What is Suno and how do you make a song from a text prompt?

Short answer: Jordan Metzner says Suno is an AI music creation app that is basically text to song: you type a prompt such as an opera song about Built This Week and quickly get a high quality song.

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From Episode 3: Auto-Marketing for Podcasts? Let’s Build It!, starting at 11:40.

Sam Nadler [11:39]: Just to transition to the tool of the week, like mentioned, it's one of our favorite tools to use. We used it when kind of getting the different elements of our first podcast ready. We both use it from a professional point of view and a personal point of view. I mean, I've done it for multiple kind of personal engagements. It's just a really fun way to share AI with friends and family, especially those who like don't use AI on a daily basis or are scared of AI. So the tool is Suno. I would argue, Jordan, you're a power user. Why don't you kinda walk us through, a, what the product does, how we've used it, some of the cool features about it.

Jordan Metzner [12:22]: Yeah. Cool. And I think that'll lead into kind of like, Suno in the news as well. So Suno is AI music creation app. It's basically text to song, and it's as simple as that. So, you can go up here and type something pretty simply, and, immediately, you'll get a song. Now there's a lot of things you can do to actually make the songs, much better. But, just to get started, I think, in the purposes of the show and the episode, we could say something like, make me an opera song about the AI podcast built this week, and it's just gonna go make it. And it knows about Opera. It probably knows a little bit about our podcast, and it'll do a decent job of building this. And let me just take this prompt with us. And it'll go and create a song. And I think, like, what's amazing about Suno is just, like, how fast it works, the high quality of the audio, and the ability for it to just make amazing music.

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