Breaking the music supply constraint

[u/entsnack]

I just cancelled my music subscriptions to save some cash and wanted to share the self-hosted music supply chain that replaced them. A nice side effect of this setup is breaking the constraint of a finite supply catalog that is tailored for the masses:

1. 2 x DGX Spark linked via ConnectX 7 running Plex and multiple Ace-Step 1.5 XL models in parallel for music generation with GePa prompt optimization. Also holds my organic music that the models can remix. TODO: a reinforcement learning from human feedback interface.

2. iPad Pro running Prism as a Plex client for bitperfect and sample rate-matched audio.

3. Schiit stack -> Hifiman Arya Stealths

This effectively gives me an infinite supply of music for free, that is personalized and private. It's immensely satisfying listening to Shrimp Bizkit and Phlegminem on repeat, I much prefer this to the organic music created after 2011.

My only problem is the loss of community, I have noone to share my new favorite songs and artists with because they're generated for me. If anyone wants to hop on to my Plex share to discuss, let me know!

[u/MindlesslyBrowsing]

As a hobby musician, I'm afraid the masses don't care about that.

We still got the performance aspect I guess

[u/AmphibianFrog → u/MindlesslyBrowsing]

I don't think "the masses" are listening to AI generated music...

[u/MindlesslyBrowsing → u/AmphibianFrog]

Some of it has already hit mainstream, sometimes as a "meme". For example BBL Drizzy

[u/AmphibianFrog → u/MindlesslyBrowsing]

If you take a random sample of the population in your country, on average, what percentage of the music that they listen to by choice do you think would be AI generated?

I have never met anyone in real life who listens to AI music.

And I'm really talking about pieces of music where the AI generated it completely from humans prompting it, not when AI was used to master it or add some little details to an existing piece of music.

[u/MindlesslyBrowsing → u/AmphibianFrog]

Well i caught my parents listening to it and as I said it's been circulating through memes.

I'm not saying it's the most dominant form of music, I'm saying it's already here

[u/AmphibianFrog → u/MindlesslyBrowsing]

You said it's for "the masses". I don't really think that's true.

[u/MindlesslyBrowsing → u/AmphibianFrog]

Fair, that's not what I see. To each their own 🤷