It's not been a great week for feeling warm and fuzzy about the best music streaming services. While Amazon is busily degrading its Prime Video service to try and get more cash from customers and Warner Bro. Discovery seems hell-bent on burying Coyote vs Acme unseen to use it as a tax break, Spotify's layoffs have claimed another casualty: Every Noise at Once, the third party site that delivered the music discovery service Spotify doesn't.
The site wasn't owned by Spotify, but it was created and maintained by one of its most important data experts, Glenn McDonald, as a labour of love. When McDonald was laid off in December, he lost his access to the service's data – and that means Every Noise at Once cannot be updated ever again. And that's a real shame, because ENAO was a great way of finding music on the site that you might never otherwise know about. And losing McDonald means losing the expertise that brought key Spotify features including Daily Mixes, Fans Also Like and some niche genres too.
