MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation
(This is not meant to be an anti-ai-generated-art rant.  It's coming whether we like it or not.  But some of the motives in this thread confuse me.)<p>Music producer here with an honest question to those saying "this will provide me with a simple soundtrack/background music for $PROJECT"<p>Have any of you checked out / made offers on music production subreddits? Or other music subreddits? various music production discords?  Elsewhere on the internet?<p>If so, could you say what your experience has been?<p>I ask because the music production scene is like...ridiculously saturated, and  it's almost a meme in the producer community how hard it is to make even a buck producing.  I suspect that there are a significant number of producers who would be happy to take your "prompt" for a small fee.  Yes, I understand 1) free and 2) immediate is convenient, but isn't 1) relatively inexpensive and 2) whatever advantage intent in construction gives good too?<p>I'm willing to admit that I'm missing something here, but I'd love it if someone could enlighten me.<p>While I'm asking follow ups, to all the folks who love digging for new music <i>so much</i> that they're considering turning to prompting AIs, I'd be seriously surprised if you've really checked out all the stuff that is coming out from new producers (again, reddit, soundcloud, etc).  Another meme in the producer community is how one spends hundreds/thousands of hours perfecting ones craft, and dozens of hours working on a track, only for that track to get like 5 plays on soundcloud and negligible engagement elsewhere.  Are music consumers <i>really</i> that desperate for new tunes? Frankly a lot of us just aren't seeing it....