AI music, detection and the things nobody wants to admit
Long-form writing on how AI music detection actually works, how the leading generators differ, what streaming platforms really do, and where copyright currently stands. No inflated accuracy claims and no pretending the hard cases are easy.
Looking for tools rather than reading? Compare this detector with Ircam Amplify, Deezer and AI Voice Detector — what each detects, pricing, privacy and whether its accuracy claim is backed by a published method.
Asking about a voice rather than a song? How to tell if a voice is AI generated — the cues that hold up, and why this music-tuned engine is the wrong tool for a bare voice clip.
Guide
Guide
How to Detect AI Generated Music
Listening cues, acoustic measurements and provenance checks — and the order to apply them in.
9 min read
Guide
Audio Metadata and AI Music: What File Tags Really Prove
Encoder strings, comments and ISRCs are the only origin claims a file can carry — and most files carry none.
12 min read
Guide
How to Read a Spectrogram: AI Music Clues and Codec Myths
The band edge everyone cites as proof of AI is just an MP3 doing its job. Here is what the picture really tells you.
12 min read
Guide
How to Screen a Music Catalog for AI Tracks
At realistic incidence rates, most of what a batch screen flags is human. Here is how to run one anyway, properly.
12 min read
Guide
LUFS, Loudness and AI Music: What a Meter Really Tells You
"Over-compressed, therefore AI" is one of the weakest claims in the field. Here is what loudness measurement genuinely tells you.
12 min read
Guide
Stereo Width, Phase and AI Music: What the Image Tells You
Width is the easiest property of an audio file to fake, which makes it the worst to build a provenance claim on.
12 min read
Guide
Song Structure, Repetition and AI Music: What Loops Prove
Copy-and-paste is a technique, not a confession. Here is what a repetition reading genuinely tells you.
12 min read
Guide
Tempo, Timing Grids and AI Music: What Quantisation Proves
Quantisation is forty-year-old studio craft. Here is what grid-perfect timing genuinely tells you, and the narrow claims it can settle.
12 min read
Guide
Pitch, Tuning and AI Music: What Perfect Intonation Proves
Pitch correction has been standard since 1997. Here is what grid-exact intonation genuinely tells you, and the narrow claims it can settle.
12 min read
Comparison
Comparison
Suno vs Udio: How They Differ, and Why It Matters for Detection
Two leading generators, two different workflows — and two different detection problems.
8 min read
Comparison
AI Music Detector vs Human Listening
Two different instruments, two different failure modes.
11 min read
Comparison
AI Vocals vs Human Vocals
What still gives synthetic vocals away — and what does not.
11 min read
Legal
Technical
Explainer
Industry
Industry
Can Spotify Detect AI Music?
Platform policy, fraud detection and disclosure — a different problem to acoustic detection.
8 min read
Industry
Does YouTube Detect AI Music? Rules Explained
Disclosure, automatic labels, Gen AI metadata and the inauthentic-content rule — sourced from YouTube's own documentation.
12 min read
Industry
AI Music Checks for Labels, Publishers and Sync
Listening no longer works on polished hybrids. Here is the paperwork, the questions and the triage step that do.
12 min read