{"id":191809,"date":"2024-01-25T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=191809"},"modified":"2024-01-25T20:29:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:29:18","slug":"ai-made-music-can-now-be-easily-uploaded-to-soundcloud-thanks-to-a-trio-of-new-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/ai-made-music-can-now-be-easily-uploaded-to-soundcloud-thanks-to-a-trio-of-new-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-made music can now be easily uploaded to SoundCloud, thanks to a trio of new deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The use of AI as a creative tool for making music has left the fringes of the music business and is quickly entering the mainstream.<\/p>\n

In November, Google-owned YouTube launched<\/a> a new ‘experiment’ for Shorts called DreamTrack that lets creators produce music featuring the AI-generated voice and style of a few superstar artists including\u00a0Alec Benjamin, Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, John Legend, Sia, T-Pain, Troye Sivan\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Papoose.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now SoundCloud has struck partnerships with three music technology companies to allow artists to directly upload songs created with AI tools to its platform.<\/p>\n

Those three companies are Fadr<\/strong>, Soundful<\/strong>, and Voice<\/strong>–Swap<\/strong>. SoundCloud said in its announcement on Thursday (January 25) that the move “marks the latest milestone in SoundCloud\u2019s efforts to empower artists on the platform”.<\/p>\n

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In tandem with this news, SoundCloud<\/strong> has announced that it is applying what it calls “new methods to prevent AI abuse and protect its artists by blocking AI bots from crawling its site and training models on its catalog”.<\/p>\n

News of such preventative measures will likely be welcomed by rightsholders.<\/p>\n

As rightsholders grapple with the copyright implications of generative AI’s rapid rise in recent months, DSPs blocking AI platforms from scraping material to train AI models with their copyrighted content is an intriguing development.<\/p>\n

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SoundCloud’<\/strong>s new AI creator partners include Soundful AI<\/strong><\/a>, which is aimed at content creators, artists, producers, brands, and creative agencies<\/span>, and aims to let you create original music “in a couple of seconds using Artificial Intelligence”.<\/p>\n

Soundful<\/strong> says that it is “powered by artificial intelligence algorithms that are human-trained and guided by music theory”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Soundful recently confirmed an early investment round, which featured backers including artists, producers and managers like 3LAU<\/b>,\u00a0Axwell<\/b>,\u00a0Kaskade<\/b>,\u00a0Matteo Milleri (Anyma)<\/b>,\u00a0Matthew Koma<\/b>,\u00a0Starrah<\/b>,\u00a0Chris Comstock<\/b>,\u00a0GUNNAR<\/b>,\u00a0Autograf,<\/b>\u00a0Jonas Tempel, <\/b>and Steve Angello <\/b>via one of his business ventures.<\/p>\n

In addition, media executives investing in Soundful have included Tom Staggs<\/b>,\u00a0Neil Jacobson<\/b>,\u00a0Justin Kalifowitz<\/b>,\u00a0David Unger<\/b>,\u00a0Alex Harrow<\/b>,\u00a0Evan Baker<\/b>,\u00a0Carl Vernersson<\/b>,\u00a0Nick Jarjour,<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Top Dawg Entertainment<\/b><\/p>\n

MBW interviewed the founder of Soundful, Diaa El All<\/strong>, in May 2022. He told us<\/a>: “Soundful\u2019s mission is to empower every creator out there…This is about mass adoption. This is about empowering everybody to create music. Soundful is a tool for everybody to listen\u00a0and<\/em> create.”<\/p>\n

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In addition, SoundCloud’s new AI creator partners include Fadr, <\/strong><\/a>a platform that features various AI music tools like an AI-powered vocal remover, song splitter, key\/tempo\/chords detector, remix maker, mashup maker. It promises to give “anyone the power to create mashups and remixes of their own favorite songs regardless of their experience level”.<\/p>\n

SoundCloud’s third and final AI creator partner is Voice-Swap<\/strong>, which allows musicians to “transform vocal stems using generative AI to match the style of licensed artist voices”.<\/p>\n

Voice-Swap<\/a>,<\/strong> which has over 115,000 users, says that e<\/span>very artist on its roster is officially licensed and is paid a 50\/50<\/strong> split for the use of their AI voice.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The new integrations, which will be available soon, allow artists to share newly created songs to SoundCloud via these platforms through a built-in \u201cUpload to SoundCloud\u201d option that will live inside each individual tool.<\/p>\n

SoundCloud says that songs uploaded directly to its platform using these three AI tools will also be automatically tagged to indicate which tool they were made with, for example “Made with Fadr’ etc.<\/p>\n

Artists will also be able to edit their newly uploaded tracks directly from their SoundCloud profile page.<\/p>\n

SoundCloud is positioning the new integrations as “following in the footsteps” of past integrations with other third-party music-making tools<\/a> such as Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) like GarageBand and FL Studio.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt SoundCloud, we take pride in being ground zero for musical experimentation.”<\/p>\n

Eliah Seton, SoundCloud\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

SoundCloud CEO Eliah Seton<\/strong> said on Thursday (January 25) that its new partners Fadr, Soundful, and Voice-Swap<\/strong> had been “selected intentionally” and\u00a0 “reflect the very best of what the industry has to offer in this arena: tools that open up new creative avenues and make artists\u2019 lives a little bit easier”.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cAt SoundCloud, we take pride in being ground zero for musical experimentation. That\u2019s why we\u2019re home to what\u2019s next in music,\u201d said SoundCloud CEO Eliah Seton.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI is top of mind for us in this context, and we\u2019re excited about how this technology can be applied to serve and empower artists.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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