To me the exciting thing about automatic music composition isn't royalty-free prerecorded music, but the potential for real-time composition. Imagine a video game where your actions instantly affect the music, not just by splicing together prerecorded clips but actually by having new music composed and performed in real time. Or, somewhat more fancifully, imagine a set of headphones that play a continuous soundtrack…
Show HN: Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.
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#72This is a business I know well. Jukedeck is an example of how founders and investors do not conduct appropriate market research. There is a limited market demand for low-cost royalty-free music for videos. One could argue there is an oversupply* of royalty-free music relative to buyers. The quality is not good enough to disrupt the billion dollar Production music industry that is top heavy, a relative small amount of…
(1) Convenience - There's limited market demand for royalty-free music that you have to manually edit and sort through yourself. By virtue of making it simple enough for consumers (vs. professionals) to use, the market got a lot bigger. By way of comparison, you could have said that there was limited market demand for mobile apps prior to the App Store. But the convenience the App Store offered with respect to finding and installing apps made all the difference.
(2) Licensing - This is proof of concept for the overall technology. You could view Jukedeck as a play to simply generate the sort of interest you need to get larger players interested in licensing tech, rather than an end-game in and of itself. E.g. you could imagine Apple licensing the tech for use in iMovie.
(3) Legal risk - It's one thing to say some random music track on the Internet is royalty free. It's quite another to prove it. There's no easy way to guarantee that the supposed original author of a track didn't copy it from someone else. This might seem like an edge case, but per the above points, if Jukedeck licensed their tech to companies like Apple, those legal issues become much bigger deals. Algorithmic music simplifies the legal question quite a bit.
Re: Show HN: Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.
#73Will look forward to drilling down into your samples, once the site stops getting slammed. In the meantime, you may want to replace the live auto-generation demo with a genuinely random (i.e. non-upvoted, or otherwise curated) pre-generated samples (that is to say: fairly representative of your automatic generative process, even though they happen to be pre-recorded). Being as every second is precious, to a first-tim…
Re: Show HN: Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.
#74Pretty cool app. I can definitely see it being useful. On a side note, please minify your app.js file. It's 4mb and took forever to load. I almost left the site due to that.
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#75To me the exciting thing about automatic music composition isn't royalty-free prerecorded music, but the potential for real-time composition. Imagine a video game where your actions instantly affect the music, not just by splicing together prerecorded clips but actually by having new music composed and performed in real time. Or, somewhat more fancifully, imagine a set of headphones that play a continuous soundtrack…
Re: Show HN: Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happens if write a program to generate all data in the world? 000000 000001 000010 000011 000100 Do I own every file?
I remember someone created a P2P file sharing system that used 'munges' of files to create blocks of data by themselves that have no meaning (a bit like http://monolith.sourceforge.net/ ). These blocks were then transferred around the network, and people could claim "I'm not transferring files, I'm transferring meaningless blocks of data". Sure, but (and I'm not a lawyer), intent of law is just as important as the li…
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#78Your logo/favicon is brilliant, combining the J and D of jukedeck and shaped into a musical note.
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#79This is so awesome. Does anyone remember Algomusic? It was a PD program for Amiga from the early 90s that did generative rave tunes. This reminds me a lot of that, in a good way. Great job!
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a great idea - can I ask what you'd want to use the resulting MIDI for?
Not OP but I second this request. For a composer generated music can be a fantastic starting place. I'd love to be contacted if/when such a feature was added.