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9 April 2026page first published

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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian writes:

When creating tunes using the Sonauto website, which is currently free to use, I find the best course is to create multiple versions at once. In my experience, the odds of a good tune are 1 in 10.

Sonauto seems to know this, as pressing 'Generate' normally generates two results at a time. Repeatedly pressing the button will queue up multiple attempts. (Note that Sonauto sometimes limits you to six ongoing song requests at a time, I assume based on traffic.)

I'm in the habit of getting ten song results ready for evaluation, then listening to each to determine which one is a winner. This can be tedious when you get a series of bad or boring results.

But sometimes luck runs in the other direction, and out of ten tries, I get two or three or even four good ones!

So, to make a long story short, when I made the Master of Nothing music video about General Lorences at Puebla, I ended up with a perfectly good alternate tune.

It's not much trouble to release an 'alternate version' – although the only thing in common with the two versions is the lyrics and the art, as the tune and voice are different. I did decide to give it a new title, to avoid confusion.

All I had to do was to combine the alternate music and the pre-existing art with new titles, using ClipChamp:

I've posted the video as a reel on the TMP Facebook page – you can see English captions with the Facebook version.

This shows how easy it is to make multiple versions of songs using AI, based on the same lyrics.

Update!

OK, captions can now be seen on the TMP version as well. It seems Facebook uses Subrip caption files, while webpages use WebTV caption files. So I used a free conversion service to create the VTT file.

To see the captions, click the CC logo on the bottom bar, then select English.