NOVA·FM: an endless AI radio station built on Stable Audio 3

NOVA·FM is a radio station with no library and no playlist. Every track is composed on the spot, seconds before it reaches your ears, then fades and is never reheard in quite the same shape. I built it in two days with Claude Code (Opus 4.7 and 4.8), guided by me, on top of Stable Audio 3, Stability AI’s open-weight audio model family released earlier this month. More than seven stations so far, each a mood rather than a folder: lo-fi, synthwave, cinematic, deep house, jazz, ambient, classical, and a few more I keep adding. Two ways to listen: a private dial that’s just for you, and a shared live signal where everyone tuned in hears the same track at the same second. ...

Google DeepMind's Lyria 3 generates full songs from a photo or a sentence

Lyria 3 takes a text prompt or an image and produces a complete track: instrumentation, vocals, lyrics. Not a loop, not a mood board. A song. The image input is what makes it interesting. Most generative audio models take text. Lyria 3 can look at a picture and decide what it sounds like. That’s a different kind of creative interpretation, closer to how a composer might respond to visual art than to a spec. ...