NZBMatrix Closed!

[Reef_Paddy]

Ahhhh....... First newzbin and now this! Anyone know how to get an account wtih Dognzb?

 

[Widdy]

I wish I knew how to get an invite as well...

 

[midtownman]

what sites are thoes for?

 

[Reef_Paddy]

Usenet indexing site.

 

[midtownman]

Usenet indexing site.

oh ok thanks

 

[ecvernon]

Crab nzbmatrix too!! Some One just told me about that as an alternative to newzbin.

 

[Widdy]

It was a good 3 year run for me... time to find something new.

 

[cmantis]

I use nzbsrus but maybe that is down too just checked and its not loading.

 

[Widdy]

I use nzbsrus but maybe that is down too just checked and its not loading.

It's up... but it's looks like they're experiencing payment processor problems as well.

 

[cmantis]

No the payment processing thing is old news. They lost their account and their money. Now they are using bitcoin. I was already VIP (think it was like $10). Looks like it is up just running slower due to all the extra traffic created.

 

[Widdy]

Yea, I looked at that bitcoin thing... quite confusing. I'll stick with preDB and NZBIndex for now. Maybe I'll setup my own indexer, but it's been awhile since I mucked with LAMP, so it'll take me a little time to re-invent the wheel.

 

[bizzarro]

For the stuff that they don't index, I use a free site called binsearch.info

 

[egriesner]

So whats the next best thing to NZBmatrix? Whats a good alternative?

 

[Widdy]

Decent ones are invite only. NZBMatrix made everything easy, that was part of its demise, in my opinion. You can preDB / NZBIndex in the mean time...

 

[egriesner]

Thanks. Do you know how to get an invite?

 

[Widdy]

Sorry, I do not. Some sites even revoked invites from their membership to prevent a huge influx (read: stay under FACT/RIAA's radar) of new applicants.

 

[cmantis]

The one I mentioned is still up I have been using it for years.

 

[Josh]

Why do you need this if you have giganews or another provider?

 

[cmantis]

It indexes the nzb's

 

[Widdy]

It indexes the message parts that makes up the .RARs/.PARs/etc off Usenet servers (ie. Giganews/Newshosting/Astraweb) and it spits out a XML based file called .NZB. You then use an NZBReader like SABNZBD or Grabbit and it goes out and grabs all the needed parts to decode.

Fancier index sites can also spit out RSS feeds that a reader like SABNZBD can poll at a predetermined time and automatically download/extract/categorize your content.