Battle of the Bands: MusicLM vs. MusicGen vs. Riffusion
Comparing music samples generated by three recent text-to-music AI models. How does MusicLM fare against MusicGen and Riffusion?
Hey kids, do you like music?
How about music made by cold, unfeeling AI models via algorithms pre-trained on millions of statistical data points?
Well, I sure hope you’ve answered “Yes” to both questions, because today we’ll be listening to a whole lotta text-to-music shenanigans.
Welcome to the Battle of the Bands, AI edition!
Let’s meet the contestants.
Our contestants
Ladies and gentlemen…
In the blue corner, we have the powerful-but-mysterious MusicLM from Google. MusicLM has composed many impressive songs, but you probably haven’t heard any of them personally. They, uh, only play them in Canada.
In the red corner is the up-and-coming MusicGen by Meta. Unlike MusicLM, MusicGen has nothing to hide and is willing to open its heart source to just about anyone. And it takes requests: Whistle a tune, and MusicGen will turn it into a track.
In the green corner of th…