![]() Like with SoundOut, the song elements are ambiguous and overlapping. The site explains that they are “serious professionals from among our over 1500 professional users currently seeking songs and talent.” So, that. I don’t know who these professionals are, or what they are professionals at. Things diverge quite a bit with the Song Element Analysis though: Same idea with the overall Track Rating scores: 5.8, 5.6, 6.1. Pretty close! The most extensive/expensive report (SoundOut) scored it between the other two, suggesting a higher degree of accuracy. SoundOut, TuneCore Track Smarts and ReverbNation Crowd Review gave my song Market Potential scores of 36%, 32%, and 44%, respectively. So how did the three flavors of SoundOut compare? I suggest opening each report in a separate browser tab to compare them item by item. What does $215 worth of market research look like? I finally got it rolling from my dashboard. It appears I forgot to hit the “target fans” button, which doesn’t actually work from my diagnostics page. After a week, 4 out of 5 professionals rated the track, but none of the 20 potential fans heard it. The diagnostics page won’t consistently load in Safari, and when it does, there’s a memory leak. Music Xray is frustrating on many levels. ![]() After nine days, I noticed the score on my manage songs page and clicked through to the report. ReverbNation Crowd Review never sent a reminder, which could very well be my fault, as I’m in the habit of turning off email notifications. SoundOut took 5 days for 125 reviews, and TuneCore Track Smarts took a week for 100 reviews. Their FAQ says 5-14 days for 200+ listener reports, so I guess I got lucky. The AudioKite 300 listener report came back first, after only a couple days. If I like it, I may share it with my not-insubstantial following on Twitter. Feel free to submit your content to me here for feedback. I’ve been using it for months on the music professional side, and plan to write about it soon. The tool is intended as a gateway into the other opportunities they offer.Īs an aside, if you’d like to submit your music directly to individual professionals, Fluence is the way to go. It’s $10 for 5 professional ratings and 20 potential fan plays, period. Music Xray Diagnostics is the most straightforward of the bunch. I also had the option to let listeners know the track is a work in progress, which I did not select. 300 EDM/Dance fans were required to listen to at least 2 minutes of my song (versus 1 minute on SoundOut), and respond to a question of my choosing (“How can I make this song better?”). That’s 2.5x as many as ReverbNation Crowd Review for the same price, with much more detailed reporting.Īlex at AudioKite offered me a free report, so I went for the $100 model with all the bells and whistles. You can also pay $6 to keep your track anonymous. Why charge for that?ĪudioKite starts at $10 for 50 reviews. SoundOut lets you select the genre yourself and opt in to potential sync opportunities (why not?). ReverbNation Crowd Review and TuneCore Track Smarts offer zero options, but should at least place your track in the correct genre. This is not the place to get feedback on a work in progress! I had no plans to distribute the track as a single, but I paid the $10 to distribute it for a year, just to get this report. Note that submitting to TuneCore Track Smarts requires that the track already be in distribution through TuneCore. That’s $95 on SoundOut reports, out of my own pocket by the way! (love you guys) I opted for the cheapest reports from SoundOut and ReverbNation Crowd Review, and the enhanced report ($40) from TuneCore Track Smarts. Going through SoundOut directly starts at $45 for 125 reviews, but offers more detail. Both of these options provide extremely limited reporting. Of the three SoundOut flavors, ReverbNation Crowd Review offers the lowest point of entry at $10 for 20 reviews. TuneCore Track Smarts starts at $15 for 40 reviews. ![]()
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