Your own music for videos — with no copyright strike

The idea in one line: you describe a mood in words — "calm lo-fi for studying, no vocals, 90 seconds" — and get a finished track for your video, podcast, or game.

And here's what's fresh. Grabbing music from an AI used to be a legal landmine: you didn't know what the model trained on, and your video could catch a strike. A year ago there was barely a way out — pay for stock or take the risk.

Now the music API is trained on licensed data and cleared for broad commercial use — meaning the track is genuinely yours to publish. And on May 26, 2026, Music v2 landed: full tracks instead of short clips, and it sounds noticeably better in your own language.

What you'll learn

• Call a generative-audio API and save an mp3.
• Write a music brief — that's a skill of its own: genre, mood, tempo, length, vocals or not.
• Why "cleared for commercial use" matters here more than the sound itself.

A ready starter prompt

The model builds the music from your brief — and a weak brief sounds like elevator music. Don't write "make background music," describe the scene:

The difference is huge: a strong brief sets the tempo, the instruments, and the track's role ("in the background") — so the first result is something you can drop under a video, not redo ten times.

What you'll get

A 90-second lo-fi loop for a study reel. Or an intro jingle for a podcast. Or calm ambient for your mini-game. All of it — without the fear of a strike for someone else's music.

Start with one track for your next video — and you'll have a tool that replaces the painful hunt for "royalty-free music."

Source: Introducing Music v2 — ElevenLabs