Musixmatch Pro now lets you create AI-powered Animated Artwork for your albums, designed specifically to meet the specifications for Apple Music Album Motion and Tidal. Animate your albums and make them as captivating as the music inside.
Why It Matters
Animated album artwork allows artists to express their music’s mood and storytelling in a much more dynamic manner than static images. It’s a way to create deeper fan engagement: up to 30% on socials, capture attention with visually attractive imagery, leading to more exciting fan experiences and potentially higher social media interactions for your releases.
AI-Powered Creativity
Musixmatch Pro takes your album cover and uses AI to bring it to life with smooth, natural animations that match your music’s vibe. In just minutes, you get a ready-to-use motion cover for Apple Music and Tidal—no design skills or trial and error needed.
At the heart of this feature is a pipeline we developed to animate static album artwork while preserving its creative integrity. We call this process intermediate prompt generation.
Vision Analysis
Our system analyzes the album cover using computer vision to identify key visual elements such as color palettes, textures, and focal points. In some cases, we also integrate metadata like musical genre to ensure the animation feels true to the music itself.
Prompt Automation
Musixmatch Pro automatically generates intermediate prompts: structured animation instructions that define how each part of the artwork should move. Backgrounds can pulse gently, lighting can shift, or textures can gain depth. This saves creators hours of trial and error while ensuring fidelity to the original design.
Runway Gen-4 Integration
We then leverage Runway Gen-4 as the rendering engine. Gen-4 is optimized for smooth, loopable video generation. Combined with our proprietary intermediate prompts, it produces consistent, platform-ready motion covers without distortion or jitter.
Output
The result is a dynamic motion cover that feels like a natural extension of the artwork. It’s your cover, your brand, your story—brought to life in a way that works seamlessly for Apple Music Album Motion and Tidal.
How It Works
Open Musixmatch Pro and go to the Videos section.
Select Create Animated Artwork and choose the album you want to animate.
In the Motion Album Editor, the AI will animate your artwork automatically.
Make further edits to the animation loop, textures, or effects to perfect your visual.
Preview and export in Apple Music or Tidal-ready format.
Note: Musixmatch Pro does not directly distribute animated artwork to Apple Music or Tidal—this step must be handled by the user. Additionally, Musixmatch Pro does not train AI models on customer imagery; we are fully committed to protecting your intellectual property. Our role is to provide AI-powered animation through trusted partners, ensuring both creative quality and data security.
Apple Music and Tidal requirements are constantly evolving, some Animated Artwork generated by Musixmatch Pro may not be accepted. If you encounter an issue, simply try another version — our AI makes it quick and easy.
A Note About AI Animation
While Animated Artwork is designed to make your album cover come alive effortlessly, some limitations exist:
Low-quality or AI-generated covers may result in simpler motion effects, like zooming in/out.
Certain elements on the artwork, such as parental advisory labels, cannot be removed by the AI.
Results may vary, but you can refine the animation manually in the Animated Artwork Editor to achieve your desired look.
Is my data secure/How does the AI work?
Musixmatch Pro does not train AI models on customer imagery; we are fully committed to protecting your intellectual property. Our role is to provide AI-powered animation through trusted partners, ensuring both creative quality and data security.
How do I upload my animated artwork cover on Apple Music and Tidal?
To upload your animated artwork on Apple Music Album Motion or Tidal you need to use your preferred digital music distributor, such as CD Baby, Distrokid or others. Log in to your distributor's platform and follow their specific instructions for uploading.
Will my cover be compatible?
Apple Music and Tidal requirements are constantly evolving, some Animated Artwork generated by Musixmatch Pro may not be accepted. If you encounter an issue, simply try another version — our AI makes it quick and easy. Also, if the problem persists, please contact our team, and we’ll be happy to reimburse your token.
Can I use this technology also for canvas and social posts?
Yes, of course. The covers provided by Animated Artwork are Apple and Tidal ready, but also work for many more platforms. So feel free to showcase your new dynamic album cover all over the place!