Remove lyrics from MP3's

[geekender]

My wife wants to do some karaoke, can you remove lyrics from mp3's?

 

[agnitrate]

Short answer : no.

-silver

 

[Pepsi90919]

yeah, with an x-acto knife

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Yes. You just need a magic lyric remover. This is a supercomputer that correctly identifies voices and removes them, replacing them with interpolated music created by its powerful neural net.

 

[notfred]

Yeah, you do it the same way you remove people from photos.

 

[geekender]

What about Lyred?

 

[bmacd]

If you can remove the center channel of audio from it, then yes. I'm not sure what program will do it how exactly how to do it, but i'd imagine that's the method.

-=bmacd=-

 

[Leetman]

You can get plugins for winamp that remove center part of audio.

 

[geekender]

Lyred only adds lyrics for karaoke....hmmm....center channel?

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: notfred
Yeah, you do it the same way you remove people from photos.

hehe, you just cut it out

 

[DaveSimmons]

This was just asked in software. The lyric-remover programs just act like an equalizer and wipe out the frequenciees a human voice uses. Along with all the music that uses the same range.

So yes, just use the EQ in Winamp and see how badly it works.

Trivia: the RIAA wanted to do this to music as one of their more boneheaded copy-protection schemes, cut out clearly audible notches in the music to mark it as protected

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
This was just asked in software. The lyric-remover programs just act like an equalizer and wipe out the frequenciees a human voice uses. Along with all the music that uses the same range.

So yes, just use the EQ in Winamp and see how badly it works.

Trivia: the RIAA wanted to do this to music as one of their more boneheaded copy-protection schemes, cut out clearly audible notches in the music to mark it as protected

What??? And they expect you to pay for it that way? I'm confused.

 

[geekender]

Cool Edit 2000 has a "vocal cut" preset that I found works ok. The lyrics sound really tinny in the background, but I was hoping there was something better.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Center channel? Where do you guys get 3 channel mp3s?

 

[geekender]

Use the Vocal Cut preset to remove the vocals from stereo recordings. This preset will sum the left channel with the inverse of the right, and place the result into both channels. On music where the vocals are equally loud on both channels, the vocals will disappear, or come close to disappearing. Note that the Vocal Cut preset is ineffective on monophonic recordings and stereo recordings in which the vocals are not in the center of the stereo image.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: geekender

Use the Vocal Cut preset to remove the vocals from stereo recordings. This preset will sum the left channel with the inverse of the right, and place the result into both channels. On music where the vocals are equally loud on both channels, the vocals will disappear, or come close to disappearing. Note that the Vocal Cut preset is ineffective on monophonic recordings and stereo recordings in which the vocals are not in the center of the stereo image.

Wtf? Why are vocals the only thing removed?

 

[radioouman]

Originally posted by: Jellomancer

Originally posted by: geekender

Use the Vocal Cut preset to remove the vocals from stereo recordings. This preset will sum the left channel with the inverse of the right, and place the result into both channels. On music where the vocals are equally loud on both channels, the vocals will disappear, or come close to disappearing. Note that the Vocal Cut preset is ineffective on monophonic recordings and stereo recordings in which the vocals are not in the center of the stereo image.

Wtf? Why are vocals the only thing removed?

Vocals are mainly mono. That means that exactly the same sounds are in both channels for the voices. Music is usually stereo, although bass is often mono also. So if you invert one of the channels and combine, the vocals will cancel each other out. Of course this doesn't always sound too good, since you often cut out the bass, and there is a lot of mono music. It works very well with some songs, and not at all with others.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Jellomancer
Center channel? Where do you guys get 3 channel mp3s?

ever taken the positives and hooked them into a speaker?

 

[VBboy]

You mean extract, not remove?

Search on Google. I was able to find lyrics for any song in under 30 seconds.