Udio, an AI song generator website

https://www.udio.com/

it's fun to make the computer sing ridiculous things

enjoy this reggae tune about crapping your pants

https://www.udio.com/songs/dxTrzuei2RbBDyYXEZZs93

It is very fun to use your own band as the prompt. I highly recommend it to anyone in a band.

According to it, this is the burt Stanton rap music

https://www.udio.com/songs/5YbLhqZ5sZ7vb1QzrUYd5z

LOOOOOOOOL

https://www.udio.com/songs/4RacSavF3GNnwoyNdJ3KVS

It is very good at late 60s psychedelia!

Xpost lol did you write those lyrics?

https://www.udio.com/songs/bpBei5bZSM7a4AXjPigy7e

https://www.udio.com/songs/p27YTjw94ZWyHAg1mioQ2L

HAHA

Made it do a couple of yacht rock/soft piano rock songs about baking bacon pancakes and two trip-hop/r&b and whoa it’s really good!

are they all 33 seconds long?

I think that's the limit set for free accounts

You can expand them to 1 minute… didn’t try to expand it further.

https://www.udio.com/songs/xyvpKyKqbB7zhkpoDuVZ31

https://www.udio.com/songs/ppvjKJ8SP2DuTj4MbuaE5b

what the actual fuck.

great one!

hahaha awesome

Evanescence laundry

ok LOL at the unclean vocals

would love to know the prompts people are using for these

https://www.udio.com/songs/swYRkB1apVFqh77b4bddnp

prompt is given on every link. some people are giving it the specific lyrics too.

Originally I missed the k out in backwards in my prompt, but after putting it back it spat out a perfect Bob Drake tune, it even sounds like him.

https://www.udio.com/songs/g2rTfgByVQMkoSxvvkrpTa

oh I see it now! xp

I often feed it the lyrics because i've used it for memes w/ my friends.

like...this one for example

https://www.udio.com/songs/1kJC7QcSnoFqxcWmGY8ZJN

I used it to help my son make songs out of the stuff he and friends say all the time (like "Griddy on his dead body")

https://www.udio.com/songs/goxorBwxnTeNetpEye63bt

I love the lyrics it comes up with though. I did write the final couplet here

lol it censored it like a radio song

https://www.udio.com/songs/r2sEioTaSGHnQcQ3QAzrye

Don't really know whether to laugh or cry, I'd legit listen to this irl

https://www.udio.com/songs/bMLotqY1Aw1oBnWMWtYtY1

Yeah I’m both impressed and scared because in my quick tests it gave me songs that I wouldn’t object to:

Here it is doing some downtempo r&b trance pop thing
https://www.udio.com/songs/kCWGbPSsDLF9QfiDGk4YYc

Here it is doing breakfast yacht rock
https://www.udio.com/songs/46o9eZ2qYa4P7bBbnvk1t6

It can be expanded further than 1 min, just tried it… but it seems like it starts to break apart after the 1min mark. Gave me a weird glitched outro on one example and a section that sounds very different from the previous ones.

the extensions are clunky, like on my rap song I tried to add a spoken word intro for 33 seconds and when the text was short, instead of taking pauses, it would read everything way too fast and leave it with uncomfortable silence and a feeling like the song was never going to start, or awkward pauses in the middle of phrases.

one thing I do find hilarious about the app is when you do rap songs, it tries to work what you write into meter and if it feels like the lyrics you supplied are missing something, it fills in the gaps with gibberish.

like I wrote "God's cool, he made my balls", but the AI decided there should be another line after that to fit into the meter so it said something that SOUNDED like "take a look at these" but it was really just double-talk gibberish meant to sound like words.

It doesn’t know how to pronounce meh-NARDS

https://www.udio.com/songs/hrh7bH7ev85gbkfCWMW17D

lmao at MEH-nerds

RFK Jr. campaign jingle:

https://www.udio.com/songs/qdjzcBrfEWRFGuGuZN2RYe

haha

it's amazing how it nails some of these and fucks others up royally for me

milk milk lemonade gone baroque

https://www.udio.com/songs/vryJDMgtGn4LEqBaRCgnaU

That is amazing

70s prog embracing ploptimism

https://www.udio.com/songs/xi7DubPcQ7ChXf4ychz5TZ

lmao it did this song as a live intro even though I didn't ask it to: https://www.udio.com/songs/2gaDiGJLJppzYTs1dqbdp3

it did also make this version of the same song: https://www.udio.com/songs/iM3ZgNi21961vPuUVyvudQ

This one came out pretty I think:

https://www.udio.com/songs/iwGFbvLY4pZ2LkFsXNrakX

musical theater about butts

https://www.udio.com/songs/dL1WzekLAXoJkLZf1kzHr2

omg that's a serious earworm xpost

it's now telling me it can't generate tracks with improper language after it's done so about 20 times

oh no wait, it made "Invalid request" and "I'm sorry, I cannot generate prompts with inappropriate language" the titles of the tracks lmao...it still let me do it

"shoegaze latin cumbia in spanish about transport" ... sounds pretty good.

https://www.udio.com/songs/fTa5MqeghAWo988DyUtEU4

Kinda sounds like Cerati

Enjoy this track by Red House Sausagemakers: https://www.udio.com/songs/cPXiUuVs1Q1aZ17EfYaEDm

https://www.udio.com/songs/7YC2BN8sSYtNd8ek7AWbxU

"Chicago house with diva vocals singing about vampire fellatio"

it fails on every part of that

okay this one is arguably about oral sex at least
https://www.udio.com/songs/7YC2BN8sSYtNd8ek7AWbxU

'a slow jam appropriate for my great-grandfather's funeral'

https://www.udio.com/songs/9T7qGkn6XjDyDdZcP7iKe3

Not sexy enough, sounds like an '80s sitcom theme

minimal electronic music suitable for inclusion on a Warp Records sampler from 1992

credit for the AI seeing 1992 and including some 14.4 modem sounds

https://www.udio.com/songs/ooQjqmTZJZ9Xp5dAVaCvd9

it seems to pick up more on official genre tags than modifiers. if you type a genre it'll give you pre-filled styles and separate them by commas, but when you type something like "80s cartoon featuring horns" it'll maybe pick up on teh horn part only.

it actually did pick up on merging jazz and metalcore a wee bit here

https://www.udio.com/songs/jucfCbm28zB7CuiHz1jbUb

trying to merge gangsta rap and death metal now

ok I don't think u know what death metal is: https://www.udio.com/songs/epkYfBPP9ys877hvM37iqC

used the same rap voice, the drums are at least pingy, but the riffs very much not DM: https://www.udio.com/songs/s8s2FjbGrLhCGiG9xCR5Xq

let's see if it'll mix gangsta rap and 70s progressive rock

actually this kinda works lmao: https://www.udio.com/songs/jQzALhAMqxeMbGbMQ47ver

soul song about being constipated: https://www.udio.com/songs/2kcJaApKEh4ZeAED9dZRdh

the diarrhea song to grindcore:

https://www.udio.com/songs/3KdDK1tubATe5EHQ4Ho2nn

joy division song about dating apps
https://www.udio.com/songs/hjVLnKwZ41BSL257byYVFR

Motown version of the skibidi toilet song

https://www.udio.com/songs/uTEPiTCCGb69YhRozG47Pw

Yes, this needed to exist.

https://www.udio.com/songs/hFtsYrU8RckreScNN28Y9o

a music lawyer friend of mine informs me that this site is "illegal", just noting that here, I asked for more details

ah here:

"Trained on copyrighted materials without permission, attribution, or payment."

there's also this

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udio-ai-music-chatgpt-suno-1235001675/

So, like every other AI?

meh, paywalled....

try this - https://web.archive.org/web/20240416155532/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udio-ai-music-chatgpt-suno-1235001675/

(it doesn't seem like the legality of being trained on copyrighted material is actual settled law yet, but will be soon)

I’m sure they’ll win the battle against a technology they don’t quite understand this time.

the tech is pretty simple aiui (although resource-intensive), it's a plagiarism machine that scrapes the internet for data

Sure that’s how ai works but given a large pool of data that spits out things that faintly resemble something but it’s something new how can you argue plagiarism?

AI is analyzing thousands of songs from every genre and learning what are the main aesthetics of each one. If AI takes 1000 country songs from different artists to learn about it and do something that doesn’t sound exactly like the source should those 1000 country artists get a paycut?

according to the lawyers I know, the answer is "yes"

also I don't think it's "something new" by any remote stretch of the imagination, more like a very clever mashup

I figure most human songwriters have learned their craft through studying copyrighted material

not the same, come the fuck on

gotta unbookmark this, y'all are fucking credulous

this is something to play around with for a few days
it's not going to replace music
who gives a fuck about its legality

I think not this specifically, but something technically comparable could replace sampling similar to how Dr. Dre re-recorded samples (apparently to avoid paying more for them -- though don't you still have to pay for covering sample-length snippets?)

Thought the unspoken rule of the thread was that this is stupid and evil and probably illegal, but let's have a laugh with it anyway.

Yeah at this point is more of a novelty tbh, the legal aspect of it should be studied for when it inevitably gets improved but I suppose the better it gets the harder it will be to actually trace what the source is.

I don’t think it will change real music considerably. It will likely be used as a tool for inspiration or as samples and will be a battle uphill.

There are a lot of venues where the people paying kind of don't want "real" music, but rather Muzak (supermarkets, waiting rooms, soundtracks, etc...) and to the extent that this continues the shrinking of music-related side gigs, maybe Jimmy Fallon replacing The Roots with a laptop will mark the turning point, though I guess the question is who loses their job first, Questlove or Jimmy?

who wrote about the relation between scarcity and pleasure? Like, once these things can churn out 100 insanely good albums by (favorite artist of your choice), will that just fuck everything up like explaining a joke?

What it will do (depending on how it is monetized) is completely decimate the library music business, before long.

i mean, everyone is going to think it's no big deal until it comes for their particular gig

Probably wasn't a good idea for most of the music industry to pump out stuff that already sounds like it was made by A.I.

That’s a dick response

thanks

Thought the unspoken rule of the thread was that this is stupid and evil and probably illegal, but let's have a laugh with it anyway.

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

yeah i'm kinda surprised that there's any debate about this, tbh, the art spaces i come with it's been established in detail why ai art trained on copyrighted art is bad and should be illegal. someone can probably link to a video or an essay or something explaining it in depth, i don't know one offhand.

Well I hope this one will make everyone happy

https://www.udio.com/songs/eNuQmiCLyYBUMkPqdKgJiQ

I agree those are the worst lawyers

Once you extend the tunes they're often not so great with endings but it managed a decent one here, a prog punk song about spaceflight.

https://www.udio.com/songs/noXyZzdDUYkGHkfd1gTTus

yeah i'm kinda surprised that there's any debate about this, tbh, the art spaces i come with it's been established in detail why ai art trained on copyrighted art is bad and should be illegal. someone can probably link to a video or an essay or something explaining it in depth, i don't know one offhand.

Two key issues: this is meaningless without a definition of “AI” and, if you define “AI” as “supervised learning,” artists like and have been using supervised learning methods (likely unaware) for more than a decade. Lawyers are the least serious people about this issue.

P much done with this shit, deleted everything I did and created one final recording, a six minute Broadway musical based on utter gibberish I fed it

https://www.udio.com/songs/qyKFUkDLAvdSDSDL3KT3Fz

Holy shit

Put this in the ILX best of 2024 poll, I want to see the reactions to people coming across it blind

This is one of the worst things I've heard in my life jesus https://www.udio.com/songs/2LKznbCzDFYBSmCtzqPRDG

On the other hand this one turned out pretty well. https://www.udio.com/songs/9aewPs85B1SompcaU3Njb9

My general view of this is that it's a fun gimmick, and scarily "realistic", but typing an idea of what you want to hear into a prompt box and it coming out the other end will never match the thrill of hearing exactly what you want to hear being done by a band and knowing other people exist in the world who are thinking in the same way as you

completely. that's why I did the experiment of writing that garbage, because I knew it'd never be able to make coherent music with it and it's attempt to create it would be funny. but having it put together actual songs, the results got very disappointing over time. especially the 'heavy metal' voices used which are always terrible

the thrill of hearing exactly what you want to hear being done by a band

I sent my lyrics and style suggestions to Dave Matthews and I'm still fucking waiting.

An old friend (whose taste in music I do not share, to be fair) has made a full ai-generated song with music video and it's genuinely one of the worst things I've ever heard.

the friend's name was....

...Jedward

I want to share it but you all have to promise not to write mean comments.

Steven Wilson did that lmao

Does anyone know if there is an AI tool that specializes in creating instrumental parts for existing music? Like something that could generate a horn section based on a piece of music uploaded? You'd think that would be easy based on all of the other stupid horseshit we can do. Can't we have something practical?

can somebody please make a version of the family guy theme song in the style of '73 pink floyd, like along the lines or "breathe"?

Sorry, I just used all my credits for today making an early 2000s dance pop version of Throbbing Gristle's 'Hamburger Lady"

made a blues song where some asshole in the audience keeps interrupting and asking questions about details in the lyrics

https://www.udio.com/songs/7gkuMX53JkniHUnj9p8QAx

lmao okay that one is funny

This is freaky. Does it sound SO much like GBV with these prompts, because there are just so many GBV songs to scrape from?
https://www.udio.com/songs/pxtsMWZNVEfG5hSpDQbAaA

Gettin' sued

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/24/suno-lawsuit-udio-sony-warner-umg-copyright/

Well this is shit

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/18/artificial-intelligence-song-immigrants-germany-top-50

The FBI arrests a North Carolina musician for streaming fraud, accusing him of collecting $10 million from hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songshttps://t.co/bW0q04g1d6

— Stereogum (@stereogum) September 5, 2024

Probably didn’t use Udio but it seemed an appropriate thread

just read a different article on this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/fbi-busts-musicians-elaborate-ai-powered-10m-streaming-royalty-heist

I wonder if the random mostly non-musical tracks that would sometimes show up on my Discover Weekly years ago were from this guy or somebody else running a similar scheme, because I am assuming that with this many streams those tracks sometimes showed up on algorithmically generated playlists.

If the scam is ripping off Spotify and other streaming services, I gotta say I’m with this guy.

Yes, this seems like a victimless crime.

It's leeching on legit musicians:

'Spotify invests heavily in detecting, preventing, and removing the royalty impact of artificial streaming. Still, bad actors continue to attempt to steal money from the royalty pool that should be delivered to honest, hardworking artists.'

https://artists.spotify.com/en/blog/modernizing-our-royalty-system

What about lazy musicians?

Well, now that this arch criminal has been apprehended I expect my Spotify, et al. payments to increase. I will report back.

*puts on little snob bib* on some level, the victim is Art

Garfunkel

Our first Doom/Sludge/Psychedelic AI art-prank band has surfaced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1aAAFd7bvA

People have been assimilating existing music styles to produce 'new' music since the year dot.

I listened to a fair bit (in pieces) that commentary. It's way too long. (It would be awesome if that was actually you mares slagging off your own creation, but hey)

Never once (or did it?) approach the actual music result. Was it any good? Oh, I take it there was no actual LP produced?

There's tons of AI generated jazz music, it tends to be used as bed music for YouTube clips, hold music, etc. it's not a new concept, it's Muzak.

Ok?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPp_uzqpB-g

Whispers of the Wippen Tree.

B