MusicGen
by Meta AI
MusicGen is Meta's text-to-music generative model within the AudioCraft research framework. It creates music from text prompts and can optionally condition generation on a melody, with model weights and code available for research use.
Why Abandoned
Meta's AudioCraft and MusicGen repositories and model documentation remain publicly available. The project is best characterized as an active open research release, though no separate commercial MusicGen service lifecycle is documented.
💵 Pricing & access
- Pricing model
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- Starting at
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- Official site
- Visit MusicGen →
🩺 Health Signals
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- 200
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- Confidence
- 83%
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📅 Timeline
MusicGen released
Meta AI researchers announced MusicGen and published code and pretrained models, presenting a single-stage transformer approach to conditional music generation.
AudioCraft announced
Meta introduced AudioCraft as an open-source framework for generative audio and grouped MusicGen with AudioGen and EnCodec.
AudioCraft 1.3.0 released
The AudioCraft repository published version 1.3.0, showing continued maintenance of the framework containing MusicGen.
🔄 Alternatives to MusicGen
AIVA
🟢ActiveAI music composer that creates original music for films, games, and commercials.
Hugging Face
🟢ActiveThe GitHub of machine learning — hosting models, datasets, and AI applications.
Soundraw
🟢ActiveAI music generation platform that creates royalty-free music for content creators.
🪦 Other dead Music tools
Magenta Studio
🟠Possibly DeadMagenta Studio is a collection of music-creation plugins built with Magenta’s open-source machine-learning models. Its tools generate melodies and drum patterns, interpolate musical phrases, and modify MIDI files.
WavTool
🟡Acquired / MergedWavTool was a browser-based digital audio workstation with AI-assisted music production features, including a text chatbot for generating and editing MIDI, synthesizers, effects, and project arrangements.
Boomy
⚫AbandonedAI music creation platform that lets anyone make and release songs in seconds.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
What is MusicGen by Meta AI?
MusicGen is a generative AI model from Meta that creates music from text descriptions. It is distributed through Meta's AudioCraft research codebase and is available in several pretrained model sizes.
Can MusicGen generate music from a melody?
Yes. MusicGen includes melody-conditioned variants that combine a text prompt with an input melody to guide the generated music.
Is MusicGen free and open source?
Meta publishes AudioCraft code under the MIT license, while MusicGen model weights are released under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license. The noncommercial restriction on the weights means users should review the licenses before commercial use.
How can I use MusicGen online or locally?
Users can try the linked Meta demo when available, access community demos on Hugging Face, or install AudioCraft and run compatible pretrained MusicGen models locally with suitable hardware.
Is MusicGen still active or discontinued?
There is no verified shutdown announcement. Its repositories, documentation, and model files remain available, so this record classifies MusicGen as active with moderate-to-high confidence rather than as a continuously operated standalone service.