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With AI-composed concentration music overflowing in YouTube work playlists, a sense of 'familiar yet unappealing' fatigue has emerged. As this happens, channels that create song selections and videos manually become even rarer. Even in an era where anyone can create, there is a clear reason why certain content gets chosen.
When working at the office or coding or researching at home, what flows through the earphones often determines not only concentration but also how long one can maintain that focus. If you play a typical YouTube channel, no matter how much you try to listen primarily to the audio, if interesting content comes up, you want to check it directly on the screen, and once you start looking at the screen, you end up just watching YouTube. Because of this, I've gotten used to playing decent playlists on YouTube (to prevent switching to other videos) while working.
The problem is that with AI like Suno automatically creating music becoming widespread, and even models that can run locally emerging, YouTube has started to overflow with all kinds of AI-composed music. Among them, meditation/concentration music is particularly susceptible to AI infiltration. Since there are no lyrics, as long as a melody is created, listeners can enjoy it without much awkwardness, leading to an abundance of supply. The issue is that this AI-generated meditation/concentration music tends to be a mix of similar songs, creating music that is familiar yet strangely unappealing. Especially since the melodies or the entire piece sound similar, it becomes hard to just let it play in the background, and it often becomes bothersome. Because of this, AI music can actually hinder concentration, leading to a phenomenon where such playlists are avoided. Of course, not all channels rely 100% on AI composition, so there is quite a bit of variation between songs even within a single channel. In such cases, valuable channels are those that feature handcrafted music made 100% by humans.
The song selection is good, but the transitions are also natural, so they don't become bothersome. This is an essential element for a non-disruptive playlist channel.
Broadplay not only DJs manually but also shoots and edits the videos that appear on screen. Compared to most meditation/concentration music videos that just use a single cover image or snippets from movies, a lot of effort and work goes into producing each video. Moreover, it is made clear that they do not directly generate revenue from the videos.
โป All revenue from this video goes to the original creator, and this account does not generate any revenue.
I don't know how effective a strategy of promoting without generating revenue on YouTube will be, but from a listener's perspective, I am grateful for the handcrafted music that makes work enjoyable. Given the abundance of training like 'Automating YouTube playlist accounts for revenue with Suno', we can somewhat envision the future of vibe coding. A world where anyone can create music, a world where anyone can create apps and websites. Yet, there is something special about what gets chosen. One direction that can be learned from this channel is that products with elements that can eliminate the fatigue created by identical replicas made by AI can attract people. Before LLMs, I already miss the content that was infused with the time and effort of people, which was taken for granted.
