SUNO is an AI platform for making music. I’ve posted about it before. But it’s also a way to find new music. It’s not well-designed for that purpose, so it takes some work, but it’s been worth it for me so far. Once you’re a member, including a free member, you can search for songs using genre, creator, instruments, title, style, etc. The search results will be the creations of members, i.e. creations that the SUNO AI software made using text prompts, audio uploads, or a combination of the two, so it’s hit and miss. You have to listen to a lot of not-so-good stuff, but it’s quick and easy to just go on to the next one. I’ve found great songs there that way.
Another way is to create your own songs using those same techniques. With experimentation and luck you can produce something new that you really like. I’ve done that, too, in many genres: ragtime, blues, rock, gospel. I’ve created over 20 songs that I really like. You can download songs you created yourself. You can put all of the ones you like in playlists. In fact, every song you give the thumbs up to automatically goes into your Liked playlist. You can listen to your own liked songs later just by going to that playlist.
Here are a couple of SUNO rock songs I really like, one by a French creator and one I made:
ai steals from music artists and is immensely harmful to the environment. please stop using suno <3
Thank you, Anonymous, for reading my blog, and for being polite and not ranting. I respect and share your views about the problems of large data centers. But you and I use AI every time we do a Google or Bing search among other times. SUNO is a small player in that field. As for musicians, I buy songs I like and have them in my playlists. Almost everything I create in SUNO falls into one of these categories: 1. My own guitar playing uploaded to SUNO and enhanced with added instruments, errors fixed, etc. 2. Old recordings from pre -1930 like ragtime, blues, boogie-woogie and the composers and performers are long dead, so no musicians are being shortchanged; 3. recordings of live performers I follow online who only do old-time music like in 2 and I regularly tip them through PayPal. I bought the only album they ever produced. So, again, no musicians are being shorted or cheated, at least not by me. If SUNO used a music database they shouldn’t have, then that is for the courts to settle. In believe there are some lawsuits along those lines.