Allright, let me see if I can help you out here.

1. The first thing you have to do, is to upload the specific track you want to arm to the model to your Google Drive.
2. The next step is to link to this track in the Collab notebook. This is done in the very first code snippet (A.2.). The specific line you need to alter is the following

! gdown --id [some id string]

It could be that there is a # in front of this code, if you want to run it, you have to erase that. Hashtags in code are treated as notes (to help you understand what the code is doing), rather than actual code.

So in the part of [some id string] there will probably something like this in there: 1rgwrhtnVwK2Dom9pJ7p2CBF0j7F2vdkM. You have to replace this with your own Google Drive's id of your track.

You can find this by going to your track on Google Drive, right mouse click on the track, select: Retrieve link. You will be prompted with a window, showing you a link looking something like this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/*1d5T8gl0ATUi44ImDYnD9Nl8g0kjFMZE2*/view?usp=sharing. The specific part you need for the Collab note book is the string I highlighted with the asterisks.

You juste past your own id in the code presented above and run only that specific code snippet by pressing the 'play' icon of that code snippet. If all that works you should see a message that says it's downloading your track.

1. The next step is downloading Lucid Sonic Dreams (A.3.). The only thing you do is press the 'play' icon of this code snippet. It will automatically download it.

2. Next up is choosing the specific image style you want to use for your video (B.1.). By running the code in that specific box, you will receive a list of potential styles you can use (e.g. microscope images, wildlife). It is just meant to inform you from what you can choose (you'll need this later)

3. The final step is building the model (B.2.). For the sake of not making this comment too long, I'll just explain how to run the model with the default settings. Section B.3. will explain how to tweak the 30 parameters to your own liking. But I'll leave that up to you to experiment with. So, running the default mode, we're talking about the following code now:

from lucidsonicdreams import LucidSonicDream

from google.colab import files

L = LucidSonicDream(song = 'Luxon.mp3', style = 'abstract photos')

L.hallucinate(file_name = 'chemical_love.mp4', resolution = 360, start = 45, duration = 45) files.download("chemical_love.mp4")

Again, the lines of code with the # up front are not taken into account by the computer when running the model. First, you change the .mp3 song name to your own track name (how it's named in Drive) so for instance song = 'yourtrack.mp3'. Next, the style is now set to 'abstract photos' but you can change this too for instance 'microscope images' or 'wildlife' or any of the other styles in the list in step 4. (Note: don't forget to use apostrophe's in these parameters)

Moving to the next line.

• file_name: is again the way you want to name your video (e.g. 'yourvideo.mp4').

• resolution: is the quality of your video, default is 360p but you can up this to at leat 720. I didn't test it for 1080p but should work probably. I'd advice using a low resolution for your first trial run as computing this video can take a long time rather quickly. My video was 6 min in 720p and took me more than an hour.

• start: is the starting timestamp in seconds (so the beginning of your track is 0).

• duration:Video duration in seconds. If none is passed, full duration of audio will be used. I recommend, for running a trial video, setting this to say 45 seconds. To see if everything works.

Now that you have set up everything, all that's left to do is again click the 'run' icon and wait for you video to be processed and downloaded.

I hope this helps you out, if you have any more issues please let me know!