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# Slicethepie Launches Anonymous Song Test
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/slicethepie-to-launch-anonymous-song-test/
- Published: 2009-01-13T03:18:00.000Z
- Updated: 2009-01-13T03:18:00.000Z
- Description: UPDATE: SoundOut is now live. Fan to band financing site Slicethepie is launching a new service aimed at labels and artists that want to a test a song prior to. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/01/slicethepie-to-launch-anonymous-song-test.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

[![Slicethepie](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2010536c2a9f7970b-100wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2010536c2a9f7970b-pi?ref=hypebot.com)

**UPDATE: SoundOut is now live.**

Fan to band financing site **Slicethepie** is launching a new service aimed at labels and artists that want to a test a song prior to release. Dubbed **[SoundOut](http://www.soundout.com/?ref=hypebot.com)**, for $20 to $50 users can upload a song and have it rated anonymously by Slicethepie users.

"The way it works now is that the A&R department establish between themselves which artists they're interested in," Slicethepie founder David Courtier-Dutton told [Epicenter](http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/slicethepie-goe.html?ref=hypebot.com). "Once they've spent a couple hundred thousand pounds \[recording the album\] … they run them out to

market research companies and pay a thousand dollars a track to get some focus-group feedback."

24 hours after uploading the song the uploader gets a report that rates how various target markets reacted to the song. Courtier-Dutton claimed that tests showed that if run the same song through SoundOut more than once, it generates the same ratings within 5% accuracy. via Wired you can view a pdf of a sample SoundOut song response report [here](http://blog.wired.com/business/files/soundout%5Fnew.pdf?ref=hypebot.com).

**HYPEBOT READERS:** Is **[SoundOut](http://www.soundout.com/?ref=hypebot.com)** a service you would use?