YouTube Tests AI Song Remix Feature with Select Creators

YouTube introduces a new AI-powered feature allowing select creators to remix songs, expanding creative possibilities on the platform

Last year, YouTube began enabling a limited number of creators in the United States to create AI-generated tracks with prompts that incorporate the vocals of artists such as Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, John Legend, Sia, T-Pain, and Troye Sivan.

The company is currently incorporating a feature into its Dream Track toolset that enables creators to remix tracks by describing the manner in which they wish to alter the song’s style.

The video streaming platform has announced that it will provide creators with access to a limited number of songs for the remix experiment.

Creators in the test group have the ability to select the “Retstyle a track” option for a song and provide a description of the remix they wish to create. This will produce a 30-second segment that can be incorporated into Shorts by creators.

“To transform a song into a different genre or mood, simply enter your vision into the ‘Restyle a track’ prompt. You will receive a personalized soundtrack that reimagines the music while preserving the original song’s vocals and lyrics,” the update states.

These remixed samples will be credited to the original song through the Short video and the Shorts audio pivot page, as noted by Google.

Remixes will also be accompanied by an appropriate notation that denotes the use of AI to modify the track.

YouTube’s Dream Track toolset, which was introduced in November of last year, is fueled by the Lyria music generation model, which was developed by Deepmind. Additionally, the platform introduced a tool that enabled users to generate a recording by simply humming a melody at the time.

Before publishing any of these tools, YouTube announced in August of last year that it intended to compensate artists and rights holders for the use of their work in its AI features in order to avoid the music industry’s ire.

In order to achieve this objective, the organization disclosed an agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG) to establish a framework for compensating rights holders.

YouTube is not the sole organization that is developing methods for users to remix recordings. Gaurav Sharma, a former executive at JioSaavn, is currently developing an application called Hook that enables users to alter songs for the purpose of producing brief videos.