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SUNO V5.5 · 1,240 GENERATIONS TESTED · UPDATED JUL 2026

AI music,

tested for real

Prompts with audio proof for every claim, AI music rights without the myths, and an endless radio stream built from our own generations.

ON AIR
FOCUS / GEN_0842
PROMPTS WITH AUDIO PROOF▲ FAILURES PUBLISHED, NOT HIDDEN▲ RIGHTS WITHOUT THE MYTHS▲ 42 RUNS · 3 FAILS▲ PROMPTS WITH AUDIO PROOF▲ FAILURES PUBLISHED, NOT HIDDEN▲ RIGHTS WITHOUT THE MYTHS▲ 42 RUNS · 3 FAILS▲
CH.1 / MAKERS
Prompt Lab →
Tested prompts, audio proof, and the failures we didn't hide.
CH.2 / CREATORS
Rights & Money →
What you can publish, monetize, and where platforms disagree.
CH.3 / OBSERVERS
The Shift →
Court cases and licensing deals, translated in three minutes.

Prompt lab

FULL ARCHIVE IN THE WEEKLY NOTES →
fresh test runs
FOCUS 42 RUNS · 3 FAILS
Lo-fi rain, no vocals
lofi hip hop, rain texture, warm tape saturation, 72bpm, no vocals, vinyl crackle, sparse rhodes
0:38
mood: hazy texture: tape era: 90s
RITUAL 61 RUNS · 5 FAILS
Analog ritual drone
dark ambient drone, analog synth, ritual percussion, modal scale, no beat, 8 minute build
0:45
mood: solemn texture: analog era: 70s
MOTION 28 RUNS · 2 FAILS
Static motion, breakbeat skeleton
broken beat skeleton, sub bass, glitch texture, 140bpm, minimal, no chorus, instrumental
0:52
mood: restless texture: digital era: 2020s
✕ WHAT DIDN'T WORK
Stacking more than two era references collapses the mix into mud on Suno v5.5. We log failed runs next to the ones that held up — the changelog shows date, model version, and what got re-run.

The shift

signal, not noise

Court cases and licensing deals, tracked as they land — and what each one means for your tracks.

JUL 2026
Model update: Suno v5.5 changes commercial licensing terms
MODEL
JUN 2026
Major label reaches licensing settlement with AI platform
SETTLED
MAY 2026
Independent artists file suit over training-data use
FILED
APR 2026
Streaming platform updates policy on AI-generated uploads
POLICY

Rights & money

no myths

Can you publish it? Monetize it? A live matrix of what platforms and distributors actually accept — with sources, not forum guesses.

READ THE FULL MATRIX →
PLATFORM
AI TRACKS
Spotify
ACCEPTS, DISCLOSED
YouTube (Content ID)
CASE-BY-CASE
TikTok Commercial Library
RESTRICTED
Bandcamp
ACCEPTS

Weekly test notes

straight from the desert

One e-mail: what we ran, what failed, what the lawyers changed. No filler.