Udio, an AI song generator website

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?

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