From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paco Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:53:22 +0000 Subject: Re: de-mixing songs Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Chris HOOVER wrote: > Sorry if this is off topic, but I was wondering if > there are any tools in linux that I can use to remove > items from songs. I have some songs that I'd like to > romove the vocals and/or guitar(s) from. Is there > anything that will let me do this? Perhaps a more appropriate question is this: "Are there any tools at all (for *any* operating system) that will allow you to do this?" Answer: I don't think so. Removing only specific parts of a song is nearly impossible unless that "thing" you want to remove is set apart from the rest of the song in some way or another. For example, if all the music was on the left channel, and the voice was on the right channel, your could whip up a perl script to strip one channel out of the raw data file. If you have a multi-track recording of the song you're working on, you could do something like this. However, once you have mixed several tracks together, ripping them back apart is next to impossible. The only other option is filters, but filters will filter out everything that falls into a specific frequency range, not just the thing you want gone. Basically, you'll lose other information with filters. Email me personally if you have any more questions. I can think of one way to remove (for example) the guitar ONLY from a song, but it would require you to have a) the full mixed-together song b) a clean/identical copy of JUST the guitar of that song peace, -Paco