firewall replacement, if you think at all about security. On private trackers, you are uploading something close to an additional copy of everything you check out to have a 1.0:1 ratio. That means you are using 2 times the amount of data transfer for each file. Maybe your ISP account is unlimited, but most people have less inexpensive plans with a monthly quota, before they may start charging for any data transfer overages. Of course, this would never be noticed using free hosting for downloads.

To suggest R2R allow uploads directly to sister site is even more beyond the pale, if Sister Site was doing something they did not approve of. As if they do not know exactly how things operate, although they are the most obviously genius individuals involved in any of this audio software stuff.

This thread would have been better over the weekend. +1 to the OP on the content farming from an account that is 1 day old. In the immortal words of a band called Primus (they suck), Fish On.

 

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Man the way I hollered when I read your reply

 

I can recommend you do the same thing everyone else does to find free alternatives. LOOK for yourself.

 

real-debrid is cheaper than rapidgator, but it not only includes rapidgator, it also includes katfile and a whole bunch of others. i usually purchase the 180-day subscription, which works out to about ten cents per day.

 

@saccamano I feel you cocky tonight: what's going on?
The hosts used for AZ releases (Rapidgator | KatFile | Nitroflare) are the result of a compromise between teams and final users: at the moment this choice seems to work for both. As a user, I also find those hosts ok and I have no better option to suggest. If the OP wants to complain, then he should also provide a better solution, taking into account his needs, but also those of the teams: ease of use, reliability, bandwidth, anonymity, reward etc... I'll give you an example: using Google drive could be perfect for download reliability, but it doesn't have the reward plan. Another flaw of Google Drive is privacy: Google knows your name, where you live and how many cookies you had this morning for breakfast, this puts both, releasers and final users anonymity at risk. No: it would not be a good idea to use Google for AZ releases.
Rest assured, if one day I discover that there is a better way than the current one to exchange files, I will post it on this forum.

 

Having a Debris account instead of a Rapidgator’s is not the same thing: the services offered are different. The most important feature of Debrid is that it opens dozens of premium plans in addition to Rapidgator. In case you need an account for downloading only, Debrid is the way to go
An official Rapidgator account Instead, only works for their site. The point of having Rapidgator is the cloud storage: if you have a lot of material to store and exchange, having a host with unlimited file storage is very convenient.

 

The bitcoin, buy me a coffee etc are not from large teams or from those posting large teams releases. Those are from small contributors, who offer kontakt libraries, sample packs etc. They also are not making any money. I once checked the wallet on one of those, and it had something like 25$ in total transactions. Thats not even enough to cover one kontakt library.