I'm Fine Part One
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (111375)
United States
November 17, 2025 4:54pm CST
This will be a two parter. Well, it has to be since there are two audio files, and I can only link to one at a time.
The limits of myLot, I suppose.
But here's the deal. I have been playing around a little bit with AI for my music, now that it is capable of covering original music. Something it wasn't able to do a short while ago.
I have written many songs over the past 30 years or so. Some okay. Some good. And (although I may be biased) some bangers.
From time to time, I share them. When I can, of course, because some of my music is monetized, and of course, that's a no-no here.
But, what I wanted to show you is a song I wrote back in 2005 called, "I'm Fine," that I just recorded a demo version of and never finished. It lives in what I call the "garbage files."
It's not a bad song. I just didn't like it enough at the time to do an actual "release" version of it because I wasn't sure I really liked it.
In any event, I want to share the original version so that when I share the AI version, at least there's something to compare it to in order to get the gist of what AI does, and what it is capable of doing.
In any event, here's, "I'm Fine."
https://soundcloud.com/porwest/jim-bauer-im-fine
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6 responses
@porwest (111375)
• United States
18 Nov
Oh, that would be a cool job. I almost went into radio. It was something I thought I wanted to do. But yeah, this was a bit of a departure of "styles" for me, and like I said, was just something I was playing around with and recorded the demo to see if I wanted to go a different direction with it. Hang around for the AI version. It's "polished" I think.
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@moffittjc (126372)
• Gainesville, Florida
18 Nov
How and why did this end up in the garbage files? I really like it.
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@moffittjc (126372)
• Gainesville, Florida
18 Nov
@porwest Maybe the timing wasn't right. Sometimes music is ahead of its time, or the genre is not in style. I think what you put together was pretty awesome.
@porwest (111375)
• United States
18 Nov
@moffittjc Thanks again. I mean, this song was written in 2005. Not sure how it may have fit in the "grander order" back then. Or where it might fit today, even. But who knows? After running it through AI and hearing sort of what I would have been going for, it does change my mind a little bit.
It makes me think, at least, that it has quite a bit more foundation than I ever gave it credit for.
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@porwest (111375)
• United States
18 Nov
Thanks. I guess sometimes we are our worse critics. I remember doing the demo, putting it on the back burner, and just never did anything with it after that. And then I must have filed it somewhere in my brain that if I wasn't compelled to do anything further with it soon after I did the demo, it was probably best relegated for the garbage files. Perhaps I got that one wrong?
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@lovebuglena (48287)
• Staten Island, New York
18 Nov
I don’t think that it belongs in the garbage files.
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@LindaOHio (206596)
• United States
18 Nov
It wanted me to sign in or create an account.
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