Suno expands AI song editor features amid legal battles and talks with major labels
Suno has updated its editing tools for its AI music platform while major labels push for licensing deals and stricter copyright safeguards.
Suno has updated its AI song editor, bringing more advanced editing tools to users, while alleged licensing talks with major labels continue in the background. These updates arrive during a time of legal uncertainty, as Suno – along with rival platform Udio – remains in copyright disputes with music industry giants including Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.
The newly upgraded Song Editor gives users”a whole new level of creative control.” You can now “reorder, rewrite and remake” your generated music directly within the waveform view, according to Suno’s announcement. One of the standout features is the ability to break songs into up to 12 individual stems, making it easier for creators to move parts of a track like vocals or drums into their own digital audio workstations for further editing.
Another major update Suno made recently is the platform’s support for longer uploads. Users can now upload full tracks up to eight minutes long to be used as seeds for new creations.
Suno has also introduced three new ‘creative sliders’ designed to shape how the AI composes music. These sliders let users adjust how “weird, structured or reference-driven” their tracks sound, offering more personalisation and variety in the music-making process. Suno itself described the update by saying: “this isn’t just a new feature drop. It’s a new chapter…”
These product upgrades come as reports continue to emerge about negotiations between the AI music platforms and the record labels. According to the Wall Street Journal, the majors are asking for Content ID-style fingerprinting and attribution technology that can “track when and how a song is used.” This would allow copyright holders to be properly credited and potentially paid when their work influences or appears in AI-generated tracks.
The report also claimed that the labels want more involvement in what products companies like Suno and Udio build. Specifically, the labels want to “be active participants in the music-related products that the AI companies release, including having a say in which products are developed and how they work.”
Suno and Udio have been sued by major labels for “mass infringement of copyrighted sound recordings,” with evidence suggesting their models can reproduce existing songs. The companies argue this use of copyrighted material to train their AI falls under “fair use,” though courts have yet to rule on the matter.
While the legal landscape remains uncertain, Suno continues to push forward with tools that expand what’s possible in AI music creation. Whether these efforts will help smooth relations with the industry or simply raise more questions remains to be seen.