DDLDB - Direct Download Links DB For Scene Releases

February 18, 2010 by sharky

Release blogs, warez forums and DDL indexers have certainly captured a wide audience for those who seek out scene/P2P releases found on filehosters. Under the best circumstances, it still remains a manual task for staff & uploaders to grab scene releases from various sources (leech FTPs, dumpsites, scene trackers) in order to post them to blogs & forums. But there’s one cool trend that we’re seeing more of lately; websites that post scene releases straight to direct download links. DDLDB.com is one such brand new pre-to-DDL service that DDL fans should find very handy - we’ll explain why.

The recent shutdown of SceneDDL.net/xldr.net has left a sizable absence in the DDL community’s demand for pre-to-ddl services, and the chances of Jay’s xldr script being sold or made available to a third party have seemingly all but vanished. However, longtime followers of SceneDDL shouldn’t despair; DDLDB has arrived!

Sites that offer pred scene releases directly as DDLs have become increasingly popular among those who want access to a wider range of available releases, coupled with a fast afterpre - without having to wade through user comments (on blogs) to find working links or login to cluttered forums. A good example of this is NewSceneFiles.net which has done amazingly well in such a short time - all due to its autopost feature.

However, we think you’ll agree that DDLDB.com (which is a side project of OneDDL.com) is superior to NewSceneFiles (and many release blogs/warez forums) for a number of reasons. Here’s a quick comparison:

	DDLDB.com	NewSceneFiles	Blogs/Forums
# of Daily Posts/Releases:	~190	~67	<- less
Rls pretime listed on site?	Yes	No	No
Article ‘post time’ listed?	Yes	No	Yes
Fast afterpre?	Yes	Yes	Not particularly
Multiple DL sources?	Yes	Just two	Yes
Single links available?	Yes	Not often	Sometimes
NFO files?	Yes	Yes	Usually
DDL links included in posts?	Yes	Yes	No/Yes**
Release descriptions, images?	Not yet*	No	Yes
Rls for movies, games?	Not yet	Yes	Yes

* Future ideas include adding detailed scene release info to each page, with info sources to TVRage, IMDb etc. (All automated, ofc)

** Most popular blogs don’t include DDLs directly in the posts; instead they rely on user comments to supply them.

DDLDB.com Features:

Below are just some of the key features currently being offered:

Custom Scripts — DDLDB uses its own customized script (not xldr) to autopost new scene releases right after pre, with no human interaction. All of the work is done 100% automated.

DDLDB has great sources — We can’t disclose the exact sources used for DDLDB’s posts, but we can assure you it’s not from scene trackers. ;)

Fast pre turnaround, fast browsing — As of now DDLDB is using a 100mbit dedi to post & process new releases, but it’s said they’ll be on a 1Gbps by tomorrow. Already indexes nearly 1,100 unique posts since Feb. 8th.

Multiple DDL hosters — NFS uses just RS & HF links; DDLDB uses Rapidshare, Hotfile, Storage.to, x7.to (and Megashares.com for larger releases such as x264), with more options being added soon.

Single Links — The major drawback to NSF is that they only use RS and HF, thus large releases such as game ISOs & HD movies end up being split into dozens of links. This is similar to ‘user comments’ on blogs - readers sometimes need to add dozens of individual DDLs into a DL manager, just to get one release. DDLDB uses single links for each posted release (although RS links are to be added as multiples in 200MB filesizes, in order to offer more download options).

NFO Files, with Hyperlinks — Every release has an nfo viewer link on NFOmation.net where readers can download the .NFO and view it online in different formats. In the default DOS view mode, hyperlinks in the NFO can be clicked ‘live’ which includes mailto: contact links.

Specialized Posting:

Online for just over a week now, DDLDB.com is still being fine-tuned and is only posting 0DAY, MP3, TV-x264 and TV-XviD releases; more will come after the testing phases. Releases are processed depending on filesize and releasetype, and at the moment this is what happens:

• 0Day/Music releases are posted with the original scene files intact in a single rar archive. Note: There are absolutely no password-protected archives in any of their releases.

• TV (XviD & x264) are posted after the contents of the scene files are extracted from the original scene release rar archives. This feature is useful for users who just want to download the video file without having to extract rars or be bothered ‘owning’ the original scene release files. Anyone who’s experienced with scene releases (as found on hosters) can relate to having to extract the first set of ‘hoster rars’, only then to have to extract a second set of ’scene rars’ just to get to the actual files. This is a time-consuming, tedious process that DDLDB has solved by - 1) Pre-extracting the files from the scene rars, and - 2) Not repackaging them back up into more rars.

In the example below you’ll notice that links for video releases at DDLDB are *.AVI (or *.MKV) files, as opposed to *.RAR files:

On NewSceneFiles (and elsewhere), downloaders will often have to tackle two different sets of rars:

Pretimes & More…

Pretimes aren’t just good at DDLDB - they’re great! But don’t just take our word for it, check it out for yourself. Both pretime and publish time (GMT 0) are indicated for each post:

Other testimonials to DDLDB’s afterpre can be found in the #brace channel on APNET.

DDLDB on IRC — can be found in the channel #ddldb on irc.link-net.org (hotlink) along with their own #Brace channel (which is not yet set up to index new posts).

Alternatives to SceneDDL.net / xldr.net — DDLDB.com, NewSceneFiles.net, ev0.in, AfterPre.com, Dedicatedtv.net.

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