Fairly Trained - Infinite Album [PART 3] Ethics of genAI for music
Looking for an ethical tool that uses generative AI for creating music? Check out this profile of Infinite Album, a genAI music company that's certified as Fairly Trained.
This article provides a deep dive on Infinite Album, one of the companies working on generative AI for music who have been certified as Fairly Trained. It supports the upcoming PART 3 in our 8-part series “Unfair Use? Ethics of generative AI for music”, announced in this INTRODUCTION post on .
This article series is not a substitute for legal advice and is meant for general information only.
Business and feature information is summarized from the company’s websites; LinkedIn; Crunchbase; PitchBook, where available; and publicly available reviews of one or more of these tools. Links are in the References section.
Infinite Album (including Melodrive)
Descriptions:
On Fairly Trained: “Infinite Album creates real-time generative AI music for games.”
On LinkedIn: “Game-responsive, viewer-interactive, copyright-safe, AI-generated music for livestream gamers and metaverse players.”
On website: “infinitely generative AI music for gamers - fully licensed and copyright safe”
On PitchBook: “Developer of artificial intelligence-based music application designed to create infinitely generative artificial intelligence music for gamers. The company's music is copyright-safe, game reactive, and for our Twitch streamers, it's also viewer interactive and monetizable with Twitch Bits, enabling gamers to personalize their music through our app for Twitch and through in-game virtual goods stores on all gaming platforms.”
History & Partnerships
Infinite Album was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Los Angeles.1 Melodrive was originally founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berlin.2 Infinite Album appears to have acquired or merged Melodrive around 2020.
Infinite Album is a privately held startup with venture capital backing. They are in the Accelerator phase with 6 investors (2 angels). Current employee count is ~4. 3
Infinite Album officially launched on 2023-10-17 at TwitchCon. 4
Key Features
The original Melodrive offering was “one of the first AI systems to compose emotional and unique music in real time. The AI generates music by adapting to the media environment and aims to match the mood and the style of the video.”5
Infinite Album’s focus is copyright-free, generative AI music for gamers and livestreamers on platforms like Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok. They provide a stream of music and sound effects that react to the gameplay for supported games. In this sense, it’s more for creating personalized functional music than for generating new musical melodies (our interest in this article series).
A key value proposition for Infinite Album users is that viewers on Twitch can interact with the track to change genre or emotion or add sounds.
Training Data & Technology
Their site states that “Our music is completely generated by our proprietary AI engine. It consists of models that generate the composition and how the instruments are performed and produced, all in real time, infinitely. … We train on open source music models along with some fairy dust from our AI engineers, who are all musicians. The instruments we use are licensed from commercial libraries specifically for this purpose.” This is consistent with their Fairly Trained certification.
Ownership, Usage Rights, & Pricing
Infinite Album “offers artists unprecedented opportunities to expand their musical footprint into gaming while bypassing sync license deals, which can be a barrier to entry”. They work with artists to help them get their music into the gaming industry and “share our revenue with them when their music is used”. They offer two plans to users:
“Gold” - free with ads, for non-commercial use only (ok for content creators and livestreamers). Users can create endless streams of AI music “Vibes”, save up to 10 custom Vibes, share Vibes with other users, and get real-time music reactions to game events for supported games
“Platinum” - $7.99/month - Gold minus ads, plus: save unlimited Vibes, mash up musical styles, get uncompressed audio samples, customize how the music reacts to gameplay, and have access to advanced technical tools for producing livestreams.
❓If you’re curious about the ethical posture of the big, well-known firms or smaller players who are not yet certified as Fairly Trained, subscribe (for FREE) to be notified of our upcoming posts (the parent PART 3 article, a post on major un-certified companies, a post on other un-certified companies) and the remainder of the series:
REFERENCES and ENDNOTES
Links to upcoming articles
(coming soon)
Analysis page on 9 genAI music companies who are already certified as Fairly Trained (including this one)
PART 3 - top-level article on Who, What, & When in ethics of genAI for music
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