Want to know if your song will be a hit?

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http://www.hitsongscience.com/

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Our algorithms start by analyzing a large and representative sample of music: we have now analyzed more than 1 Million tracks, and own or have access to a quarter of a million cd´s.

The analysis application is able to "listen" to any CD and isolate patterns in many musical events, some of which are melody, harmony, tempo, pitch, octave, beat, rhythm, fullness of sound, noise, brilliance, and chord progression. This is a process called Spectral Deconvolution. Each song is then mapped onto a grid we call the music universe and is positioned according to its mathematical characteristics. Each song is represented by a dot on the universe and the songs on one end of the universe are vastly different from songs on the other end of the universe. Songs with mathematical similarities are positioned very close to one another.


Spectral Deconvolution......AHHAHAHAHAHHA

ok *serious* I hope no-one buys this rubbish, worse than a nigerian 419


Is this some deep satire that I'm missing?
 
if i had a machine . . .

that could spin gold from coal, I would use it myself, not charge others to use it.

if spectral deconvolution works, why isn't this crowd in the business of signing up songs and releasing guaranteed hits?

I don't deny the possibility of being able to analyse songs according to various attributes, then plotting them. I don't disagree that we would see clusters emerging on this plot. But I doubt whether this would be useful for anything other than something vaguely interesting.
 
I think that website gave me cancer...

I imagine it would be much easier to program a computer to write a hit song than to determine if a recording qualifies.

The site (which I think gave me cancer, by the way) also implies that they'll help market musicians to major labels. Which is sure to be way more helpful than "spectral deconvolution" would ever be.
 
gecko zzed said:
if spectral deconvolution works, why isn't this crowd in the business of signing up songs and releasing guaranteed hits?
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Spectral deconvolution only works when coupled with a flux capacitor. It enables the user to go forward in time and buy a copy of Billboard and then return with a proven hit list. Now where did I hide the DeLorian? :confused:
 
Whhaaat??

up-fiddler said:
Spectral deconvolution only works when coupled with a flux capacitor. It enables the user to go forward in time and buy a copy of Billboard and then return with a proven hit list. Now where did I hide the DeLorian? :confused:
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I didn't know what deconvolution meant so I looked it up and I still don't see how it relates to music. Sounds like it shopuld be called "reconvolution" to me. Think I'll go back to the future.
 
between that, my fortune teller, pyramid charm, Billy MaZe products - I should be a millionaire on easy street by next week - and never lift a finger in my house again too!

Wow - this might be better than when I won the Nigerian lottery that I was informed in by email.

I guess with all that money I can finally buy those penis enhancement products and pills that will make me lose that 400 lbs. in time for summer, and go to Barbizon modeling school! Whooo hooo - I'll be set for life!

p.s. I'm looking for a good bridge to buy in NYC... anyone have one to sell me?
 
This is precisely why I love the internet!!!! I can learn so many new ideas and access so many wonerful products that can make my life more conveniant, my penis larger, my finances secure.......and now, my songs more successful.

I don't know how any of us actually survived in the days where you actually depended on your own energy, intellegence and talent (not to mention your own penis) to live a happy and successful existance.
 
listen: I don't mean to flame this: but I'd seriously love to run some songs through this. I'm not saying it works but it would be interesting to put some songs up to the test and see what it says works and doesn't.

I'd love to try some tried and true songs, like a blind test. Some classics, like Muddy waters and see what sticks.

I don't really believe this works but I'd love to find out.
 
drfringe said:
listen: I don't mean to flame this: but I'd seriously love to run some songs through this. I'm not saying it works but it would be interesting to put some songs up to the test and see what it says works and doesn't.

I'd love to try some tried and true songs, like a blind test. Some classics, like Muddy waters and see what sticks.

I don't really believe this works but I'd love to find out.
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I imagine that's probably how they seeded this thing. They ran most of the top 40 singles from the last x years and used those as their baseline.

It could be funn, but probably only in the same way that talking about your World of Warcraft character in public is funn. Even if you succeed by some arbitrary standard, you're still not a rock star.
 
Does it also take into account cultural listening shifts, new sounds, new music technology - or do they know the Da Vinci Code of eternal timeless songwriting success?

Planet X will cross earth's orbit and stop the world turning for 3 days before a computer understands art.

Mark my . . . . . . ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Burt
 
yeah, I agree- it would be fun for about an hour
all good- it would be interesting to see the tempos, and criteria, colors or whatever they're looking for in hits.

I bet it would be fun to run something like SGT Pepper's through the hit o meter and see what pops up eh?
 
They will let you sign up right now but.........

.....Pricing is temporarily unavailable please contact us directly for further information. Their words, not mine. Perhaps their astrologer/accountant is away on vacation touring the gas giant Jupiter. I hear that Io is lovely this time of year.
 
Io?

As in 'Old McDonald had a moon, Eeh I Eeh I Io'?

The computor says you have a hit?

I won't trust it unless it has one of those cyborg shifting red eye, talks with a Bostonian accent and is driven by The Hoff!
 
Whatmysay said:
Io?

As in 'Old McDonald had a moon, Eeh I Eeh I Io'?

The computor says you have a hit?

I won't trust it unless it has one of those cyborg shifting red eye, talks with a Bostonian accent and is driven by The Hoff!
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Io as in one of the larger moons of Jupiter but the Old Mac thingy is good too. I'm not a SF geek or anything but would you rather have a 'skin job' than a 'toaster'? Er.........mayhaps I lean more toward the geekitude than I had thought. Gotta go.......the whirring in my head is back.

Dave's Awesome Blog
 
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up-fiddler said:
Io as in one of the larger moons of Jupiter but the Old Mac thingy is good too. I'm not a SF geek or anything but would you rather have a 'skin job' than a 'toaster'? Er.........mayhaps I lean more toward the geekitude than I had thought. Gotta go.......the whirring in my head is back.
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You are missing my irony (You Americans!).

I tell my daughters bedtime stories about 'Shu Shu' a monotreme who lives beneth the ice of Io. Not only am I SF geek I also am a NASA geek.

Skin job?

Mother? I'll tell you about my mother!
 
Whatmysay said:
You are missing my irony (You Americans!).

I tell my daughters bedtime stories about 'Shu Shu' a monotreme who lives beneth the ice of Io. Not only am I SF geek I also am a NASA geek.

Skin job?

Mother? I'll tell you about my mother!
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So totally Ionian! :eek: At least on civilized Europa we understand true irony. We are also gracious enough to overlook it. :rolleyes: It is beneath us much like the monotremes and their ilk. :cool:

PS - "You must spread some reputation around before giving any to WhatMySay" (But I tried. Great response.)

Dave's Awesome Blog
 
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up-fiddler said:
PS - "You must spread some reputation around before giving any to WhatMySay" (But I tried. Great response.)
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I get that all the time - no matter who I want to give rep to - been meaning to mail Dragon about that - do not want people to think I'm tight!

Also getting my moons mixed up - Io is the volcanic one. But I never know if it is a bad moon rising.

Perhaps we should start a new thread geek science and sci-fi that has influenced my song writing. Think I might go that way with the May challenge

'Wouldn't it be ice, if we were colder
Spoonin' and a moonin' on Europa'
 
Whatmysay said:
I get that all the time - no matter who I want to give rep to - been meaning to mail Dragon about that - do not want people to think I'm tight!

Also getting my moons mixed up - Io is the volcanic one. But I never know if it is a bad moon rising.

Perhaps we should start a new thread geek science and sci-fi that has influenced my song writing. Think I might go that way with the May challenge

'Wouldn't it be ice, if we were colder
Spoonin' and a moonin' on Europa'
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'Wouldn't it be ice, if we were colder
Spoonin' and a moonin' on Europa'
We can sleep til spring comes back from Saturn
In a nasty Vulcan mind probe coma
 
If any of you folks watch "Numbers" on TV, you'll see that there is some R"eal math" to the hit-o-meter. I mean we can all believe what we see on TV, right? even by someone who says "I'm not a mathematical genius, but I play one on TV."
LOL
 
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