Jukedeck
Creative
ai music generation
SHOW HN2015
410points
211comments
#27of 2,565 in 2015
Top 2%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
33 positive, 28 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 18 critical, out of 83 comments about the project. Thread score +0.24.
Idea: 20 for, 10 againstExecution: 2 for, 3 againstDesign: 5 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good sound quality and execution
From 3 comments
Wow - sounds really good and took about 30s to make: https://www.jukedeck.com/share/8e36d5703267cefbe1a924bf800f98b914b64408ca6044f7cbe739f992809cf0 Awesome idea and execution,…
tristanho on HNBrilliant execution! Congratulations! My Folk song sounded pretty cool, and couldn't help but imagine some video game action that would fit the music.
udev on HNThis is incredibly cool! Really well done. The entire experience with creating and listening to the tracks feels really good. I'm going to be using this for my next product demo…
ianstormtaylor on HN
Useful for video background music and vlogs
From 2 comments
No need to search soundcloud or google for background music for your youtube vlog or intros. It's kind of nice that you can even slice to size right off of the bat. This does…
dkroy on HNThe output is interesting... decent enough for an ambient background track! An interesting Version 2 would be a way to construct a song for a particular video (perhaps ingesting…
qq66 on HN
Objections
Tracks feel repetitive and lack higher-level structure
From 2 comments
It sounds like one of those recursive ANN things. On the scale of seconds, it's quite good. But there's no higher-level structure. For "folk", this is obvious; for ambient, you'd…
Animats on HNIt does sometimes get a little repetitive - that's something we're working on improving. This is one of the reasons we've limited tracks to 5 minutes long for now.
edrex1 on HN
Limited market for royalty-free music
From 1 comment
This is a business I know well. Jukedeck is an example of how founders and investors do not conduct appropriate market research. There is a limited market demand for low-cost…
rockarage on HN
Tracks capped at 5 minutes
From 2 comments
It does sometimes get a little repetitive - that's something we're working on improving. This is one of the reasons we've limited tracks to 5 minutes long for now.
edrex1 on HNThat's a really good idea, and something we'd love to provide. We've only set the 5-minute maximum in v1.0 - there's no reason we couldn't give people access to more extended…
edrex1 on HN
Requests
Editable generated tracks (instrument mute, regenerate, tweak timing)
From 3 comments
Feature Request: Allow playback of the track that has a row for each of the instruments that you can mute/unmute to isolate. Then allow regeneration of a specific instrument…
mentos on HNThis is incredibly cool! Really well done. The entire experience with creating and listening to the tracks feels really good. I'm going to be using this for my next product demo…
ianstormtaylor on HNFeature Request: be able to take an existing generated track and change its length.
icefox on HN
MIDI export
From 1 comment
Add MIDI export and I'm sold...
joeyspn on HN
Real-time or continuous streaming generation
From 3 comments
To me the exciting thing about automatic music composition isn't royalty-free prerecorded music, but the potential for real-time composition. Imagine a video game where your…
modeless on HNI think it would be pretty cool to have this as a streaming service. Let me listen to it as it is generated, and then slice out pieces if I really like them.
Bedon292 on HNFor context - I'm building autonomous Escape Rooms that react to the player's actions. We currently have several long tracks that fit various sections of the games, and we switch…
Schwolop on HN
Longer tracks
From 2 comments
This is fantastic, could we get longer tracks? I want to use this for generating music in our corporate phone system, right now you get a randomly chosen ambient track, and this…
module0000 on HNWhen I first read the headline this is what I was hoping for. Auto generated, upbeat, electronic music, that continuously changes, which I can listen to it all day while at work.…
xs on HN
Questions
Whether real-time composition is planned
From 1 comment
To me the exciting thing about automatic music composition isn't royalty-free prerecorded music, but the potential for real-time composition. Imagine a video game where your…
modeless on HN
Whether duplicate tracks can occur
From 1 comment
If I take the buy the copy right option, does it mean that the AI won't ever produce the same song again? And how do you handle not occasionally producing duplicate songs when…
flippyhead on HN
Who owns copyright of AI-generated tracks
From 1 comment
According to their pricing page ( https://www.jukedeck.com/pricing ), you can use the track free of royalty, but if you want to actually own it, you have to pay $199. But this…
iraphael on HN
Alternatives named
Koan and Noatikl
From 1 comment
How does Jukedeck's output differ from Koan > Noatikl ?
MikeNomad on HN
Production music libraries
From 1 comment
This is a business I know well. Jukedeck is an example of how founders and investors do not conduct appropriate market research. There is a limited market demand for low-cost…
rockarage on HN
Algomusic (Amiga program)
From 1 comment
This is so awesome. Does anyone remember Algomusic? It was a PD program for Amiga from the early 90s that did generative rave tunes. This reminds me a lot of that, in a good way.…
afro88 on HN