Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine • Hacker News Board

A local radiostation has a broadcast of four hours. They are required to play an x amount of music tracks by the station (about 6 per hour), but there has been demand to make the broadcast available as podcast without the music.

Could this make it possible to automatically remove the music from the MP3 file they have available? With 6 tracks per hour times 4 hours, manually removing the music is time consuming.

I doubt it, as it seems all vocals are are output to a single file...

Is there any other tool someone can recommend?

Re: Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine

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Post by iseanstevens » Tue, May 19, 2020, 4:40 AM UTC

There is a Max/Ableton live plugin version here, which makes it much easier to experiment with Spleeter artistically.

https://github.com/diracdeltas/spleeter4max/releases/

Re: Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine

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Post by peterhookgen » Tue, May 19, 2020, 4:45 AM UTC

This is very cool, I have started using it for experimenting creating hardstyle dance remixes of popular songs

Re: Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine

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Post by TedDoesntTalk » Tue, May 19, 2020, 4:59 AM UTC

Myce wrote: post #5

A local radiostation has a broadcast of four hours. They are required to play an x amount of music tracks by the station (about 6 per hour), but there has been demand to make the broadcast available as podcast without the music. Could this make it possible to automatically remove the music from the MP3 file they have available? With 6 tracks per hour times 4 hours, manually removing the music is time consuming. I dou…

> Is there any other tool someone can recommend?

Audacity. I can think of two ways.

0. Import into audacity

1. Playback the recording at 4x (1 hour of playback for 4 hours real-time broadcast). Mark the edges where music stops and starts. You have to do that 12 times for 6 songs. Youll have to slow down near the changes in order catch the precise time of an edge. Delete the music between the two edges. Repeat 5 more times.

There may be audacity plugins that do what you want or do something closer to it.

2.use some combination of low pass and high pass filters to remove the music. It's not going to be perfect and you'll still need to edit out the filtered music anyway.

Re: Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine

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Post by fold_left » Tue, May 19, 2020, 5:17 AM UTC

Once you have obtained just the Guitar from a track, are there any tools out there which can work out the Tablature (eg. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com//top/tabs) so you can play along?

Re: Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine

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Post by TedDoesntTalk » Tue, May 19, 2020, 5:17 AM UTC

Now we can create all-star bands that never existed. For example:

Neil schon from journey. Lead guitar

Heart sisters doing lead vocals and lead/rthyum guitar

Flea -- bass guitar from Chili Peppers

Neal Peart -- drummer from rush

Tony kay --- keys from genesis

The only difficulty is they must all be playing the same song. Then we can extract, transpose if needed, and remix together.