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
