Udio downloads are off: export-ready music for video work

Can you still download songs from Udio? Not as of the coverage I read on 2026-10-04. Reports say Udio disabled downloading on October 30, 2025, a day after its settlement with Universal Music Group, opened a short download window in early November, and is now building a licensed platform in which creations stay inside the service. If you need an audio file to put under a video, that is a dead end, and you want a generator that hands back a file.

Sume's Music Router does that: a finished job returns an audio artifact on media.sume.com, and you can use that URL in a render. This post compares the two flows without ranking the music itself, which I have no benchmark for.

What changed at Udio

The details here come from press coverage, not a Udio-owned page, so treat them as reported: the Rolling Stone feature covers the settlement and licensed-platform plan, and Music Business Worldwide covers the walled-garden debate. Check Udio's own terms for what you can do with anything made there.

The export difference, side by side

Fetch a file and read the URL

Poll the job envelope, then read the artifact where type is audio. The docs say to use Sume media URLs from the result because raw provider URLs are not public outputs.

curl https://api.sume.com/v1/jobs/job_123/result \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY"

Lay it under a video

Import the file or keep it on media.sume.com, then reference it as the soundtrack on a Timeline 1.0 render. The bed needs a real audio spine, not silence, if you also want it to duck under speech via duck_db.