Run MusicGen on Google Colab/Windows11

What is MusicGen

Audiocraft is a library for audio processing and generation with deep learning. It features the state-of-the-art EnCodec audio compressor / tokenizer, along with MusicGen, a simple and controllable music generation LM with textual and melodic conditioning.

Meta's open source AI MusicGen turns text and melody into new songs
https://the-decoder.com/metas-open-source-ai-musicgen-turns-text-and-melody-into-new-songs/

• Github: https://github.com/facebookresearch/audiocraft
• HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/spaces/facebook/MusicGen
• Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05284

Steps for Colab

1. Go to Google Colab
2. Change Runtime
3. Run code
4. Try to generate sound

step 1. Go to Google Colab

https://colab.research.google.com/

step 2. Change Runtime

Click Runtime and select GPU

step 3. Run code

!git clone -b dev https://github.com/camenduru/MusicGen-hf
cd MusicGen-hf/
!pip install -r requirements.txt
!python app.py

Installing python packages will take some time.
If everything works properly, you will see something like this.

step4. Try to generate sound

If you click the link Running on public URL:, you will see Gardio.

Now time to create your own sound via prompt!
It would take around 1-2 minutes to generate a mp4 file.

Steps for Windows11

You need to install cuda11.7 on your Windows11.

1. Create a venv
2. Install pytorch
3. Clone repo and install requirements
4. Try to generate sound

step 1. Create a venv

python -m venv musicgen
# activate venv
./musicgen/scripts/activate

step 2. Install pytorch

This step will take some time.

pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu117

step 3. Clone repo and install requirements

git clone https://github.com/facebookresearch/audiocraft.git
cd audiocraft
pip install -e .

step 4. Try to generate sound

As Google Colab, we will run web ui with the following command.

python app.py

Comments

[uknowWho]

Code is wrong. It would be %cd because % allows you go into the folder.

%cd MusicGen-hf/
!pip install -r requirements.txt
!python app.py

[0xkoji]

% is not needed