When comparing Rate Your Music vs 8 Tracks, the Slant community recommends Rate Your Music for most people. In the question“What are the best ways of finding new music?” Rate Your Music is ranked 8th while 8 Tracks is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Rate Your Music is:
Rate Your Music has albums, singles, bootlegs, videos, non-musical releases and films that are cataloged, rated and reviewed by users. Based on this information, recommendation on similar music will are offered.
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Pros
Pro Extensive crowdsourced database
Rate Your Music has albums, singles, bootlegs, videos, non-musical releases and films that are cataloged, rated and reviewed by users. Based on this information, recommendation on similar music will are offered.
Pro Powerful charts
Organize lists of best music by genre, release format, time, performance type, location, etc.
Pro Individualistic and personalized user playlists
The site is human-curated not automated. This can give a more personal feel, as each playlist on the music streaming service has been curated by a user.
Pro Great for discovering new music
Due to how the service works, listening to user created playlists allows for pretty good discovery of new or undiscovered bands.
Cons
Con Terrible mobile interface
Con Poor music streaming service outside of North America
8Tracks has changed its policy for how it supplies music to those outside of North America by not using any of their servers for those users. This change resulted in using Youtube for those users in order to still have a way to add songs to playlists. Sadly using Youtube results in many songs just disappearing and many playlists becoming defunct.
Con Advertisements in free version
Con No way to find certain songs
8 Tracks allows you to search for a playlist based on keywords, then requires you to listen to most of that playlist without skipping. As such, it's not so good for hunting down a specific song, but is great for discovering new music.