Music but without the lyrics

[counterman]

hey everyone, i was just wondering if anyone knows a program where you can remove the lyrics from an mp3 file and just get the instrumental part as a separate file.

[Miz]

I got a lot of links to a lot of resources from this Google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=remove+lyrics+from+mp3&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7DKUS), including links to freeware that will do what you want.

I haven't used any of them so I can't recommend one over the other.

[counterman]

Thanks very much Miz for the search =].

I'm in no rush to remove any vocals from a song but reading through the links to the search, it seems an impossible job to remove the vocals from the song so that both are separate (i.e. removing vocals may also remove the instrumental part) =\

BUT nevertheless, i will try these options overtime and see which one is the best. (Y)

Thanks again,

[beachbumfromoz]

songs are recorded in tracks ie: vocals, drums, bass, guitar etc.....when put out to audio via MP3, wave & the like they are compressed into 1 track otherwise file size would be massive.....

things like karaoke machines deaden the vocal frequencies giving the impression that volume is lower......

unless the audio file you have is multi-track then I imagine would be impossible to remove vocals from it.

Col

(have some recording experience)

[counterman]

hmm, i dont think any of my audio files are multi-track. and i barely know anything about the construction of an mp3 so ive always thought that it was easy to separate the parts but i guess not. ill just explore around and see what comes closest to what i want.

thanks Col,

[beachbumfromoz]

The average person wouldnt have any multi-tracked audio files but here is an article I found thats interesting.

http://www.ethanwiner.com/novocals.html

Col

[counterman]

woah, this is very interesting indeed, Col. it all seems so complicated. .ill need a lot more time to experiment with Sound Forge and explore other avenues. lol shows how little i know bout all this stuff BUT now i understand a lot better!=D what was i thinking when i thought you could actually separate the parts of an mp3 like lego.

Thanks a lot!

[beachbumfromoz]

lol...hey I been using computers for about 12 years now n since i got this machine 4 months ago, really knew nothin about em...is only when you join forums and read that you learn stuff.....so is cool.

but i been playin the drums for a long time and know a little about recording and mixing.

Cheers
Col

[oracle128]

Everything from Winamp to specialist audio tools like ProTools, Audacity etc can be used to separate vocals from an audio track. Most work the same way: by silencing the audio frequencies commonly associated with a normal human voice. However, singing voices can often fall outside this range, and at least some part of the instruments in a song will almost always fall within this range. So this method is not perfect, and will most certainly result in a poor quality re-encoding with some traces of silent vocals, and some missing instruments. Some songs work better than others, but none will be perfect, or even good enough to play in public. Maybe good enough for personal listening or private karaoke parties, if you can stand the bad quality. The ones that don't work this way will use the quick n dirty method described in the link posted above - assuming vocals are the only sound that occurs equally in both left and right stereo channels, and cancelling it out. An extremely low percentage of songs work with this method, and those that do will sound worse than the first method.

The only way to get perfect results is to obtain either a) an existing instrumental version of the song, or b) the original, pre-mixed individual audio tracks. If no instrumental version exists, you're out of luck because no commercial music studio (and very few indie bands) will release individual tracks without hefty licensing fees, certainly not something affordable to a personal user.

[counterman]

wow cool! ur right col, im sure learning a bit.this forum is mad (Y)

Yeh, no wonder i thought u could do it easily. Because there were existing instrumental version of some songs i knew it can be made from existing tracks with lyrics. looks like i will have to search up existing instrumental versions if i really need it. or i can try the programs but i am in no rush. at least i am informed about what i can do incase a friend of mine or i need to work with an instrumental piece of a lyrical song. Thanks oracle!

Problem solved, thank you everyone!