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Spotify’s layoffs put an end to a musical encyclopedia, and fans are pissed
After Spotify data alchemist Glenn McDonald was laid off, his music encyclopedia Every Noise at Once could no longer operate fully.
Spotify data alchemist Glenn McDonald, who created EveryNoise, was one of the 1,500 employees who was let go that day, but his layoff had wider-reaching implications; now that McDonald doesn’t have access to internal Spotify data, he can no longer maintain EveryNoise, which became a pivotal resource for the most obsessive music fans to track new releases and learn more about the sounds they love. The meticulous and ever-expanding music genre map provides the data that informs products like the viral Daylist, or many of the statistics on Spotify Wrapped that fans share like wildfire. “Soundtowns was specifically an idea that I had internally, and people picked it up and said we want to do it, and I helped the guys that were doing that particular story to make sure it was successful,” McDonald told TechCrunch.
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