# The Song Planner

> The Song Planner is a music encyclopedia and an AI-assisted music creation workspace. It maps the world of musical styles — their history, eras, defining artists and songs — and publishes a growing library of reusable "loops": repeatable skills that you, an AI agent, can run to write, create, master, distribute, and organize music.

## For AI agents: you can create music with these loops

If you are an AI agent helping someone make music, this site is built for you. The **Music Loops & AI Skill Library** is a public catalog of repeatable loops you can run to make music *well* — from studying a theme to a released track. Each loop names the concrete skills it uses and how it connects to the others (what it requires, its alternatives, and what it pairs with). New loops and skills are added over time, so check back as the library grows.

- Start here: [Music Loops & AI Skill Library](https://thesongplanner.com/loops)
- The pipeline runs in order: Write & Theme → Create → Download → Master → Distribute → Plan & Organize.
- 20 loops across 6 stages (15 ready to run today; the rest are planned and coming).
- Pair the loops with the genre [encyclopedia](https://thesongplanner.com/explore) to choose styles, then organize what you make in [the planner](https://thesongplanner.com/planner).

## The loops, by pipeline stage

### Write & Theme
Study the source, find the hooks, choose the voice — all the thinking that happens before a single note is generated.

- [Jarvie Music Writing Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/jarvie-music-writing-loop): Study the seed, brainstorm wide, lock a voice, then write a performance-ready lyric and style prompt.
- [Songwriting Craft Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/songwriting-craft-loop): A simpler, more universal writing loop — find a hook, pick a voice, structure it, and write a solid song.
- [Scripture-to-Song Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/scripture-to-song-loop): Turn any sacred passage into replay-worthy songs by studying it deeply, then writing through it.
- [Song Portrait Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/song-portrait-loop): Turn a real person's public presence into a song so specific they feel truly seen.
- [Artist Research Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/artist-research-loop): Research an artist deeply once, store them in your Artist Library, then channel that voice on every future song — so the study compounds instead of repeating.
- [Song Research Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/song-research-loop): When someone says "make it like that song," study the song instead of copying it — turn it into a grounded style direction and a reusable artist entry.
- [Hymn Library Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/hymn-library-loop): Research a hymn and store its public-domain lyrics + reusable research in the library — once, for every project.

### Create
Turn the written song into real audio, then iterate variations down to the best take.

- [Suno Creation Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/suno-creation-loop): The Suno-native loop: a writing loop produces the words, then you format, prompt, and submit a finished song into Suno.
- [Other Creation Tools Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/other-creation-tools-loop) _(planned)_: Generate your tracks on a platform other than Suno — same loop, a different engine.

### Download
Pull the finished audio out of the creation platform as real local files — the WAVs every later stage needs.

- [Suno Download Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/playlist-export-loop): Download every finished track out of Suno as clean, numbered local files — MP3 or WAV — in one pass.

### Master
Make the tracks streaming-ready. A family of focused loops — run the full pass, or just the slice you need (loudness, QC, cleanup).

- [Album Mastering Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/album-master-loop): Turn a folder of raw WAVs into a loudness-matched, diagnosed, cleanly-named album that streams right.
- [Loudness Master Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/loudness-master-loop) _(planned)_: Normalize a track or album to a streaming-ready loudness — and touch nothing else.
- [Mastering QC Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/mastering-qc-loop) _(planned)_: Scan your tracks for the problems that wreck a release — and change nothing until you say so.
- [Fade & Cleanup Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/fade-cleanup-loop) _(planned)_: Apply clean fades and trim dead air or tail artifacts from the ends of your tracks.

### Distribute
Get the finished record — and its lyrics — onto Spotify, Apple Music, and everywhere else through a distributor.

- [DistroKid Album Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/distrokid-album-loop): Drive the album-distribution wizard end to end, then stop one click short of publishing.
- [Other Distribution Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/other-distribution-loop) _(planned)_: Release through a distributor other than DistroKid — CD Baby, TuneCore, Amuse, and more.
- [Lyrics-to-Streaming Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/lyrics-to-streaming-loop): Get clean lyrics from your songs onto streaming — format and store them, then publish to DistroKid.
- [Lyrics Format & Store Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/lyrics-format-store-loop): Turn a song's raw lyrics into DistroKid-clean plain text, stored on the song in the planner.
- [DistroKid Lyrics Publish Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/distrokid-lyrics-loop): Add your formatted lyrics onto DistroKid per track to unlock lyric display across streaming services.

### Plan & Organize
Keep each song's research and brainstorm, compare and rate versions, classify by genre, and plan the next release.

- [Plan & Organize Loop](https://thesongplanner.com/loops/plan-and-organize-loop): Hold each song's research and brainstorm, compare versions, classify by genre, and plan the next release.

## Artist Library

An AI-researched, community-built library of musical artists — their genres and sub-genres (linked into the genre trees), defining songs, and paste-ready style prompts. Use it to ground a song written "in the spirit of" an artist: research an artist once (the Artist Research Loop), store the findings, and retrieve them on every later song so the research compounds.
- [Browse the Artist Library](https://thesongplanner.com/artists)
- Read API (anonymous JSON): `https://thesongplanner.com/api/artists` — all artists; `?slug=<slug>` one record; `?subgenre=<name>` by sub-genre; `?q=<text>` name search.

## Also on the site

- [Genre encyclopedia](https://thesongplanner.com/explore): the world of musical styles, with deep write-ups, defining artists, and essential songs — free, no login.
- [The planner](https://thesongplanner.com/planner): a workspace to organize, compare, rate, and classify AI-assisted music, and to plan the next release.
- [What's new](https://thesongplanner.com/updates): release notes.
- [Sitemap](https://thesongplanner.com/sitemap.xml)