If this is as successful as you say, then I don’t see any reason why it can’t be promoted. Where is the stuff on the site that substantiates. Would be good to provide a link. But still if it is buried, then it’s not very effective. That’s not evidence, btw, that’s a claim of workability and I did read it. I read the whole site. I was looking for and commenting upon the fact that there is Nothing to substantiate the claims. Therefore they are just words that may or may not be true.

If there is such evidence, if there are people who have experienced this success, then that’s fantastic. If there is not, then this is just more “We’re the best thing since Mozart sliced bread with piano wire.”

I’m genuinely interested in this and if it is good and does work as claimed, then I’d like to see some evidence and not just marketing-speak.

Last year, Music Xray™ predicted the success of Gnarles Barkley’s Crazy. When founding Platinum Blue’s executives were at their former company working with a similar technology called Hit Song Science the success of Norah Jones was predicted before she was on anyone’s radar. The service also helped Lee Ryan have a hit song in the summer of 2006 called Turn Your Car Around. These technologies have been used on countless other occasions. In accordance with confidentiality agreements, many of the success stories are not made public.

You ask, “Are musicians important and why are they still here?” Great questions. To the first I’ll say, “Yes.” To the second I’ll say “because we love the effect of music and song on who we are and creativity is one of the most satisfying of all human experiences.”

I don’t think it is possible to automate creativity through software because you’re talking about the ineffable and unique nature of the human spirit; that combination of intellect, emotion, personality and intuition that approaches the divine (in a spiritual sense, not a religious one).

“Music IS math” is a nice assertion, but also a rather limited pseudo-scientific definition of what music is, created and selected as part of a marketing phrase to sell a product/service, so somewhat suspicious and limited in its viewpoint.

“Music IS math” is not completely and only true and ignores everything else that music actually is. Music IS NOT math. That’s not how it is perceived by people or musicians and trying to tell them that it is as part of a means to market a service/product is kind of dumb really. I could write much better copy to sell what the service Music XRay really is, given the budget and the product service to test and evaluate it.

We don’t say “Let’s play math, man.” We don’t say “Let’s go to a math concert.” Or “Let’s listen to math, man.”

We just don’t do that. Its inhuman and trying to sell an inhuman idea to humans who think and feel using something as intangible and abstract as math is not going to generate the correct emotional response that leads to a purchasing decision.

However, there is a relationship between music and mathematics, but that doesn’t make music mathematics. Music is music, a form of artistic communication that relies on mathematical relationships and functions to communicate audio signals to the human ear for an emotional experience. Music is not math. Musicians however, could be likened to intuitive practical mathematicians, who utilize the laws of physics and mathetmatics to create meaningful human communication (These are my words and they are copyright me).

This being the case, I wouldn’t be too worried about it at this point.