Every guide on this site.
42 guides on cleaning, preparing and releasing AI-generated music, grouped by the problem they solve. Start with the deadline cluster if you have a Suno catalogue to move, or the cleanup cluster if you have a track that keeps getting bounced.
AI songwriting tools
Published features, pricing and workflows for making new music.
The 3 September download cap
Suno began metering downloads on 3 September 2026, retroactively, across every song already in your library. These four cover what changed and what to do about it.
Suno V6 duet prompts
Map singers to lines, pick one of three duet structures, and stop two voices swapping mid-sentence.
Why V6 rewrites your style prompt
Variety, Style Influence, Weirdness and Max Mode, quoted from Suno's own documentation, including where it is silent.
Give V6 your own hook
V6 takes audio as a prompt. Record a riff it can use, prove it changed the result, and learn what it does not change.
Suno V6 and the retirement of every older model
What launched on 9 September, why the community says it sounds cleaner and feels deader, and what it costs a catalogue you already made.
Suno watermarking and download limits explained
The technical explainer: two separate announcements, what the watermark is, and what the new Terms of Service actually say.
Suno catalogue checklist before the deadline
A six-step plan to audit, triage, secure and prepare a catalogue against a metered allowance.
Bulk download your Suno back catalogue
How to export an entire library as ZIP archives, and the arithmetic that makes doing it early worth the effort.
Best Suno downloaders, compared and scored
Eight export tools verified at source and scored on whole-library export, batch support, formats and release prep.
Watermarks and artifact removal
What a generator embeds in a file, what a distributor's screening actually reads, and how to get a track clean before you release it.
Suno watermark remover
What Suno embeds, what survives compression, and how a cleanup pass works.
AI music artifact remover
The six artifact layers in a generator export, and why production tools cannot see most of them.
AI watermark remover for music
SynthID, C2PA credentials and the rest of the identifier layer, across every major generator.
Best AI music artifact removal tools
A scored comparison against iZotope RX, Ableton, Logic and FL Studio, with distributor pass-rate data.
AI music detectors, and what they really measure
Why a free detector flagging your track is not the same signal a distributor screens on.
Beat AI music detectors? What works in 2026
What the published robustness tests show about the transforms people claim beat screening, and what each one costs the track.
Interactive artifact demo
Hear the difference between a raw export and a cleaned file.
Stems, mixing and mastering
Getting from a generator export to a file that holds up next to commercially released music.
Suno V6 degrades after two minutes
The positional defect diagnosed: what the reports describe, the mechanism with published support, a five-minute self-check and which repairs are impossible.
Suno stems: split modes, credits and the download rule
All three separation modes priced in credits, why the stems sound worse than the mix, and the rule that makes a song plus its stems cost one download.
Suno mastering
The order of operations for a Suno export: clean first, master second, never the reverse.
AI mastering services compared
LANDR, BandLab, eMastered, CloudBounce and Ozone, and the AI-specific gap none of them close.
AI audio cleanup
The full cleanup workflow, from raw export to a file ready for a distributor.
How cleanup actually works
What a signal-level pass does to a file, explained without the marketing.
Releasing and distribution
Rights, screening and the platforms that decide whether your release stays up.
The 7 walls after the song
Every obstacle between a finished AI track and a release that earns, in the order you hit them, with the published number behind each one.
Platforms that accept AI music
Eight distributors and six promo services, every published AI policy read at source and dated the day we checked it.
Suno lawsuits and your released songs
Four live cases, what each one actually asks a court to order, and the archive habit that protects a catalogue from a settlement.
DMCA takedown on an AI song
Which of four notices you are holding, the clocks on each, and when not to counter-notice.
Suno to Spotify
The end-to-end route from a generation to a live release, and where it usually goes wrong.
AI music on Spotify
Spotify's position on AI-assisted music and what its screening looks for.
AI music on Deezer
The platform that tags AI music, cuts it from every recommendation surface, and still pays it the same rate — plus the two things that get a track removed.
AI music on Tidal
The one platform that withholds the money: labelled, unpaid, barred from direct-to-fan sales — and switchable off by any listener who wants no AI in their library.
AI music on YouTube
The disclosure rule that names AI-generated music directly, the policy that decides monetisation, and how Content ID treats a generated track.
DistroKid and AI music
What DistroKid's published policy says, and what its screening checks in practice.
DistroKid AI credits
Six AI declarations on one release, what each one actually declares, and why Spotify shows a human songwriter where YouTube Music shows a track-level label.
Human track flagged as AI
An AI false positive is a human recording rejected as generated. Why polish raises the risk, which distributors publish an appeal route, and what proof of creation moves a reviewer.
AI music removed from streaming
The five reasons a release disappears — platform purges, claims, lapsed subscriptions, account terms and delivery errors — and how to rebuild from your own files.
EU AI Act and AI music
Article 50 has applied since 2 August 2026 — who the marking duty actually binds, the one clause that can reach a releasing artist, and why hobby use is out of scope entirely.
Spotify AI Persona badge
The label that costs you every recommendation while leaving your royalties untouched — who gets it, how to appeal, and what still reaches a listener.
AI music copyright
Who owns a generated track, where infringement still applies, and what is still unsettled.
AI cover songs
The three separate rights in a cover, and the ones a voice model does not clear.
Making money from it
The commercial side, costed honestly rather than optimistically.