Now you don't have to be.
A new kind of music player that invites all your streams, local audio files, and playlists scattered across multiple services to the same party. It's about time they mingle.
What People Are Saying About Parachord
Connect your favorite streaming services and local libraries, then prioritize them however you like. Parachord seamlessly switches between sources so your music never stops — no manual juggling required.
Real human curation. See what friends are playing (in whatever apps they use!), browse their libraries, and listen along in real-time. Music is better together.
Sync favorites and libraries from your existing services. Your carefully curated collection, unified in one place.
AI-powered music recommendations from the engines you choose - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or all of them at once. Your taste, amplified.
Someone shared a Spotify link but you use Apple Music? Use the browser extension to easily import and play it from your sources. Parachord translates between services so you can play anything from anywhere.
Embeddable buttons and smartlinks for artists, labels, and blogs. Let fans play music from their preferred service, right from your site.
Stay on top of what's dropping. Fresh releases from your favorite artists and curated charts, aggregated across all your connected services.
Discover new music through personalized recommendations — by artist or by song. Powered by your listening history and refined by the engines you trust.
Full control over what plays next. Drag, reorder, and spin off new playlists from your queue on the fly. Your listening session becomes a living playlist.
The most acclaimed albums from across the web - collected and presented to you with overviews of what the critics are saying.
Support the artists you love. Bandcamp purchase links appear in the Now Playing view for the songs Parachord can find there - regardless of where you are streaming it from, so you can buy music directly without leaving Parachord.
Search across multiple catalogs at once. Find something you like and follow the threads across related artists and more.
Never miss a show. Parachord surfaces upcoming concerts and tours from the artists you listen to, with ticket links from SeatGeek and Ticketmaster — right in the Now Playing view.
Full artist profiles with discographies, concert dates, bios, and band members — all pulled together from multiple metadata sources into one beautiful, browsable page.
Control Parachord from Raycast or any MCP-compatible AI assistant. Search, play, queue songs, and manage your library without ever leaving your workflow.
Connect your favorite services, metadata providers, and recommendation engines.
That live recording only on YouTube. The Bandcamp-exclusive EP. The vinyl rip in your collection. Parachord finds them all and lets you listen to, collect, and playlist them together.
Prioritize your service plug-ins however you want. Whether that is Bandcamp as the default service, backfilled by a streaming service or one streaming service over the other. It's up to you.
See what friends are playing and just hitch a ride while they drive the aux.
Plug in Last.fm, ListenBrainz, or AI engines. It's up to you which ones - or all of them. Get suggestions from sources you trust, not black-box algorithms.
Someone sent you a Spotify link but you use YouTube? Paste it in. Parachord plays it from your sources - not theirs.
Standard XSPF format. Import, convert, export, share, and keep your curation forever—even if platforms disappear.
Free, open source, and yours to keep.
Download on GitHubMake the Parachord experience even more magical with our browser extension
