Insights, announcements, and stories from the Parachord team.
Two weeks ago I introduced Achordion — the web-and-community front door to the open music stack. A week later, the fo...
The question that woke me up this morning:
For a while now, when I’ve talked about Parachord, I’ve described it as one half of something. The other half just sh...
Back in 2014, my friend Alastair Porter and I built a thing called Spinbin. The idea was simple and, at the time, sli...
It’s out. Parachord for Android v0.4.0-beta.2 is the first public beta of the mobile app, and anyone with an Android ...
A month ago I wrote about building the Parachord Android app in a few days. 146 commits, a full native app, Spotify a...
So on Wednesday I woke up and thought, “I should start to scaffold out an Android app.” By Saturday, I had a full app...
This is a big one. Parachord 0.9.0-beta.1 brings three headline features – dark mode, live concert discovery, and a m...
Here’s a scenario. You’re reading a glowing album review on your favorite music blog. The writer is describing a trac...
To understate the obvious, there’s a big shift happening in how people think about software. After a decade of centra...
You found an incredible album. You want to share it with a friend. But they’re on Spotify and you found it on Bandcam...
Parachord is about removing friction between you and your music. Our (optional!) AI assistant Shuffleupagus - powered...
One of the best ways to support the artists you love is to actually buy the music you discover and stream in Parachor...
When you hit play on a song in Parachord, a lot happens behind the scenes. Today I want to pull back the curtain on h...
When I decided I wanted to see if I could reimagine Tomahawk using new tools and technologies, I had no idea how quic...
Streaming services have made music more accessible than ever, but somehow listening has become more isolated. We’re c...
One of the most powerful features of Parachord is its plugin architecture. Today we’re pulling back the curtain on ho...
We’re thrilled to announce Parachord, a new kind of music player that unifies all your music sources into one seamles...