A 24/7 live stream where AI writes a new song about the current time
Details
- External ID
- 47759535
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A 24/7 live stream where AI writes a new song about the current time
- Website domain
- youtube.com
- Launched
- April 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
A clock radio from the 1950s played music and showed the time. I wanted to see what happens when you combined an old idea with a new one — the music itself tells you the time. It's also hilarious.This is a fully automated YouTube live stream. Every few minutes, a new AI-generated song plays. Every song is in a different genre. Every song's lyrics are about what time it is right now. The system generates them ahead of time using Suno's API, builds video segments with FFmpeg, and streams continuously via RTMP. There's no human in the loop and no pre-recorded content.The core challenge is a scheduling problem: generation takes ~3 minutes, song durations are variable (2-4 min), and the lyric timestamp has to match the actual start time. The orchestrator tracks a rolling average of API latency and adjusts its lookahead window accordingly.Stack: Python, Suno API, Pillow, FFmpeg.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai music and audio creation
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- live stream of ai-generated songs about current time
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The system is an automated pipeline script that formats the current timestamp, calls a music generation API (like Suno or Udio) and an LLM for lyrics, and streams the output to YouTube via FFmpeg. This is a classic glue-code and API-wrapping project easily accomplished by vibe coding.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Support for multiple timezones
Competitors
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Launched 167 days after the earliest competitor.
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Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a content generation tool for Government yet.