To honor the RIAA lawsuit against Udio, for the week of June 28th, I created albums and songs for each of my 30 newsletter categories (OpenAI, RAG, Open Source, Agents, Local Models, etc.).
The MidJourney prompts were purposefully simple. I created a rubric that was easy to copy and paste, allowing me to work quickly while evoking styles that matched each category’s theme. The prompt format was: “album art for a record titled ‘[category name]’ –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize qko3v53 –v 6.1.”
I don’t revise the prompts or the images. I try to test the “one shot” ability of MidJourney to take a request and turn it into something usable. Some of these images turned out spectacular, even if they didn’t follow my prompts perfectly (because of the chaos value and personalization settings).
I put together a quick GPT that would look at the MidJourney cover images (in bulk) and generate prompts for Udio with a genre, tempo, and style to go with the album. The GPT image-to-audio prompts were pretty great; they all matched the atmosphere of the image—solid A.
The Udio songs were okay, if a bit stereotypical, perhaps because I set them to instrumental. In hindsight, I should have included vocals. Here’s a playlist with all of the songs: https://www.udio.com/playlists/kcSCQwxtBZjbetBeG7Vxpj
But here you have it! My AI newsletter category cover art and songs for the week of June 28th, featuring the theme “The RIAA Sues Udio.”
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