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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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).

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...

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

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...

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).

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

If you want to see all of the new stuff added to Achordion, check out the changelog (achordion.xyz/changelog). Contribute to the roadmap by posting your ideas to Ideas & Feature Requests via the Feedback link in the footer of the site.

In addition to a number of desktop, android and Achordion improvements this weekend - adding this blog post to the list: parachord.com/blog/2026/05...

Also just pushed a pretty big Android beta update - including full Achordion support, basic Android Auto functions and the refactor that will enable much easier iOS builds. github.com/Parachord/pa...

Achordion now lets you link your @bsky.app handle to your @listenbrainz.org profile. Avatar, display name, and bio show up inline so people can find you across services. Completely optional, single field, deletable, no auth, no permissions — just a two-way bio handshake.

Made good on my promise and shipped v0.9.2 of Parachord: - much needed performance improvements - improvements to content resolution (both matches and performance) - *deep* Achordion integration (share links, embeds) - Listen Along improvements - much easier bug reporting (attaching useful logs)

Q: Can the distributed network of Parachord players implicitly* contribute to an open database of multi-service streaming links for artists, albums, tracks and leveraged by Achordion so that everyone can benefit (even if they don't use Parachord)? A: Yes, yes they can.

Q: Can the distributed network of Parachord players implicitly* contribute to an open database of multi-service streaming links for artists, albums, tracks and leveraged by Achordion so that everyone can benefit (even if they don't use Parachord)? A: Yes, yes they can.

Woke up with a pretty big idea today. Let's see how this goes...

OK, I think Achordion is pretty much at v1.0 at this point. Let's see what folks think for a bit while I get back to (in current priority order): 1. Parachord desktop performance optimizations 2. Full Achordion integration points for Parachord Android 3. First iOS build

Achordion album pages now display critical response summaries - with links to editorial album reviews as well as user reviews (via new CritiqueBrainz integration). Power to the people.🫧📌

Just pushed a bunch of new stuff to achordion.xyz: - All @listenbrainz.org users with listening data have a radio station created for them - listenable in Parachord (v0.9.1-beta.3+) - pinned tracks, loves (with pushes and backfill from Parachord), send/recommend tracks to followers

I was tired of waiting for Last.fm to become what I personally wanted it to become, so I decided to spend the weekend helping the open-source alternative, @listenbrainz.org , get there. achordion.xyz

Phew, Parachord Android is now ~73% Kotlin Multiplatform. Every repo, sync engine, AI service, ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini provider, resolver, and settings store lives in shared code — backed by Keychain on iOS, EncryptedSharedPreferences on Android. iOS now just needs a Swift shell.

Sirius XMU hasn't updated their Spotify and Apple Music playlists for years - so they have now been added to Spinbin (jherskowitz.github.io/spinbin/) so you can now get yesterday's station Rewind in Parachord.

A new Android beta is now available - including Apple Music sync and basic Android Auto app. github.com/Parachord/pa...

Or you can listen along in near real-time to whatever they are listening to right now. 🙂

Just pushed 0.9.1 of the desktop app with loads of sync improvements - Apple Music playlist sync, Last.fm and ListenBrainz friend sync and more.

I decided to write a bit deeper than just about the specifics of my latest project Spinbin, and more into the core concepts behind empowering the open web for music. parachord.com/blog/2026/04...

Hear ye, hear ye, the first Android beta is now available! Read all about it. parachord.com/blog/2026/04...

BTW, this went well and with the sync improvements to desktop (and Android) the first release of the Android app is very near.

@vintageobscura.net You've been added to jherskowitz.github.io/spinbin/.

Just pushed 0.9.0-beta.10 which includes a bunch of playlist sync improvements and improved support for the new prototype feature, Radio Station Rewinds (directory at jherskowitz.github.io/spinbin/). github.com/Parachord/pa...

What radio stations/shows do you wish you could easily listen to from your music services in Parachord? KEXP? All Songs Considered? Let me know!