@dudemanbro
@lemmy.dbzer0.comYour best bet is either having some sort of good reputation as an uploader somewhere else or know someone. No one wants to just invite some random person that could put the community in jeopardy. If you were around when registrations were open after the fall of /r/megalinks, that was the easiest/best way to get in.
At the end of the day it's about what you like, what is available, and how much space you got.
My rule of thumb has been 8GB per hour of content for 4K (I don't remember where I heard of got this from, so at the end of the day, this is just some arbitrary number). I usually stick to x265 encodes and so far this had been good enough for me. Some prefer the best (untouched remux), but like you mention, these files are huge. Even though I have many drives, I dont want each movie being 70+GB per file. Sometimes I break my rule of thumb and do get "higher quality" (that isn't a remux). I think the biggest file I have is around 50GB for a x265 2160p encode of a movie where a certain king returns. As with everything, there are exceptions. Just do what you want.
This has been good enough for me. Obviously, the bitrate of audio matters and its format. That, in and of itself, is a whole other issue ( lossless or not, channels, etc..)
I usually download stuff through Nyaa to get .cbz files of full volumes. Of the few times I have had to get a series myself I have used Houdoku. It's similar to tachiyomi on desktop. I usually rip from Mangadex but have had to manually name folder files to eventually zip into cbz files. This may not be that helpful but just thought it plug in Houdoku to see if it helps with what you need
Edit: Lol I didn't really read your post well. Yeah, personally, I dont know of any automated solutions, sorry.
Mobilism, Audiobookbay, yandex (the search engine yes.. very easy if you just use key words in your queries). I'm sure private forums are helpful as well.
Edit: I use mobilism quite a bit and audiobook websites that have links for rapidgator or other hosts. Having a debrid service (all, real, etc) is super helpful because I can usually use the premium link service to convert the link so I can download at full speed. Not all hosts are supported but its not often I find a link from a host that isnt supported. If this does happen, I just bite the bullet and go ahead with a slow download.
I think I used this one. I have a few I downloaded from links on reddit around the time RARBG went down and people were trying to find backups
https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/13yknky/tutorial_keeping_rarbg_alive_how_to_access/
TG and 1337 are pretty good and have me covered. I also have a copy of the RARBG database that has the hashes that I use if I want to find something from there. Pretty easy to get the magnets from Qbit and then save the magnet back as a .torrent and then check if there are already cached in a debrid service. Pretty easy and simple
So I use an apk from a private forum but Im pretty sure you can find some on mobilism (I cannot vouch for them as I dont specifically know if that apk I use cam from there). The modded app pretty much just remove ads and allows unlimited skips and stuff of that sort. It pretty much gives all the perks of the paid subsciption but free. You can find many of them around but the thing is just making sure its not spyware or adware (this is where knowing where/how/who modded the app is important). I looked at mobilism, there are a few on there, but I have never used apks from mobilism before or knoq anything about how well/safe they run
Music is a weird subject for me. I download practically everything else to have a copy of it on my hard drives. 30+TB of anime, movies, tv shows, manga, audiobooks, etc but music is the one thing I dont really download or listen to very often. I have a modded Spotify app that I use for the times I do listen to music. I do this so i dont have to pay for a subscription, but that is as far as my music piracy goes.
undefined> dude RD is realdebrid. It's a service that caches torrents and allows one to technically stream the file (video) if you want (works with stremio, kodi, etc.). You can look it up online and read more on it. Mega on the other hand is a a cloud storage place. I pay for it cause I download a lot from a forum im part of that uses it.