Nin.com

nin.com was rebuilt at some point in December 2016; as a result the DNS for all subdomains was repointed to a new design companies servers, and a lot of old stuff became inaccessible, including remix.nin.com (fan submitted remixes).

At the time of writing, the old hosting company has not switched off the old sites, and they can be accessed by manual DNS hackery[1]:

$ host remix.nin.com ns1.sudjam.com
remix.nin.com has address 208.81.236.37

irc.nin.com

an IRC server, no web content, likely nothing to do here

remix.nin.com

This was a flash-frontend portal for users to submit remixes of NIN songs. It has a lot of content on it.

User:Jmtd is trying to grab this. (He will start an archive.org collection on Friday 23/12 - presently away from download host from which to do the uploads). The general approach is

• make sure your host(s) have DNS overridden to 208.81.236.37
• find URLs of the form http://remix.nin.com/feed/playlist?id=something
• wget that
• pull out url="foo"
• wget those too

There are some other URLs that give different (possibly richer) metadata to investigate too

PurpleSym: I think the JSON resposes contain more metadata: http://remix.nin.com/playlist/song_info_data.js?mix_id=73
PurpleSym: There’s also http://remix.nin.com/listen/get_rating_data.js?mix_id=73 http://remix.nin.com/listen/artist_info_data.js?user_id=109510 and http://remix.nin.com/listen/comment_summary_data.js?mix_id=73

Grabbed stuff (updated hourly): https://phobos.redmars.org/tmp/remix.status.txt

feeds.nin.com

This was a DNS alias onto Google's feedproxy service and as such seems to be dead

$ host feeds.nin.com ns1.sudjam.com
Using domain server:  
Name: ns1.sudjam.com
Address: 208.81.236.21#53
Aliases:

feeds.nin.com is an alias for 1f20mvu.feedproxy.ghs.google.com.
Host 1f20mvu.feedproxy.ghs.google.com not found: 5(REFUSED)
Host 1f20mvu.feedproxy.ghs.google.com not found: 5(REFUSED)