From One-Man Orchestra to AI Forge: Why filmmusic.io is Now ende.app

A New Name, But the Same Vision (and Less Accounting)

Sometimes a name change is more than just cosmetic – sometimes it's an act of digital self-defense. For many years, "filmmusic.io" was the home of my music. A platform where creatives from all over the world could find handmade compositions without breaking the bank or their sanity. But as so often in the universe: Everything flows. And I'm flowing with it.

ende.app is the logical (and galactically more convenient) next step: more modern, leaner, less prone to data protection dramas and support requests that would make even Marvin the depressive robot cringe.

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One-Man Orchestra – Without MIDI Serfdom, But With Cake

Sometimes I get messages suggesting that there's an entire team of developers behind this site. Maybe even a think tank in an underground composer bunker. But no – it's just me.

No team. No venture capital. No office with height-adjustable desks and free granola. Just me, my computer, a few servers (that secretly laugh at me) and occasionally a piece of cake for emergency motivation.

I compose, develop, prompt, answer support requests, maintain the servers, write license texts, have heated discussions with toasters – all in addition to my full-time job. Yes, you read that right: I actually have a "real job" with Jira, meetings, and people who say "quick wins" like it's a good thing.

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Free Time – A Theoretical Concept

The most common question is: "Why isn't new music released every week?"

Short answer: Time is a concept that likes to hide from me.

Longer answer: A well-produced track takes time. Sometimes weeks. And prompting – that is, creatively feeding the AI with musical ideas – is no walk in the sound garden. It's more like folding origami in zero gravity with scissors that occasionally rebel.

In addition, there are: Feature requests, bugs, admin stuff, emails with subject lines like "Urgent: Track sounds sad" and my need to occasionally sleep or save a reality that was accidentally destabilized by a misplaced comma.

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Artificial Intelligence – Real Madness, Guaranteed Not Certified

Yes, I develop AI systems. And yes, I use them for both the website and music production. Anyone who now thinks: "Ah, he just lets the AI do everything and goes to drink coffee" has never been in a prompt tunnel at three in the morning.

I compose, but I also prompt – and that means: conveying musical visions to the AI with words like "epic, but please not Marvel" or "sounds like a whale in a synthesizer." What comes out is sometimes brilliant. Sometimes it sounds like the soundtrack to an alien washing machine.

But I refine, curate, structure. Every track is tagged. Anyone who listens knows whether it was AI, human or a successful mixture of both.

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What Else the AI is Up to on This Site

Without AI, ende.app would probably just consist of a button that says "404". Here are a few things my little AI lab can now do:

• Similarity search: Find tracks that sound like the one you liked – but with less glockenspiel and more drama.
• Translations: The site speaks over 20 languages. I speak two. Maybe two and a half if you count Klingon.
• Track analysis: Tags, Moods, Crescendos – recognized by algorithms, approved by me. Brain & Bot™ in perfection.

In short: This site is a mixture of music platform, experimental field and occasional emergency transmitter if a server decides to take a vacation again.

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Don't Like AI? Don't Panic!

You just want handmade music that is guaranteed not to come from a neuron cluster? No problem. Over 600 pieces come directly from my fingers – not from Skynet.

Thanks to search filters, you can specifically search for human music, without any machine magic. And if you still feel like the music is too good to be human when you listen to it – then... thank you.

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Expectation vs. Reality (With Cake in Between)

I understand that a good-looking website also raises expectations. Support. Updates. New releases. But remember: There is no company behind this site. No big team. No captain on the bridge.

Just a guy with a MacBook, a penchant for over-engineering, and a coffee consumption that is statistically questionable. So be merciful if there is a week of radio silence. Maybe I'm trying to set space to music – or looking for my remote control.

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And Now?

I also use AI for music production itself. I don't just compose in the classical sense, but also work with so-called prompts – i.e. detailed instructions for AI systems to generate music. This is often no less time-consuming than a classical composition, requires a lot of sensitivity, technical knowledge and a lot of trial and error.

This is the only way to regularly provide new content – something that many users simply expect from a music library. And the good news: Most people love the music too. Because in the end, it's not how something is created that counts, but what comes out of it.

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👋 Feel free to follow me on Instagram if you want to see how a person with too many ideas, too little time and an AI on caffeine tries to make the internet musically more beautiful.

Thanks for reading – and for understanding,

Sascha Ende