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Meet Boomy, the AI Software That Could Turn You In To a Music Star (bbc.com) 47

Posted by BeauHD from the your-next-side-hustle dept.
Boomy is a new AI startup that helps users create their own songs using artificial intelligence software that does most of the heavy lifting. The BBC reports: You choose from a number of genres, click on "create song", and the AI will compose one for you in less than 30 seconds. It swiftly picks the track's key, chords and melody. And from there you can then finesse your song. You can do things such as add or strip-out instruments, change the tempo, adjust the volumes, add echoes, make everything sound brighter or softer, and lay down some vocals.

California-based, Boomy, was launched at the end of 2018, and claims its users around the world have now created almost five million songs. The Boomy website and app even allows people to submit their tracks to be listed on Spotify and other music streaming sites, and to earn money every time they get played. While Boomy owns the copyright to each recording, and receives the funds in the first instance, the company says it passes on 80% of the streaming royalties to the person who created the song. [CEO Alex Mitchell] adds that more than 10,000 of its users have published over 100,000 songs in total on various streaming services.
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  • Songsmith already has this covered (Score:3)

    by 605dave ( 722736 ) on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:07PM (#62162595) Homepage

    They are late to the game. Microsoft's Songsmith has been writing me hits for years...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

  • If everybody can be a star, being a star becomes common and meaningless. Well, you may still get your "15 minutes of fame", but that is basically it and there are a lot of random factors.

    • If everybody can be a star, being a star becomes common and meaningless. Well, you may still get your "15 minutes of fame", but that is basically it and there are a lot of random factors.

      Like writing a book. Anyone can write and publish nowadays. As a result we get things such as 50 Shades of Grey.

      • I wrote a book! https://burtleburtle.net/bob/b... [burtleburtle.net], the Book of Isaac. Actually it's generated text, but it's got wordlike things and paragraphs and chapters and is the length of a book. And I published it online. So, I wrote and published a book! Proving your point.

        In the month of December the index of BoI got 17 hits, one chapter got 7 hits, and most chapters got 3 hits. Meanwhile https://burtleburtle.net/bob/s... [burtleburtle.net] is a collection of dozens of actual stories I wrote online as well, also about the leng

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Tablizer ( 95088 )

      Garage bands have been trying similar for generations. Only a small percent break through and hit it big. There's a network effect where you have to have exposure to get exposure, and if you have the right sound at the right time, you trigger the network effect.

      This will make the success rate per person go down, but there will still be the lucky and/or skilled stars who break through.

      And a few fun quirky one-hit-wonders along the way. Remember Tiny Tim?

      • If anything it's easier now than ever, because you only need 2000-3000 viewers to make an ok living. Lots of people can achieve that.

    • being a star becomes common and meaningless.

      We have already passed that point.

      There are many YouTube stars and social media "influencers" you have never heard of. Most of them are only famous in their niche. Music has also fragmented into niches with the rise of streaming. The last refuge of real fame is movies, but if Covid triggers a permanent rise of streaming and the demise of theaters, the movie market may also fragment into niches instead of the pre-Covid focus on blockbusters.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by gweihir ( 88907 )

        Make sense to me. On the other hand, say, 10000 fans can keep a youtuber/comic artist/storyteller, etc. comfortably financed if everybody gives $5...10 per year or so. So I guess this fosters diversity and allows people to experiment with non-mainstream stuff. I would call that a win.

        • Your society becomes easy pickings for the invading hordes (who do have a common culture)

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by gweihir ( 88907 )

            What? You are anti-diversity in Art? Seriously? And with such a bogus argument?

          • Your society becomes easy pickings for the invading hordes (who do have a common culture)

            I'm pretty sure that in the Roman empire and/or Qing empire each part had its local artists and not a globally known artist, and yet these empires worked quite well for quite a while. Common culture is not the same as everybody hearing the same music.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by vivian ( 156520 )

      This sort of thing should have implications for the length of copyright durations.
      There are currently something like 97 million songs in the world. That's about 57 years of listening if you never heard the same thing twice, so this thing has already created the equivalent of 5% of all songs ever made, yet they will be protected for the next 75 years (or lifetime+75 years - how does that work for an AI?)

      If copyright is supposed to to "promote the progress of useful arts and science by protecting the exclusiv

  • Sturgeon's law is an adage stating "ninety percent of everything is crap."

    Turns out he was an optimist.

  • LOL not just no hell no.

    • Just 3 weeks ago, someone on /.: "Yamaha doesn't get to claim your videos because you used their brand of keyboard" https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org]
      Things chage fast, this company claims copyright on your creations because you used their software.

      • Even microsoft wouldn't claim a novel or code if you used GPT3 to write it. People who create deepfakes don't have to turn the copyright of the video over.

      • Aha, that's before the cloud.. I won't be surprised to learn of a gimmicked-up,
          cloud-connected synthesizer that purports to own the music you create from your iPad.

    • LOL not just no hell no.

      Well, it's more or less how the music business has always worked, since copyright became a thing. The record company makes the big money.

      Sure, you could do it all yourself now, theoretically. But if you really could ... you would.

    • Yeah, what is the freaking point of songwriting if you give away the copyright? As far as everyone else is concerned, you didn't write it (which makes sense in a way), but never.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Tablizer ( 95088 )

        Copyrighting a song as a composition and copyrighting it as a recording (sound file) are two different things. Do they take both?

  • As long as it does not turns me in to the feds - it's all good.

  • nuf sed

  • If a machine created the music, my understanding is that it cannot be copyrighted under current US law. If it had input from humans, then I guess maybe? But it's pretty shaky stuff.

  • It will give you advice like: Let yourself caught with an unregistered Glock in your car and you'll be famous?

  • I used to play rhythm guitar in a local band back in the early 90's, and at that time, guitar was still kind of a big deal. I was never very good at it... just a passable hack, really. But the leader of our band wrote a small collection of pretty good songs with some catchy riffs/hooks, so I just learned to play the parts as he wanted me to play them (with some improvising done later on, after I got good enough playing them repeatedly).

    Still, people would come to our shows and it was just as common to get p

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