I'm happy that SoundOn can now generate 'Spotify Canvas', but... is it slightly terrible?

I distribute songs from the music generation AI 'Suno' through the music distribution service 'SoundOn', but the evolution of SoundOn is dizzying (?), or something like that. Today, it changed to a new specification again.

It seems that SoundOn's 'Lyric Video' will finally be completely discontinued and unified into SoundOn Melor. It is as follows. It ends on Wednesday, October 15th.

That's not the main topic, so I'll leave that aside... starting today, it has become possible to generate a new 'Spotify Canvas'. I had been thinking I needed to make this for a long time but had put it off, so I was surprised and genuinely happy.

Now, if you register Suno songs for distribution through SoundOn, they are also distributed to Spotify. on Spotify. Spotify has an 'artist-only page' called 'Spotify for Artists', and if you can self-declare and prove that you are an artist, you can add or edit detailed artist information. Like your biography or profile image. Since it's different from music listening, it is completely free.

I haven't written an article on note about this Spotify for Artists yet. I currently have 4 artists created, but only 1 was approved for Spotify for Artists, so I am still investigating the conditions.

Anyway, for some reason one person was approved, so I am in the middle of adding/editing artist information on Spotify for Artists, and among those settings, there was a 'Spotify Canvas' setting for every single song. For every song I distributed.

―― AI, what is Spotify Canvas?

• It is a video setting that is only displayed on the Spotify mobile app

• You can set one 3-8 second looping video for each song.

• It is a 'moving visual background' that artists can set for their songs.

• You can use parts of music videos or animations to visually enhance your tracks.

In other words, if you haven't set a Spotify Canvas, what displays while playing on Spotify mobile is the album's 'cover image' like the one below.

However, if you have set a Spotify Canvas, a 3-8 second looping video set by the artist will keep playing while that song is playing.

I was planning to generate these 8-second loop videos for all my songs, so I'm really happy that SoundOn supports it.

I'll skip the generation method. It's exactly the same as SoundOn Melor. It's just that the final result is 8 seconds long. So it's easy. It gets done in a flash.

I immediately tried setting a Spotify Canvas for just the one song below. Please check it out on Spotify mobile if you'd like.

...But!!!

There was a big trap.

The 8-second video for Spotify Canvas created with SoundOn Melor was actually, to be precise,

8.03 seconds long.

Because of that, it caused an error (time exceeded) on Spotify, and I couldn't set it.

Man, that's terrible.

Homo Digitalis Prologue / The Last Human Hymn - Purronicle with Suno AI

[PR] Introduction to Music Generation AI with Suno AI

AI-generated, for reference only.