elevenlabs-music

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name: elevenlabs-music
description: Generate and iterate music with ElevenLabs Eleven Music for production deliverables. Use when planning, prompting, API-calling, editing, inpainting, reviewing, or licensing AI-generated songs, instrumental beds, ad music, soundtrack cues, video-to-music scores, stems, or music assets using the ElevenLabs Music API or ElevenCreative Music product.
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# ElevenLabs Music production skill

Use this skill to turn a content brief into a usable music asset with ElevenLabs Eleven Music. Treat it as a production workflow: choose the right generation route, write legally safe musical direction, preserve artifact custody, and review the result against the edit before publishing.

Source-backed facts in this skill were verified on 2026-07-10 from official ElevenLabs documentation and terms. Re-check live docs before relying on pricing, limits, model defaults, licensing terms, or endpoint schemas in a paid or public production.

## Hard boundaries before prompting

Do not submit prompts, lyrics, references, uploads, or metadata that name or clearly target a protected work or identifiable artist. ElevenLabs Music Terms prohibit Music inputs that include any artist real/stage name, songwriter real/stage name, song title, album title, music publisher name, label name, or substantial/distinct song lyric excerpt intended to reference a song. They also prohibit prompting likely infringement and misleading mimicry of an identifiable recording artist.

Use genre, era, region, instrumentation, production language, tempo, mood, arrangement, mix references, and functional intent instead:

- Unsafe: "Make it sound like [artist]'s [song title]."
- Safer: "late-1970s glossy disco-pop, four-on-the-floor drums, octave bassline, bright string stabs, celebratory chorus, 118 BPM, no artist imitation."
- Unsafe: "Write a hook like this copyrighted lyric line..."
- Safer: "uplifting two-line chorus about starting fresh, original lyrics only."

For commercial release, check the active plan and Music Model-Specific Terms. As verified 2026-07-10, self-serve plans differ by generation/download limits, attribution, streaming rights, API features, concurrency, and permitted media. Self-serve media rights were documented as allowing online/offline commercial use except film, TV, radio, and Studio Games; Enterprise Music was documented as allowing all online/offline commercial use. Do not imply a client has broadcast, film, TV, Studio Games, reseller, or music-library/repository rights unless their plan/contract explicitly grants them.

## Capability snapshot

Documented Eleven Music capabilities include text-to-music generation, optional vocals or instrumental output, multilingual lyrics, section/lyric editing, composition plans, inpainting with `music_v2`, video-to-music, upload for inpainting, and stem separation. API access is for paid users.

Key API facts verified 2026-07-10:

- Basic compose endpoint: `POST /v1/music`.
- Detailed compose endpoint: `POST /v1/music/detailed`, returning audio plus composition plan and song metadata.
- Composition-plan endpoint: creates a plan without generation cost, though rate limits apply.
- Video-to-music endpoint: accepts up to 10 videos, total combined video size up to 200 MB, and total video duration up to 600 seconds.
- Prompt and `composition_plan` are mutually exclusive in compose calls.
- `music_length_ms` with prompt generation accepts 3,000-600,000 ms.
- Official duration documentation was not perfectly aligned: the API reference documented 3,000-600,000 ms for `music_length_ms`, while the overview and pricing pages also described a 5-minute generation/duration limit. Verify live account/API behavior before promising a cue longer than 5 minutes.
- `prompt` accepts up to 4,100 characters.
- `model_id` values documented for music include `music_v1` and `music_v2`.
- On the overview page, `music_v2` was documented as the UI default while API default remained `music_v1` during a t