mlx-musicgen-small (MusicGen Small, MLX)
Non-commercial licence. These weights are CC-BY-NC-4.0 and may
not be used for commercial purposes. See
Licence below.
MLX conversion of
facebook/musicgen-small for inference on Apple silicon via
mlx-audiogen.
Licence
Upstream MusicGen is released under two different licences, and it matters which
applies to what:
- Model weights — CC-BY-NC-4.0 (non-commercial). That is what this
repository contains, so that is what governs it.
- The upstream code is MIT. That does not extend to these weights.
Key terms, summarised (the licence text governs):
- Free to share and adapt for non-commercial purposes.
- You must give appropriate credit and indicate if changes were made.
- No commercial use — including use primarily directed towards commercial
advantage or monetary compensation.
mlx-audiogen's own Apache-2.0 licence covers the conversion
code only. The full licence is in
LICENSE; attribution and the statement of modifications are in
NOTICE.
Attribution
MusicGen Small was created by Jade Copet, Felix Kreuk, Itai Gat, Tal Remez, David Kant, Gabriel Synnaeve, Yossi Adi and Alexandre Défossez, and published in
Simple and Controllable Music Generation.
Modifications
These weights are a modified version of the upstream checkpoint, converted to the MLX array format for inference on Apple silicon. Specifically: convolution weights are transposed where MLX's layout differs from PyTorch's, tensors are re-serialised as safetensors, weight keys are remapped to match this project's module names, and the text encoder is split into a separate file. The model is re-implemented against MLX rather than PyTorch.
No weights are retrained or fine-tuned.
Tensor precision is unchanged: the upstream checkpoint stores float32 and so does this conversion. No weight value is altered by rounding.
Bundled components
Where component licences differ, the most restrictive term governs this repository: CC-BY-NC-4.0.
Usage
1pip install "mlx-audiogen[server]"
2mlx-audiogen --model musicgen --prompt "happy rock song" --seconds 5 \
3 --weights-dir musicgen-small
The weights download automatically on first use.
