Have been using the iOS version of @parachord.bsky.social and it’s really amazing being able to actually listen and interact with my lastfm recommendations. The website always kinda sucked for listening in comparison, especially needing to listen via Spotify or YouTube embeds.

I've opened up more alpha slots for the mobile apps. Android: Open to anyone 1. join the Parachord-Testers group (groups.google.com/g/parachord-...) 2. opt in to testing first, then the Play listing (play.google.com/store/apps/d...) iOS: First come/first in 1. testflight.apple.com/join/zXvg5zxK

I'm opening up a small numbner alpha invites for the iOS app. Currently looking for Apple Music and/or Spotify subscribers interested in helping report issues... there will plenty. testflight.apple.com/join/zXvg5zxK

Join the Parachord Player beta

Available on iOS

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Pushed a small desktop app update that improved the Critical Darlings infra along with some rendering performance improvements.

I've moved Critical Darlings from being a hack to more of a first-class Achordion citizen. Looking for something to listen to that human music critics are excited about? achordion.xyz/explore/crit...

Achordion

People-powered music discovery. An independent and open community experience built on ListenBrainz and MusicBrainz – with one-click playback on everything through Parachord.

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Ah, the old nugget of "how we keep the app playing and seamlessly transitioning between different playback engines when the app is in the background" is back on iOS. Luckily we've solved this once before. 🔨

Also a new Android build today, with a lot of the same underlying sync work. It's been a bear, and I'm not totally convinced it's all correct yet - so all opt-in changes after you preview what changes the new N-way sync engine would make. github.com/Parachord/pa...

Release v0.9.0 · Parachord/parachord-mobile

Parachord Android 0.9.0 What's new The big one, matching desktop: an all-new opt-in sync engine that makes playlists multi-master — edit on any service (or a shared playlist someone else owns) and...

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New desktop release today that mostly focused on playlist sync improvements and start time. More info: github.com/Parachord/pa...

Release v0.9.5 · Parachord/parachord

What's Changed The big one: an all-new opt-in sync engine that finally makes playlists multi-master — edit on any service (or a shared playlist someone else owns) and your change rounds-trips ever...

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On the journey to build the Parachord iOS app I took a pretty big sidequest to try and properly conquer cross-service/cross-device playlist syncing. It hasn't been fun tbh. parachord.com/blog/2026/06...

Almost Sunk on Sync | Parachord Blog

After a long history of promises, last week I basically got the Parachord iOS app to feature parity with the Android and desktop apps. Multi-servcie content ...

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Well, I put it off long enough but it's time to invest in a real N-way multi-primary sync engine that can keep playlists updated across multiple services. I think it should be able to power cross-service collaborative playlists too.

Getting dangerously close to being 1.0 feature complete on Parachord's iOS app.

Tried to make it more obvious that those were streaming links in the flyout. The more people scrobble to ListenBrainz and the more @para.chord users, the more external links that show up. Because your music community should be bigger than your music service silo.

This week I've been adding a lot of plumbing to ensure Achordion makes multiple best efforts to find/display as many different streaming service links as we can find.

The bad news is that the iOS work is taking a bit longer than I had expected, but the good news is that it is helping me improve all of the other platforms along the way.

Thanks to @thebootloader.net for the mentions of Parachord and Achordion on their podcast. ❤️ www.thebootloader.net/episodes/202...

Episode 33 - Times Like These - The Bootloader

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Spent the weekend battling bots that came for Achordion and learned some things along the way. Also improved the coverage of songs to streaming links everywhere. Blog post: parachord.com/blog/2026/06...

Battling bots: keeping a hobby music site cheap to run | Parachord Blog

Parachord is a one-person hobby project. I build all of it for fun and love: the desktop app, the Android app, the iOS app (I just started) and Achordion, th...

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Also a new Android release today... github.com/Parachord/pa...

Release v0.8.1 · Parachord/parachord-mobile

Parachord Android 0.8.1 Six merges since 0.8.0 — sturdier Spotify sync that respects rate limits even on writes, removed tracks that actually stay removed, snappier weekly playlists, and richer Lis...

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Thanks to the Linux community for helping fix a bunch of issues that they were hitting. Also improvements to enriched scrobbling (with streaming links) and more. github.com/Parachord/pa...

Good news... we now have playback on iOS.

It's official, the parachord-android repo has now been renamed parachord-mobile. Look out iOS, here we come.

I've also been pushing a bunch of performance improvements to Achordion.xyz the last day or so.

Achordion

People-powered music discovery. An independent and open community experience built on ListenBrainz and MusicBrainz – with one-click playback on everything through Parachord.

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A new Android build with a full-featured Android Auto support is now available. Link on parachord.com homepage.

The latest desktop (v0.9.3) build continues with the performance improvements and adds the ability to sync your playlists to achordion.xyz (via @listenbrainz.org).

Achordion

People-powered music discovery. An independent and open community experience built on ListenBrainz and MusicBrainz – with one-click playback on everything through Parachord.

achordion.xyz

Thanks to @piccalil.li for the mention today. 🙏 piccalil.li/the-index/183/

New Android build now available. Better UX, better Achordion integration, better sync, better performance. github.com/Parachord/pa...

Release v0.7.0 · Parachord/parachord-android

Parachord Android 0.7.0 10 merges since 0.6.1. Two new gestures on Now Playing, a smarter share-link surface, in-app announcements from the Parachord ops channel, and a handful of invariants + qual...

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Been working on making Achordion feel a bit more socially alive... parachord.com/blog/2026/05...

Achordion grows up: identity, feeds, and a tighter Parachord knot | Parachord Blog

Two weeks ago I introduced Achordion — the web-and-community front door to the open music stack. A week later, the follow-up post was about how Parachord is ...

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If you scrobbled, you wouldn't have to wait for your streaming service to give you access to your listening data only once or twice a year.

We now generate nice social media preview card for artists, albums, tracks, playlists and users. achordion.xyz/recording/ad...

Meddle Shop — Quarantine Angst

Listen to "Meddle Shop" by Quarantine Angst on Achordion. Play it on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, or any other service you use.

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The reason that 20 years of listening history can live within Achordion is because you can import your entire listening histories from both Spotify and Last.fm (via ListenBrainz).

J Herskowitz@jherskowitz.com · 3mo ago

Worked on a new feature today and educated myself that I've been scrobbling listening data for 20 years now. Happy anniversary to me.

Brand spankin' new today: profile flair to both help you show off a bit and help you better find your people.