When comparing Openwhyd vs Radio4000, the Slant community recommends Radio4000 for most people. In the question“What are the best online platforms to make music playlists?” Radio4000 is ranked 8th while Openwhyd is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Radio4000 is:
No notifications, social pressure, branding. Just explore what people around the world really care about.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can play rare/exclusive tracks that are available through one platform only
Openwhyd can play tracks directly from Youtube, Soundcloud, Deezer, Bandcamp, Dailymotion, Jamendo, and also MP3 files and streams hosted online.
Some of those tracks cannot reliably be found on other platforms. Examples: songs from that local/indie band, DJ sets, specific live performances.
Pro Calm and anonymous
No notifications, social pressure, branding.
Just explore what people around the world really care about.
Pro Listen to selections from around the world
Everyone can create and share their selection of favorites.
Pro Easy media library management
It is possible to use #hashtags to manage your media library.
In the default presentation mode, medias are organized by month, it gives a sweet overview of a radio.
Pro Free (as in tea and speech)
Free for everyone, no advertising, and free software
Pro Fresh alternative to the traditional and old music software
Music crisis, artists not getting payed, major softwares and labels controlling the ecosystem.
With open alternatives it is possible to redefine interactions between artists, content producers, listeners, and everyone who cares about music, creation, culture, knowledge, societies.
Pro Open ecosystem (free software + API)
You can easily export and manipulate your data.
All the website and software are free to copy, study, look at and share.
It makes it possible to build other cool tools, with your music library data.
Cons
Con Updates may not come very frequently
This platform used to be the main product of a start-up company (whyd), so it was being developed and improved at a high pace. Now that it's become an open-source / volunteer-based effort, some bugs take more time to be fixed.