Spotify's popular site 'Every Noise at Once', which covers a huge range of music genres, stops functioning due to staff cuts and fans are furious

Music streaming service Spotify laid off approximately 1,500 people, representing approximately 17% of its total workforce, in December 2023. It has been reported that as a result of this, the popular site ` ` Every Noise at Once '', which allows you to discover new music covering a huge range of music genres, has stopped functioning.

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'Every Noise at Once' is a project that uses an algorithm to analyze the playback information of songs distributed on Spotify and create a scatter plot. It has gained popularity as a website where you can discover new songs based on your favorite music genres, and the site has a scatter chart of over 6,000 music genres.

Every Noise at Once is a website created by Glenn McDonald, who worked at The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company acquired by Spotify in 2013. According to research company Similarweb , the average monthly access to Every Noise at Once in 2023 is 633,227 PV.

When Spotify acquired The Echo Nest, the data that McDonald had collected and hosted on Every Noise at Once was applied as the basis for Spotify's genre system. The ' Fans Also Like ' and ' Spotify Mix ' features that appear on Spotify's artist page are also features that were born from Every Noise at Once, which Mr. McDonald created.

Mr. McDonald, the author of Every Noise at Once, was fired from the company due to personnel restructuring in December 2023. Mr. McDonald revealed on his blog and X (formerly Twitter) that as a result, he was unable to access Spotify's internal data, making it difficult to maintain the Every Noise at Once service, which is loved by passionate music fans. I was there.

Unfortunately, the future of https://t.co/d70Qg1aetq , in its current form, is probably short.

— Every Noise at Once (@EveryNoise) December 4, 2023

Macdonald said of Every Noise at Once, ``Every Noise at Once understands the listening communities that exist around the world, what they are called, what kind of artists they belong to, what kind of audiences they have. The goal is to use numbers as much as possible to discover the trends that exist in listening patterns.I call Every Noise at Once an attempt to help the self-organization of music worldwide. I think that's the case,'' he told overseas media outlet TechCrunch.

Every Noise at Once has had difficulty maintaining its service after Mr. McDonald was fired, but multiple fans have objected to this. On Spotify's official forum, a ``proposal for continuing the Every Noise at Once service'' is being made, and nine pages of support from fans who want Every Noise at Once to continue have been posted. In addition, fans have made harsh criticisms of Spotify, such as ``Every Noise at Once was my Alexandria library and you burned it down from the inside. Please do something about it.'' I did.

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Support has also been pouring in from fans on social news sites Reddit and posts on Every Noise at Once , with one user writing: 'It's clear that we will forever be missing out on Glenn. 'Unless Spotify takes action, I'm going to throw Spotify in the trash.'

'Spotify doesn't have the problem of content decline that Netflix does. Spotify has an immeasurably larger catalog of music than any other organization on the planet has ever amassed. 'Every Noise at Once was an honest and highly successful attempt to help music lovers discover new songs on their own.' Some users expressed their gratitude for Once.