Remove the music from a video or recording and keep the voices. Sound effects are removed along with the music.
Pick an MP4 or MOV video, or an MP3, WAV or M4A recording. On a phone you can choose a video straight from your photos. For a video, your browser takes the sound out first, so only the audio is uploaded.
Watch the progress while the music is separated from the voices. Most files take about half a minute; when it's busy, the page shows how many files are ahead of yours.
Listen to the voices and the music on the page. Download the voices as an MP3 and put them back under your video; the music track is there too if you need it.
Remove background music from up to 3 files a day at no cost, each up to 10 minutes, with no watermark and no account.
Upload the video straight from your phone or camera. Your browser takes the sound out before uploading, so even a large video only sends its audio.
You get the voices as an audio file the same length as your video, ready to drop back under it in any editor.
A shop, a street performer or a car radio can end up under everything you say. Remove background music and keep your voice, then add music you chose yourself. Your own narration stays exactly as you recorded it.
Interviews recorded in a café or at an event often pick up background music. Remove it before editing so it doesn't jump in and out between cuts. Clean voices are also easier to level and trim.
Talks recorded with music under the speaker, school events and family clips with a song playing nearby: the voices come back on their own, ready to share or archive. For a lecture, that also makes a clean recording to transcribe or caption later.
Most often it's about the song itself. A track that happened to be playing while you filmed is someone else's music, and you may not have the right to publish it with your video. When you remove the music, you keep what was said and can put in music you are allowed to use.
It also helps when the background music is simply too loud. Speech that is hard to follow over a song becomes clear once the song is gone, and you can set your own music at a level that leaves room for the voice. Many editors can lower music automatically while someone speaks, and that works far better once the original song is gone.
And sometimes you only need the words. A transcript, subtitles or a quote are much easier to make from clean voices than from speech buried under a song.
This tool gives you audio, not a new video, so the last step happens in your editor. Any editor that lets you add an audio track works, on a phone or a computer.
It keeps the voices: speech, narration and interviews, and also any singing, because singing is a voice too. If the background music has vocals, the singing stays with the speech.
It removes the music, and everything that isn't a voice goes with it: footsteps, applause, traffic, a door closing. Sound effects can't be kept while the music is removed, so if you need them, add them back in your editor.
Where the music is much louder than the speech, you may still hear faint traces of it in the voices.
Speech recorded close to the microphone separates best. A clip filmed with the phone near the person speaking, or with a clip-on mic, gives cleaner voices than one filmed from across a noisy room.
If you have the same moment from two devices, for example a camera and a separate recorder, upload the one where the voice is clearest. Listen on the page before you download, especially in the parts where the background music was loudest. If a short stretch still has music under it, you can usually cover it with your new soundtrack.
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