Ralph N.
Not The Best Experience
Not the best experience. I'm not exactly sure who or what is behind the song diagnostics. The ratings seem to be all over the place. Most definitively biased against instrumental works. This is a "pay-to-play" model which is similar to the Monday night new band slot at long-gone nightclubs in Boston. The old trick was to get new talent to play for nothing (sell their own tickets) and perhaps have enough attendance to move up to Tuesday. Either way, this is not the most efficient system for locating independent artist works for licensing.
Response from Music XrayJun 10, 2020
Hi Ralph - We created Diagnostics to be a living score that continues to become more accurate as more data is added to it. The ratings are done on a curve, so depending on how many times your song has been rated, a single rating could impact the average quite a bit. We actually have a blog post that goes into greater detail about the ratings calculations here: http://blog.musicxray.com/tough-ratings/. If you still have any questions or concerns that you'd like to share with us, please feel free to contact our support team at [email protected]




