Hey everyone,
We’re excited to finally share something we’ve been working on behind the scenes: CORRD. Some of you might already have heard of it, but we kept it a little bit hidden until we were proud enough of the result to show it to you.
It all started from a realization of mine: I was not discovering any new music. Despite having at least 5 streaming accounts and having practically all the music ever produced available at 1 fingertip away, I realized that the last truly remarkable music discoveries I made were from years ago.
So I dug deeper, to realize that one of the main causes is the fact that we rely on recommendation algorithms to provide us with new stuff. But these recommendations usually felt stale: just more of the same without any new exploration.
Then I realized there was no way to tell such algorithms HOW I wanted them to behave; they were essentially black boxes.
To my surprise, during the past year, I received the same feedback from the hundreds of music lovers I spoke with.
Hence the idea of CORRD. I wanted to create something that:
- Was as intuitive and quick as possible. 1 click away from cool music.
- Was actually bringing me out of the repetition of similar stuff.
- I could actively influence, merging passive listening with active choices.
And this is how CORRD was born.
CORRD IS:
- An app designed to provide fresh music discoveries
- Designed around the idea of providing soundtracks for the moments in your day: Gym, Relaxing, Cooking, Driving. Mixing for you new music which fits into your moments.
- The first app that allows you to fine tune how the recommendation algorithm works. Do you want underground or mainstream artists? Sad or happy tunes? You can even write what you want to hear and CORRD will provide new and cool music that matches what you want.
- A playback engine which respects your music’s quality, especially when sending audio to Volumio. Coming from us it could not have been otherwise.
CORRD IS NOT:
- The music player apps you’re used to. It does not allow (for now) you to browse or search. But somehow forces you into a discovery path.
- A playlist generator. It does not require you to transfer playlists to another app to play them. You can play directly from CORRD.
- A music nerd product. We wanted it to be accessible even to the least tech savvy.
Before you ask: we’ve built CORRD as a new technological platform that Volumio will also take advantage of, to fulfill our mission of delivering outstanding musical experiences, even when out of home.
So, all the development that we put on CORRD will very soon be available to Volumio.
And the best part is that they are designed to work together. CORRD is a mobile app designed to play your music wherever you are: headphones, car, bluetooth etc. But when at home, it can discover and play to Volumio devices in bit perfect quality.
And this is where you come into the picture, dear community. What you see today is the result of months of hard work from the Volumio team. But we know this is just the initial spark.
To make it evolve into something meaningful for all music lovers we need you to jump on it and co create the future of it together.
Use it, abuse it, ask us questions, tell us what you would like to see different. We’re all ears.
To say thanks to you for being part of the family, all Volumio users (free and premium) have a discount to use CORRD valid until July 31st.
We hope CORRD will bring you joy and new music you didn’t know you loved.
We can’t wait to hear what you think.
Team Volumio & CORRD
