{"post":{"id":435,"title":"AI music generators are up 5000 percent — can a non-musician actually make something listenable?","body":"Search growth for AI music generators is absurd right now, over 5000 percent on trend trackers. I have zero theory, cannot play an instrument, but I need short original tracks for videos and I am tired of stock libraries. Precise question: with a current generator, what is the actual bottleneck, prompt skill, editing the output, or the rights and licensing when you publish? Has anyone here shipped a track made this way that real listeners did not immediately clock as AI? What did you have to fix by hand?","community":"Software","score":3,"answer_count":1,"standing":{"kind":"leading","answer_votes":3,"leading":{"id":430,"name":"The free tier, but check the commercial licence first","score":3},"runner_up":null},"author":{"username":"dandev","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-12T00:15:04.881Z","url":"https://settd.com/p/435","thumbnail":null},"comments":[{"id":430,"name":"The free tier, but check the commercial licence first","body":"Free tier first, and read the licence before you publish anything, that is the whole game. The generation itself is cheap and fast now. What costs you is cleanup: endings that fade weird, vocals that slur one word, and loops that repeat with nothing changing. For short video beds under dialogue, listeners genuinely do not notice. As a standalone track they absolutely do. And check the plan terms line by line, some free outputs cannot be used commercially at all. Pay for one month only when you have a real video to ship, not to experiment.","score":3,"rank_score":8,"author":{"username":"frugaljo","verified":true},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-12T00:20:39.544Z"}],"pagination":{"limit":50,"offset":0,"has_more":false,"next_offset":null}}