Battle of the Bands II: MusicFX vs. MusicGen vs. Stable Audio

One new contestant. Five test categories. 15 new prompts. Who will win?

Happy Thursday, sound shapers!

You know what’s been missing on Why Try AI this year?

A bit of music.

We’ve talked about how to prompt chatbots, how to create better AI images, and the concept of the “Minimum Viable Prompt.”

But text-to-music models? Not so much.

Quite a bit has changed since the first Battle of the Bands, and I figured it’s time for a follow-up.

So turn up the volume, and let’s dive in.

The contestants

Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome back to the second season of Battle of the Bands.

Allow me to introduce our three contestants:

1. MusicFX (Google): MusicFX, formerly known as Prince MusicLM, is finally available to try directly in the AI Test Kitchen. As such, it will no longer get the benefit of only playing preset tunes cherry-picked by Google.

2. MusicGen (Meta AI): Coming back for another round, MusicGen is looking forward to going head-to-head with Mus…