[HN Gopher] Udio: Generate music in your favorite styles with a ...
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Udio: Generate music in your favorite styles with a text prompt
Author : gk1
Score : 113 points
Date : 2024-04-10 18:10 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| politelemon wrote:
| I can't see past the first post in that Twitter link. Might be
| better to link straight to their site.
|
| https://www.udio.com/
| rajko_rad wrote:
| that is the only place they launched, no blog post or anything
| like that on the website!
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| I wish I could downvote submissions that are only xitter links.
| Do you ever get enough karma on HN to be able to downvote
| submissions? Seems they can only be upvoted.
| ziddoap wrote:
| Submissions do not have downvotes. Some people use the flag
| feature as a sort of super-downvote.
| geuis wrote:
| Yeah but don't do this. Flagging is not a downvote, its
| intended to mark an item for review. Using it as a downvote
| leads to losing the ability to flag.
| og_kalu wrote:
| Dune the broadway musical -
| https://www.udio.com/songs/eY7xtug1dV6hbfCDhyHJua
|
| You get 1200 free songs per month. I'd say it's a lot better than
| Suno v3. Sound quality and vocal variations are especially
| better.
| diydsp wrote:
| No option to create an account w email(!)
| devin wrote:
| Yeah, I was sad to see that. It's in beta so here's hoping they
| provide another option at some point.
| fairramone wrote:
| Was disappointed about this myself.
| gwern wrote:
| Suno doesn't do that either. I think it may be an anti-
| spam/leech mechanism - outsource sybil prevention to
| Google/Discord.
| IBCNU wrote:
| This one feels like it's going to be disruptive, good luck, very
| impressed with the lyric generation compared to others I've
| tinkered with, jukebox, musicgen, surprised personally to see it
| move so fast :bow:
| conormdurkan wrote:
| Hey everyone, Conor from the founding team here. We're delighted
| to launch today, and are very much looking forward to seeing what
| people create!
| chillingeffect wrote:
| We've been paying a content team of 3 people with a 4th req
| open. If the generation time of Udio goes down once the initial
| rush of publicity passes, I can cancel hiring that 4th
| musician.
| zaptrem wrote:
| Neat! Is this a diffusion model, language model (e.g.,
| SoundStorm from your former colleagues), or something else?
| saaaaaam wrote:
| Curious to know how you trained this... did you licence all the
| songs and recordings that you used?
| IanCal wrote:
| Looks like you're hitting some issues with a big influx, would
| like to try things but I'm getting errors and songs entirely
| unrelated to what I've entered, is there a status page to check
| on to see when it's worth coming back to?
| 999900000999 wrote:
| So here's my feature request.
|
| Let me upload beats, and have the AI rap or sing over it!
|
| I will have no problem paying for that.
|
| Also, while we're talking about pipe dreams, generate a lyric
| video for me too so I can upload it to YouTube!
|
| Edit: For the pro option give us stems!
| artninja1988 wrote:
| Great work and I'm excited to see more competition in this
| space.The vocals do seem more impressive / less wooden than
| Suno. Would really love to see a future of more controlability
| and separating out the different audio tracks for vocals etc.
| Best of luck and hope the corporate landlords and RIAA Golems
| don't come after you, haha
| JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B wrote:
| Are the TOS legal in your country, especially the part about
| the
|
| > Section 9 [which] contains an arbitration clause and class
| action waiver
|
| It's strange seeing this.
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| Make it so we can setup an account with email.
| geuis wrote:
| This should link to your site, not a Twitter post.
| velcrovan wrote:
| Whose music did you use to train this thing?
| mandmandam wrote:
| This is genuinely awesome. As others have said, I didn't expect
| AI music to get so far this quick. You guys have even done a
| nice job on the interface, though the tags are a little warped
| (Firefox on Mac).
|
| I expect this to be a global phenomenon by next week, so,
| slightly premature congrats!
| Reubend wrote:
| Any plans to support stem export, or at least do instrumentals
| without the vocals?
| RomanHauksson wrote:
| Hey Conor, congrats on the launch! Will there be an API any
| time soon? I'm currently working on a hobby project that uses
| an unofficial API for Suno, but would love to switch it to Udio
| if possible.
| hummusFiend wrote:
| Is the name a reference to Rdio[1]?
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdio
| beardyw wrote:
| Possibly audio without the 'a'.
| mellosouls wrote:
| Example styles on the site:
|
| Gospel:
|
| https://www.udio.com/songs/uUjAaApMbjmMqBoj6Z6dsd
|
| Barbershop
|
| https://www.udio.com/songs/282ZPSyaunNC8GjegZ1LD1
| ericra wrote:
| This looks great, and your examples seem very high-quality.
|
| I'm curious to play with it, but I'm always weary of signing into
| things with my Google / other accounts. Any plans to have the
| option to just make an account for your site (unless I'm missing
| it)?
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| Same. I'm not going to connect my Google or Discord accounts to
| this and I don't have a Xitter account.
| jaggs wrote:
| Service is completely slammed. Taking upwards of 40 minutes and
| counting to generate any tracks. Suno does it in 10 seconds or
| so. Early days...
| bauerd wrote:
| Says "background processing error" for everything I submit
| eventually
| henriquecm8 wrote:
| The search doesn't seem to work very well.
|
| For example, I searched for "Hard techno", term which was
| included in the title of a song I listened in the platform.
|
| It returned several unrelated songs, the first result is a
| country song that doesn't contain the word "hard" or "techno"
| anywhere in the lyric or the prompt, and the song I listened
| before was the last on the list.
| bravura wrote:
| Sorry, where did we all get the idea that we want to use text to
| generate music? That thought really has never entered my head,
| despite many people trying to shove this UX down my throat. Is it
| just that we don't have creative thinking about what a
| transformative music creation UX should be?
|
| "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
| cqqxo4zV46cp wrote:
| I highly doubt that anyone cares about you, specifically,
| enough, to be 'shoving this down your throat'. Plenty of people
| have been enjoying this category of software. Sorry to hear
| that you don't like it. That doesn't mean that the world agrees
| with you.
| bravura wrote:
| Look, I know I am coming across a bit of a prick.
|
| "Plenty of people have been enjoying this category of
| software." Really? I ask sincerely. Because it seems to me
| that this category of software is mostly a curiosity /
| novelty. Are there actual publishing musicians who have used
| text-to-music as part of their workflow?
|
| My perception is that no one actually uses these tools for
| real music creation. Hence my point that they are novelty and
| not actually impactful.
| bravura wrote:
| And just to contribute to the discussion in a meaningful
| way:
|
| The problem with text-to-music isn't really that text is a
| poor UX for music description, but also that it's almost
| definitely a one-shot process. And any sort of turn-taking
| with the user isn't really co-collaborative, it's really
| just being forced to accept or reject what the AI has
| generated, with little feedback or control possible.
|
| That's why I think rethinking the entire UX from a musician
| centric perspective (rather than: "what's the easiest thing
| for me to specify as a tool-builder? I know, text to
| music") is such an overlooked endeavor. I'm much more
| bullish about things like the anticipatory music
| transformer, where there is novel contribution on the UX
| and not just the ML:
| https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/06/16/anticipatory-music-
| tran...
| bongodongobob wrote:
| Oh they are definitely using it, but no one is going to
| admit it.
|
| You misunderstand the workflow. I'm not trying to create a
| text prompt that generates hits. It's a way to get ideas
| and find interesting stuff rather than doing it manually
| with a guitar or on the piano. Then you have to walk away
| for some time to clean your sonic pallette and try again.
|
| As a lifelong musician I am absolutely loving all the
| conversation around this stuff. Musicians steal everything,
| all the time. The idea of some genius that sits down and
| pops out a hit in 30 minutes that comes deep from within
| their soul and has all the meaning attached to it is a
| myth. We're trying to make things people can connect with.
| Yes, some musicians are doing it for the sake of art, but
| not most, and even with a lot of those, it's just an image
| they project.
|
| When you hear a song, it has probably gone through half a
| dozen different versions and was worked on for months.
| These new AI music generation tools will churn out 100
| different ideas from you to borrow from and cut the
| revisions down quite a bit I think.
| glimshe wrote:
| I would _love_ to use it if I can add enough variation to
| the song and it can generate a good backing for the lyrics.
| I 'm not a "publishing musician", but the music market is
| much bigger than music performers - for instance, music for
| advertisements, presentation, video backing tracks etc.
| subpixel wrote:
| Nobody ever said "this store could use some soul-sucking Muzak"
| but that didn't stop progress!
| supdudesupdude wrote:
| AI: generate a punk rock anthem that speaks out against garbage
| AI music generation software and praises the DIY punk ethos.
| nerflad wrote:
| Some of the jazz examples are apparent to me to have been trained
| on texts like Roots & Herbs, Sonny Side Up, classic post-bop
| records.
|
| Apropos of nothing: one frustration with being a recording jazz
| artist is that most of the canon is property of UMG.
|
| [0]: https://www.udio.com/songs/dAJrkDePXbVLonnuxDkzz5
| labrador wrote:
| I welcome the new era of human/AI music collaboration. I think
| people will get bored with pure AI music, but humans will take
| these songs as starting points to make them original
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