Questions people actually ask

Do I really own what I make?

Yes. The tracks you generate in Studio are yours: commercial use, resale, and putting them into your own music library are all allowed, and every paid generation comes with a licence certificate you can show a client.

This is the part worth reading terms for elsewhere. Several AI music services grant you a licence to use the output while keeping ownership themselves, and some restrict resale or library use even on paid plans. We transfer it to you instead. Our engine is ACE-Step 1.5 (Apache-2.0), whose makers state it was trained on licensed, public-domain and synthetic material — we publish that basis rather than promising legal indemnity we could not honour.

Another service gives 500 songs a month. You give 20. Why?

Because most of those 500 are failures. When you cannot see what a prompt will do, you generate twenty times to keep one — the big number is a budget for missing, and you pay for it in the price.

We spend the effort earlier: a model writes the style prompt, the title and the full lyrics for you, you hear the tempo and instrument palette in the browser before spending anything, and you edit the plan before it runs. Fewer tries are needed, so fewer are included.

And what arrives is not the same object. A generation here comes back as a finished upload: song, cover art, background, video with chapters, captions, lyric timings and the licence. Compare 20 finished pieces against 500 raw stems, not 20 against 500.

Why is the preview limited if it runs in my browser?

The preview costs us nothing in GPU — it plays a soundfont sketch on your device. The limit is not about our cost.

It is there because the preview is a tool for deciding, not a product in itself. Ten previews per song is more than enough to settle tempo, key and instruments; past that, people are usually using it as a free toy loop rather than getting a track made. If you do want more of them for one song, 10 more cost 1 credit — the same unit as everything else, so nothing hidden.

What happens to credits I do not use?

Monthly credits reset every month — they do not roll over, the same as every service in this space. Credits you buy as a pack are different: they stay until you use them, and a monthly reset never touches them.

A failed generation is never charged. If a track fails after we have taken a credit, it goes back automatically.

Why are album building and editing public tracks paid?

Free exists so you can judge the quality: three complete songs, no watermark, no cut-off. What it does not include are the tools for finishing and publishing — building an album from tracks, which every paid plan has, and opening a public track to remake it in your own words, which needs Studio+ or Premium.

Those are what people use when they are working, not evaluating. Putting them behind a plan keeps the free tier honest instead of time-limited. Editing a public track sits one step higher because it starts from a finished recipe of ours — it is the shortcut, not the starting line.

What is auto top-up and can it surprise me?

If you run out mid-session, auto top-up buys a credit pack with the card already on your plan so the work does not stop. It is off unless you turn it on.

It cannot run away: you set the level it triggers at, which pack it buys, and a hard cap per month (default three times). It only works while you have an active plan, because that is the only card we are permitted to charge, and every attempt is listed in your credit history.

Who charges me, and what about tax?

Paddle is our merchant of record: they are the seller on the invoice, they collect and remit VAT and sales tax in your country, and they handle the payment methods. Prices are shown excluding local tax, which appears at checkout.

Cancel any time from Manage billing — your plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for. Card changes, invoices and cancellation all live in that same Paddle portal.

The free library — what is the catch?

There is none. Every album on this site can be played and downloaded without an account, without a limit, and used in monetized videos and client work; the recipes are published too. Credit "Music: Late Ferry — lateferry.fm" in your description.

These recordings are not registered with Content ID, so they will not trigger a claim on your upload. What we ask in return is nothing enforced — we make money when some listeners decide to make their own tracks in Studio.

Will it sound like the albums on this site?

Same engine, same post-processing — including the tail trimming that stops a track dying mid-note, which is most of the difference between a demo and something you can publish.

It will not be identical: generation is not deterministic and a good result still depends on the prompt. That is exactly why the preview and the editable plan exist, and why a failure never costs you a credit.