 Hi everyone, it's MJ the fellow Actree and in this video I'm gonna show you how you can use AI to create your own music and then publish it on Spotify Apple Music and all the various streaming services So we made an album on Actuarial Science and it was so much fun that I made another one Which is a little bit more religious and I'm currently working on a third album Which is on crypto because you know on this channel We also love to chat about the blockchain and you can see this is also on Apple music It's on all the streaming platforms and we're gonna go through the steps that I took to make this and Hopefully you guys can do the same. We can make a playlist. We can share music and Essentially just have a lot of fun with it So the first thing or the first AI that you want to get is chat GPT So chat GPT for and what you're seeing here are a bunch of Lyrics now what I like to do is go into chat GPT and say hey make a song about This so in this case it was a time when I was working at Polygon and I just broken up with the girlfriend And there's this lovely play with the word Polygon and she's probably gone And I wanted to use that Sonic, you know, whatever it's called to create a song out of it So you'll see that chat GPT gave me this chorus I would then come down and say, you know rather make this the chorus and the final version of the song Which I'm actually still working on it actually extends the chorus a little bit more I also learned by reading other lyrics that it's always sometimes nice to repeat a word and sometimes chat GPT Doesn't do that. Where am I getting that from? You can go to this website called genius post Malone You know probably the person I listened to the most last year and you can come up here And you can actually, you know, look at say some of his songs Click here and you can like read through some of his lyrics and you can see His lyrics have got a lot more of these things in brackets and more a little bit of sound effects Which you can ask chat GPT to include as well. You can play around with it But job it's always nice to maybe find your favorite artist read up on what their their lyrics are You can also come to and I think I even asked if this I said to it I said, yeah, I said describe post Malone sound and be upon event Lee, you know And they give you a nice idea of the genre and that's important to know because when we go to the next day I you can't say make the song in the sound of post Malone because for copyright It's gonna get flagged But if you say make it in the style, you know around hip-hop trap rock with strong infusions of pop sensibility You then do kind of get that same sound as post Malone in some of the instances It's important to remember that the AI just like how it's working with say chat GPT in generating the lyrics It's essentially got a stochastic element. So it's a bit random. You're gonna get that with the other AI as you use as well So just like with the lyrics I if you don't like the lyrics just tell it to redo it You know redo the lyrics until you read through it make feel free to change your change on the lines I think I even changed this To international flight because it wanted to talk about something else and it just linked up a little bit more the story But you're generating lyrics with chat GPT fairly straightforward to use your proms Tell it what you want work with it and you've then got your lyrics once you've got your lyrics You simply copy and oh one big thing is have your chorus and your verse and you know Your bridge or your outro your intro in square brackets that's important for when you come to the music AI and the music AI is Sooner and you can see compared to the lyrics that we had in chat GPT I started adding in a few more lines Why because if you scroll up you can see there's quite been quite a lot of Polygon songs that we've been making That aren't really hitting exactly what I want or I feel like okay No, maybe we need to increase this so like if we clicked on this one here You'll see the chorus was originally down there You know with just the four lines where with the ones later on it sounded better if we were to add more So feel free to come in and change You know the lyrics while you're generating and going through but essentially you will come too soon Oh, make sure it's in custom mode If it's on this one, you know you can just type in a random song and it can generate But it's not very personable when you come to say custom mode You can actually give the lyrics that you want and you can even type in here You can say, you know fast rap or you know, you can have a choir chorus You can put in a little bit of information in those brackets to get a bit more of a sound But my tip is don't go in with the mindset of how you want it to sound because it's gonna be Impossible for the AI to generate exactly what's in your head on the song and you're always going to be disappointed Rather go in as you know, you're the executive director and you're listening to a band So let let the AI do its magic Let it create what it wants and then you just judge. Yes, I like it Let's go forward with it or no, I don't like that try again And as you can see I have been making it try again and again and again because still not happy With sooner what will happen is you'll click create It'll generate two seeds and you can kind of choose which one you want The longest the first seeds are gonna be is just two minutes And of course, we know songs need to be a little bit longer than that But you can click these little three dots at the bottom here and you can go continue from the song Continue from the song now. What's really cool is you can also change the timestamp So let's say it starts going a little bit off on a tangent or you like the intro You just didn't like the chorus you can always continue from a certain point of the song And that's just going to give you a lot better results And that's a fairly new feature that's you know added when it first came out It didn't have that and that can be great because if the AI does And sometimes it does weird things it does do weird things You can clip that out by having the continuation from Once you'll get the the version two so you can see like flash load here part two You can then come and say get the whole song and it will generate a whole song for you What I like to do just from a purely managing these things because you can see you start making a lot of songs A lot of songs like that when you do finally get the song that you want like a full-on song I will then come and either flag it as you know Yes or no or you come and you click add to a playlist and you can see I've got a lot of a lot of play playlist a lot of projects coming coming in So I'll show you the one if we can play list or library Playlist, I mean, you know, it's better when you have to go to page two So program changer to the crypto diaries But these are the songs so far that I've made for the crypto Thing and maybe towards the end of the video I'll play you one or two give you a little sneak peek of of what it is But each one is built around crypto and heartbreak and sad And I guess overall we're going for that emo rap sad boy genre But once you've got these songs done you will want to come here and you're going to want to download them So download download the audio But the thing with sooner is that very rarely does the song end Nicely or end properly every now and again It keeps going up to the two minute mark or up to the you know if you extend it And it just ends abruptly, you know when the next track goes and this is where I do bring in logic pro So logic pro what you can do is download all your mp3's throw all your mp3's onto logic pro You can then you know select all the tracks and do a bit of a fade out That's this one over here just to give it a little bit of a trip Of course, I don't want this video to be too long So, you know go search another tutorial on how to use logic pro And the fade out, but it is quite intuitive. It's not too difficult I think on garage band or one of the free audio software You just want to introduce a fade out or like I say just do a little bit of research on how to do a fade out If you are comfortable with logic pro like I say you put all your tracks down here You select you can go to fade out You know and you can kind of type in a big number for all of them So if I was to type in say 9 000 on all of them watch this tail Bitcha is going to get extended or just a little bit if we made it Let's make it a lot. Let's make it 90 000 And then you can see that white bit there and it's going to Put the song down because I don't want to do that for This little album that I'm working on here But it gives you just a little bit of a feel on what to do You would then come file and export all tracks as audio files You want to click that one there you want your bit wave to be 24 Say format as wave and then you know you with your pattern you can kind of click this I always like to put include volume pan automation You can also say overload protection only on normalize. I don't know too much about that I mean, I'm not a sound engineer. You don't have to be But you can get into a little bit of detail if you want to know what all of that is about But that's just to give your songs a little bit more of that trim Once that's done and you've got your music you want to go and distribute it So I want to show you two distribution tools that I've used one is called distro kit So you can see these are my two albums the green lights means they have been released And there's also this other one called ditto now ditto. I don't like it's not the one I will recommend even though what's cool with ditto is they show you your analytics at the You know the base model so you're not you don't have to pay extra to see this on district kids You do have to pay extra to see, you know, how many people are listening to your songs But the thing with ditto what I don't like about it is that they're super strict So if you look at my albums, I've got two albums out Over here. We've got a lo-fi and we've got some old school Rock on basing the album of genesis But there were some albums that they didn't like I made a kpop album on pokemon That got flagged first for you know copyrights of the album cover with that so like fair enough But then it hit it again saying that oh the song sounded too much like ringtone So ditto and what you see on the things they are very very strict But the worst thing about ditto is you release a song or a track And it takes 10 days for it to go on to the stores Unless you pay extra and then you get it So this is maybe an important thing if you don't mind waiting and you want to see your data Maybe ditto is for you, but for me, I'm quite impatient. I want the music to come out straight away I don't want to pay extra on ditto So for me district kid is better in that sense that it releases the music straight away Of course, if I wanted to see the stats, um They want me to pay more money for that and that is another thing to keep in mind when uploading your music Is that it's like oh, it's only so much a year You're like, oh, that's quite cheap And then when you start to upload there's all these little boxes that you can tick that can really increase the prices like oh Do you want it to be included in this? Library do you want it to be included on that and this and that and it can get very very expensive None of that is necessary just to get your music out there If you want to put it in go ahead and do it, but hey, I'm quite happy with just the standard product So what I'll do is you put the music there And like I say when you come to uploading it, it's very very straightforward What they do want on district kid that you do need maybe another ai to to generate is album artwork So that's where I use mid-journey and I'll come into mid-journey. You can see this is the the album that it generated These were some of the ideas. I mean sometimes I stopped in just the album name learning to pray But I didn't like those images. So I wanted to add a little bit of grunge to the texture And that's how I got this one here. So Mid-journey is great if you want to generate album covers um I mean what you can also even do if you want to make a music video Is you can come to another ai called kybe You guys will know that this is the album cover that we had for the actuarial album Kybe will take a still image and give it some motion Doesn't do a very good job. Like if you look at this animation here, it's not amazing. The buildings are changing The docks being weird. It's still very dream-like, but it can sometimes be a little bit better than just having say a still image so kybe.ai is great if you want to just give your Images or your album artwork a little bit of motion Uh, but mid-journey is great for creating your uh, like I say the album cover What they sometimes who ditto is very strict on the district yet I haven't had an issue too much with it But sometimes they want it in a certain size So you'll maybe bring in another software to come in and like, you know, I'm using a finnazzi publisher Finnazzi's publishers also quite cool. Like you can see This was one idea for the actuarial album. It was a little bit boring Uh mid-journey then created this piece It then created like a robot, you know as an actuary and then you know just using some of the design tools I decided to cut him out put it there Think of it as a potential album artwork Even thought of maybe using my my linkedin profile, which I've never changed since I was like five years old And ultimately ended up going with this one I like the idea of the actuary wearing a holding an umbrella Umbrella is like a symbol of risk management And it's like it's his journey going into the city Whereas this one It's learning how to pray It's got a little bit of that rap emo vibe to it So I wanted a bit more grunge than those other images that I thought were a little bit too too bright and friendly But y'all once you've got your album artwork, you come to district kid You know if you were to come upload upload some music Um What they'll do? Oh, you have to sometimes tick snapchat and then you have to say that y'all So I actually forgot to tick that on the last one You'll tell it the number of songs that you want Has this album previously recorded? No Once you've done it the first time it finds who you are on these other places, which is great And you can come in. Oh, you can pay more if you want your own record label Like I said, there's there's always a lot of payments that you need to do but they're not necessarily sorry Don't you need to do but you can do that's where you'll publish the album cover You'll give the album title Then when it comes to uploading the songs you'll just drag it into here You just maybe tell who the song is go through the tick boxes One annoying one is that the explicit explicit lyrics sometimes tends to be yes I think they've learned for me that most of my lyrics if not all of the lyrics Don't contain any curse words It would be weird if an album on called learning to pray had swear words Although I say that when I was generating music with sueno Um, it did just it sometimes throws in its own random lyrics And I think being emo rap and that it came in with a little bit of curse words at the beginning But that learning to pray album was a lot of fun because I combined choir with rap and got quite a unique fun sound for it But you essentially you go through all of this that does take quite a long time to do it and then You know right at the end gosh, we did click 15 songs. You can see there's these extras optional but awesome And just notice that these are per year So it's like 17 or and or let's what like a dollar, but it's per year So just keep that in mind if you're releasing a lot of music per year. This can become A liability more than an asset I didn't click the youtube content id thing because you know, I'm not too worried about people copying my music I mean we're doing this for fun So I didn't click any of these other things and even do the loudest normalization one Just because you know, I wanted it to be as cost effective as as possible And like I say my music is on youtube music And what's nice with youtube is that you can get a little bit more of the stats So you can see here for some reason that one's got already 134 plays which is Interesting that one only got one play. So it's it's crazy to see which songs get the views which ones don't Spotify like I say they tell you your monthly listeners, which is quite a nice thing to see I think i'm just 84 million short of drake, but you know, we're we're slowly catching up to him slowly catching up to him And essentially those are the very over You know, those are the steps that you need in order to put your music out there Like I say the big trip The big tips is when writing your lyrics feel free to add in your own flair interact with chat gpt go back and forth Don't just always copy paste copy paste add in that personal flair just makes you enjoy the music You know yourself personally more with sueno It's worth you can see i'm running really low on credits. I probably need to go and buy some more credits Actually bought 4 000 credits and I kind of burned through it all but you can just see the cost So it's 30 dollars on sueno 20 dollars on chat gpt You know another cup of dollars with distro kid So it does you are probably all in looking at 100 dollars to release your own own album Which is expensive and that's why chat gpt work with the lyrics make it something personal and you know something for you And then ultimately, yeah, get your get your album out there and then let's work together. Let's create a playlist. Let's share it Ultimately, let's have fun and explore So yeah, just wanted to create a video to show you how youtube Can get on to Spotify and become a rock star as always. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you guys soon Cheers