Background Music Remover: Remove Music from a Video and Keep the Voice
Drop in a video or a recording and the AI takes the music out from under it. The voice stays as it was, and you get the video back with the picture untouched. On a computer it runs free in your browser, on this device: nothing is uploaded and no account is needed. For longer files, or a browser that cannot run the model, switch to Cloud: your first 10 credits are free, which is 10 minutes here.
Drop a video or audio file or browse your device
MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, MP3, WAV, M4A and more
Up to 20 files at once
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Free on this device where the model can run. In the Cloud, you pick how long the result is kept.
Bigger files? Run it in the Cloud
This tool runs on this device for free. For a file over the device limit or a long recording, the same tool runs on our servers, with up to 5 GB per file and 6 hours of audio, faster, and with your files kept for up to 7 days, or as long as you choose with any pack or plan. From 1 credit a minute, with 10 credits free when you create an account.
How to remove music from a video but keep the voice
Drop in the video and the AI separates the voice from everything else in the mix. On this device that runs free in your browser with no upload. The background music drops away, the voice stays, and you get the same video back rather than a bare audio file.
- Drop in an MP4, MOV, MKV or WebM, or an MP3 or WAV.
- The AI lifts the music out and keeps only the voice.
- Download the video with the music gone.
Why use this instead of a noise filter
A noise gate or a denoiser can shave off a steady hiss, but it cannot tell a song apart from a sentence. This separates the voice from everything else, so the soundtrack comes out cleanly and the voice stays untouched.
It removes music, not just hiss
Most cleanup tools only handle steady noise like fans and hum. Music changes constantly, so a filter cannot catch it. Separation can, which is the whole point of this tool.
Video in, video out
Drop a video here and you get a video back with the picture untouched. Most competitors hand you an audio file and leave you to rebuild the clip in an editor.
Keeps the voice natural
The speech is separated out rather than filtered, so it keeps its natural tone instead of the hollow sound a noise filter leaves. Everything that is not a voice goes with the music: footsteps, doors, room tone, traffic and crowd noise, so what you get back is the words on their own.
Fixes copyright takedowns
If a clip got flagged for the music playing behind you, taking the music out and keeping what you said is often enough to make it usable again.
Better transcripts and captions
Automatic captioning falls apart when music sits under the dialogue. Take the music out first and the words come out right.
Free in your browser
This device runs the AI model on your own computer, so it costs nothing: no account, no upload, no credits, as many files as you like. The Cloud, for long files, starts every new account with 10 credits for free, which is 10 minutes of this tool. No card needed.
How it works, step by step
Four steps from a clip with music underneath to the same clip without it.
Add your file
Drag a video or audio file onto the box above, or click to browse. MP4, MOV, MKV and WebM all work, as do MP3, WAV and M4A.
Pick This device or Cloud
This device runs the AI in your browser: free, no account, nothing uploaded, on a browser with WebGPU and at least 8 GB of memory, up to 15 minutes of audio per file. The Cloud runs it on our servers for longer files: sign in, and your first 10 credits are free.
Let the model remove the music
It listens to the whole track and separates the voice from the music, the sound effects and the room tone around it. Only the voice is kept.
Download the result
When it is done, download the video with the voice kept and the music removed. On this device your file has not left it; in the Cloud the files are deleted on the schedule you picked.
What people use it for
Point it at any clip where the music is in the way of what people are saying. The AI keeps the voice and removes the music and everything else around it, so the words come through clean.
Fix a clip that got flagged
A gameplay clip, a vlog or a wedding video got a copyright claim for the song playing in the background. Take the music out, keep what was said, and the clip is usable again.
Strip music from a voiceover
Your narration was recorded with a backing track playing through speakers in the same room. It separates the spoken lines from the music so you can drop in your own.
Reuse a scene without its soundtrack
You want the dialogue from a video but a different score behind it. Remove the music and you have clean dialogue to build on. The sound effects go with the music, so you lay in your own.
Better transcripts and captions
Background music throws off auto transcription and the captions come out wrong. Take the music out first and the words land accurately, which matters for Reels, TikTok and Shorts.
Quiet the music in an interview
You filmed an interview in a shop or a bar with music on the speakers. This pulls the song out and keeps the two voices; the chatter and clatter of the room go out with it.
Pull the speech out of a clip with a song
You found a short clip with someone speaking over music and you want the words without the track. It lifts the music out so you can quote or reuse the speech.
What it handles well, and what it does not
| Works well on | Struggles with |
|---|---|
| A voiceover recorded with music playing nearby | Speech that is quieter than the music sitting on top of it |
| Interviews and vlogs filmed with music on the speakers | Several people talking over each other the whole time |
| Gameplay and stream clips with a licensed track behind the commentary | Audio that is already clipped or badly distorted |
| Film and TV scenes where the score sits under the dialogue | Hiss, hum or wind on a recording with no music under it: the noise goes out with the music here too, but the background noise remover is the better tool for that |
Against the other ways to do this
| Approach | What you actually get |
|---|---|
| Muting the clip | Silence. The voice goes too, which defeats the purpose. |
| A noise reduction filter | Removes steady hiss and hum. It cannot remove music, because music is not steady noise. |
| Noise reduction in Audacity | Good for a constant fan or buzz. Point it at background music and you get artefacts and a hollow voice. |
| Premiere, DaVinci or CapCut | Their enhance tools help with a noisy room, but nothing in the timeline separates a song from a sentence in a finished mix. |
| This tool | The same video back, picture untouched, background music gone and the voice still there. |
The honest summary: if the only problem is a steady hum, use the noise remover. Reach for this when there is a song under the voice, which is what filters cannot fix.
Wanted the other way round? The AI vocal remover keeps the soundtrack and drops the voices, or the voice isolator, the same model on the page for pulling speech out of any recording.
If something does not sound right
Frequently asked questions
Yes, in your browser. Pick This device and the AI model runs on your own computer: no account, no upload, no credits, and it stays free however many files you run. It needs a browser with WebGPU and at least 8 GB of memory, handles up to 15 minutes of audio per file, and downloads the model once, on the first run. The Cloud is for longer files and for devices that cannot run the model: every new account starts with 10 credits for free, which is 10 minutes of this tool, no card needed. The Cloud costs 1 credit per minute, and every started minute counts, so a 2:30 clip is billed as 3 minutes.
Last reviewed September 2026.
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