Uplaya

So I saw this ad for the site Uplaya.com. It's a website that you can upload songs onto, and they'll give you a rating. The rating seems to be based on hit songs of the past. (I'm going to guess it's all based on recent pop song, but that's just a guess). I think this sounds kind of ridiculous, and almost encourages all music to be the same, instead of encouraging creativity.

Here's the link to the rating program description: Hit Potential Technology :: uPlaya Artists

It seems like it might be a good way to share music...if your goal is to mimic another artist. It might even be a scam, I don't know exactly how you could measure music, and say that this has more potential of being a hit than that other song because it meets these criteria better. I'm just wondering what you all think about this, perhaps I'm missing something?

I dunno. I signed up to try it out.

Here's my profile: Tchoupchupacabra :: uPlaya Artists

It put a midi of one of my piano pieces over one of the (crudely) mixed tracks by my band...

Interesting.

Did it rate your songs for you, in the way I described?

The ability to share music through this media seems legit to me. It's just the rating off of other songs that bugs me. Wow, I sound like a hypocrite after reading what I wrote earlier...well, I guess I changed my mind? Or I just suck at expressing what I mean in words...English teachers never really liked my writing...

Yeah, the piano piece got platinum. Howeveer, it didn't give me the detailed report I wanted -- the little pictures they have.

It seems like a garageband.com competitor.