Remove background music from a video

Drop a video or a mix, keep the voice, and take the music bed down. Free, in your browser, with no sign-up and no upload.

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How to remove background music from a video

  1. 1

    Drop the video or the extracted audio

    MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV open directly. The picture is ignored. Only the audio is split.

  2. 2

    Hear the voice on its own

    The vocal stem is soloed. Drums, bass and the rest of the bed are muted.

  3. 3

    Check a loud music section

    A chorus or a swell is where leftover music shows up. Wait for the HD pass before you decide it failed.

  4. 4

    Download the voice

    Save the vocal stem. Put it back under the picture in your editor if the video still needs a soundtrack you actually want.

The job this page can do, and the job it cannot

This is a music separator. It is good when a voice was recorded or sung over a music bed: a lyric video, a talking head with a song underneath, a podcast sting that is actually a track. The voice goes to the vocal stem. The bed goes to drums, bass and other.

It is not a denoiser. Traffic, a television in the next room, room tone and two people talking over each other are not a lead vocal on a mix. Those will not come out clean. If what you have is a song and you want the singer gone instead, use the vocal remover.

Video in, voice out

You do not have to convert first. Drop the video and the page reads the audio track. If you already have an MP3 of the same clip, that works too, and it uses less memory than a long video.

The download is audio only. Your editor still has the picture. Mute the camera's original audio and lay this stem under it. Export WAV if you will still edit the voice, MP3 if you only need to hear it.

When the music will not fully leave

A few cases come up every time. None of them mean the file was uploaded.

  • The song's lead vocal and your voice are both voice. The model keeps both.
  • A sung hook that is really a synth lives in the other stem and stays out of the vocal, which is what you want.
  • A vocal chopped into the beat can split. Listen to the other stem before you throw the take away.
  • Long reverb on the voice stays on the voice. That is the room, not the backing track.
  • Very long videos on a phone run out of memory. Trim the clip or use a computer.

Keep the tab open on a phone

Splitting a video means decoding it and then running the separator. On a phone, leave AudioDrop on screen until the download is in your files. Switching apps is the usual reason a split never finishes.

Nothing is uploaded. There is no account. If the clip is an interview or a client file, that is the point.

Questions

How do I remove background music from a video for free?

Drop the video here. The voice is soloed and the music bed is muted. Download the vocal stem after the HD pass.

Can I drop an MP4 without converting it first?

Yes. MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV open directly. The picture is not kept. You get the audio stem.

Will it remove any background noise?

It removes a music bed under a voice. It does not remove traffic, room tone or a TV in the background.

Why is some of the song still under the voice?

Reverb, vocal chops and a second singer are the hard cases. The HD pass is cleaner than the instant preview.

Does the video get uploaded?

No. Decoding and separation run in your browser.

What if I wanted the song and not the voice?

That is the vocal remover. This page keeps the voice and drops the bed.