Wouldn’t it be great if you could exchange music recommendations with your friends, no matter whether they use Spotify, Apple Music, or Bandcamp? Those are a few of the tasks the new music app Parachord is trying to take on by freeing music metadata from individual subscription service silos. Not only is Herskowitz a music tech veteran who’s worked at Spotify, LimeWire, and AOL Music, he also built this very app before. A bunch of once-promising streaming services have since disappeared. Boxee pioneered universal movie and TV show libraries across streaming services.