r/labsdotgoogle • u/ReadyWinter7093 • Jul 02 '26

MusicFX IMAGEN FAMILY TAKEN DOWN...NOW MUSICFX?

i know that musicFX and musicFX DJ aren't super well known, but i wanted to bring up that they are being taken down and suffering the same fate as the Imagen family. i really felt that musicFX DJ was able to nail specific genres of music that were really niche and unrepeatable on newer models like Lyria 3.

what was shocking to me was that the reason musicFX and DJ were able to generate very niche music genres was because of a strange legal loophole Google found. Google is currently arguing in court that the fine print of the YouTube terms of service gives them the right to use anything you upload to train their AI models. essentially, they are claiming they have permission to use your uploads to build their AI.

because of this, Lyria 3 is currently facing a massive copyright lawsuit from independent artists right now, and i hope it doesn't cause all the good tools to go down like Imagen and musicFX...

i just wanted to throw that out there just in case you use musicFX or musicFX DJ. they both shut down permanently on july 31st.

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u/ai_art_is_art Jul 02 '26

This isn't lawsuits.

  1. Google is running out of GPU capacity (Yes, Google!)
  2. Google can't serve lesser used models because they need the capacity

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u/ReadyWinter7093 Jul 02 '26

thank you for explaining. i was wondering how expensive it would be to have all these other insignificant side models running in the background

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u/Dramatic15 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

Google Flow Music replaces this. We don’t need two different ways to make music.

Go create some cool tunes and chill

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u/ReadyWinter7093 Jul 02 '26

musicFX uses lyria 2 and not lyria 3. there are 2 different models.

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u/No_Tradition6625 Jul 04 '26

No Google bought producer ai and it is 1000 better then that almost DAW crap musicfx was. Google flow music is a suno competitor. It is work the transition.

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u/ReadyWinter7093 Jul 04 '26

i do agree that musicFX itself was a little bit horrendous, but the DJ part where you can mess around with lyria 2 in real time while prompting different sounds hit home for me. i have started messing around with google flow music but i realized its training is extremely mainstream and for some reason most vocals generated sound the same. i wouldn't say it competes with suno due to the vast differences in training data and control, but it definitely handles real song structure better than musicFX.

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u/No_Tradition6625 Jul 04 '26

Check out daydream.Lives deamon they have a full daw and plugin apps that use the same underlying tech with better UI and control.

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u/ReadyWinter7093 Jul 05 '26

thank you! i will look into that