If you’ve ever hummed a tune and wished you could turn it into an actual song, a new app might make that possible, and Google just bought the company behind it.
Google announced this week that it has acquired ProducerAI, a music-making app, folding it into its Google Labs division. It’s available now in over 250 countries at producer.ai, with free and paid plans.
The app works by letting you describe what you want in plain language. Type something like “make me an Afrobeats track with a Gengetone rap,” and it builds a track. From there you go back and forth, tweak the bass, change the flow, and then add the lyrics.
The idea is that, unlike most AI music tools that give you a single result and stop there, ProducerAI is built around a back-and-forth process where you keep refining, adjusting, and experimenting with your track until it actually sounds the way you imagined it, the same way a real artist and producer would work together in a studio.
ProducerAI has been around in various forms since 2022, starting as a viral experiment by two developers who figured out a clever way to generate music using image-generation software.
It’s gone through a few iterations since then, picking up some fans along the way, with Grammy-winning rapper Lecrae and electronic duo The Chainsmokers both using it.
Under Google’s umbrella, the app can now generate full songs with vocals and instruments, help write lyrics, produce album art, and put together basic music videos.
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Every track it creates gets an inaudible digital tag embedded in it, identifying it as AI-generated, which is a safeguard against the growing concern that AI music will be passed off as human-made.
That concern is real, but it’s not going away. Not everyone is happy about it, though. Some musicians fear that tools like this make it too easy to churn out cheap, forgettable music and that it could make life harder for artists who’ve put in years of real work to get where they are.
