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TL;DR
Parachord is a new music app aiming to enable cross-platform music sharing, create playlists from social media feeds, and use AI for personalized song recommendations.
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Wouldn't it be great if you could exchange music recommendations with your friends, no matter whether they use Spotify, Apple Music, or Bandcamp? What if you could follow DJs and other tastemakers online and automatically turn their social media feeds into playlists? Or what if you could fine-tune your music recommendations with AI to only get recommendations for songs you've never played before?
Those are a few of the tasks the new music app Parachord is trying to take on by f …