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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Demo: playlist → query interface → group tracks by artist, sort groups by track-count.

Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Adding some stuff to deal with the site getting overloaded by bot traffic. If you hit issues, try reloading first, patience second.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh, sorry, just saw these notes and it seems to have come back a little while ago. I'll try to find out what happened...

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

API-based functions on everynoise.com are now operational again.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ah, you probably had an older version of lookup.html cached, and it wasn't getting reloaded within the iframe. Some sequence of Force Reloads would probably also have worked.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You don't even see "Sorry, that one doesn't seem to be on any of these maps yet."? That's new. What are you searching for? And can you go to everynoise.com/lookup.html, F12 to open the console, and then try again and see if you're getting any errors?

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oh, the inline search at the top of the main map is still working, it's just the ones under research.html that aren't.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If the community can get a job on the Spotify API team, that would probably help. Which of the API-powered parts did you use in your class?

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Still still waiting. It's kind of amazing that in 2026 there's still anything involving computers that can take weeks.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Still waiting for Spotify to process everynoise.com's API quota-extension re-request. New Release Friday apologies to NRbG users.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Or there are Chrome plugins that will show a volume slider that works on all pages...

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If there's ever a whole new version, maybe. For now, you can change your own by opening the Javascript console and pasting in document.querySelector('audio').volume = .5 but it resets on every page-navigation, which is why I didn't add one while I was still working on it.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Artist profiles won't load, but I made them fall back to just giving you a Spotify link to that ID.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The map itself is not affected, just the live research tools: the searches, artist and playlist profiles, NRbG, the Canonical Path...

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I have rewired the find box on the front page, at least, to fall back to a non-API lookup method.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

All everynoise.com functions that use the live Spotify API are currently broken due to Spotify disabling everynoise's API access without warning. I have filed a request to get it turned back on, but am not expecting to hear back one way or the other for a few days.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

All everynoise.com functions that use the live Spotify API are currently broken due to a change on Spotify's end. I will assume accidental error, and have contacted support.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

No syntax change. If you were using your own API credentials from a free account, though, that doesn't work any more. But you can just remove them and let NRbL do the authentication with its own.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Note that you can also use regular NRbG.html and put in label names prefaced by "@" as if they are genres.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you're near Mumbai and want to hear me talk about music and algorithms and humanity, I'll be speaking at the All About Music conference on August 26th! www.allaboutmusic.in/glenn-mcdona...

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Glenn McDonald - ALL ABOUT MUSIC

Glenn McDonald Algorithm Designer Glenn McDonald is a music evangelist, algorithm designer, software engineer and technology strategist. He created the...

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

And if you want a bizarrely oblique quasi-command-line interface to Spotify and Apple Music at once, there's also dactal.org/curiax.html

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DACTAL Apple/Spotify cross-explorer

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If you want a new-release-finding power-tool, or a complete semi-cryptic music interface, everynoise.com/nrbg.html and everynoise.com/curio.html both now work without any extra pre-configuration.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

everynoise.com/canonicalpat... now has a few modes: "live" gets current top songs for 50 artists, "spotify" uses Spotify's idea of the 20 nearest artists, "original" is the full long list as of the end of 2023. The two * versions pick songs more randomly.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If you have bookmarked anything on everynoise.com ending in .cgi and it just stopped working, update your bookmark to .html and it should work again and you should tell me if it doesn't.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If you like it that way, you can open the console and set apiheader = 'Bearer yourtokenhere' But assuming it's NRbG we're talking about, join the group linked at the bottom for more and better info.

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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Me, on stage, modeling an everynoise hoodie! Natalia Anderson, interviewing me in English English! Earnest, if varyingly satisfying, answers to reasonable questions! The video of my appearance at the recent m4music conference in Zurich is now online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA7e...

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Streaming, Spotify, Discovery: The Mind Behind the Algorithm | Conference @ m4music Festival 2026

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Conversely, Apple lets L'Arc〜en〜Ciel keep their elegantly swoopy tildes, and Maxïmo Park keep their pointless diaeresis.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Flattening Dååth, Mœnia and BIG|BRAVE into Daath, Moenia and Big Brave seems hypocritically petty for a company that rigorously defends the non-standard orthography of their most important product.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Apple does not special-case the composers on classical tracks the way Spotify does, so I would have a hard time following new jams by Herbert Howells on Apple Music alone.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Spotify keeps Japanese and Chinese artist names in the original character-set more often than Apple, at least in my samples, but there are exceptions in both directions.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It sucks that there is no standard universal ID for artists, and it sucks that ISRC uniqueness is not strictly enforced, but resolving artists across platforms by ISRC voting works quite well. Looking at exceptions is interesting. Why is Déhà listed as Dèhá on Apple Music?

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Oh, it's actually worse than that. Spotify has 59 artists named Fiona that you can find with a search for "Fiona". But the one to which her great 1992 album Squeeze is assigned isn't even one of those, because it's not in the top 1000 results for the substring "fiona".

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Distributors CAN provide service-specific IDs, but often don't, so mostly each service has to do the disambiguation from scratch themselves. This doesn't directly affect royalties (ISRCs handle those), but if you can't find a song you can't play it...

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Spotify has 59 artists named Fiona. The catalogs of the top 6 map via ISRCs to 6, 3, 5, 0, 1 and 3 different Apple Music artists. AM has 22 Fionas. One of them maps via ISRCs to 30 different Spotify artists, another to 9, and 6 more to multiple. USUM72010080 open.spotify.com/track/1iCvpI...

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Life On The Moon

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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hmm, what about a query that traverses music services?

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

If you were using NRbG with a free Spotify account, you probably just got cut off. See the bottom of the NRbG page for a link to join the group for more info.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Reply to the message you get back...

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Join the group, check the message history...

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Data navigation. (dactal.org/curiam.html – you'll need Apple Music for this one, and tolerance for a deliberately unadorned state.)

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Note that you will be asked to explain your interest, in the hopes of minimizing the robots among us.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

If you use NRbG with a Development Mode API key, things are supposedly about to get bad for that. If you're interested in alternatives, see the bottom of the page for a group you could join to discuss such things.

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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

If you're in Zurich on March 20th, you could come see me talk about algorithms and music discovery and human creativity and machines and power. How many of the Swiss metal bands I personally like will I find excuses to mention? www.m4music.ch/events/en/20...

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Their "Development Mode" is now specifically useless for development, since it uses different endpoints and even different response formats from the non-development mode.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Spotify removed all the multiple-item metadata calls, so you now have to get every track/album/artist individually. This is clearly ludicrous (for both them and us), and probably prohibits most uses beyond trivial ones on the scale of Now Playing lookups or the like.

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Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Presumably NRbG and Curio are now broken for newly created Spotify API keys. Due to the same petty new restrictions to the API I can't create a new API key myself, and thus can't even try them that way. But other people report hitting 429s and getting locked out almost immediately.

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