[AliP]

Is there a software progrm out there that i can use to remove the vocals from an MP3 in my iTunes collection?
Preferably freeware or shareware.
Thanks in advance.
KRO
Ali P

[fisherKing]

not really possible, it's part of the audiofile, and can't be removed.

there are some old audio tricks, but not really workable.

oops!

[Stinkysteve]

Audion 3 has a setting to play back mp3's with the vocals muted. It's not free, but it's cheap. It works well. (OS 9.2.1 Pismo 500)
http://www.panic.com/audion/

[tr]

yeah, i don't know, even if there was a program that says it can remove vocals, i'd question how good it is. i mean, the only way i could think it goes about doing it is by maybe 'sensing' vocal frequencies and filtering (which will also remove some audio content, or at least attenuate it)...would probably sound like crap.


tr

[Stinkysteve]

tr is right. The Karaoke effect makes it sound metallic and tinny. It also goes mono.

[ibookuser2]

Vocal removers take advantage of the fact that most of the time, the vocal track is mixed evenly across the left and right channels and the rest of the music isn't. You can get the effect by taking the right audio track, inverting the polarity, and adding it to the left track. Sometimes the bass is also mixed evenly across the tracks, so if you eliminate the bass from one of the tracks by running it through an equalizer filter with the bass turned way down before the subtraction, you can keep more of the bass in the file.

No matter what, though, you don't get a very high quality track out of this. It's also a mono track that's outputted, not stereo.