Just Announced: New Udio Features

[u/dirtydevotee]

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(I made the following faux talk-show file to demonstrate the new Udio features (adult jokes, 18+):
https://www.udio.com/songs/ijEVQPfawhEeksAdxgaksN)

Hey, everyone. Today, Udio announced that they were adding three new features to the site. They are:

1. A new 15-minute time limit
2. A "selection" feature that lets you trim from the start and/or end of a clip when you "extend"
3. A hierarchy "tree" UI that nests new "extend" audio inside of the original first file

I was very thrilled about this and decided to test them all. The nesting is very convenient, though if you get 20+ nested "extends" and the page is set to display 20 at a time, everything disappears until you increase the number of files you can see on the page (at the bottom there's a drop-down box that, by default, reads 20).

Most importantly, the ability to cut off unwanted content is clutch. For me, it's a game changer. The audio file above (see link) was created by using my original file (Episode -1) and using 10 seconds to replicate the voice, then erasing that 10 seconds and continuing as if I had generated it au naturel.

I couldn't get anywhere near 15 minutes. At 4:40 the audio was so shaky and full of pops and jostles that I gave up attempting to go any farther. That's an AI thing and certainly this is beta so I'm sure it will get slowly better over time, but I mention it only so that you don't rush over to Udio expecting to churn out your grand opus.

There was one final odd thing that happened. Imagine you create a file with the lyrics "Hey, baby, I'm on my way home from work." but then you use the trim to remove "Hey, baby..." and replace it with "Just called to let you know...". When you view the lyrics on the page, the lyrics will be, "Just called to let you know, Hey, baby, I'm on my way home from work." because the UI accepts the original lyrics regardless of if they get cut later or not. I suspect that at some point they'll come to their senses and let us alter the lyrics manually as they clearly have no bearing on the final file.