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In 2026, a track taken straight out of a generator can be refused by a distributor, kept out of recommendations, or demonetised. The reason is almost never technical. Here is what platforms actually look at, and what can be changed about it.
For two years everything got through. That is over. Between 2025 and 2026, distributors and streaming services published rules, and they enforce them at the door. The table below sums up what each of them states as of the date on this page.
One thing is worth noting straight away, because it surprises people: these rules do not all target the same thing. Some are about AI-generated music in general. Others are about the tool that produced it, regardless of the result.
| Platform | What it states |
|---|---|
| CD Baby | Does not distribute AI-generated content. Anything identified as such is removed from distribution, and repeat attempts can end the commercial relationship. AI production tools — mastering, mixing, stem separation — remain acceptable as long as the composition and the performance are human. |
| TuneCore / Believe | Does not distribute tracks made on an unlicensed platform: since 30 April 2026, Suno-made tracks are blocked at upload, with detection identifying the originating model. Licensed platforms — Udio, ElevenLabs — are accepted. Beyond that, a track where AI served as a tool but the result carries meaningful human creative contribution remains distributable. |
| DistroKid | Accepts AI-assisted music on three conditions: you own all the rights, you disclose the use of AI at upload, and you use neither voice cloning nor mass uploading. |
| Deezer | Detects, tags and excludes fully AI-generated tracks from its algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists. Since June 2026, the tag is visible to listeners. |
| Spotify | Does not down-rank a track for being AI-assisted, but requires disclosure through the DDEX standard, shown in the credits, and removes spam uploads and unauthorised voice clones at scale. |
Rules recorded on 20 August 2026 from each company’s public announcements and help centres. They change fast: check them before paying for a release.
Deezer publishes its measurements, and they say the essential. In June 2026, fully AI-generated tracks passed half of all new daily uploads on the platform — around 90,000 tracks a day.
Those same tracks account for between 1 and 3% of listening. The gap is no mystery: kept out of recommendations and playlists, they meet nobody. And of what listening remains, up to 85% was identified as fraudulent in 2025 and stripped out of royalty calculations.
On Deezer, June 2026
of daily uploads are fully AI-generated
of listening goes to those same tracks
Uploading is not being heard. A catalogue kept out of recommendations stays invisible, however large it is.
This is the point we want in plain words, because a great deal of nonsense circulates about it.
No platform asks which formats your music passed through. Nobody checks whether there was a MIDI file somewhere in the chain. What is examined is where the track came from and how much human work it carries. TuneCore speaks of meaningful human creative contribution; CD Baby requires human composition and performance; copyright law, for its part, knows no work without a human author.
In other words: converting a file changes nothing. Redoing the work changes everything.
There are services that promise to make an AI production “undetectable”. We are not one of them, and this page will not explain how to fool a filter.
For two reasons. The first is practical: it does not hold. Detection systems claim around 99% reliability at identifying the originating model, and an account caught out is closed. The second matters more: falsely declaring where a track came from means lying in a contract you sign. We do not sell that.
An audio file is a closed block. You can cut it, filter it, remix it — you cannot change a chord in it, move a note, replace an instrument, or have someone play it. Everything you add sits on top; underneath, the generation stays intact.
A MIDI file contains no sound: it contains a description of the music. Which note, at which moment, for how long, with what force, on which instrument. Opened in a sequencer, all of it is editable, with no loss and no scar.
That is what lets you move from a generator output to a work you actually authored: you keep what you liked, you throw the rest away, you write what is missing, you have it played. What comes out is no longer the machine’s track with your touch-ups — it is yours, born of an idea it suggested.
The chain, and where your work sits
Generation
An audio output. No human author, therefore no copyright — and possibly blocked at distribution.
MIDI transcription
The music becomes editable again, track by track. Human work, dated and verifiable.
Your work
Rewritten, rearranged, replayed. This is where the human share platforms require comes from.
The middle link is not enough on its own. It is what makes the third one possible.
Adding a human share exempts you from nothing. If AI was involved in your track, most platforms require you to say so, and Spotify has adopted a common standard for it, DDEX, whose mention appears in the credits.
Disclosing carries no penalty: Spotify states that it does not down-rank a track for being AI-assisted. Failing to disclose is what gets a track pulled.
We transcribe music by ear, note by note, by hand. Since 1992. Any Music to MIDI — no A.I.
You send us your audio file, whatever its origin, and we return it as multitrack MIDI: one instrument per track, one MIDI file per track at no extra cost, GM-0, XG and GS formats, drums split instrument by instrument, the audio and the PDF score. From there, the work is yours.
No, not if you stop there. Conversion does not change where the track came from, and the format is not what platforms examine. MIDI is useful because it makes the music editable: it is the work done afterwards — rewriting, arranging, performing — that forms the expected human share. And the use of AI still has to be disclosed.
CD Baby, which states that it does not distribute AI-generated content. TuneCore and Believe block tracks made on unlicensed platforms: Suno-made tracks have been refused at upload since 30 April 2026. DistroKid accepts AI subject to rights and disclosure. These rules move fast: check with your distributor before paying for a release.
Most likely because they are tagged. Deezer excludes tracks detected as fully AI-generated from its algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists. That is why they exceed half of daily uploads while accounting for only 1 to 3% of listening.
No distributor publishes a numeric threshold, and TuneCore acknowledges that it does not define the line. There is therefore no mechanical answer. The useful way to think about it is copyright: what is protected are your choices — the structure, the harmony, the arrangement, the lyrics, the performance. The more your finished track owes to those choices and the less it owes to the raw output, the safer your ground.
No, and we will not offer that. Detectors claim around 99% reliability at identifying the originating model, an account caught out is closed, and falsely declaring a track’s origin amounts to lying in a contract. Our job is to return your music in an editable form, not to hide anything.
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This page is not legal advice. The rules quoted are those published by each platform as of 20 August 2026 and may change without notice. Check them with your own distributor.