Platform & Operations

Note: This is not a tutorial for spam.

For many years, radio4000.com has faced issues with spam—fake users creating fake radio stations. You may have come across radio profiles for services like botox clinics, spa massages, and other local businesses, which lack track lists and contain only links to their websites and exhaustive descriptions of their services.

TEN years later and Radio4000 is still online.

This is quite something and tonight we will celebrate. As of now April 2024, if you open https://radio4000.com today, for the first time in a loooong time, it is new.

We’ve archived the old site on https://v1.radio4000.com and put it in read/listen-only mode.

To continue operating your radio, first create a new account, then migrate your channel on https://migrate.radio4000.com. If we could have done this for you, we would have.

Seven years later and somehow Radio4000 is still online and blasting music. The now rather old technology that runs it however is difficult to maintain. It’s not fun. This is why we’ve begun prototyping a new R4. Built on PostgreSQL and web components, it’s again fun to see what’s possible.

You can follow along at https://github.com/radio4000/

In an effort to free the project from dependencies, the creation of a new user (therefore a radio), will no longer be possible, using any external social providers. Also, in a close future we will enforce login with email/password for every users that are currently using social providers.

Currently Facebook and Goole have been provided as a matter of convenience for user who might not wish to create for themeselves an account using an email/password pair.

What’s happened to Radio4000 in the year 2018? Let’s see.

You can search the tracks in a radio and listen to just that selection.
More on https://blog.radio4000.com/posts/search-tracks-listen-to-results

Example: https://radio4000.com/lili-raid-over/tracks?search=%23beat.

You can connect a Discogs release to your youtube tracks. When you do it, we try to add both genre, label and year to the description of the track. This works nicely with the seach feature. Speaking of Discogs, we also made an alpha version of a “Explorer for Discogs”. Check it at https://explorer.radio4000.com (source)

Yes, Radio4000 now officially has an API!

api: https://api.radio4000.com
documentation & code: https://github.com/internet4000/radio4000-api

This means you can now use the public data from Radio4000.com (such as the radio channels and their tracks) to create any softwares, hardwares, websites or applications.\

What is an API?
An API (application programming interface) can take many aspects and is a term generally used in software development. In the current case we could summarize it as a set of tools and specifications defined (here by the Radio4000 team) to help developers apprehend and use data made available through the API.\