Are Udio downloads disabled for everyone?

Yes. Udio disabled downloads of audio, video and stems for all users, free and paid, when it announced its Universal Music Group deal on 29 October 2025. As of 16 October 2026, no Udio plan includes downloads.

Why did Udio disable downloads?

To make its settlement and partnership with Universal Music Group possible. CEO Andrew Sanchez said, "In order to facilitate that partnership, we had to disable downloads." Udio is rebuilding itself as a licensed platform where you play music inside the app rather than export it, and its later deals with Warner, Merlin, Kobalt, Believe and the music publishers' trade group, the NMPA, follow the same approach.

When will Udio downloads come back?

Udio has not given a date. Its planned licensed app, Starstruck, is designed so that songs stay inside it, and in July 2026 Udio hired BuyDRM to add copy protection to its streams. Sony Music, the one major label that has not licensed Udio, filed a second copyright lawsuit against it on 20 July 2026, so the legal dispute over how Udio's models were trained is not over either. As of 16 October 2026, we could find no report that the new platform has launched. It is safest to assume downloads will stay off until Udio says otherwise.

Is it worth keeping a Udio subscription?

Only if you want to make and listen to music inside Udio. Standard ($10 a month) and Pro ($30 a month) give you more credits and features, but no plan lets you export audio, video or stems. If you need files for videos, releases or client work, a Udio subscription can't currently give you them.

Can I still use songs I downloaded from Udio before the change?

Songs downloaded before 29 October 2025, or during the 48-hour window in November 2025, fall under Udio's earlier terms, which gave users ownership, including for commercial use. For the wider picture on rights to AI music, see who owns AI-generated music.

Can I recreate my Udio songs somewhere else?

You can rebuild them, but not copy them exactly. If you saved your lyrics and prompts, paste them into a local generator such as Song Creator Pro and generate new takes. If you kept an old download, the Remix tool can rebuild it in a new style. Either way, the result is a new recording of your song, not Udio's original audio.

What is the best way to make AI music offline?

Run an open model on your own PC. Song Creator Pro packages ACE-Step 1.5 and YuE2 in a Windows app with no Python setup, works offline after installation, and saves every track straight to your drive. You can also run the open-source models yourself if you're comfortable setting up the software environment; see the best open source AI music models.

Do I need a powerful PC to generate music locally?

Not necessarily. In Song Creator Pro, YuE2 runs on an 8 GB NVIDIA GPU, and ACE-Step 1.5 runs on 6 GB of VRAM or on the CPU alone, which is slower. Our GPU buying guide for AI music explains what each card can handle.

Udio Downloads Disabled: Why They're Still Off and How to Make Songs You Can Keep

Yes, Udio downloads are disabled, and as of 16 October 2026 they are still off for every user on every plan. Nothing is wrong with your account or your browser. If you want to keep making songs and keep the files, the most reliable fix is to generate music on your own computer, where there is no download button for anyone to switch off. (To recover an old library, see how to download Udio songs.)

What Changed, and Why

On 29 October 2025, Udio announced a partnership with Universal Music Group that settled UMG's copyright lawsuit, and said: "Starting today, downloads from the platform will be unavailable." It applied to free and paying users alike, and to songs made long before the deal. CEO Andrew Sanchez wrote, "In order to facilitate that partnership, we had to disable downloads." Apart from a one-off 48-hour window from 3 November 2025, they have stayed off.

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What You Can Still Do With Your Existing Udio Songs

Udio removed the ability to export your songs, not the songs themselves. Within that limit, a few things are still worth doing.

Keep listening and creating inside Udio. Udio still generates and plays music, and its plans still sell credits: Free gives 10 credits a day plus 100 a month, Standard is $10 a month for 2,400 credits, and Pro is $30 a month for 6,000. None of them includes downloads. If you only use Udio to sketch ideas and listen to them there, nothing has changed for you, and its inpainting (regenerating one section of a song while keeping the rest) is still one of the best editing tools in AI music.

Save your lyrics and prompts. Words you wrote yourself are yours, whatever happens to the audio. Copy your lyrics, style prompts and notes out of Udio into your own files. They are the easiest part of each song to move, and they are exactly what you need to rebuild a track elsewhere.

Find the copies you already have. Anything you downloaded before 29 October 2025, or during the November 2025 window, falls under Udio's earlier terms, which gave users ownership of their songs, including for commercial use. Check your downloads folder, cloud storage, DAW projects, files you shared in chats and any distributor you released through. The Udio download guide has a fuller checklist.

Don't plan releases around songs that exist only on Udio. If a track exists only on Udio today, you can't put it in a video, send it to a client or release it through a distributor. Treat it as a demo you can listen to, not a file you own.

Will Udio Downloads Come Back?

Probably not soon. Udio has never given a date, and each step since the shutdown points the same way:

Date	What happened
29 October 2025	Udio announces its Universal Music Group deal and disables downloads
3 November 2025	A 48-hour window opens for downloading existing songs under the old terms
19 November 2025	Udio settles with Warner Music Group and signs a licensing deal
January 2026	Udio signs a licensing deal with Merlin, which licenses music for independent labels
9 April 2026	Udio signs a licensing deal with music publisher Kobalt, ahead of a new licensed platform due later in 2026
30 April 2026	Believe, the music distributor that owns TuneCore, confirms a licensing deal with Udio
May 2026	Details emerge of Starstruck, Udio's planned licensed app, where songs stay inside the app
10 June 2026	The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) announces an industry-wide licensing deal with Udio that its member publishers can opt into
14 July 2026	Udio hires BuyDRM to add copy protection (DRM) to the music streamed on its platform
20 July 2026	Sony Music files a second copyright lawsuit against Udio, covering 30,117 recordings

The settlements changed what Udio is. It used to be a generator that handed you files. It is becoming a licensed service where you play your songs inside the app, the way you play music on Spotify without owning the files. That suits the labels, which are licensing their catalogs for use on Udio's platform, not for export to YouTube or distributors. And a company that plans to start handing out files again does not usually sign a contract for copy protection.

Udio now has licensing deals with Universal, Warner, Merlin, Kobalt, Believe and the NMPA. The NMPA deal matters because it covers songs (the written music and lyrics, which publishers own) rather than recordings: NMPA president David Israelite said it is the first deal to "value songs and sound recordings equally" for AI training. Sony Music is the one major label without a deal, and it is still suing. On 29 June 2026, Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York refused to let Sony add more than 30,000 recordings to its original 2024 case, so on 20 July 2026 Sony filed a second lawsuit in the same court over 30,117 recordings. Sony alleges that Udio copied those recordings to train its models without permission, partly by "stream ripping" them from YouTube (downloading the audio with a tool that gets around YouTube's protections). In its answer, filed in August 2026, Udio says its training is fair use, the legal doctrine that allows some unlicensed uses of copyrighted work. Neither case has been decided.

Udio's blog has announced nothing since the Warner deal in November 2025, and as of 16 October 2026 we could find no report that the licensed platform has launched. For a comparison with Suno, where downloads survived but are now capped and older models were retired, see Suno vs Udio in 2026.

Rebuild Your Best Udio Songs Locally

If you saved your lyrics, you can bring the songs back. They won't be identical recordings, because no model can recreate another platform's exact take, but the song itself, meaning the words and the structure, comes with you.

From lyrics. Paste your lyrics into Song Creator Pro, label the sections with tags like [Verse] and [Chorus], and describe the sound you had in mind in the style prompt. YuE2 is the stronger of its two models for full songs with vocals and a clear verse and chorus structure; our YuE2 prompting guide covers the formatting rules, and song structure explained shows how to lay out sections. Generate two to four takes and keep the best.

From an old download. If you kept a file from before the shutdown, you can load it into Song Creator Pro's Remix tool and rebuild it in a new style, or use Extract to separate the vocals from the instruments for your own production. See how to remix a song with YuE2 and how to extract vocals and instruments from a song.

Fix sections instead of starting over. Inpainting is the Udio feature people tend to miss most. The closest equivalent in Song Creator Pro is the Revise tool, which regenerates one part of a song and keeps the rest; see how to revise part of a song with AI. To be fair to Udio, its inpainting is more mature, and if editing individual sections in a browser is the feature you care about most, that is a real point in Udio's favor.

Why Offline Generation Can't Be Switched Off

The Udio shutdown is less about one company than about where your files are stored. On a cloud platform, the song sits on someone else's server and you have permission to access it. That permission can be withdrawn because of a settlement you had no part in. On your own PC, the model saves the audio straight to your drive. There is no separate download step to disable, and a licensing deal between other companies can't touch a file on your disk.

Song Creator Pro is built on that principle:

Two open models that run on your PC. ACE-Step 1.5 and YuE2, with Generate, Remix, Revise, Layer and Extract tools.
Works offline on Windows. No account and nothing uploaded. YuE2 runs on an 8 GB NVIDIA GPU (AMD support is experimental), and ACE-Step 1.5 runs on 6 GB or even without a GPU.
Files you own. MP3, FLAC and WAV export, a commercial license, and no monthly limit on generations or downloads.
Paid once. A one-time purchase with lifetime updates, so there is no subscription whose terms can change partway through.

The honest trade-offs: it runs only on Windows, a GPU is recommended for reasonable speed, there is no browser or mobile version, and there is no community feed like Udio's. If you only ever make music on a phone, a cloud tool is still your only choice. If you have a Windows PC with a decent graphics card, you never have to ask a platform for your own songs again. Our guide to the best local and offline AI music generator for Windows covers setup and hardware, and cloud vs local AI music generators explains the wider trade-off.

If you'd rather stay in the cloud, some services still let you download files, with limits. Suno does, but caps downloads at 20 a month on Pro and 60 on Premier. Our ranking of Udio alternatives compares ten tools on download limits, pricing and free tiers.

Still deciding? Compare Song Creator Pro vs Udio side by side.