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The net is what it is ...

To me it's all just another tool ...

Most of what is or can be done on the net is so far removed from reality how could we expect much from it ?

I've made good contacts and some good friends from this site and from some others.
But very few of them that I did not follow with direct eye contact and a hand shake have been more than ... an illusion.

I'm not throwing in the towel. I know that my music rocks, and have numerous critiques from industry pros who are NOT at MusicXray, to know that for a fact. The thing that bothers me, and that I mentioned in another thread here on MusicXray, is that song submissions to two different record companies responded with the exact same response (1. Not exactly what we seek). To add to it, one record company is in the USA and the other is in the UK, allegedly. I asked MusicXray if they have record companies reply with a multiple choice form and they said no, so I asked why I received the exact same response from two different record companies, and I haven't gotten a reply to that question, tonight. If they do reply to that, I will post that reply here to share it with you. I'd like to think that MusicXray is not a scam, but the list of questions I have is continuing to grow, after reading all of this.....

Either way, I'm not going to stop. I will achieve my goals and objectives either way.

Ok,

I got a reply around 2:09am. Considering that at 9:15pm, they indicated that they do not have their industry pros use a multiple choice form to answer artist submissions, I find this answer interesting:

"They have an option to use a template for their reply. Also, they can save the response they sent to other artists as templates."

This of course does not at all address how two different record companies in two different countries could give the EXACT same response to two different song submissions. I don't believe in "coincidence", so that isn't an answer to me. And since by Mike's own admission, "it is true that anyone can sign up on our site and offer to be a music industry professional and accept song submissions from artists," That "approval process" they use to "qualify opportunities" doesn't seem to be working very well.

Their "song to opportunity matching system" never matches any of my heavy metal songs to any heavy metal opportunities, yet I do a search on their site and find heavy metal opportunities from either foreign record companies or in the case of one American record company (American Recordings), it doesn't list anyone's actual name.

Finally, the one review I had by some self professed "ROCKER GIRL" (Leslie J. Bialik ) is some 60 year old chick who's Myspace, Linked IN and Facebook profiles have no info about anyone she's ever worked for or with and doesn't mention any artists she's ever gotten any deals for. She leaves no way of interacting with her on MusicXray at this time, but on the "success stories" section of the site, people appear to have replied to her and appreciated her reviews. Unfortunately, there was no way for me to reply to her.

The number of questions I have continue to mount. It took them around 5 hours to come up with an answer as to how two different record companies gave the exact same reply, verbatim. This doesn't sit well with me.