The Modern Music Discovery Paradox

We live in an unprecedented era of musical abundance. With over 100 million songs available across multiple streaming platforms, we have virtually every piece of recorded music at our fingertips. Yet paradoxically, many of us feel musically starved, trapped in endless loops of familiar tracks, struggling to break free from the algorithmic echo chambers that define our listening experience.

This contradiction sparked us at Volumio to create CORRD, our latest innovation that represents a bold new direction for music discovery.

When Infinite Choice Becomes No Choice

The problem isn’t a lack of music, it’s the way we discover it. Modern recommendation algorithms, despite their sophistication, operate as impenetrable black boxes. They analyze our listening habits and serve up “more of the same,” creating comfortable but creatively limiting feedback loops.

After we spoke with hundreds of music enthusiasts over the past year, a clear pattern emerged: despite having access to more music than any generation in history, people consistently reported that their most memorable musical discoveries happened years ago, often through human recommendation or serendipitous encounters.

Introducing CORRD: Discovery by Design

At Volumio, we decided to tackle this challenge head-on. CORRD represents our fundamental shift in how we approach music discovery. Rather than accepting algorithmic limitations, we’ve created the first platform that puts you in control of how recommendations work.

What Makes Our CORRD Different

Moment Driven Discovery: We designed CORRD to organize music around the moments in your life. Whether you’re hitting the gym, cooking dinner, driving to work, or winding down for the evening, CORRD crafts soundtracks that enhance these experiences with fresh music tailored to each moment.

Algorithmic Transparency: For the first time, we’re giving you the power to fine-tune how recommendations work. Want to explore underground artists? Prefer upbeat over melancholic? Simply tell CORRD what you’re looking for, and it will surface music that matches your exact preferences while prioritizing discovery over familiarity.

Quality Without Compromise: As the team behind Volumio, we couldn’t compromise on audio excellence. When streaming to Volumio devices at home, you enjoy bit-perfect playback quality that honors your music’s full sonic potential.

What Our CORRD Isn’t

We intentionally designed CORRD to break away from traditional music app conventions. There’s no endless browsing or searching, instead, CORRD guides you down a discovery path. It’s not a playlist generator requiring external apps for playback; everything happens within CORRD itself. Most importantly, we designed it for music lovers of all technical backgrounds, not just audiophiles.

The Volumio Connection

CORRD isn’t just a standalone app; it’s the foundation of a broader technological platform that will enhance the entire Volumio ecosystem. This mobile-first approach extends our mission of delivering exceptional musical experiences beyond the home.

The synergy is purposeful: CORRD excels at discovery and mobile playback, while Volumio provides the ultimate home listening experience. Together, they create a seamless journey from discovery to high fidelity enjoyment.

Join Us in the Discovery Revolution

CORRD represents months of dedicated development from our team at Volumio, but we recognize this is just the beginning. The future of music discovery will be shaped by the community of music lovers who embrace and help us refine this new approach.

We’re inviting you to be part of this evolution with us. Explore CORRD, push its boundaries, and share your feedback with us. Your insights will directly influence how we develop this platform to serve the global community of music enthusiasts.

Special Launch Offer: As a thank you to our Volumio community, we’re giving all users (both free and premium) exclusive access to CORRD with a special discount valid through July 31st.

Ready to Rediscover Music?

The question isn’t whether great new music exists, it’s whether you have the right tools to find it. CORRD represents our answer: a discovery platform that respects your agency, enhances your moments, and rekindles the joy of musical exploration.
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What will you discover?

The Team at Volumio

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Over the years developing Volumio, and with the help of our beloved community, something new emerged. Most people have more than one streaming account, so depending on what you want to listen to, you have to open more than one app. This creates a fragmented experience.

One thing you seem to love about Volumio, besides the obsessive attention to sound quality upon which we built it, is having your entire library condensed in one place. I think we did a great job of integrating such a fragmented digital music landscape into one coherent experience.

Now, I’ve started to feel that we’ve achieved as much as we can with Volumio’s current technical architecture. As with all good things, an overhaul is needed.

Thus came the vision to turn Volumio into the ultimate music experience.

Why limit Volumio enjoyment to just when you’re at home? I wanted something you can use wherever you are, that adapts to what you’re doing. Something that merges the convenience of recommendation algorithms and radio with the freedom and customizability that is at the core of what Volumio believes in.

That’s what led to the creation of CORRD a bold step toward making music more accessible and meaningful, wherever you are.

Welcome to CORRD, which is:

• Unified Music Hub: CORRD brings together all your streaming services, music libraries, and discovery tools into one seamless app.
• Personalized Music Assistant: Acts as your personal assistant, crafting a musical flow that matches what you’re doing, while helping you discover fresh and interesting music.
• Versatile and Future-Ready: Designed to adapt to your lifestyle, seamlessly integrating with smart TVs, cars, voice assistants, and more.

CORRD is both an evolution of Volumio and a fresh way to connect with music. It’s a mobile-first, platform-agnostic music aggregator, player, and personal DJ, designed to unify streaming services under one app. By letting you tweak recommendations and discover endless new tracks, CORRD offers control, convenience, and boundless discovery on smart TVs, in cars, through voice assistants, or wherever else music might find you.

We’re starting with something radical because the music industry needs it. Algorithms today often feel like locked boxes, churning out repetitive suggestions. CORRD changes that by letting you personalize and shape your experience, blending the best parts of Volumio with a modern, adaptable foundation. And this is only the beginning—more Volumio features will follow, guided by our loyal community’s feedback.

What you see now is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and we need your insights to shape its future.

We’re launching with a private beta for the Volumio community first, because your passion has always inspired our innovation.

If you believe in a better way to enjoy and discover music, and want to help shape it, this is what you have to do to participate:

With your feedback, we’ll refine CORRD and continue evolving the Volumio ecosystem, redefining music listening for everyone, everywhere.

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