🎶 AI Music Side Hustle Update

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How’s your weekend going so far?

I’ve been working on my wife’s new ecommerce store a bit while also continuing to dip my toes into cold email outreach.

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AI Music + ??? = Profit

If this is your first time hearing about this project, the gist is using AI music tools to get up songs on YouTube, Spotify, etc and see if it makes any money.

I was planning on using Suno for this until I came across Udio and that’s what we’re using right now.

Personally, I thought we’d pay for this for a month and have loads of songs in the bag.

The reality is that, like any AI tool, the AI works great some days and terrible other days. It sometimes forgets the instructions. And it sometimes gives you nonsense words instead of the lyrics it’s supposed to use.

As you may have guessed, we’re not doing instrumentals, but songs with words. ChatGPT is doing most of the heavy lifting with the lyrics.

We want to get 24 songs done before uploading anywhere. And I think we’re at a total of seven AI bangers.

But it’s been a hell of a lot of fun, even if it’s taking way longer than I expected.

After the prompt, the initial song is only like 30-seconds long and then you have to keep extending it to get it the length you want. Wife is then doing some light editing in Audacity to fix any garbled words, etc.

All in, it’s around 45 min to one hour per song with words - including time spent in chatGPT getting lyrics.

We’ve played some of the songs for people and got some great feedback.

Best part? We’ve only spent $10 on this little project so far. But when we get ready to upload the songs everywhere, it will cost more.

Don’t know if it will ever make money as a viable side hustle, but at least it’s fun!

Have a great rest of your weekend,

Shawna

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