An anonymous reader cites a TechCrunch report. On a cruel day in December, we learned that 17% of Spotify's employees were laid off in the company's third round of layoffs last year. Shortly thereafter, music fans around the world discovered that the cult-favorite website Every Noise at Once (EveryNoise), an encyclopedic treasure trove of music discovery, was no longer working. These two events were not separate. His Spotify data alchemist Glenn McDonald, who founded EveryNoise, was one of his 1,500 employees fired that day, but his firing had far-reaching effects. Without access to his Spotify internal data, MacDonald can no longer maintain EveryNoise, which has become a vital resource for the most avid music fans to track new releases and learn more about the sounds they love.
“This project is about understanding 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,” McDonald said. he told TechCrunch. “The goal is to use mathematics as much as possible to find what's actually present in listening patterns. So I think of this as trying to help the world's music self-organize.” If you work for a major technology company and get fired, chances are that a customer of that company will write a nine-page complaint on a community forum complaining about how badly your former employer did you by firing you. You wouldn't expect it. Also, don't expect to see a flood of Reddit threads. Tweet I'm wondering how I can get the axe. However, this is how fans reacted when they heard McDonald's fate.