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A musician put two songs from his old band through Suno, finding that a little direction could produce a quick, convincing remake, but not necessarily preserve what made the original special.

In one version, Suno dropped a steel-drum solo and ambient sounds. A looser prompt for a nu-disco remix produced a result he found more compelling. The MakeUseOf writer describes this as a personal experiment, not a test of music generators generally. The useful distinction: Suno can offer a fast route to fresh arrangements, but a polished result may still lose the odd details that gave a song its character. The article also raises the stakes for working musicians, whose contributions can be hard to see when businesses can generate music cheaply.

Discuss: When AI remixes a song, should the original artists’ creative input count as essential authorship, or is the new arrangement a separate work?

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