# playback (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover playback. Page: Feed: --- ## [VLC for iOS 4.0 — third public beta](https://www.feepk.net/2026/08/06/vlc-for-ios-4-0-beta-3/) _2026-08-06 · Felix Paul Kühne_ Podcasts and a new On Air tab, a redesigned browsing interface, Siri and Spotlight playback, alarms for radio stations and a long list of crash fixes. ## [Telesplit](https://andyreitano.com/posts/telesplit/) _2026-08-01 · Andy Reitano_ telesplit.com Telesplit quickly extracts audio from game music files (VGM/VGZ/NSF/SPC/GBS and more) and is designed for game research and musicians looking to isolate individual channels for sampling, transcribing for covers and remixes. The audio is decoded locally in the browser with threaded wasm and drops the stems into a minimal DAW for live playback and waveform slicing before export. I… ## [Telesplit](https://andyreitano.com/posts/telesplit/) _2026-08-01 · Andy Reitano_ telesplit.com Telesplit quickly extracts audio from game music files (VGM/VGZ/NSF/SPC/GBS and more) and is designed for game research and musicians looking to isolate individual channels for sampling, transcribing for covers and remixes. The audio is decoded locally in the browser with threaded wasm and drops the stems into a minimal DAW for live playback and waveform slicing before export. I… ## [VLC for iOS 4.0 — second public beta](https://www.feepk.net/2026/07/16/vlc-for-ios-4-0-beta-2/) _2026-07-16 · Felix Paul Kühne_ A radio station discovery service, CarPlay album and folder browsing, WebDAV support, frame-by-frame playback and a redesigned track selector. ## [Almost Sunk on Sync](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/06/25/keeping-playlists-in-sync/) _2026-06-25 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ After a long history of promises, last week I basically got the Parachord iOS app to feature parity with the Android and desktop apps. Multi-servcie content resoltuion, playback engine(s), catalog, scrobbling, the chat DJ, the social stuff, the Achordion integration and more. All of it working on my iPad (I... ## [VLC for iOS 4.0 — first public beta](https://www.feepk.net/2026/06/25/vlc-for-ios-4-0-public-beta/) _2026-06-24 · Felix Paul Kühne_ The first public beta of VLC for iOS 4.0 is here, and it’s the largest update the app has seen in years. It spans iOS, iPadOS and tvOS. A new engine underneath The headline change is invisible at first glance: the whole app now sits on a pre-release build of libVLC 4 . That means a new clock implementation, a rewritten player and a new playlist core. This is the foundation for most of the… ## [Battling bots: keeping a hobby music site cheap to run](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/06/08/from-thirteen-dollars-to-a-dime/) _2026-06-08 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ Parachord is a one-person hobby project. I build all of it for fun and love: the desktop app, the Android app, the iOS app (I just started) and Achordion, the companion website to it all. All of it is open-source, none of it earns money, and I pay for all... ## [Achordion grows up: identity, feeds, and a tighter Parachord knot](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/05/18/achordion-the-community-layer/) _2026-05-18 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ Two weeks ago I introduced Achordion — the web-and-community front door to the open music stack. A week later, the follow-up post was about how Parachord is quietly building a community-owned table of multi-service streaming links every time you play something. ## [A Self-Building Database of Streaming Links for Every Song](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/05/11/the-question-that-woke-me-up/) _2026-05-11 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ The question that woke me up this morning: ## [Introducing Achordion: The Missing Online Community of the Open Music Stack](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/05/04/introducing-achordion/) _2026-05-04 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ For a while now, when I’ve talked about Parachord, I’ve described it as one half of something. The other half just shipped: it’s called Achordion, it lives at achordion.xyz, and it’s the user experience I’ve wanted on top of ListenBrainz data since the first time I logged in. ## [Open-source Screen Sharing with Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FhF9DW8ODIwu) _2026-05-03 · **Sponsored**_ WebRTC screen sharing with simultaneous mouse & keyboard control; viewers join in browser. ## [Portable by Design: Spinbin, XSPF, and Playlists for the Everywhere-Music Web](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/04/22/spinbin-is-back/) _2026-04-22 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ Back in 2014, my friend Alastair Porter and I built a thing called Spinbin. The idea was simple and, at the time, slightly ridiculous: if a radio station’s website showed the tracks it had just played, we should be able to turn that into a subscribable playlist. The tagline we... ## [Parachord for Android: The First Public Beta Is Here](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/04/20/parachord-android-first-public-beta/) _2026-04-20 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ It’s out. Parachord for Android v0.4.0-beta.2 is the first public beta of the mobile app, and anyone with an Android phone and a taste for music that lives in too many places at once can now install it. ## [Why We're Re-Architecting Parachord Before Shipping the Android App](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/04/12/why-were-re-architecting-before-shipping-android/) _2026-04-12 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ A month ago I wrote about building the Parachord Android app in a few days. 146 commits, a full native app, Spotify and Apple Music playback, scrobbling, AI chat, the works. I was genuinely surprised it came together that fast. ## [Building Parachord for Android in a Few Days](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/03/15/parachord-android-3-days/) _2026-03-15 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ So on Wednesday I woke up and thought, “I should start to scaffold out an Android app.” By Saturday, I had a full app. A real one. With Spotify and Apple Music playback, library sync, scrobbling, friend activity, search, artist pages, playlists, an AI music chat, a home screen widget,... ## [Parachord 0.9.0-beta.1: Turn Down the House Lights and Let's Start the Show](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/03/09/parachord-0-9-0-beta/) _2026-03-09 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ This is a big one. Parachord 0.9.0-beta.1 brings three headline features – dark mode, live concert discovery, and a much more reliable Fresh Drops experience – along with performance work, bug fixes, API resilience, and a pile of UI refinements across the board. ## [The parachord:// protocol: Imagine A Potential New Primitive for Music on the Web](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/02/19/parachord-protocol-for-music-websites/) _2026-02-19 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ Here’s a scenario. You’re reading a glowing album review on your favorite music blog. The writer is describing a track as “the best indie rock album opener since Geese’s ‘Trinidad’.” You want to hear it. Right now. So you open a new tab, search for it on whatever streaming service... ## [Parachord, Open Source and the Rise of Personal Apps](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/02/12/open-source-and-the-rise-of-personal-apps/) _2026-02-12 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ To understate the obvious, there’s a big shift happening in how people think about software. After a decade of centralized platforms owning every layer of our digital lives, a growing number of developers and users are asking a simple question: what if I just ran this myself? ## [Smartlinks: Share Music That Just Works](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/02/09/introducing-smartlinks/) _2026-02-09 · Parachord Team · Parachord Blog_ You found an incredible album. You want to share it with a friend. But they’re on Spotify and you found it on Bandcamp. Or maybe you’re texting a group chat where half the people use YouTube and the other half have Apple Music. So you either send a service-specific link... ## [Shuffleupagus & MCP: Your musical AI companion](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/02/05/parachord-mcp-server/) _2026-02-05 · Parachord Team · Parachord Blog_ Parachord is about removing friction between you and your music. Our (optional!) AI assistant Shuffleupagus - powered by any one of a number of AI plug-ins - takes that further… you can generate playlists, get recommendations, ask for details about what’s currently playing, see what your friends have been listening... ## [New Feature: Purchase and Download Music Directly from Parachord](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/02/03/purchase-download-plugins/) _2026-02-03 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ One of the best ways to support the artists you love is to actually buy the music you discover and stream in Parachord. Today, we extended the plug-in architecture to easily buy tracks and albums easily from within the app - no matter what source it is playing back from.... ## [Licensed Dispensaries, Pay with Crypto (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/u0H4LvfIE3ES) _2026-02-02 · **Sponsored**_ Search verified licensed dispensaries and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning, or stablecoins. ## [Under the Hood: How Parachord's Content Resolution Actually Works](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/02/03/how-content-resolution-works/) _2026-02-03 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ When you hit play on a song in Parachord, a lot happens behind the scenes. Today I want to pull back the curtain on how our content resolution system works—the part that makes playing “the same song” from a dozen different sources feel seamless. ## [It's been a busy couple of weeks](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/01/30/busy-2-weeks/) _2026-01-30 · J Herskowitz · Parachord Blog_ When I decided I wanted to see if I could reimagine Tomahawk using new tools and technologies, I had no idea how quickly my “I’ll see what’s possible” would turn into a full-out heads down 2 week sprint out of the gates. ## [Music is Better Together: Social Features in Parachord](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/01/28/social-listening-features/) _2026-01-28 · Parachord Team · Parachord Blog_ Streaming services have made music more accessible than ever, but somehow listening has become more isolated. We’re changing that with Parachord’s social features. ## [Deep Dive: How Parachord's Plugin System Works](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/01/22/deep-dive-plugin-system/) _2026-01-22 · Parachord Team · Parachord Blog_ One of the most powerful features of Parachord is its plugin architecture. Today we’re pulling back the curtain on how it all works. ## [Introducing Parachord: One Player for All Your Music](https://parachord.com/blog/2026/01/15/introducing-parachord/) _2026-01-15 · Parachord Team · Parachord Blog_ We’re thrilled to announce Parachord, a new kind of music player that unifies all your music sources into one seamless experience. ## [Video Players](https://andyreitano.com/posts/video-players/) _2025-07-01 · Andy Reitano_ Rust / egui video players utilizing ffmpeg for various projects that need features not covered by standard media players. The player is optimized for low power systems like a Raspberry Pi in live performances and installations. PumaTV # Automated music video player that uses the folder layout to define channels for playback on an RPI4 using composite video. Utilizes gilrs for gamepad support as a… ## [Video Players](https://andyreitano.com/posts/video-players/) _2025-07-01 · Andy Reitano_ Rust / egui video players utilizing ffmpeg for various projects that need features not covered by standard media players. The player is optimized for low power systems like a Raspberry Pi in live performances and installations. PumaTV # Automated music video player that uses the folder layout to define channels for playback on an RPI4 using composite video. Utilizes gilrs for gamepad support as a… ## [Telemelt](https://andyreitano.com/posts/telemelt/) _2025-06-01 · Andy Reitano_ Telemelt 2 is out! # Proper updates here in the future but follow @telemelt.com on bluesky for the latest! Telemelt 1 # Telemelt is a web-based multi-emulator designed to recreate the experience of playing console games with a single controller in a room full of friends. Gathering around a TV and collectively attempting to beat a game with others has been a consistent joy throughout my life. I… ## [Telemelt](https://andyreitano.com/posts/telemelt/) _2025-06-01 · Andy Reitano_ Telemelt 2 is out! # Proper updates here in the future but follow @telemelt.com on bluesky for the latest! Telemelt 1 # Telemelt is a web-based multi-emulator designed to recreate the experience of playing console games with a single controller in a room full of friends. Gathering around a TV and collectively attempting to beat a game with others has been a consistent joy throughout my life. I… ## [Laser Work](https://andyreitano.com/posts/laser/) _2025-05-01 · Andy Reitano_ Metal / Fiber 1064nm # Gweike G2 20W in a Cloudray Enclosure Custom jigs and exhaust setup modeled in Fusion360 and printed on a Bambu X1C Custom Lightburn Gradient Generator (Rust + egui -\> wasm) # Web tool to generate a lightburn file with parametric gradient fills for to try to achieve color tricks by modulating the fiber laser power on stainless steel. Acrylic / CO2 # FSL Hobby 40W ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/h9yIG6ZNlDzg) _2025-04-30 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and start investing with low-cost global access. ## [Guitar](https://andyreitano.com/posts/guitar/) _2025-05-01 · Andy Reitano_ Microshred Guitar Pedal Platform # C based STM32H7 guitar pedal with a modfile playback engine, real-time polyphonic pitch detection and an OLED display. 24TET custom Microtonal neck on a fender body # 1994 Peavey Predator with JB Jr. HB # Jackson SL4X # 1991 Black Peavey Patriot # 1993 Red Peavey Patriot # Custom Pedals # ## [Laser Work](https://andyreitano.com/posts/laser/) _2025-05-01 · Andy Reitano_ Metal / Fiber 1064nm # Gweike G2 20W in a Cloudray Enclosure Custom jigs and exhaust setup modeled in Fusion360 and printed on a Bambu X1C Custom Lightburn Gradient Generator (Rust + egui -\> wasm) # Web tool to generate a lightburn file with parametric gradient fills for to try to achieve color tricks by modulating the fiber laser power on stainless steel. Acrylic / CO2 # FSL Hobby 40W ## [Guitar](https://andyreitano.com/posts/guitar/) _2025-05-01 · Andy Reitano_ Microshred Guitar Pedal Platform # C based STM32H7 guitar pedal with a modfile playback engine, real-time polyphonic pitch detection and an OLED display. 24TET custom Microtonal neck on a fender body # 1994 Peavey Predator with JB Jr. HB # Jackson SL4X # 1991 Black Peavey Patriot # 1993 Red Peavey Patriot # Custom Pedals # ## [Radio / CW](https://andyreitano.com/posts/radio/) _2025-01-01 · Andy Reitano_ KD2DZM Extra class amateur operator working on improving my CW WPM, I mainly work with low power / 5W setups. 10W EFHW # ## [Radio / CW](https://andyreitano.com/posts/radio/) _2025-01-01 · Andy Reitano_ KD2DZM Extra class amateur operator working on improving my CW WPM, I mainly work with low power / 5W setups. 10W EFHW #