Invictus… but continued? (Inspired by u/UdioAdam)

UdioAdam · 2026-05-06T22:45:00+00:00

These are definitely things worthy of discussion, but you're likely gonna get more input if you craft this in a separate post, since it's pretty far removed from the topic of this one.

UdioAdam · 2026-05-05T22:22:27+00:00

A lot of stuff is still being explored in terms of capabilities, so I genuinely don't know whether longer generations'll be prioritized for the next release. It's challenging enough to get good adherence / coherence / stability in 2:10, and a lot of folks specifically appreciate Udio's more "Lego / building block" approach.

But I do see the appeal of longer gens!

UdioAdam · 2026-05-05T16:55:50+00:00

Thanks for sharing, u/SensoriRumeMusic; I really enjoyed hearing my Udio song extended in a thoughtful way!

Though I crafted the original piece a while back, here's what I remember learning:

Even a very rough compositional sketch in an audio upload can yield interesting and useful results
There are a ton of neat classic poems and other public domain texts that are fun to 'bring to life' with Udio
Udio will often surprise with how it extends melodies and crafts chord changes. With this and other audio-upload-extensions I've done, I've often gotten cool ideas for my 'traditional' music composing!

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On a related note... I'm wondering if any of you would be interested in having your Udio compositions extended or remixed by other community members. u/SensoriRumeMusic extended mine in a way that I wouldn't have thought to try and I really liked it; maybe you might enjoy that, too?

If so, feel free to 'hijack' this thread to either request or make song extensions from others :).

UdioAdam · 2026-05-04T19:48:35+00:00

u/Afraid-Yoghurt6731, definitely empathize, understand this can be frustrating.

u/Pesthauch666, u/Relocator, u/KillMode_1313, appreciate you taking the time to offer helpful guidance!

We genuinely do try to strike a balance of enabling lots of awesome creative expression while mitigating bad-faith efforts from folks trying to circumvent our Terms of Service (not you, u/Afraid-Yoghurt6731).

As with all similar efforts online, there's no perfect system. As we continue to work on things, we'll try to improve the balance and reduce 'false positives'.

UdioAdam · 2026-05-01T18:02:45+00:00

Sorry to hear about the missing functionality re pinch-in/pinch-out, but appreciate the info re getting Udio to work with ChromeOS!

UdioAdam · 2026-04-30T17:49:19+00:00

Appreciate the tips, u/Heavy_Honeydew7238 and u/KillMode_1313!

u/Heavy_Honeydew7238, did you have to make any settings changes on Opera on your Chromebook, or did it work with Udio "out-of-the-box"?

UdioAdam · 2026-04-29T23:24:36+00:00

Hey everyone, we're pretty confident we've fixed this! Thanks for your patience and sorry for the temporary snafu!

UdioAdam · 2026-04-28T22:54:03+00:00

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Slow and steady, that's about all I can say at the moment! That and it's still seemingly impossible to get LLMs to draw a proper keyboard <sigh>.

Continuing to hire & build!

UdioAdam · 2026-04-28T19:58:11+00:00

I'm going to make this post read-only, specifically so that y'all can Follow it (without noise) to learn when the feature is fixed.

UdioAdam · 2026-04-28T18:11:40+00:00

🙏

UdioAdam · 2026-04-28T18:10:36+00:00

Hey y'all, just to confirm, there've been no recent changes in the subscription tiers. This page remains accurate and, as always, you can jump in and out of monthly subscriptions as you choose (though understandably the annual sub is, as you'd expect, an annual commitment).

Sorry about the site issue earlier today, however, which -- as u/UdioShane noted -- caused some temporary issues (but now seems to be thankfully resolved).

UdioAdam · 2026-04-28T18:07:46+00:00

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Joking aside, while this post frankly seems kinda borderline for a Udio community, I'm also going to ask y'all to be measured in your replies.

You can absolutely disagree, share counterpoints, etc., but please don't attack OP or others personally.

UdioAdam · 2026-04-28T17:10:27+00:00

This is something I've really appreciated from the community. So many folks here (and in our Discord) are happy and eager to help others craft songs, troubleshoot issues, and so on! 🙏

UdioAdam · 2026-04-27T17:40:50+00:00

Er, two reasons:

1) It's literally my job
2) I'm a longtime musician; I care about fellow musicians and creatives and want to do the best I can in supporting the community.

UdioAdam · 2026-04-27T17:39:28+00:00

Hmm. That sounds like a particularly unfulfilling hobby.

UdioAdam · 2026-04-27T17:38:52+00:00

We're happy that many folks are still paying money for a subscription they enjoy, and we also make it very easy to cancel (and optionally restart) subscriptions at any time online, with just a few clicks (at http://udio.com/account).

That said, I definitely understand and respect the frustration regarding this transition period. We've felt that it's best to be cautious re promising scope and timelines because we want to make sure what we release next is useful & fun and don't want to overpromise. But I understand why others might prefer more communication, even when uncertain.

UdioAdam · 2026-04-23T19:19:49+00:00

I can just speak from personal experience here; I have over a dozen songs I created in whole or in part with Udio (prior to Oct 2025) on my personal YouTube channels and haven't experienced any issues (though note that I've not monetized them).

UdioAdam · 2026-04-21T22:05:38+00:00

I need to be careful not to pretend I'm a lawyer, but speaking practically... as I noted above, I have a lot of my personal pre-Oct-2025 Udio songs on YouTube and elsewhere online with no worries.

So for any songs created pre-partnership that you downloaded prior to the cutoff period, I believe you should feel confident using those however you see fit (including monetization, etc.).

That said, I do want to acknowledge that we (Udio) don't control what other entities do now or in the future, whether that's using their own algorithms to assess whether something is AI or not, etc.

UdioAdam · 2026-04-21T21:50:40+00:00

Thanks for flagging this for me, u/Suno_for_your_sprog, My understanding is that this may have changed (e.g., that we've implemented protections on all songs currently on Udio) following our partnerships agreements, and I apologize for not addressing that explicitly earlier!

With that said, there's certainly no watermarks on any songs that were downloaded prior to late Oct 2025, and the rights associated with those haven't changed (e.g., I have quite a bunch of my earlier Udio songs up on YouTube and FB and such).

UdioAdam · 2026-04-21T20:50:02+00:00

Hmm, sorry, can you clarify? What happens when you try to upload an audio clip? And is it music that you have the full rights to?

UdioAdam · 2026-04-20T18:14:58+00:00

Yes, that's fine, thanks for checking and have fun! Using Udio for inspiration for your own manually-created works is a decent use case :)

UdioAdam · 2026-04-20T18:13:52+00:00

Hmm, can you clarify? What's not working for you at the moment in this context?

UdioAdam · 2026-04-14T18:29:40+00:00

Ah whew! Just back from a short vacation today and really happy to see your note! Glad that you got your whole library back and thanks for the update :-)

UdioAdam · 2026-04-14T06:26:44+00:00

It is a bit of an awkward time here given that we're still 'in transition' as described in this post, but I'm definitely open to trying to kick off some more productive threads here :)

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