Continue Everynoise

[victorvr]

everynoise.com is an invaluable exploration of Spotify genres, and the only place to see complete Friday releases with genre cross-references. Without it, much new music goes unheard.

The Spotify employee, glenn mcdonald, who maintained this was let go in recent round of layoffs.

Everynoise is no longer getting data feeds (beyond basic api) and New Releases may not happen.

Please make everynoise functions supported. I would prioritize New Releases.

[nurturenurture]

Everynoise enhanced my listening and discovery of music in so many ways. It's clear that Spotify wants to assert a monopoly on how music is curated, taking that power away from the audience and the listener. 

I hope every noise returns so that we can choose what we listen to, and how we find it. 

[kolodzieas]

I still think about Everynoise whenever I want to discover a new genre or break out of my musical echo chamber, and how this method of discovering new music is no longer available to me. Part of the joy of Everynoise was that it surfaced so many new musical ideas to me just because the genre names were interesting to me. Everynoise was a critical part of my UX with Spotify, and I would get lost in new genres for hours when I discovered something I would almost never have encountered otherwise.

I made hundreds of playlists using Everynoise. I have never had nearly the same success with Discover Weekly or the AI-generated playlists - the music never sounded like what I was looking for. But when I find the right genre, or the right related artist, I can contribute back to the algorithm and tell you what the connections I hear and like are as a human with my playlists. Without this tool, I can't do that. Without this tool, the music I am finding through Spotify is becoming more similar and bland. Everynoise was your differentiator specifically because it brought the human back into the decision-making process in a time where algorithms and AI are driving the content and media I consume. Even Deezer doesn't have this. An editorial playlist is great, but sometimes, I want to see the connections. Sometimes, I want to pick the music, and I want to see the map of musical similarity so I can make judgements on how to pair songs. Whatever my algorithm is, the one in my brain, it's different than what I get from your algorithm. And that difference in processing should be encouraged. I want to make amazing playlists where the music flows seamlessly from song to song and feels good to listen to as a whole. I want to surprise and be surprised. I want to contribute back, but without Everynoise, I can't. I need that data source to understand the possibilities.

It bears repeating: losing Everynoise means losing the human training data of passionate music lovers like me who use it as a tool for finding new and novel connections between emerging genres and songs that are verified to sound good and be pleasing to the human ear. Without that data, what makes you different? Why should I stay?

I'm canceling my account now, after many years, for a number of reasons. But I will say it would have been a much harder decision to give up my account had Everynoise support continued, simply because it was so tightly integrated with Spotify. Disappointing, and I hope you reverse this decision in the future.

[boomdelala]

well said!

[jessmelo]

just found about this amazing tool and what happened to the employee

this is awful, just to make some rich dudes even richer you destroy beautiful things, shame on you spotify

[lindseybock3]

Bring it back! literally this was the only good thing about Spotify and the one thing that kept me on Spotify rather than other Apple Music/ youtube / etc. Your new algorithms feed me the same songs over and over again and it is literally impossible to discover new music, especially something that doesnt sound like what I already listen to. I hate being in an echo chamber. 

[noahspotify]

Very disappointing to see that this website will be dying. I don’t think it is too hard to keep ‘updated’ since it seems very automated and based on metadata that Spotify already generates for each song...

[oscara230]

I use Every Noise along with Spotify, it does not replace Spotify in any way it just adds to the experience. I use Spotify's radio feature along with Every Noise to pick music for my DJ sets. I would love for Every Noise to gain access to Spotify's APIs or database again so that I can discover new music on Spotify using this tool.

Thanks to Every Noise for a great tool, and thanks to Spotify for an awesome platform.

// Oscar, Sweden.

[nipunajay3]

It's sad to see this still being ignored. Everynoise is the best example of what Spotify could be and what makes it exciting compared to other standard streaming services. I'm still blown away by the sheer amount of genres and artists that Everynoise features in its playlists. It's got so much potential. Maybe not everybody will use it, but for those of us who love discovering new music and venturing into uncharted genres, Everynoise is an absolute game changer.

It sucks that Soptify doesn't see its potential, and doesn't understand how much Everynoise means to a lot of its users. It is so sad to think that all of that functionality will eventually disappear, with no other alternative.

Spotify, if you guys want to compete with other streaming services, protect features that set it apart rather than ignoring them and letting them go to waste!

And Glenn McDonald, if you ever see this, thank you for creating Everynoise! It brings me so much joy! ❤️️

[början]

Unfortunately it turns out Spotify can't even be bothered to maintain basic search operators, so I don't like our chances... It's hard not to get the impression that the programme is to try and get us all just passively listening to whatever the "personalized" algorithm(s) push at us.

[tonyloco]

I follow several genres, including lo-fi house and similar styles. The 'Sound' playlists stopped updating on June 2nd, 2024, and for the 'Pulse' and 'Edge' playlists, some are still being updated, while others stopped on August 24th. Coincidentally, one of my tracks was added to one of those playlists on that day, which was one of my goals when I started making music again.

It’s sad to see these playlists stop updating, as they were a great tool for discovering new tracks and artists. I had a nice ritual of checking them every Saturday morning.

Thank you, Glenn, for your amazing work and for providing such a great service to the music community. I'll definitely keep following your future projects.