MusicGen
by Meta AI · open-source · Last verified 2026-03-17
MusicGen is Meta AI's open-source text-to-music model that generates high-quality instrumental music conditioned on text descriptions and optionally on a melody reference, establishing a new open-weights baseline for controllable music generation. It uses a single-stage auto-regressive transformer trained on 20K hours of licensed music, making it a strong research and commercial starting point.
https://audiocraft.metademolab.com/musicgen.html ↗B
B—Above Average
Adoption: B+Quality: AFreshness: BCitations: AEngagement: F
Specifications
- License
- CC-BY-NC 4.0
- Pricing
- open-source
- Capabilities
- text-to-music, melody-conditioning, instrumental-generation, fine-tuning, stereo-output
- Integrations
- huggingface, replicate, audiocraft
- Use Cases
- background-music, research, game-soundtracks, video-scoring, interactive-audio
- API Available
- Yes
- Parameters
- 3.3B
- Context Window
- N/A
- Modalities
- text, audio
- Training Cutoff
- 2023
- Tags
- music-generation, text-to-music, open-source, meta-ai, instrumental
- Added
- 2026-03-17
- Completeness
- 100%
Index Score
64.5Adoption
70
Quality
80
Freshness
68
Citations
82
Engagement
0