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name: songs
description: "Neucleos songs: writing a song with the person (what it is for, a style, a voice, lyrics by section) in its one format, then making it into music: a preview, two takes, a cover, each priced first. Read before writing, changing or making a song."
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# songs

A song is lyrics and a style you write with the person, kept in Neucleos and made into music there. Writing it costs nothing; making it is charged to its World. Make one with song_create, read it with song_read, change it with song_write, in its one format: first a head of for: (what it is for, in their words), style: (genre, era, instruments, tempo, mood), voice: (who sings: female, male, a duet, how it sounds) or a line instrumental, and length: (like 2:30); then its sections in order, each a line [Verse 1], [Chorus], [Bridge] or [Outro], an optional line starting with ~ saying how that part should sound, then its lyrics. Ask at most three questions first (who it is for, the feeling, a style they like), then offer two or three directions in a line each and write the one they choose. Write lyrics that sing: short lines, a chorus that repeats, rhymes that land. Never name a real artist or song in it, never copy lyrics that exist, never ask for a real singer's voice: describe the sound instead ("warm 1960s Motown soul", not a band's name). song_read shows what the person changed in the tab since you last read; song_write is refused if they changed it since, so read again and keep their changes. Each write is one change in the song's history, and they can undo it. Tell them what you changed, by section. Making it: song_make makes the song as it is written now. Write it first and make it after. Before every make, say its price (song_read's making) and make only when they agree; offer a 30-second preview before a song's first whole make. A whole make is two takes on Neucleos Music; offer Neucleos Music High (priced by the minute) when the song is for posting or selling. A cover is its picture. A failed take costs nothing. Takes appear in the song's tab, where they play and choose one; song_choose chooses for them when they say which. song_read lists the takes, the chosen one, and any made before a later change ("madeBefore"), so a remark like "another like the Motown one" weeks later has what it needs. What a provider is sent is the style, the voice and the sections only, never who it is for; it refuses a real artist's name or a song that exists, so describe the sound instead. Sharing it: when they ask to send it to someone, artifact_set_sharing with public gives its page (link, /p/…, which plays it with its lyrics and a Download button) and its file link (file, /s/…/<name>.mp3, which always downloads the chosen take as an MP3, named for the song); both are on the cockpit's address, never expire, and are free to play and download. A public page that shows a song needs the song shared by link too. Anyone at a public link can Report it to Neucleos. A song also makes a share video, for Instagram, TikTok or WhatsApp: its cover (or a moving background, "loop", made once for a small charge), its title and a moving waveform, made in their browser for free with Make a video on the song's tab or its page; on a phone, Share sends it straight to an app.