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MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

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Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

#31

Maybe I'm just getting older but I feel like the quality of both music and film has seriously declined over the last 5-10 years. Maybe the good stuff is still out there but lost in a sea of average garbage that has surfaced to the top. Something tells me AI isn't going to rescue us either. I just sampled a bunch of these generated tracks and they immediately remind me of the average, mediocre, soul-lacking content th…

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Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

#32

Maybe I'm just getting older but I feel like the quality of both music and film has seriously declined over the last 5-10 years. Maybe the good stuff is still out there but lost in a sea of average garbage that has surfaced to the top. Something tells me AI isn't going to rescue us either. I just sampled a bunch of these generated tracks and they immediately remind me of the average, mediocre, soul-lacking content th…

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Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

#33

Maybe I'm just getting older but I feel like the quality of both music and film has seriously declined over the last 5-10 years. Maybe the good stuff is still out there but lost in a sea of average garbage that has surfaced to the top. Something tells me AI isn't going to rescue us either. I just sampled a bunch of these generated tracks and they immediately remind me of the average, mediocre, soul-lacking content th…

A flood of garbage film/music has always existed, we just don't remember it because its uninteresting. However, I think modern rec algorithms (like the Netflix home page) are recommending more mediocre stuff than the old system, and the streaming boom did produce an abnormal glut of junk. Anyway I think AI is going to spawn a music remixing/game modding/tv extending renaissance. They perform much better when pointing…

I won’t speak to music, as I listen to a lot of stuff, enough to know there is good stuff out there being made.

But for movies and TV? Where do I find the good stuff? It seems Hollywood is creatively bankrupt and just milking people off boring franchises and cheap nostalgia through crappy remakes and sequels. My eyes rolled to the back of my head when I saw an ad for a show called “how I met your father” on Hulu.

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

#34

Maybe I'm just getting older but I feel like the quality of both music and film has seriously declined over the last 5-10 years. Maybe the good stuff is still out there but lost in a sea of average garbage that has surfaced to the top. Something tells me AI isn't going to rescue us either. I just sampled a bunch of these generated tracks and they immediately remind me of the average, mediocre, soul-lacking content th…

You really have to dig for good music these days. The record industry is a zombie at this point and no longer does the job of discovering good music. It just churns out utterly formulaic pop that might as well be the output of a music generator like this.

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

#35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are getting older. Every generation thinks the same, that media is getting worse, discounting the survivorship bias that occurs when they look back on their favorite music and discarding all of the bad music that was present back then.

This is no doubt true, but there are a number of studies which suggest that, at least in the case of music, things really have gotten rather worse over the last two decades, thanks to corporatization and consolidation of the production model.

That's very interesting, any sources?

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

#36
post #19

I may as a composer be biased but AI "generating" music is just sad. The hypocrisy is that musicians have been suing each other for intellectual property reasons, while this thing is being trained on everyone's music. The law should catch up on this. I get that it's going to improve but for now it's also just elevator/supermarket music.

It can be sad, happy, energetic and all. It's no beethoven but there is a market for elevator music.lots of it

Elevator music was indeed what came to my mind when listening to the examples.

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

#37

Maybe I'm just getting older but I feel like the quality of both music and film has seriously declined over the last 5-10 years. Maybe the good stuff is still out there but lost in a sea of average garbage that has surfaced to the top. Something tells me AI isn't going to rescue us either. I just sampled a bunch of these generated tracks and they immediately remind me of the average, mediocre, soul-lacking content th…

Theres loads of good music out there, it's just become extremely hard to find unless you're all in on scouring niche subreddits and soundcloud.

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

#38

Maybe I'm just getting older but I feel like the quality of both music and film has seriously declined over the last 5-10 years. Maybe the good stuff is still out there but lost in a sea of average garbage that has surfaced to the top. Something tells me AI isn't going to rescue us either. I just sampled a bunch of these generated tracks and they immediately remind me of the average, mediocre, soul-lacking content th…

This is why I paid extra for services like Tidal and Roon. Their music recommendations are just better than any AI-driven stuff. Need actually human experts to curate playlists and such. I feel like the alg-based stuff is just a race to the middle.

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

#39
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it? He stated something as a fact and I want him to take the viewpoint of other persons than himself and think about it. :)

If there is a viewpoint you want people to think about, it would be much more productive to just state what it is.

No, I don't want to influence him it's way easier to see the prejudice of other people if you let them think for themselves.

Re: MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

#40
(and now for the rare take that isn't your typical cynical/jaded internet comment)

Wow this is more than good enough to use for background music in video games, stores, commercials, etc..

You really could have super dynamic music in a video game for instance that changes based on the time of day, environment, situation, mood, etc.. all combined.

Combine it with a LLM DJ and you could get some fun radio stations.

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