The Sensory Music Studio

Know what a song will feel like — before you press play.

In November 2024, Spotify switched off the Audio Features API that powered nearly every third-party music-analysis tool on the internet — tempo, energy, dynamics, the lot. We built our own. These tools read 19,215+ songs across the dimensions that actually decide whether music soothes you or ambushes you: dynamic range, sudden changes, texture, predictability, and vocal intensity.

✓  Song Checker

Type any song. Get an honest sensory breakdown in seconds — even for songs we've never seen. Built for anyone who finds most music too much — misophonia, hyperacusis, migraine, PTSD, or ears that simply notice everything.

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✨  Journey Builder

Pick where you are and where you want to be — wired-to-calm, foggy-to-focused, low-to-energized. We sequence a set from our catalog that moves you there gradually, with no jarring jumps.

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♫  Playlist Analyzer

Paste any list of songs. See its sensory shape from first track to last — and exactly where it spikes, drags, or ambushes a sensitive listener.

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♥  Gentler Version

Love a song but can't take its intensity today? We'll find songs with the same emotional feel — the ache, the lift, the warmth — but a lower sensory load.

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⚖  Compare Two Songs

Choosing between two tracks for a room, a kid, or a fragile moment? See them side by side and which one is gentler — and exactly why.

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☼  Your Listening Profile

Tell the Studio your triggers once — sudden changes, loud dynamics, harsh textures, mouth sounds, fast tempo. Every tool then flags songs that hit them. Stored only on your device.

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Why we built this

Most music apps answer one question: what should you listen to? Almost none answer the one that matters to a sensitive nervous system: what is this going to do to me? A song labelled “chill” can open in a whisper and detonate into a wall of distortion. A “focus” track can be riddled with sharp hi-hat clicks that pull a misophonic listener out of the room.

When Spotify deprecated its Audio Features and Audio Analysis endpoints in late 2024, the tools people relied on to answer these questions quietly broke. We'd already spent a year analyzing songs by hand and with careful models across sensory dimensions — not to recommend, but to warn and prepare. The Studio turns that work into something you can use on any song, right now.

A note on honesty: if you check a song we haven't analyzed yet, we say so plainly and log the request — popular asks get analyzed first, in deliberate offline batches, and then served to everyone. We never generate a rating on the spot, and we never pretend to certainty we don't have.

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