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SUNO V5.5 · UPDATED JUL 2026
AI music,
tested for real
Prompts with audio proof for every claim, AI music rights without the myths, and a radio stream of our own runs.
ON AIR
FOCUS / GEN_0842
SWITCH MOOD
01
Prompt Lab
Tested prompts, audio proof, and the failures we didn't hide.
02
Rights
What you can publish, monetize, and where platforms disagree.
03
The Shift
Court cases and licensing deals, translated in three minutes.
Prompt lab
ALL 42 RUNS IN THE ARCHIVE →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
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
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
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
Court cases and licensing deals, tracked as they land — and what each one means for your tracks.
JUL 2026
GEMA wins first EU ruling against Suno
RULING
NOV 2025
Warner reaches licensing settlement with Suno
SETTLED
JUN 2026
Musicians union sues labels over settlement money
OPEN CASE
2027
Sony v. Suno fair-use ruling expected
IN COURT
Rights
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 →Weekly test notes
straight from the desert
One e-mail: what we ran, what failed, what the lawyers changed. No filler.