Google Flow Music • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Flow Music

#141

Post by surgical_fire » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

inerte wrote: post #53

I've tried and couldn't make it sound like Angine de Poitrine, it completely ignores the microtones. Sounds more like Polyphia. It does look like AdP is the answer to AI.... or we haven't trained the models with sufficient microtones, likely due to western music influence.

I came here looking for that, did not disappoint.

I imagine that AI can be trained on Angine de Poitrine, but it would never really be able to create something like that no matter how many text prompts it was given.

Re: Google Flow Music

#142

Post by alfiedotwtf » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:15 AM UTC

lukan wrote: post #114

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just wait till you meet your AI GP and Surgeon

Or till that Asimov story happens in real life to you, you are in a room with people arguing about who is AI and who it not - and in the end you were actually the only human left.

Sadly what you're describing is online forums and comment discussions these days!

Re: Google Flow Music

#143

Post by sublinear » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:24 AM UTC

dwb wrote: post #140

sublinear wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All music on major labels has been formulaic "corporate muzak" for a long time. If the humans of the 2020s hadn't given up their souls long before this era of AI came out, we wouldn't be discussing this ad nauseam every single day for years on HN. There's no comparison. Humans are vastly superior at music. People need to get a grip and get out there. I know a significant majority of people reading this are into enoug…

I don’t know what you think my position is? I play multiple instruments myself. Not that well, but enough to have fun. I am, uh, not worried about hidden microphones - not sure where you got that from. I agree that music should be an activity first, but I still love the recorded form too. I’m certainly no fan of the economic structure of major labels (or any capitalist entity), but despite that they do sometimes stil…

I thought I was agreeing with you.

I edited my comment to remove all the "you"s. I have a bad habit of using it in the "fourth person", so to speak.

> hidden microphones

I meant bootlegs. There was a story making the rounds recently about a huge archive of them, and then some discussions went off the rails about AI.

Re: Google Flow Music

#144

Post by 6stringmerc » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

I know my comment will get buried but I’m trying an A/B test first with the same prompts I gave NapsterAI. Eventually I’ll write this up too. I wonder how many I can make before I run out of credits.

https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/my-surprisingly-fun-ca-h-gr...

Re: Google Flow Music

#145

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:32 AM UTC

genewitch wrote: post #41

it can't remix. even comfyui can remix on my desktop. I've used udio, suno, comfyui with the music generation models, and one other site that i can't remember the name of since it was through a friend. They all kinda suck, you do have to run generation many times unless you're very lucky. I and my friend wrote 10 albums between 1997 and 2007. we went solo for geographical regions, and i stopped writing music altogeth…

[deleted]

Re: Google Flow Music

#146

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:33 AM UTC

vjay15 wrote: post #90

The songs it generates is so corporate music pilled and generic, it has no creativity of its own and even if we try to make it do something creative, it generates the same EDM style beat with no taste, well I guess stock music users rejoice, you dont need to use stock music anymore, you can create endless stock music

[deleted]

Re: Google Flow Music

#147

Post by 6stringmerc » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:42 AM UTC

[dead]

Re: Google Flow Music

#148

Post by 6stringmerc » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:49 AM UTC

[dead]

Re: Google Flow Music

#149

Post by dwb » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 12:10 PM UTC

sublinear wrote: post #143

dwb wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know what you think my position is? I play multiple instruments myself. Not that well, but enough to have fun. I am, uh, not worried about hidden microphones - not sure where you got that from. I agree that music should be an activity first, but I still love the recorded form too. I’m certainly no fan of the economic structure of major labels (or any capitalist entity), but despite that they do sometimes stil…

I thought I was agreeing with you. I edited my comment to remove all the "you"s. I have a bad habit of using it in the "fourth person", so to speak. > hidden microphones I meant bootlegs. There was a story making the rounds recently about a huge archive of them, and then some discussions went off the rails about AI.

Right. I didn’t think you were disagreeing as such but thanks for the clarity. Personally I’m less peeved about people training models than I am people using them.

Re: Google Flow Music

#150

Post by SyneRyder » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

Andrex wrote: post #104

a2128 wrote: post #101

> To use our Service, please first verify your age with Google. I guess to protect kids, we need to restrict them from.. checks notes music?

I mean, wouldn't be the first time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center

I was going to say... if you were an early 90s kid, there was plenty of "don't let the kids be exposed to today's music".

Admittedly I went to a Christian high school, but we actually had a school intervention about kids listening to "dangerous music" like Nine Inch Nails.

I don't think any of us had on our bingo card that 30 years later Nine Inch Nails would be writing soundtracks for Disney movies.