Question for Audasity users

[Ray Thomas]

I hear there is a way to remove the voice from a song, can someone comment

[Billy McCombs]

I tried it and it doesn't work. There was still a voice in the back ground. Enough that you couldn't use it for a backing track. Ray check this out [url]www.karaoke-version.com there are some great tracks to be had on here for $2.99. Under COUSTOM TRACKS you can leave out the Vocals, Lead, or Steel and have a great Track to play along with. Check it out.Billy

[Billy McCombs]

It did not work for me. I could still hear faint voices in the back ground.

[Carl Kilmer]

It depends on how the original track was recorded and mixed.
Some vocals can be lowered enough that you won't hear them
at all when playing steel with them. Others can't be lowered at
all. In Audacity click on effects and go to the bottom and click
vocal remover, and there's a couple different ways you can try.
I usually go to YouTube and type the name of the song or artist
and type (karaoke) after the name. Find the track I want and
download it, then I convert it to an MP3 file load it in Audacity
so I can normalize it to -1 db and add a click track before the intro.

[Mark Greenway]

Carl, how do you convert a YouTube video to MP3?

[Carl Kilmer]

Hi Mark, I use Pazera Free Audio Extractor 2.3
This is a free program that extracts audio from many files.
You just drag the one or many tell it where to save them
to and click on convert. It works great with no audio loss.
If you have a lot of YouTube videos you can do a lot at once.
http://www.pazera-software.com/products ... ng=English

[Mark Greenway]

Thank you very much Carl. That's awesome.

[Wiz Feinberg]

Carl, how do you convert a YouTube video to MP3?

I use the YouTube MP3 Podcaster Add-on for Firefox to download audio-video files.