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You can now search for songs in Note Block World!

by Bentroen

18 Feb 2026

That's right: the feature you ALL have been asking for since the beginning of the website has just arrived! Song search has been released to everyone in Note Block World, starting now. 🔍

This was simply our most requested feature, and we're glad to finally be able to unveil it to you!

List of changes

  • Added a search bar on the page's navbar!
  • The results page includes:
    • Total number of results returned
    • Sorting by **recent, popular, duration, play count and **note count**
    • Ordering (ascending, descending)
    • Many more filtering options coming right next!

Bugfixes and improvements

  • Added a translucent, glass-like effect on the navbar!
  • Fixed icons looking huge during page load, before settling in place. We've had an... *ahem*- alignment session with the icons and they will behave now.
  • Fixed unformatted Markdown showing on blog post previews.
  • The navbar becomes scrollable if its contents are too large to fit the screen. (This will be replaced by a proper responsive design soon!)
  • Fixed song preview cards being huge when there weren't enough entries to fill an entire column.
  • Mouse hover areas for the popup and the hover effect are now the same on the navbar buttons.

We'd like to thank tomast1337 for a significant portion of the implementation, as well as our Discord community for providing valuable feedback — and even developing some alternatives (such as the awesome Note Block World Finder) to fill in the gap while the official solution wasn't out!

As always, report bugs to us in Discord or in our GitHub page. We'd like to make the website the best it can be, and we count on your support to help us achieve this goal!

We hope you enjoy the update, and the search feature makes it ever easier to find creations you like on Note Block World!

Up next

Search is just a small step in our plan to become the world's largest public, open repository of note block creations. Although this is a tiny feature, some important refactoring is underway to pave the way for even more advanced features:

  • In-browser song playback!
  • Advanced search filtering!
  • User profiles!
  • ...and much, much more!

You can expect these features to start rolling out in the next few months. Stay tuned — there's much more to come this year!

Wrapping up

The year of 2025 couldn't have been more amazing. Thanks to your engagement and support, we've reached over two thousand songs uploaded to Note Block World, and held our second community-wide collaboration event with the creators of M.A.E.S.T.R.O., which got over 30 submissions spanning over 90 minutes of music!

Thank you to everyone who visited the website, shared music with their friends, submitted their own creations, or even donated to help us keep the website running. Our community is at the core of everything we do, and the reason why we're excited to keep working on cool things everyday!

We wish everyone an incredible 2026, full of achievements and amazing moments. We'll certainly work hard to make sure it is a wonderful year for Note Block World — especially as Note Block Studio will turn 15 years old! Stay tuned for the many cool things we're planning to celebrate this remarkable moment in the history of note blocks.

See y'all in the next one! 🎆👋

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