Phishin vs Radio Browser

Phish.in is a free, listener-run archive of legal live Phish recordings, covering shows, tracks, songs, venues, and tours through its v2 REST API. Read endpoints (shows, tracks, search) are fully public and keyless — a plain GET against /api/v2/shows returns real data with no credentials at all — while account-scoped features like playlists and likes require a logged-in user. The project is open source and privately funded, with an MCP endpoint also available for AI-assistant clients.

Radio Browser is a free, keyless, community-maintained directory of internet radio stations — over 60,000 of them — with search, tagging by genre/country/language, click-tracking, and ready-to-play M3U playlists for any station. It's fully open source, mirrored across several independently-run servers behind a round-robin DNS entry point, and its maintainers explicitly ask API consumers to pick a random mirror rather than hammer one instance. Responses are available as JSON or XML, with a dedicated M3U format for playlist endpoints.