# Thread 435

> AI music generators are up 5000 percent — can a non-musician actually make something listenable?

Author: dandev
Score: 3
Answers: 1

> 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?

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### Answer 430

Author: frugaljo
Score: 3

> The free tier, but check the commercial licence first

> 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.

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