Introducing CORRD: A New Way to Discover Music, from Volumio with love

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You can try it for free for 2 weeks :wink: Just login with a different email than the one you use for Volumio. Looking forward to hear your feedback

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Cool concept. I signed up for a year with the goal if encountering some new tunes.

One initial comment. For work during the day, I prefer classical music and configured Corrd to select from this category. I had hoped to hear some lesser (or even obscure) classical composers and pieces that would not normally make it to the mainstream classical radio stations, but seem to be getting primarily contemporary music, which sounds like it belongs in the Ambient or New Age categories. I suppose the counter argument could be there is no ‘new’ classical music.

Keep up the good work!

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An interesting concept. I planned to try CORRD, but it forces me to subscribe. Even though I can get 2 weeks free and “cancel anytime”, the app tries to trick users into a yearly subscription, probably hoping they’ll conveniently forget to cancel.

Sorry, but I hate these predatory user interface tactics. I deleted the app without a second glance.

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Volumio addressed that subject earlier, there’s a reason for that: Introducing CORRD: A New Way to Discover Music, from Volumio with love - #14 by volumio

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Very cool feedback! If you were to explain the improvement of the suggestion, what would it be? Have you tried fine tuning the prompt in the additional context to see if the reccomendation are better suited for you?

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Sorry to hear that. As we already explained previously, we wanted to offer Volumio users with a big discount, however to do that we can’t do it with a trial in place.
If you want to try it for free for 2 weeks, just sign in with a different email (and if you want to avoid being charged, just cancel immediately).

We strive to do ethical products, so this is why it’s particularly painful when we are associated with “trying to do predatory tactics”, that’s not us man.

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Thanks for the swift reply.

I did try playing with the prompts but seem unable to get only “classical music”. My preference, when only the classical menu item is selected, would be classical music is the European art/music tradition, so medieval to modern era, but composed for acoustic instruments and voices. This would exclude ambient and electronic styles, which are accommodated by other categories in the app. I realize this may not be a design goal of the CORRD app and just my personal preference.

For a different time of the day, I have gotten “Cooking” dialed in and serving up an excellent and eclectic mix of world and latin music!! This is a fun way to venture beyond the playlists and at the same time getting the audio quality of Qobuz.

Thanks again.

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Hi,
I went straight for the yearly subscription because I think corrd could be — or become — what I’ve been looking for ever since Google Play Music ended.

So far, I like the app, but I’m really missing two things, especially since I loved the adjustable playlist function in GPM.

Please, please, please implement a thumbs up and thumbs down option to fine-tune the flow in real time. This would make me extremely happy, as I’ve been struggling to discover new music lately.

The other thing I’d love to see is Android Auto and CarPlay support.

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Yeah I think you’re pushing CORRD to the limit here, it was not designed to accomodate that. But it’s really interesting and we have some thoughts on how to make it work more like that.

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Good news, these are on the roadmap! Thanks for the encouraging feedbacks!

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For everyone that tried CORRD, if you guys like it, please rate it 5 stars on the app stores.

This helps us big time! Thanks for taking the time to do it :wink:

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I hear you, but it is a common tactic to force a subscription on users who want to try a product, because many forget to cancel and have to pay at least the first subscription cycle. Or forget altogether and pay for an extended time even if they don’t use the product anymore.

Nevertheless, it is a legal tactic, so you do what you think is best. For my part, it deters me from going forward with trying the app.

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Absolutely, had to cancel my subscription via apple. The reason: it doesn’t recognize my volumio player and there is not much to tweak in terms of adjusting to my music preferences. And besides, why is it necessary to give my spotify credentials?

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The app needs the credentials form Spotify or Tidal or Qobuz to push songs to your Volumio player.
Did you enable “UPNP Renderer” within your devices?