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Udio – AI Music Generator
- __mharrison__ 2y agoCoincidence? I was just on a walk and a musical savvy neighbor suggested this.
- 4gf34g45gh4 2y agoI doubt it is. Have been seeing several 'tok videos of "oldies" AI music and the album art featured in the videos looks like this. I think they are spending marketing dollars on flooding the typical social media distribution channels with content from their platform.
- donutpepperoni 2y agoLmao I love this song. Cool site! https://www.udio.com/songs/tCghV579RUboW8BGyxnUNk https://www.udio.com/songs/tCghV579RUboW8BGyxnUNk
- inquirerGeneral 2y ago[dead]
- moonlion_eth 2y agobetter quality than I was expecting
- chipweinberger 2y agoA nice side effect of this is a greater selection of non-copyright-able music. At least, that's how the USA courts have ruled so far.
- scheeseman486 2y agoThis is a bit more complicated considering you can supply your own lyrics. The court didn't rule that non-generated media when mixed with anything AI generated invalidates the copyright of anything it's mixed with. So given an AI generated song with fully human-written lyrics perhaps others could mute the lyrics, or more easily sample from it, but the resulting output as a whole would probably have some degree of copyright protection. Suno has also demonstrated being able to supply your own melodies too, put those two together and how much of the resulting work could be credibly argued to remain uncopyrightable?
- nevster 2y agoHow do people feel it compares to https://suno.com/ https://suno.com/ ?
- nevster 2y agoComparison using the same prompt "A happy hardcore song about Java" https://www.udio.com/songs/iM61w7bodYwQYiyrDkKL31 https://www.udio.com/songs/iM61w7bodYwQYiyrDkKL31 https://suno.com/song/b7cf4b70-d5a2-49ee-9355-16db743d988c https://suno.com/song/b7cf4b70-d5a2-49ee-9355-16db743d988c I think the suno one is amazing!
- mortenjorck 2y agoA lot of my prompts on Suno seem to inevitably gravitate toward a sort of contemporary pop style of production, but so far, it seems like Udio does better with older or more niche styles, such as 70s funk or show tunes. It also seems like a lot of of the trending examples I’m seeing on Udio use custom lyrics (which may or may not have started in an LLM, but appear to have human-generated phonetic spellings) as well. This Dune Broadway Musical is a rather incredible example: https://www.udio.com/songs/eY7xtug1dV6hbfCDhyHJua https://www.udio.com/songs/eY7xtug1dV6hbfCDhyHJua And this (nsfw and also quite funny) track feels like some unearthed 70s novelty record: https://www.udio.com/songs/oZ5EvJdtL152LUEhMB5YgJ https://www.udio.com/songs/oZ5EvJdtL152LUEhMB5YgJ
- abhpro 2y agoSignificantly better audio quality and better features like inpainting. Saying this as a previously hardcore Suno user.
- beoberha 2y agoFunny this was posted today. I spent some time this weekend playing around with Facebook’s MusicGen and had a ton of fun. I’m planning to use it to have a personal 24/7 radio station. Wonder what Udio is using under the hood.
- testmasterflex 2y agoIf you ever make it public, please email me your channel address and I could add it to next software version of my bathroom radio: https://loodio.com https://loodio.com - my email is carl@thedomain
- pants2 2y agoIf you hook this up to a vision model you can basically have a bard following you around and singing about your every move.
- loufe 2y agoUdio's instrumentals seem to be better than Suno's, but the reverse is certainly true for vocals. God these tools are fun. Here's one I made a little earlier: https://suno.com/song/a6a53f5a-0c4f-4602-9654-404de0008719 https://suno.com/song/a6a53f5a-0c4f-4602-9654-404de0008719 Udio has some truly hilarious songs on the platform, I'm in tears listening to them with my buddy: https://www.udio.com/songs/sThXmpDS5Jt8e9cJgE6VQf https://www.udio.com/songs/sThXmpDS5Jt8e9cJgE6VQf
- scheeseman486 2y agoThe vocals seem to always come out a bit hot, also for some reason they turn out a bit worse when generating backwards. I'm glad you like the song :)
- dyauspitr 2y agoWhat was the prompt? Did you explicitly ask for the racism?
- scheeseman486 2y agoI wrote the lyrics. The original prompt is listed on the song's page though I tweaked it during extensions, changed the RNG for the latter parts of the song, there's lots of knobs and dials to tweak now. Weird A.I. is the one who's ironically racist didn't you listen to the first half of the song geez (I consciously avoided slurs and ended with something utterly irredeemable to underline the joke).
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- dyauspitr 2y agoWhat are you even talking about? Is weird AI an LLM or it’s just a racist song you wrote as an alter ego?
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- wayoverthecloud 2y agoGood project. Personally though, I have made a resolve to not listen to and support AI artists/musicians.(Provided I recognize the artist is using AI of course).
- lotsofpulp 2y agoHow would you ever know if the human artist was using software to generate the music?
- jb1991 2y agoListening to some of these, it is so extraordinary to think an algo created and performed the music, all I find myself wondering is how much these songs resemble a particular song it was trained on.
- mortenjorck 2y agoLess than three months after laughing in disbelief that it was now possible for an especially clever orchestration of AI models to instantly produce a pop song about my refrigerator, I’m almost nearly as amazed that there are now multiple entrants in this market. Feels singularity-ish.
- vladstudio 2y ago"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." (C) authorjmac
- scheeseman486 2y agoThis AI stuff is overhyped and has resulted in the creation of a lot of slop and spam and is fraught with unresolved ethical issues, but AI is just computers and computers are just automation, which has been used to accelerate art pipelines for decades. It doesn't really have to be all or nothing either, I've made a few AI generated songs using Udio and Suno and all of them were my own lyrics with no generative AI assistance. The main problem I have with generative AI tools in an artistic sense is when they lack the ability to convey specificity of intent, word prompts alone aren't good enough.
- hnhn34 2y agoImage gen is streets ahead of music in terms of control, as long as you stick to the FOSS stuff as DALL-E is too limited. I’m only an observer for now and haven’t actually used it much, but both StableDiffusion and SDXL have ControlNet and a bunch of other things that let you, for example, draw a stick man in a specific pose and the AI will generate a realistic man in that pose. Or edit one specific part of the generation and continue iterating from there. The day we get a similar level of control with AI music will be a dream come true for me. We really need stems or at least MIDI files for these tools to be more than just soulless jingle generators imo.
- scheeseman486 2y agoI've been using Krita with the Stable Diffusion plugin, it's pretty amazing to use at times. I often read critics say things like 'you can't do layers with generative AI' and, uh, nuh? Though you can't, say, generate a shadow with adjustable alpha transparency, this doesn't seem like something that's impossible to do with the technology eventually. To think the tools won't improve would've been like looking at MacPaint and saying that digital art will never be a thing because it's always going to be low resolution and monochrome. What I'd love is Suno/Udio as a VST plugin. Being able to supply MIDI or audio samples to pull melodies from, to generate from arbitrary audio on a timeline.
- hettygreen 2y agoThank god someone's done this! I was getting sick of listening to music made by passionate individuals that spent their lives honing their craft.
- bamboozled 2y agoSame, I need the exact music I want, tailored exactly to my tastes, all the time. I don’t want to waste time listening to others perspectives or ideas.
- donutpepperoni 2y agoIt's a fun toy/tool. Cool to see AI progressing. As a musician who does spend hours making music by hand this has instantly widened my artistic vision by being able to drop in a few ideas to see what comes out. Handmade music will still be around.
- muglug 2y agoUdio and Suno are both really bad at generating classical instrumental music that makes any melodic sense — the equivalent of drawing six-fingered people everywhere.
- victor9000 2y agoIt would be so much more useful for music producers if these audio gen services would create individual samples instead of trying to generate the entire composition.
- justinkchen 2y agothat's part of the benefit of the ~30s samples that Udio generates is that you don't have to generate the whole composition all at once
- victor9000 2y agoThe length of the output is not the issue. The problem is that the output includes drums, voice, and several instruments already premixed into an accompaniment. What music producers really need are isolated samples of just a single instrument that can be mixed, layered and rearranged using other tools.
- scheeseman486 2y agoThere's other AI tools that can split the audio into stems, though it's not a perfect solution since it introduces artifacts. Good enough to lightly remix and adjust levels, but taking whole instruments or vocals out usually leaves the mix sounding fairly hollow.
- mrandish 2y agoAgreed! Creating a high-quality finished song is not only a harder target for a product to hit, it's actually less valuable as a use-case. I wrote a response to another post detailing why as well as the product I'd actually pay for. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40563993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40563993
- victor9000 2y agowow, just what we asked for! https://stability.ai/news/introducing-stable-audio-open https://stability.ai/news/introducing-stable-audio-open
- thriftwy 2y agoPeople use it to generate huge number of neuro covers on different genres for some memetic song which gets funnier with each new one. Obviously not possible without AI because who would care to record a Rockabilly or Cossack choir for a meme? I would like an AI which can just take an existing song and make it better quality (several knobs), or put new lyrics.
- import 2y agoFunny to see how people getting ignored when they post their AI song. Personally against the movement because it’s basically killing the music culture.
- thriftwy 2y agoI listened to a few ones while reading the comments. Definitely more engagement than with e.g. keynote videos or general youtube.
- noman-land 2y agoI go out of my way to ignore them.
- jaysonelliot 2y agoWhoever made this doesn't understand why people create and listen to music. It's an interesting tech demo, but as an actual product that lives in the world, it's dystopian af.
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- 112233 2y agoI very much enjoy udio, stable audio, suno and others. - it seems like lately most human musicians write music when they are angry or depressed, not when they are in a good mood. These tools are able to come up with a neutral or positive sounding music much better than, say, youtube music search. - it probably marks end to cookie-cutter music production (can you really tell the difference between modern edm tracks?). letting musicians play live music to smaller audiences. because of these tools, suddenly live perfomance is special again. - unlike people, these tools are not afraid to be silly. creating ridiculous cat music is a lot of fun - this is a great way to get ideas for your own music. no need to sprinkle ink on note sheets, like they used to.
- JodieBenitez 2y agoMusic aside, why is the sound quality so bad ?
- tombert 2y agoAre there any models that I could run locally that would let me do this? I'm afraid I will go bankrupt buying credits for this if I'm not careful because I enjoy it so much!
- beoberha 2y agoNothing this sophisticated. From my research, MusicGen from Facebook seems to be the best open model you can run yourself. But it’s not intended for generating “songs”, just short clips of music in a style you specify. Still really really cool and fun to play with though!
- tombert 2y agoDamn! I know people are complaining that it's dehumanizing music, and there's some truth to that, but considering I was never in the group of people of "making music" anyway, it's immensely fun to have any song I can imagine immediately materialize (even if it is a bit soulless). I would like to have thousands of prompts queued up on my GPU server and generate everything I can think of.
- shinycode 2y agoIs there people who really enjoy music generated by AI ? I guess there always is an audience for poorly made things or poor quality things like industrial food with low quality ingredients. Or maybe it’ll become so good it replaces artists altogether but what’s the point of it all ? In a way, future generations might only know this new world where music is generated by machines and won’t be shocked ? My take is that, music is so deeply rooted within us that even if AI can generate it, it’ll never replace the human experience and it might even push music made by humans to be a luxury and be more expensive. In a way it’s a good thing for artists if money goes in their pockets, on the other hand it might severed a part of the population who will not have access to culture anymore. Or there might be more piracy but it might kill the artist way of living and their music in the process. I though about more concerts and all, but as of today, I find it difficult and expensive to assist concerts from where I live. I requires many hours of travel, even taking hotels which makes the experience out of reach if required a few times a month. My brother in law is a musician but he’s never been able to make a living out of it. They performed in places but in order to live and support his family he need a job which made it harder to live of his craft. I’m curious to see which positive change this will bring
- beoberha 2y agoUdio as a platform gives off this creepy dystopian vibe and I’m really not a fan. All the music is super uncanny valley - no idea who is actually listening to it. That said, I think there’s a great use for AI generated music in background noise. I’ve been playing with Facebook’s MusicGen and it’s really fun. I’m working on making a personal 24/7 radio station based on whatever prompt I want. It’s a far shot from actual human-created music from a melodic standpoint, but if I just want an infinite stream of noise while I work or read, I think it’ll be good enough.
- klaustopher 2y agoPersonally, I enjoy the fact that it's generating songs about topics I'd find it funny to have a song about. My dog playing with their friends, a song about a funny situation that happened. So it's mostly the part about hearing something that's personal to me being put into a song. I'll listen to it a few times, send it around and be done with it. It'll never go into my daily-listening queue, will not replace the emotional connection I have with songs that helped me through bad times. It's just a fun tool to make something "personal" that I'd never ever would hire an artist for anyways.
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- Happy3245 2y agoSample a song called intro (end of the world) By: Ariana Grande
- Happy3245 2y agoSample a song called intro (end of the world)By: Ariana grande