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Re:Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file? by paulrpotts on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:08PM (#21399992)
Izotope RX can do a pretty credible job of this, although it depends a lot on the source file. This is a commercial product, though, so I'm not sure if it is what you are looking for. https://ask.audio/articles/isolating-separating-remixing-usi...
Re:Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file? by rewgs on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:53PM (#21402568)
Professional audio person here. RX is the tool to use, but even for someone skilled at this, it's going to be tough and will likely result in some degradation of the rest of the music.

Get in touch and I'll give it a shot, but no promises.

Re:Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file? by codetrotter on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:13PM (#21402809)
Note that the e-mail field on HN is not visible to other users. If you want others to be able to contact you by e-mail, you should put your email address in the “about” box as well.

And probably when you do that you might want to type it out as

yourname at example com

Rather than as “[email protected]”.

Still, even if you write it that way there are probably some scrapers out there that will recognize it as an email and include it in some list.

You could try to be a bit cryptic like some do though. If for example the local-part of your email address is the same as your HN username, and you are using GMail, you could write something like:

“You can reach me on GMail. My username there is the same as the one I use on HN.”

Just don’t be too cryptic, or you won’t just ensure that scrapers can’t parse it — even people legitimately wanting to get in touch could be unable to understand what your address actually is :P

Alternatively, instead of stating your email address in any form you could put a link to your profile on some other platform where people can reach you.

Re:Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file? by mettamage on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:16PM (#21402836)
I'd love to! But I don't see your email. My email is in my profile bio.
Re:Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file? by abacadaba on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @06:18PM (#21403467)
If anyone wants to give it a shot removing Donna vocals from some choice 70's dead, much obliged! Thanks in advance.
Re:Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file? by mettamage on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:57PM (#21400546)
If there's a trial version, I'm willing to try it.
Re:Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file? by SyneRyder on Thursday October 31, 2019 @02:30AM (#21406204)
Yep, iZotope RX7 has a 10-day free trial. The feature you're looking for is Music Rebalance:

https://www.izotope.com/en/products/rx.html

Re:Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file? by gumbi_nz on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:50PM (#21415000)
I downloaded the trial a few weeks ago. The results were not great unfortunately.