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Ace Music

  • 2 installs
  • Updated June 27, 2026
  • mz038197/vanscoding-skills

Generates AI music via ACE Music's free ACE-Step 1.5 API from a style prompt, with optional lyrics, instrumental, cover, and repaint modes.

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Calls ACE Music's free hosted API to generate songs, beats, or instrumentals from a style prompt using a bundled generate.py script. A developer uses it to create AI music tracks, optionally with lyrics or as instrumentals.

  • Free ACE-Step 1.5 API, prompt plus optional lyrics
  • generate.py one-shot script writes an mp3 output path

Ace Music by the numbers

  • 2 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #1,166 of 1,335 Generative Media skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Aug 4, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Last updatedJune 27, 2026
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What it does

Generates AI music via ACE Music's free ACE-Step 1.5 API from a style prompt, with optional lyrics, instrumental, cover, and repaint modes.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

ACE Music - AI Music Generation

Generate music via ACE Music's free hosted API (ACE-Step 1.5 model).

Setup

API Key is stored in env ACE_MUSIC_API_KEY. If not set: 1. Open https://acemusic.ai/playground/api-key in the browser for the user 2. Ask them to sign up (free) and paste the API key 3. Store it: add ACE_MUSIC_API_KEY=<key> to your .env or TOOLS.md, or set via PowerShell: $env:ACE_MUSIC_API_KEY="<key>"

Quick Generation

Use scripts/generate.py for one-shot generation. It reads ACE_MUSIC_API_KEY from the environment and prints the saved file path(s) to stdout.

# Simple prompt (AI decides everything)
python scripts/generate.py "upbeat pop song about summer" --duration 30 --output summer.mp3

# With lyrics (Tagged mode — recommended)
python scripts/generate.py "gentle acoustic ballad, female vocal" \
  --lyrics "[Verse 1]\nSunlight through the window\n\n[Chorus]\nWe are the dreamers" \
  --duration 60 --output ballad.mp3

# Instrumental only
python scripts/generate.py "lo-fi hip hop beats, chill, rainy day" --instrumental --duration 120 --output lofi.mp3

# Natural language — AI writes everything
python scripts/generate.py --sample-mode --output jazz.mp3

# Specific settings (BPM, key, seed)
python scripts/generate.py "rock anthem" --bpm 140 --key "E minor" --language en --seed 42 --output rock.mp3

# Multiple variations
python scripts/generate.py "electronic dance track" --batch 3 --output edm.mp3

The script prints the saved file path(s) to stdout (one per line). Send those files to the user.

Advanced Usage (covers / repainting)

For covers and repainting, pass --task cover or --task repaint:

# Cover (requires base64 audio — see api-docs.md for multimodal input)
python scripts/generate.py "Cover this song in jazz style" --task cover --cover-strength 0.8 --output cover.mp3

# Repaint a section (seconds 10–30)
python scripts/generate.py "Add electric guitar solo" --task repaint --repaint-start 10 --repaint-end 30 --output repaint.mp3

For full API spec (audio input, streaming) — see references/api-docs.md.

Parameters Guide

WantCLI argument
Specific style"jazz, saxophone solo, smoky bar" as the prompt
Custom lyrics--lyrics "[Verse]...[Chorus]..."
AI writes everything--sample-mode
No vocals--instrumental
Longer songs--duration 120 (seconds)
Specific tempo--bpm 120
Specific key--key "C major"
Multiple outputs--batch 3
Reproducible--seed 42
Non-English vocals--language ja (zh, en, ja, ko, etc.)
Cover a song--task cover --cover-strength 0.8
Repaint a section--task repaint --repaint-start 10 --repaint-end 30

Notes

  • API is free forever (confirmed by ACE Music team)
  • Base URL: https://api.acemusic.ai
  • Audio returned as base64 MP3; generate.py decodes and saves it automatically
  • Duration: if omitted, AI decides based on content
  • For best results, use Tagged mode (prompt + lyrics separated via XML tags)

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