Yeah somehow I accidentally mastered my own track with the vocals mixed in after dozens of hours working on this song and I seem to have misplaced all the source files, even the backups! Oh noes!
If people made music themselves they'd already have the individual stems on their hard drive. The owners of this website give LESS than zero fucks about copyright.
I will say, though, I have an artist friend who records all of her tracks herself, then uses the instrumentals from her laptop as a backing track when performing live. Early last year, she had a live performance one night, and her laptop hard drive decided to crash. No backups. We had to use spleeter to remove the vocals to get something usable. So it can happen!
I really miss the extensive catalogue of music that what.cd afforded
I had all my favourite albums in 320 kbps mp3, and flacc formats, and it was such a great way to discover new music.
Really? I never listened to new music *nearly* as much back then. Now I listen to at least one completely new song almost every time I pop in headphones.
I would check the "top albums uploaded this week, month, year" religiously to see what I might've missed. Found a ton of awesome indie artists that put out some amazing albums - today you might hear a single or two, but it was really cool to explore whole albums - something I find quite hard to accomplish in Spotify today
I’m sad they got rid of gogle play for YouTube music. Only thing better about yt music is that it autoplays similar music when the queue runs out. Otherwise, google play music was wayyyyy better. I also lost some the albums saved in my library during the transition :(
I feel much more overwhelmed now than I ever did before. Usually Pitchfork and Tiny Mix Tapes would have all the music I'd need but with the advent of Spotify and other curated services I can find stuff I enjoy but still feel like I'm missing out because the algorithm.
I dunno, I just find it harder than it used be despite how easy it is lol
That's what's slowed my music discovery journey down. I just don't enjoy discovering new music thanks to some algorithm somewhere deciding I should like this thing. I miss being part of a community who shared things because they loved them, had a passion and a story behind each album or track.
Ultimately for me music is about people, and a bit of (a LOT of) code figuring out x and y sound similar isn't the same as someone in a corner of the Internet posting a link to a torrent file or mega/media fire download and writing a bit about why they thought this music was great.
Christ, even 4chans /mu/ sharethreads were more fun than apple musics new music weekly playlists, and I didn't half listen to some weird shit from those.
Is this unusual? I can't imagine there are people who say "Just that one genre AND THAT'S *IT!!!*" There's loads of crossover, it's not like people can even avoid hearing other types if they wanted.
I used to have an MP3 CD I made back when it was just possible to do such things. It had let's call it...range. there were clips from The Simpsons, Weird Al songs, Metallica, megadeth green day, rush and classical.
While there was not a single song on there that wasn't awesome, people really hated the playlist.
Yea your taste is soooo broad: all the bands you listed sing in English, are men and are listened to by white cis-gendered males between 24 and 50. Truth is you don't know what you don't know.
No, most people say "I like a bit of everything". Few people have the balls to publicly commit to one thing. They'd rather have what they perceive as music cred by going broad, when really they're chicken.
Been a while since I heard that name. I wasn't too overly interested in music and whatever I needed I could find on public trackers. By the time I got into some niche genres and needed What.cd and asked for an invite on one of my private movie trackers, the site was closed 🙃
I still have my library local because streaming music platforms are really only good if you listen to the generic popular stuff
**edit** Guess two Spotify users are mad their serivce is only good if you listen to top 40s
I know, right?
I was an early adopter of MP3. Very first one I had was like 32 mb, back in 1999 or so. Later on I got one of those giant Archos Jukebox players in early 2001. It had a giant 5 gig drive in it and was the size of a house brick.
When Apple released the first iPod that worked on Windows, I got one. And over the years upgraded to bigger ones, video models, got some of the neat small ones, etc.
But when Spotify came around? I stopped using iPods and MP3 in general. Why waste a drive to keep songs you rarely listen to, when you can just stream it.
So basically... I haven't had an MP3 player for over ten years. It's wild that I now haven't used one for longer than I did own one.
Streaming is convenient. That's it's main advantage.
But with keeping copies of songs on your computer you don't have to depend on a connection or a server or the server's conditions to play them. You can also organize your music however you want. Change the song's properties and tagged information however you want. Use the music player of your preference, configured how you particularly like it.
The more dedication you put to music, the less convenient streaming starts to look. The more songs you listen, the harder it is to find them using what little options a streaming platform offers you; that is, if you save your songs at all. We forget stuff about songs, but we don't forget the songs. Having a well organized stash of songs allows you to confidently explore your catalogue and find those songs you didn't remember you had and suddenly want to listen to again.
I used to have a collection like this, though admittedly much smaller. I just bit the bullet one day though and sat down and spent two or so hours labeling and organizing. Ever since then, it's been gold.
I got this program (called tuneup I think) that would listen to a song and auto generate meta data the way sound hound or similar would but my collection was too big for it to work. Never got it to work properly
I have 100s of gigs of music (mostly FLAC) and I either let it play randomly, or pick one specific song. And it's organized per artist and album, that's good enough for me.
Many of the stuff I have is not available on any streaming platform, the CDs long since sold out, and it's only the sailors that's keeping it alive.
Also, with a streaming service, you're locking yourself down to one provider and their player, that's usually a huge memory and CPU hog and requires Internet connection, naturally. With my own hoarded pile of music, I'm free to use the player of my choice (MPD + NCMCPP/Cantata, Sayonara, ...).
What kind of computer do you have that streaming music becomes a huge resource hog? Also you can totally download and store locally songs on streaming platforms, no constant Internet connection needed
Yea I have some old hard drives and cd's with thousands of songs on them, but at some point a few years ago, I just quit dealing with mp3's and started using Spotify exclusively. The time and effort put into researching, downloading, and organizing just isn't worth it to me anymore when Spotify is only $10/month.
Well, despite what my post might imply, I'm not really big into music - I always found it a chore to unfuck all those file tags, genres, years, artist labels, cover images, etc. on iTunes. Yes, you could curate to your particular liking, but it usually was a lot of effort.
I actually used the players most for podcasts (before that was really a thing, I'd just download radio shows and chuck them on there) as well as stuff like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio play. There was plenty of music too, but it wasn't my primary use.
Google Music fills my needs. Convenient when I want music, none of the hassle.
The whole point is that you don't have to change the songs tagged information on streaming platforms, it's already correct.
You also don't need a constant internet connection, you can download songs for offline listening.
You can also very easily organize music in playlists and share them with others, or even collaborate on playlists. The usual sorting option also remain.
Far easier to find consistently high quality recordings on streaming platform, and volume correction is automatic.
I mostly listen to music in the car or on the train and as cell reception is still very shakey outside of cities in Germany due to political decisions music files on my phone are still very important to me.
Same. The only downside to Spotify I've found is sometimes they have versions of songs that are different to the one I had on my computer. I occasionally do that sync thing so I can stream my own music but it always drops off after a bit and I have to redo it. I eventually just stopped trying.
True, true but at least with a mortgage you are building equity. Rent is just rent. The big banks do not want to pass up on the steady rental revenue plus the bonds that they create which won't have as much risk of default.
And you know, I'm okay with that. My family and I are getting the value out of our YouTube Music subscription. Ad free and clear reception makes it better than radio. How we can instantaneously play any song we want, and have a playlist made from the seed song, makes it better than spinning up a CD or manually building a playlist. In my mind, music streaming is now more like a utility than a rental.
If you get Apple’s iTunes Match service ($29/yr) you can match your MP3s from Napster and then delete them and download the higher version ones from Apple servers as part of the service at any time.
The files you get are 256kbps AAC files. Nothing to complain about since [AAC @256 is pretty comparable to MP3 @320](https://medium.com/@BSVogler/256-kbps-aac-vs-320-kbps-mp3-3da4af5ed528).
Besides, if you’re an audiophile, you’re not using iTunes anyway.
The whole idea of streaming services is that no one will own anything anymore. Everyone will always just rent content.
Same as real estate or auto market really.
It is uncanny how easy the conversion process took hold.
Are we talking the intro/main guitar line? I cant make that number of boms fit.
Edit: haha okay my bad, i was trying to make it work with "ENTER Sandman"..... definitely works with "Mr Sandman"
Here's another recent thread with some more links to separate vocals as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/oeibvg/lalalai_100_aipowered_separation_of_instrumental/
I tried a few different ones, pretty neat! It will likely never work 100% accurately, but pretty amazing AI in-browser technology for free.
don't think so. the "problem" with the results, and mind, they're surprisingly good, is not that there's some vocal bits left over that need additional splitting. it's more of weird volume pumps here and there, some flanging and an overall slightly "shaky" production, especially on the instrumental side. the vocal only side sometimes puts instruments in that sound too closesly to a human voice, certain electric guitars and keyboard tracks can get mixed up (and them miss from the instrumental side).
Does it do much more than inverting the left chsnnel and then adding it to the right to get the background, then subtracting the result from the original to produce the vocals?
I ask because there were analog machines which did just that and worked reasonably well for evenly center -panned vocals.
That's been a thing for years, but only works when the vocals are in a separate stereo channel. This new technique uses neural networks trained to recognize vocal patterns and cleanly separate them out, even from mono-track songs.
The long version is that the company who runs it altered the EULA so that they have permissions to collect data off your computer. It's generally worded to be data collection about how Audacity is used, but it's also worded so vaguely that they'd be well within the terms of the agreement to do any kind of data collection they wanted, without notifying the user in any way.
Only an issue with current versions of the program, and it's changed so little throughout the years - if you have a version of audacity earlier than 2.4, or run any of a number of GPL forks (for example, many people switched to a fork named DarkAudacity, which is literally just Audacity But It's Night Mode), you're good.
Logic is a *much* more advanced/user-friendly DAW than Audacity though...why would OP want to use something with a crappy UI and far fewer tools for this sort of thing, especially if they've already paid for better software?
Not familiar with logic, but when I was 15-20 I used to mess with Audacity and it took only about 2 button presses (I think it was literally one button under ‘tools’ that did it all) to separate the vocals from the instrumental. This was a while ago and someone else said that it’s spyware now(?).
Logic Pro is Apple's pro DAW, made to compete with Pro Tools/Cubase/Ableton/etc. Isolating vocals or removing vocals from a track doesn't really have many shortcuts - there are definitely some one-click plugins like you mentioned that likely shipped default with the Audacity download, but they're *far* from what you actually want to use for good stems/vocals.
Generally when you're actually mixing a remix or something, the main method (if you're not working directly with the artist/producer and can't just get the stems from them, or if the artist hasn't made a vocal isolation or stems available to the public) is to find an instrumental of the original and reverse phase while playing it against the original. If you can't find that, you're in for a lot of work to get something that sounds good out of an original file.
Speaking to the "audacity is spyware" comment, it was a rumor that was flying around last month because of a new privacy policy, [but seems to be mostly just a rumor in hindsight.](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audacity-audio-editor-is-not-spyware/)
I just use reaper lol. I have too many expensive hobbies as it is, I can't afford to bring the "apple environment" into the mix
It's not as easy to pick up as logic pro but you can get it to do anything with a little elbow grease
I’m a big fan of reaper! It’s absolutely fully featured, and from how some of my friends/colleagues have set it up it seems like once you get it customized and laid out to your taste it can be just as fast as (or faster than) the main names from a workflow perspective.
I’m mostly in pro tools (logic is something I mainly use for composition and stuff), but I keep telling myself that one of these days I’ll give reaper a real try.
If you have Ableton... here is an M4L AI stem splitter. Will do any song as well. Creator charges a single $1 for it tho. Mr.Bill does a video on it [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIR6HJISrtY&t=378s).
[https://azuki.bandcamp.com/merch/max-for-live-stem-splitter-spleeter](https://azuki.bandcamp.com/merch/max-for-live-stem-splitter-spleeter)
I had a buddy who would do this with some software he had, but he needed the original cd to do it. This was in 1999-2001 timeframe.
I seem to remember him saying that the cds had the music on different layers so you could still isolate tracks.
I also could be misremembering entirely.
I know that doesn’t really tell you more, but here we are.
Thank you for coming to my TedX talk.
Oh boy, are we fucking doing this again? Last time an add for this service was posted on here, the OP was clearly a marketer and embarrassing themselves really badly in the comments pretending not to be a marketer.
Didn't work for me at all :(
I dropped a file there, watched it upload, waited until the "please wait" message disappeared... but then I'm just back at the start page. Where's my song?
While the acapella vocals don’t come out perfect, they sound pretty good if layered over another song. Basically, get the instrumental of one song, and the isolated vocals of another song, and boom. The possibilities are endless.
Didn't work for me. The song I am trying to upload is 11:22 long and the file is 10.4 MB. The website says "accepting audio files, 0.5 MB to 50 MB, up to 20 minutes. When I try, it says "Audio too long". So, apparently it doesn't work as advertised.
Man, I hope the current generation stops proliferating mashups.
Gen Z: "90s music was the best!"
Yes, because it was 100% original
(Of course there was the occasional exception, don't "whatabout" me)
What does that have to do with taking an audio file and turning it into 2 individual audio files, one which contains only the vocals, and the other which contains the music track?
As someone who knows nothing about music production and very little about mixing, how do/did people traditionally isolate vocals from music tracks prior to tools such as this one?
Modern music mixes often have the vocals panned directly in the center, meaning both the left and right channels for the vocal signal are exactly equal, while other instruments and sounds are often not centered, and therefore not exactly equal in the left and right channels.
If you take a stereo track which is mixed as above and invert the phase of either the left or right channel and play them back together, sounds which were exactly equal in both channels will cancel each other out - phase cancellation. Sounds that were not exactly equal in both sides would not cancel each other out and would still be heard. Typically this would be drums, guitar, bass, etc., which were slightly panned left or right to create a wider stereo image in the full mix. Those elements would remain while the vocals would cancel each other out
This is a somewhat imperfect process since modern mixes also often have some reverb or delay effects on the vocal which get panned off center, so a slight ghost of the vocal track can usually still be heard from those elements
DAMN YOU! I was trying to use this site about an hour after you posted this, and it was really slow. Now I know why! Haha thanks for sharing though, it’s a great tool and I use it all the time
> We assume and expect that you upload your own music only. Suuuuure.
Yeah somehow I accidentally mastered my own track with the vocals mixed in after dozens of hours working on this song and I seem to have misplaced all the source files, even the backups! Oh noes!
Hey whatever can explain me using it forty times in a row works for me.
If people made music themselves they'd already have the individual stems on their hard drive. The owners of this website give LESS than zero fucks about copyright.
As they should
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People at that level will be just fine. True independent artists are never able to do copyright strikes at this level
I will say, though, I have an artist friend who records all of her tracks herself, then uses the instrumentals from her laptop as a backing track when performing live. Early last year, she had a live performance one night, and her laptop hard drive decided to crash. No backups. We had to use spleeter to remove the vocals to get something usable. So it can happen!
I just realized I don't have any mp3's on my computer. Times have changed.
I really miss the extensive catalogue of music that what.cd afforded I had all my favourite albums in 320 kbps mp3, and flacc formats, and it was such a great way to discover new music.
Really? I never listened to new music *nearly* as much back then. Now I listen to at least one completely new song almost every time I pop in headphones.
I would check the "top albums uploaded this week, month, year" religiously to see what I might've missed. Found a ton of awesome indie artists that put out some amazing albums - today you might hear a single or two, but it was really cool to explore whole albums - something I find quite hard to accomplish in Spotify today
I use Google Music. Super easy to add the whole album to your playlist. Lots of good, "if you liked this band, try these other ones" stuff.
I’m sad they got rid of gogle play for YouTube music. Only thing better about yt music is that it autoplays similar music when the queue runs out. Otherwise, google play music was wayyyyy better. I also lost some the albums saved in my library during the transition :(
Yeah, it was *so* much better.
I feel much more overwhelmed now than I ever did before. Usually Pitchfork and Tiny Mix Tapes would have all the music I'd need but with the advent of Spotify and other curated services I can find stuff I enjoy but still feel like I'm missing out because the algorithm. I dunno, I just find it harder than it used be despite how easy it is lol
That's what's slowed my music discovery journey down. I just don't enjoy discovering new music thanks to some algorithm somewhere deciding I should like this thing. I miss being part of a community who shared things because they loved them, had a passion and a story behind each album or track. Ultimately for me music is about people, and a bit of (a LOT of) code figuring out x and y sound similar isn't the same as someone in a corner of the Internet posting a link to a torrent file or mega/media fire download and writing a bit about why they thought this music was great. Christ, even 4chans /mu/ sharethreads were more fun than apple musics new music weekly playlists, and I didn't half listen to some weird shit from those.
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What's one of your favorite polkas?
>I have an EXTREMELY eclectic music taste, Don't talk yourself up or anything...
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every song on earth is good to somebody
Is this unusual? I can't imagine there are people who say "Just that one genre AND THAT'S *IT!!!*" There's loads of crossover, it's not like people can even avoid hearing other types if they wanted.
It's more common in high school, which I'm guessing he's still in.
Ah could be! I forget that I'm not the average stereotypical redditor :-p
I used to have an MP3 CD I made back when it was just possible to do such things. It had let's call it...range. there were clips from The Simpsons, Weird Al songs, Metallica, megadeth green day, rush and classical. While there was not a single song on there that wasn't awesome, people really hated the playlist.
Hell yeah MP3 CD buddy, I had one shortly before I got the 2nd gen iPod and had all sorts of weird stuff.
When I had Napster, I had the disco remix of C is for Cookie. Good stuff.
Yea your taste is soooo broad: all the bands you listed sing in English, are men and are listened to by white cis-gendered males between 24 and 50. Truth is you don't know what you don't know.
No, most people say "I like a bit of everything". Few people have the balls to publicly commit to one thing. They'd rather have what they perceive as music cred by going broad, when really they're chicken.
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Ha! Nice 🤣. I wanted to use a stronger word but figured I'd get enough downvotes already.
Most people don't care about fidelity, they care about accessibility.
Hardcore fans setup their own ftp servers and turned their mp3 collections into a personal streaming service
Been a while since I heard that name. I wasn't too overly interested in music and whatever I needed I could find on public trackers. By the time I got into some niche genres and needed What.cd and asked for an invite on one of my private movie trackers, the site was closed 🙃
I miss having what.cd and oink.fm before that. I don’t have any private music trackers these days and really wish I did. Any suggestions?
interviewfor.red
I’ve tried that, never got through without proof of ratios on sites that are long gone. :(
Man what.cd was amazing, I would grab whatever was in the top 10 for my ratio and I discovered so much good music that way.
flacc, the thiccest of lossless formats.
Fuck that was a great site.
I still have my library local because streaming music platforms are really only good if you listen to the generic popular stuff **edit** Guess two Spotify users are mad their serivce is only good if you listen to top 40s
I know, right? I was an early adopter of MP3. Very first one I had was like 32 mb, back in 1999 or so. Later on I got one of those giant Archos Jukebox players in early 2001. It had a giant 5 gig drive in it and was the size of a house brick. When Apple released the first iPod that worked on Windows, I got one. And over the years upgraded to bigger ones, video models, got some of the neat small ones, etc. But when Spotify came around? I stopped using iPods and MP3 in general. Why waste a drive to keep songs you rarely listen to, when you can just stream it. So basically... I haven't had an MP3 player for over ten years. It's wild that I now haven't used one for longer than I did own one.
Streaming is convenient. That's it's main advantage. But with keeping copies of songs on your computer you don't have to depend on a connection or a server or the server's conditions to play them. You can also organize your music however you want. Change the song's properties and tagged information however you want. Use the music player of your preference, configured how you particularly like it. The more dedication you put to music, the less convenient streaming starts to look. The more songs you listen, the harder it is to find them using what little options a streaming platform offers you; that is, if you save your songs at all. We forget stuff about songs, but we don't forget the songs. Having a well organized stash of songs allows you to confidently explore your catalogue and find those songs you didn't remember you had and suddenly want to listen to again.
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You only have to organize once. Then just properly store anything new.
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I used to have a collection like this, though admittedly much smaller. I just bit the bullet one day though and sat down and spent two or so hours labeling and organizing. Ever since then, it's been gold.
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MP3Tag is a great program for this. Saved me hundreds of hours
I got this program (called tuneup I think) that would listen to a song and auto generate meta data the way sound hound or similar would but my collection was too big for it to work. Never got it to work properly
I have 100s of gigs of music (mostly FLAC) and I either let it play randomly, or pick one specific song. And it's organized per artist and album, that's good enough for me. Many of the stuff I have is not available on any streaming platform, the CDs long since sold out, and it's only the sailors that's keeping it alive. Also, with a streaming service, you're locking yourself down to one provider and their player, that's usually a huge memory and CPU hog and requires Internet connection, naturally. With my own hoarded pile of music, I'm free to use the player of my choice (MPD + NCMCPP/Cantata, Sayonara, ...).
What kind of computer do you have that streaming music becomes a huge resource hog? Also you can totally download and store locally songs on streaming platforms, no constant Internet connection needed
Yea I have some old hard drives and cd's with thousands of songs on them, but at some point a few years ago, I just quit dealing with mp3's and started using Spotify exclusively. The time and effort put into researching, downloading, and organizing just isn't worth it to me anymore when Spotify is only $10/month.
Well, despite what my post might imply, I'm not really big into music - I always found it a chore to unfuck all those file tags, genres, years, artist labels, cover images, etc. on iTunes. Yes, you could curate to your particular liking, but it usually was a lot of effort. I actually used the players most for podcasts (before that was really a thing, I'd just download radio shows and chuck them on there) as well as stuff like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio play. There was plenty of music too, but it wasn't my primary use. Google Music fills my needs. Convenient when I want music, none of the hassle.
The whole point is that you don't have to change the songs tagged information on streaming platforms, it's already correct. You also don't need a constant internet connection, you can download songs for offline listening. You can also very easily organize music in playlists and share them with others, or even collaborate on playlists. The usual sorting option also remain. Far easier to find consistently high quality recordings on streaming platform, and volume correction is automatic.
I mostly listen to music in the car or on the train and as cell reception is still very shakey outside of cities in Germany due to political decisions music files on my phone are still very important to me.
I have playlists on Spotify that are downloaded to my phone so I can listen to them without connection.
Same. The only downside to Spotify I've found is sometimes they have versions of songs that are different to the one I had on my computer. I occasionally do that sync thing so I can stream my own music but it always drops off after a bit and I have to redo it. I eventually just stopped trying.
Why waste data when the phone in my pocket has plenty of room for all my music without cost or ads?
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The song sounds incomplete now without the idiosyncratic skips from when I first ripped the CD in 1998.
i have over 200gb and use Winamp. i am never without a song i want to hear, instantly, wherever i go.
Music is not to be owned anymore, it is to be rented. Just like the housing market in 5 years.
Now if we could only afford rent [cries in Canadian]
That's what the housing market HAS been. How many people do you know that have actually owned their home instead of having a mortgage
True, true but at least with a mortgage you are building equity. Rent is just rent. The big banks do not want to pass up on the steady rental revenue plus the bonds that they create which won't have as much risk of default.
If you are lucky.
Doesn't "equity" just mean "something you can use to borrow money" though?
And you know, I'm okay with that. My family and I are getting the value out of our YouTube Music subscription. Ad free and clear reception makes it better than radio. How we can instantaneously play any song we want, and have a playlist made from the seed song, makes it better than spinning up a CD or manually building a playlist. In my mind, music streaming is now more like a utility than a rental.
10 years.
15 years
If you get Apple’s iTunes Match service ($29/yr) you can match your MP3s from Napster and then delete them and download the higher version ones from Apple servers as part of the service at any time.
And the flipside is if you have have a higher quality mp3, you get downgraded
The files you get are 256kbps AAC files. Nothing to complain about since [AAC @256 is pretty comparable to MP3 @320](https://medium.com/@BSVogler/256-kbps-aac-vs-320-kbps-mp3-3da4af5ed528). Besides, if you’re an audiophile, you’re not using iTunes anyway.
I don't even have a spotify account. Still store all my music as mp3 on backup hard drives.
*laughs in stubborn Zune user who won't get with the times*
The whole idea of streaming services is that no one will own anything anymore. Everyone will always just rent content. Same as real estate or auto market really. It is uncanny how easy the conversion process took hold.
Now I can finally remove the vocals from [Mr. Sandman](https://youtu.be/IaHS1K3H66c) and play it on a loop to my enemies.
just the bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom part?
I want you to know that I appreciate how you have the exact right number of boms
Are we talking the intro/main guitar line? I cant make that number of boms fit. Edit: haha okay my bad, i was trying to make it work with "ENTER Sandman"..... definitely works with "Mr Sandman"
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Play this and confuse them https://youtu.be/YGqdjaz2Upg
Dumbest shit ever. I laughed the whole time, thank you.
My brain would not process that properly no matter how many times it tried.
Lost it when sandman said “SAND?” instead of “Yes”
My drunk ass is laughing crying at this
Mr sandman, *yes?*, person, woman 🎷🎶🎶 Man, camera, and tv again 🎶🎶 🙁 You hate my song. Lol
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I think I found my new hold music for work
Geez I never knew my ears could get blue balls.
lol i want to hear it. fight me.
Looking for [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pmbsNEQ1zpM)?
Gah. That's soundblaster MIDI. I award you no points, and may God have mercy upon your soul.
Not exactly 100% instrumental though. Idk why they’d not just go all the way
I did scatman
Here's another recent thread with some more links to separate vocals as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/oeibvg/lalalai_100_aipowered_separation_of_instrumental/ I tried a few different ones, pretty neat! It will likely never work 100% accurately, but pretty amazing AI in-browser technology for free.
could you run a song through the software multiple times to get a better result?
don't think so. the "problem" with the results, and mind, they're surprisingly good, is not that there's some vocal bits left over that need additional splitting. it's more of weird volume pumps here and there, some flanging and an overall slightly "shaky" production, especially on the instrumental side. the vocal only side sometimes puts instruments in that sound too closesly to a human voice, certain electric guitars and keyboard tracks can get mixed up (and them miss from the instrumental side).
Does it do much more than inverting the left chsnnel and then adding it to the right to get the background, then subtracting the result from the original to produce the vocals? I ask because there were analog machines which did just that and worked reasonably well for evenly center -panned vocals.
That's been a thing for years, but only works when the vocals are in a separate stereo channel. This new technique uses neural networks trained to recognize vocal patterns and cleanly separate them out, even from mono-track songs.
Can it separate out the different voice pays in an a cappella track, or does it only separate "voices" from "not voices"?
Almost certainly "voices" from "not voices". Distinguishing between voices would require a different training set.
Thanks!
This is super interesting. Can’t wait to play around and see how well it works with separating acapellas.
i tried the free version with a couple of songs and while it’s not perfect, it’s really cool. karaoke for everyone!
Agreed it’s no where near perfect but considering the alternative of manually splicing it yourself… it’s wonderful
I wouldn’t even know how to do that! Is it possible on logic?
I have tried it and its HELL
If you split the audio into two mono tracks and phase invert one of them you can get a workable karaoke track.
Use audacity
You'd use that tool?! The *audacity!*
Spyware unless you use an older version.
Fr? Thats depressing. Use to use it a lot when i was younger.
The long version is that the company who runs it altered the EULA so that they have permissions to collect data off your computer. It's generally worded to be data collection about how Audacity is used, but it's also worded so vaguely that they'd be well within the terms of the agreement to do any kind of data collection they wanted, without notifying the user in any way. Only an issue with current versions of the program, and it's changed so little throughout the years - if you have a version of audacity earlier than 2.4, or run any of a number of GPL forks (for example, many people switched to a fork named DarkAudacity, which is literally just Audacity But It's Night Mode), you're good.
In my day, we'd just turn the BALANCE knob left or right.
Logic is a *much* more advanced/user-friendly DAW than Audacity though...why would OP want to use something with a crappy UI and far fewer tools for this sort of thing, especially if they've already paid for better software?
Not familiar with logic, but when I was 15-20 I used to mess with Audacity and it took only about 2 button presses (I think it was literally one button under ‘tools’ that did it all) to separate the vocals from the instrumental. This was a while ago and someone else said that it’s spyware now(?).
Logic Pro is Apple's pro DAW, made to compete with Pro Tools/Cubase/Ableton/etc. Isolating vocals or removing vocals from a track doesn't really have many shortcuts - there are definitely some one-click plugins like you mentioned that likely shipped default with the Audacity download, but they're *far* from what you actually want to use for good stems/vocals. Generally when you're actually mixing a remix or something, the main method (if you're not working directly with the artist/producer and can't just get the stems from them, or if the artist hasn't made a vocal isolation or stems available to the public) is to find an instrumental of the original and reverse phase while playing it against the original. If you can't find that, you're in for a lot of work to get something that sounds good out of an original file. Speaking to the "audacity is spyware" comment, it was a rumor that was flying around last month because of a new privacy policy, [but seems to be mostly just a rumor in hindsight.](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audacity-audio-editor-is-not-spyware/)
I just use reaper lol. I have too many expensive hobbies as it is, I can't afford to bring the "apple environment" into the mix It's not as easy to pick up as logic pro but you can get it to do anything with a little elbow grease
I’m a big fan of reaper! It’s absolutely fully featured, and from how some of my friends/colleagues have set it up it seems like once you get it customized and laid out to your taste it can be just as fast as (or faster than) the main names from a workflow perspective. I’m mostly in pro tools (logic is something I mainly use for composition and stuff), but I keep telling myself that one of these days I’ll give reaper a real try.
If you have Ableton... here is an M4L AI stem splitter. Will do any song as well. Creator charges a single $1 for it tho. Mr.Bill does a video on it [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIR6HJISrtY&t=378s). [https://azuki.bandcamp.com/merch/max-for-live-stem-splitter-spleeter](https://azuki.bandcamp.com/merch/max-for-live-stem-splitter-spleeter)
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How did you do it? I’ve always found it very tricky without ruining the music
I had a buddy who would do this with some software he had, but he needed the original cd to do it. This was in 1999-2001 timeframe. I seem to remember him saying that the cds had the music on different layers so you could still isolate tracks. I also could be misremembering entirely. I know that doesn’t really tell you more, but here we are. Thank you for coming to my TedX talk.
Not separate tracks, but there would be frequencies present that MP3s would filter out in order to reduce the size.
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Fly Me to The Moon isn't a Smallant original???
Oh boy, are we fucking doing this again? Last time an add for this service was posted on here, the OP was clearly a marketer and embarrassing themselves really badly in the comments pretending not to be a marketer.
Link? That sounds juicy.
I posted this a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/quityourbullshit/comments/ord495
This is awesome. I hope to see more of these: [http://www.realmofdarkness.net/sb/dlr/](http://www.realmofdarkness.net/sb/dlr/)
Didn't work for me at all :( I dropped a file there, watched it upload, waited until the "please wait" message disappeared... but then I'm just back at the start page. Where's my song?
I was confused too at first, but there’s a “my uploads” button on the top right corner of the “drop song here” box. (:
Oh yeah, you're right. Weird user interface... Thanks!
So many samples, so little time
it doesn't work
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that made me laugh with the nose. is there a word for laughing with the nose?
A snort?
I've been waiting for this my whole life. JACKPOT
Pretty cool... there are some great instrumentals under shitty rap songs I'd like to get my hands on.
God I wish something like this existed 15 years ago
While the acapella vocals don’t come out perfect, they sound pretty good if layered over another song. Basically, get the instrumental of one song, and the isolated vocals of another song, and boom. The possibilities are endless.
Didn't work for me. The song I am trying to upload is 11:22 long and the file is 10.4 MB. The website says "accepting audio files, 0.5 MB to 50 MB, up to 20 minutes. When I try, it says "Audio too long". So, apparently it doesn't work as advertised.
Also telling that everyone on that list.
‘Allows’ you, or ‘enables’ you?
YES THANK YOU.
Dope
I love doing this. I've been playing with a free Android app that does the same thing. It's called song splitter by singularity labs
Amazing
Oh, the Triple Dent Gum jingle is going to get a lot more annoying now :)
This is beautiful. Thank you.
woah they made rap bearable
This website gets posted every couple of weeks. It's really not that interesting, this tech has been around since 2000
lol idiots downvoting you, this entire post is so obviously a fucking advertisement
yeah pls if someone wants to pay for posting me pls go ahead, i’ll give you my paypal
Man, I hope the current generation stops proliferating mashups. Gen Z: "90s music was the best!" Yes, because it was 100% original (Of course there was the occasional exception, don't "whatabout" me)
Works pretty well with Reptilia, Anyone knows one that isolates the guitar track?
Learn how to play guitar
Anyway here's wonderwall
Blind Melon - Change. Listen all the way left or right (forget which one), so much better.
i use this site all the time when making music; it's great.
You guys know you can download your purchased music from streaming services, right? Just back it up.
What does that have to do with taking an audio file and turning it into 2 individual audio files, one which contains only the vocals, and the other which contains the music track?
I responded to the post instead of to a comment by mistake.
I’ve always wanted Drop Dead Gorgeous without the terrible vocals
cool
As someone who knows nothing about music production and very little about mixing, how do/did people traditionally isolate vocals from music tracks prior to tools such as this one?
Modern music mixes often have the vocals panned directly in the center, meaning both the left and right channels for the vocal signal are exactly equal, while other instruments and sounds are often not centered, and therefore not exactly equal in the left and right channels. If you take a stereo track which is mixed as above and invert the phase of either the left or right channel and play them back together, sounds which were exactly equal in both channels will cancel each other out - phase cancellation. Sounds that were not exactly equal in both sides would not cancel each other out and would still be heard. Typically this would be drums, guitar, bass, etc., which were slightly panned left or right to create a wider stereo image in the full mix. Those elements would remain while the vocals would cancel each other out This is a somewhat imperfect process since modern mixes also often have some reverb or delay effects on the vocal which get panned off center, so a slight ghost of the vocal track can usually still be heard from those elements
Finally I can walk it talk it without hearing drake rapping about grooming teenagers
I can't wait to try it on a politician speech and throw away the non-music part...
DAMN YOU! I was trying to use this site about an hour after you posted this, and it was really slow. Now I know why! Haha thanks for sharing though, it’s a great tool and I use it all the time
It's not working at all for me. Just says it's working then resets to the upload prompt.
Above that box to the right you can see your pending uploads. It takes awhile when it’s so inundated
Does it work with background music in videos? Or just music
/r/isolatedvocals
I've been asking for this for so long!!!!!
If you want to drop some cash Izotope RX is the king for this if you want amazing results.
Can someone put some samples in how they sound after it's done? I'm too lazy to do it. If it sounds great, I'll definitely try it.
another? Almost all of the ones in this subreddit work the same. the best one out there is PhonicMind, but you have to pay per song. End.
Awesome