" 'Absolute Betrayal': Udio Users Are Up in Arms About UMG Deal Terms."

Udio wants to be the music industry's "AI good guy". UMG and Udio settled their lawsuit, and the Udio subscribers are pissed off! "Udio will now be a 'walled garden' in which users can only stream their AI creations on the platform, with no ability to export and distribute their works. In response, Udio opened a 48 hour window, ending today 11/4/25, for subscribers to download their music. Otherwise, all of those AI created songs might never be heard (is that a bad thing?), humans who downloaded Udio tracks to then build on will probably jump to Suno, and it will be interesting to see what the new UMG/Udio service will be. Meanwhile, SONY, UMG, and WMG, use the same lawyers, while Suno and Udio are also represented by the same lawyers...and subscribers are looking into suing Udio. It's good to be a lawyer! Sources: https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot.com/2025/11/udio-joins-umg-and-deserts-subscribers.html