How do I remove music from video and keep the voice?

Sign in, drop the video in the studio and start. When it finishes, the video without the music is made in your browser: watch it, then download it.

Does my video upload?

Only its sound does, 1 to 2 MB a minute for most videos. The picture stays in your browser, and the new sound is put back into your own file there.

Is the picture changed?

No. The picture stream is copied as it is, so the resolution, frame rate and quality stay the same. Only the sound is new.

Do sound effects stay?

They go with the music: the split keeps voices on one side and everything else on the other, room sound and effects included. Where you want them, lay the original sound under the result in your editor.

Can I remove the voice and keep the music?

Yes. Switch to the video without the voice: the same run gives both videos, at no extra charge.

How much does it cost?

8 credits per started minute of the video, shown before you start, for both videos and both sound tracks. The 60 credits you get when you sign up cover 7 minutes, and a failed run gives the credits back. See pricing.

Why did I get only the sound?

Your browser couldn’t write the sound your video needs. Firefox can’t write AAC, the sound an MP4 or MOV carries (a WEBM comes back as video there), and Safari before version 26 and Firefox on Android can’t write sound into a video at all. Open the run in Chrome or Edge on a computer to get the video.

Can I paste a link to a video?

Drop the file itself, a video on your phone or computer.

Remove Music from Video, Keep the Voice

Q: Which videos work, and how long?

MP4, MOV, MKV and WEBM, up to 15 minutes. Up to 1 GB on a computer and 300 MB on a phone come back as video; bigger files give the voice and the music as WAV.

picture copied, sound replaced: Video back
uploads, 1 to 2 MB a minute for most videos: Sound only
music removed or voice removed: Two ways
per video: 15 min
credits per started minute, both videos: 8
with the sign-up credits: 7 min

How do you remove music from a video?

To remove music from video, an AI model splits the video’s sound into the voice and everything else, and the voice alone goes back under the picture. Here the video stays on your device: your browser takes out the sound, only that uploads, and the new sound is put back into your own file with the picture copied as it is. Room sound and sound effects count as “everything else”, so they go with the music.

How to remove music from video in three steps

Drop the video, split its sound, and take the video back.

Drop your video
Sign in and add an MP4, MOV, MKV or WEBM of up to 15 minutes. Your browser takes out the sound track, and only that uploads.
Remove the music
Start, and the sound is split into the voice and the music. The credits show on the button before you start, and you can close the tab while it works.
Download the video
The result opens on the video without the music, made in your browser from your own file. Switch to the video without the voice, or take either sound as WAV.

Why remove music from video here

The video comes back, nothing about the picture changes, and the page tells you what goes with the music.

Strips of film hanging to dry in a darkroom

The same video back, the music gone

The result is your own video file with a new sound track: the voice, without the background music. The picture stream is copied as it is, never encoded again, so the resolution, the frame rate and the quality are the ones you filmed. An MP4 or MOV comes back as MP4 or MOV with AAC sound, a WEBM or MKV with Opus sound.

Only the sound leaves your device

Your browser reads the video and sends its sound track alone, as it is: for most videos that is 1 to 2 MB a minute, whatever the size of the picture. A camera’s uncompressed sound is bigger, about 11 MB a minute, and goes up as an MP3 when it would pass 200 MB. After the split, the voice is put back into the video in your browser, so a 1 GB clip never uploads. Videos up to 1 GB on a computer and 300 MB on a phone come back as video; above that you get the voice and the music as WAV for your editor.

Remove voice from video for karaoke

The same run works the other way round. Switch to the video without the voice to remove vocals from video, a music video or a performance, and keep the band for a karaoke or sing-along clip. Both videos come from one run at one price.

What stays and what goes

The split has two sides: the voice, and everything else. Talking stays, and so does singing, even in a song playing under the talk, as the interview sample shows. Background music goes, and so do room sound, wind, traffic and sound effects. That suits videos built on talking: vlogs, interviews, lessons and product clips. Where you need the effects kept, keep the original sound in your editor under the clean voice.

In sync from the first frame

The new sound starts with the picture and runs its whole length. On every sample video made for this page and in our checks in Chrome and Firefox, the voice track lined up with the video’s own sound with no offset at all, measured to an eighth of a millisecond, and each rebuilt video’s sound ended where the original’s did, a few milliseconds from the last frame, as in the file that went in. A sound track that started late in the original is moved back onto the video’s clock first.

One price, both videos

You pay 8 credits per started minute of the video and get both videos and both sound tracks: the video without the music, the video without the voice, the voice as WAV and the music as WAV.

Remove music from video samples

Videos made on this site from a picture, a library voice and the site’s own music, run through the studio and shown as they came out. Switch between the original sound, the music removed and the voice removed while the picture plays, and download each result as the video the studio gives back.

Guide: remove music from video and keep it clean

Remove background music from video, step by step

To remove background music from video, open the studio, drop the file and start. While the sound uploads, the picture stays where it is. When the split is done, the video without the music is made in your browser and starts playing: watch it once with the sound up, then download it.

A run you open later from the list asks for the same video again, because it was never uploaded. Drop it and both videos are made again, with no new charge.

1Drop the video in the studio.
2Start the split and wait for the result.
3Watch the video without the music.
4Download it, or switch to the video without the voice.

What a voice track keeps

The voice track keeps every voice it hears: two people talking, a crowd chanting, a singer in the background song. If the music under your talk has singing in it, that singing stays with your voice. Where it matters, choose a part of the video where the singer is quiet, or lower the voice track in your editor for those seconds.

Breaths, laughs and short sounds people make stay with the voice too. Claps, footsteps, doors and wind go with the music.

When to keep the effects

A video built on action, such as sport or a cooking clip, may need its sound effects. Put the video without the music on your timeline, then lay the original sound under it at a low level for the moments with effects. The two line up from the first frame.

For a clip you will post with new music, keep the voice track a few decibels above the new music so the words stay clear on phone speakers.

Remove vocals from video for a sing-along

For karaoke, choose the video without the voice. The singer goes, the band stays, and the picture keeps playing with it. Lyrics on screen stay where they were, since the picture isn’t touched. The karaoke maker adds timed lyrics and a key change if you want them on a song file.

Browsers and formats

On a computer, Chrome and Edge write AAC, the sound of an MP4 or MOV, so every format comes back as video. Firefox on a computer writes Opus but not AAC: there a WEBM or MKV comes back as video, and an MP4 or MOV gives its new sound on its own, with a note saying so. Browsers that can’t write sound into a video, such as Safari before version 26 and Firefox on Android, give the new sound on its own for every format.

A video with several sound tracks uses the first one. AVI files can’t be read in the browser; convert them to MP4 first.

Remove music from video or from audio?

For a song or a podcast file without a picture, the vocal remover gives the same split as audio, and the background noise remover is for hiss, hum and traffic rather than music. To read what is said in a video, video to text writes subtitles from it.