YouTubers and Vloggers
Take a licensed song out of an old upload and replace it with music you are allowed to use, without filming it again.
Background Music Remover: Remove Music From Video and Audio
Upload a video or a recording and the AI background music remover pulls the voice away from the song playing under it. Keep clear speech for subtitles, dubbing or a new soundtrack, keep the music on its own track if you want it, and download MP3 or WAV. It runs on credits after you sign in, and new accounts get free credits to start.
AI Voice and Music SplitVideo or Audio InKeep the VoiceFree Credits to Start
Upload audio or video to remove the background music
Supported formats: MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, MP4, MOV, up to 100 MB and 20 minutes
or drag and drop a file here
- Vocals, drums, bass and other
- Mix, solo and mute each stem
- – credits per minute
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Why You Need a Background Music Remover
A song under a voice causes more trouble than it seems. Platforms mute or block videos for a few seconds of licensed music, subtitles and transcripts miss words, and a dub in another language is impossible while the original track still plays. Re-recording is rarely an option, because the interview, the lesson or the family moment already happened. What you need is the same recording with the song taken out and the voice left exactly as it was spoken, with its timing, breaths and tone intact.
- A copyright claim mutes the whole video, including every word you said.
- A loud music bed drowns quiet speakers, so captions come out wrong.
- An EQ or noise gate thins the voice long before the music disappears.
- Swapping the soundtrack is impossible while the old song sits inside the speech.
- Editing music out by hand in a video editor takes hours for a few minutes of footage.
What the Background Music Remover Does
One upload gives you the voice and the music as separate, clean tracks.
Keep the Voice
Speech, interviews and narration stay clear and natural while the song underneath is taken away. Pauses and breaths stay where they were.
Music on Its Own Track
The music is not thrown away: download it too if you want to rebalance the mix yourself.
Works on Video Files
Drop in an MP4, MOV or WEBM straight from your phone or editor; the sound is separated for you.
Before and After
Play the original, the voice alone and the music alone, and flip between them while it plays.
MP3, WAV or ZIP
Download the clean voice in MP3 or WAV, or both tracks at once in a ZIP named after your file.
Ready for Captions
Send the clean speech to the audio to text converter for a transcript or to audio to SRT for subtitles.
How to Remove Background Music From a Video in Three Steps
From a noisy edit to clean speech with nothing to install.
- 1
Upload the video or audio
Drop a video or a recording into the box above. Common formats work, from phone videos to podcast exports.
- 2
Separate voice and music
Sign in and start the separation. The credit cost is shown before you confirm, a progress bar tracks the job, and a failed job is refunded.
- 3
Compare and download
Listen to the voice alone, check it against the original and download it as MP3 or WAV, ready to drop back into your editor.
Features of the EzTranscriber Music Remover
Made for creators, editors and anyone who recorded a voice with a song playing behind it.
Remove Music From Video but Keep the Voice
The most common job is a vlog, a tutorial or an interview filmed with music in the background. Upload the clip and the music remover from video files separates the speech from the song, so you can remove music from video but keep voice, then lay a new, licensed track underneath. It is the simple answer to how to remove the music from a video without cutting a single word. Everything stays in sync, because the voice track keeps the exact length of your clip. Works for phone footage, screen recordings, webinars and old family videos alike.
Clean a VideoRemove Music From Audio Recordings
Podcasts recorded in a cafe, radio segments, event recordings and voice notes with a song in the room all have the same problem. As an audio background music remover it works on MP3, WAV, M4A and other audio files the same way it works on video, so you can remove music from audio but keep voice for an edit, a transcript or an archive. If the main problem is hiss, hum or traffic rather than a song, the background noise remover is the better tool.
Clean a RecordingKeep the Music Track Too
Separation gives you two tracks, not one. Keep the voice and the music side by side to rebalance them, lower the song under a voice over, or reuse the music bed in another cut. Many editors do not want silence at all, just a quieter song: bring both tracks into your timeline and set the music a few steps lower. Working with a song rather than speech? To separate music from vocals in a track you want to sing over, the vocal remover gives you an instrumental and an acapella instead.
Get Both TracksClean Speech for Captions and Dubbing
Music under speech is one of the main reasons captions miss words. Remove the music first and transcripts, subtitles and translations come out cleaner, because the speech recognition hears only the voice. Subtitlers send the clean track to audio to SRT, translators to the audio translator, and dubbing studios use the music track as the base for a new language.
Prepare for CaptionsBackground Music Remover Example: Voice, Music or Both
A short demo of a voice over a music bed. Switch between the original, the voice alone and the music alone.
Voice over a music bed
Hear the original, the voice alone or the music alone
Voice
Music
The voice and music are synthesized in your browser to illustrate separation; your own file gives the same three views.
The demo voice and music are synthesized in your browser to show what separation does. With your own file you get the same three views: the original mix, the clean voice and the music on its own track.
AI Music Remover vs Editing by Hand
Why separation beats muting, EQ and volume tricks.
| AI Music Remover vs Editing by Hand | AI separation | Muting or EQ by hand |
|---|---|---|
| Keeps every word | ||
| Takes the song out from under speech | ||
| Voice keeps its natural tone | ||
| Gives the music as its own track | ||
| Works on music with vocals | ||
| Effort for a 10 minute video | One upload | Hours of editing |
| Skills needed | None | Audio editing |
Who Uses a Background Music Remover
Anyone with a voice they need and a song they do not.
Dubbing and Localization
Separate dialogue from the score so a new language can sit on the original music.
Podcasters
Rescue an interview recorded in a bar or a shop with music playing in the background, and keep every word from the guest exactly as spoken.
Journalists
Clean field recordings before you quote them, and keep the original next to the clean track.
Teachers and Course Creators
Lower or remove a distracting music bed under a lecture so every learner hears the explanation.
Subtitlers
Give speech recognition a voice without music and spend less time fixing captions afterwards.
What Editors Say About Our Background Music Remover
An old travel vlog kept getting claimed for a song in the background. I took the music out, added a licensed track and it went back up the same day.
Sofia Marquez
Travel Vlogger
We dub short documentaries. Having dialogue and music as two tracks saves us a full day per episode.
Daniel Brooks
Dubbing Editor
My best interview was recorded next to a jukebox. After separation the transcript finally made sense.
Amara Nwosu
Podcast Producer
Background Music Remover FAQs
Quick answers about removing music from video and audio.
What is a background music remover?
A background music remover separates speech from the music playing under it. You get the voice on one track and the music on another, so you can keep one and drop the other.
How to remove music from a video?
Upload the video above, start the separation and download the voice track. Then mute the original sound in your editor and place the clean voice in its spot. That is how to remove background music from a video without losing a word.
How to remove music from a video but keep voice?
That is exactly what the separation does: the voice stays, the song goes. Keep the voice track and leave the music track out of your edit.
Can you remove background music from a video for free?
New accounts get free credits to test the AI, so you can remove background music free on a short clip and remove music from video free of charge before you buy anything. After that the separation uses credits, and the cost is shown before every job. There is no watermark on the result.
How to remove background music from audio?
Upload the audio file instead of a video; everything else works the same. You can remove the music from podcasts, interviews and voice notes.
Do I get my video back?
You download the separated sound as audio files. Put the clean voice back on your video in any editor; it has the same length as the original, so it lines up exactly.
Will every trace of the music disappear?
Usually the music drops far below the voice, but very loud music, songs with singing, or a voice and music in the same pitch range can leave faint traces. Compare with the original before you download.
Is there a free mode?
Yes, a basic one. Voice Focus runs in your browser with no sign-in and brings the voice forward with an EQ on the center of the mix. It makes speech clearer, but music in the middle of the mix stays audible; only the AI separation really takes the song out.
What is the difference from the vocal remover?
This tool is tuned for speech over music. The vocal remover works on songs, where the singing is the voice, and can also split drums, bass and other instruments.
How long does it take?
It depends on the length of the file. A progress bar shows each stage, files can be up to 20 minutes, and finished jobs stay in your recent jobs list for a day.
Can I just make the music quieter instead?
Yes. Download both tracks, put them on two layers in your editor and lower the music to taste. You decide the balance instead of living with the original mix.
What if the music has singing in it?
Background songs with lyrics are harder, because the singer is also a voice. Spoken words usually stay on the voice track, but a few sung lines can come through. Listen to the result before you publish.
Does removing the music solve copyright claims?
It removes the song from your audio, which is what most claims are about, but it does not grant any rights. Only publish material you are allowed to use.
Which files can I upload?
Common audio files such as MP3, WAV and M4A, and video files such as MP4, MOV and WEBM, up to 20 minutes. The sound of a video is pulled out in your browser before anything is uploaded. To keep only the sound of a video for other jobs, use extract audio from video.
Are my files private?
Your file is uploaded securely for processing and is used only to create your tracks. Sign in is required, so only your account can see the result, and uploads are deleted after 24 hours.
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Upload a video or a recording, let the background music remover separate the voice from the song, and download clean speech in MP3 or WAV.