MusicGen (Meta)
App : A product you use directly
Meta's text-to-music generation model with open weights.
Landmark and easy to use, but weights are non-commercial.
Security reflects where data goes, requested permissions and incidents on record at the verification date. It is not a guarantee of zero risk: check the deployment mode and the connections you enable.
What it does, concretely
Composing music takes time, skills and expensive tools. MusicGen lets you generate musical excerpts directly from a text description, without playing an instrument or mastering production software.
MusicGen is part of Meta's AudioCraft library. It relies on a deep learning model trained on audio data: you enter a free-text description, and the model produces a corresponding audio file. A variant called MusicGen Style also accepts an audio clip as a style reference.
This tool is aimed at developers, researchers and technically minded creators who can set up a Python environment and work from the command line. Training code is also available for those who want to fine-tune the model on their own data.
MusicGen is not suited for users without technical experience: installation requires Python 3.9, PyTorch and ffmpeg. In addition, the model weights are released under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 licence, which prohibits any commercial use.
What it offers
- ·Music generation from a free-text description.
- ·MusicGen Style variant: conditioning on an audio clip provided as a style reference.
- ·Training code available to fine-tune the model on your own data.
- ·Integration within the AudioCraft library alongside other audio models (AudioGen, EnCodec, MAGNeT, JASCO).
- ·musicgen-melody model available for melodic conditioning.
- ·Built-in audio watermarking via AudioSeal to mark generated files.
- ·Documented Python API to integrate MusicGen into your own projects.
In practice
- Price
- Free
- Commercial use
- Commercial use: no
- Available on
- linux, windows
- Licence
- MIT (code) / CC-BY-NC (poids)
- Runs locally
- Yes, 8 GB VRAM recommended
- FR interface
- No
Security and data
- Rating
- Security: one caveat, see the card
- Your data
- Data stays local
- Maintenance
- Inactive for over six months
Links and repository checked on 25 October 2026 · added on 1 June 2023
How to install MusicGen (Meta)
python -m pip install -U audiocraft