You have a folder of tracks you made with a generative model, some of them are genuinely good, and you have no idea what to do with them. This is the guide.
It is written for music made with tools like Suno, Udio and whatever comes next, and it goes in the order that actually matters, which means the boring legal part comes first. Skip it at your own risk, because it is the one step that can undo everything after it.
Step 1: Check you are allowed to sell it
This is the step people skip, and it is the only one that can get your listing pulled.
Every generator has different terms, and the pattern most of them share is that commercial rights come with a paid plan.
With Suno specifically, output you generated while subscribed to a paid plan is assigned to you, and that includes selling it. Output made on the free tier is licensed for personal, non commercial use with attribution, and cannot be sold. Upgrading later does not apply retroactively to tracks you already made on the free plan, so if there is a free tier track you want to sell, generate it again while subscribed.
Read your generator's terms yourself rather than taking anyone's word for it, including ours. They are the ones who can change them.
One distinction worth being clear on, because it confuses almost everyone. Commercial rights and copyright are two different things. Your generator can grant you the right to use and sell the output. Whether a largely AI generated work qualifies for copyright protection is decided by the copyright office in your country, and in several jurisdictions the answer is currently unsettled. That affects your ability to stop someone else copying you. It does not affect your ability to sell.
Step 2: Get the best file you can
Export the highest quality file your generator offers. If WAV is available, take the WAV.
This matters more than it sounds. Someone paying for a track is paying for the file, and a buyer who opens a 128kbps MP3 they paid real money for will notice and will not come back. It also matters for the preview, because a preview is encoded down from whatever you upload, and encoding down from something already compressed sounds noticeably worse.
If your generator offers stems, keep them. Stems sell, sometimes for more than the track, because producers and DJs want something they can work with.
Step 3: Decide what it is worth
The most common mistake is pricing at 0.99 because that is what a song costs on iTunes.
You are not competing with iTunes. Someone buying from a store rather than streaming a track for free has already decided they want to own this specific thing, and that decision is not very price sensitive between about 2 and 10 pounds.
Some rough guidance:
- A single track, priced for a listener who just wants it: 2 to 5
- A track aimed at DJs or producers, where they need the actual file: 4 to 10
- Stems or a project pack: 8 to 25, because the buyer is getting something they can build on
- An album or a bundle: price it below the sum of its parts so the bundle is the obvious choice
Start higher than feels comfortable. It is easy to come down and awkward to go up.
Step 4: Pick your preview carefully
This is the step that decides whether anything sells, and most people rush it.
The preview is your entire sales pitch. On Audibase you choose between the whole track at lower quality, a section of 20 to 60 seconds, or the full track with your own audio tag mixed in at points you pick.
If the track has a moment where it obviously lands, put the preview there. Not the intro. Nobody has ever bought a track because of eight bars of filtered pad. Start it just before the thing that makes the track good, and let it run through.
Step 5: Upload and list it
On Audibase, releases are created in the desktop app for Mac and Windows, which is free on every plan. You create a release, pick the file, fill in the title, artist, description, tags and category, set your price, choose your preview, and upload.
The app does the rest: it works out the BPM, key and scale that your generator never gave you, draws the waveform, encodes the preview and the streaming files, writes the metadata into the track, and puts the listing live.
The BPM and key part is worth dwelling on. Buyers search on those, and a track without them is much harder to find. Your generator does not provide them, so having them calculated on upload is doing real work for your discoverability.
Step 6: Get paid
Connect a Stripe account once. After that, every sale splits at the moment it happens and your share goes straight to your Stripe balance, which pays out to your bank on whatever schedule you set.
On Audibase you keep 85% on the free plan, 92% on Pro and 97% on Studio. That percentage is the entire fee. Card processing is inside it, there is no listing fee, and there is no payout minimum to clear before you see anything.
What actually sells
A few things that come up repeatedly.
Tracks that fill a specific need sell better than tracks that are merely good. A DJ looking for a particular tempo and key in a particular genre is a buyer with an actual problem. Someone browsing for something nice to listen to is not.
Artwork matters more than it should. It is the thing people see before they hear anything.
Do not upload everything. A page with eight strong tracks converts better than a page with eighty, of which six are strong. The flood strategy is for platforms that pay per play. It actively works against you in a shop, where a browsing buyer forming an impression of you is the entire game.
And be honest in your description. If it is AI generated and someone asks, say so. The people buying music made this way overwhelmingly do not care, and getting caught being cagey about it is far worse than the thing you were being cagey about.
The short version
Make it on a paid plan. Export the best file. Price it like it is worth something. Put the preview on the good bit. Upload it. Get paid per sale rather than per fraction of a play.