Acapella Extractor: Isolate Vocals

Drop a song and get its vocals alone as a clean acapella, plus the instrumental. Free, with no daily cap, and the song stays on your device.

Drop a song or video, or click to choose

MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, OPUS and video files. From a video only the sound is used.

Audio or video: MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG, OGA, OPUS, AMR, 3GA, AWB, WMA, AIF, AIFF, CAF, WEBM, WEBA, MKA, MP4, M4V, MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, WMV, MPG, MPEG, TS, M2TS, MTS, 3GP, OGV

Drop a song or video first

The first run downloads the separation model once (about 38 MB).

How it works

  1. 1Drop a song or a video
  2. 2Pick MP3, M4A or WAV and press Separate
  3. 3Listen to each part and download it

The file stays on your device.

How to get the acapella of a song

1

Drop your song

Drag an MP3, WAV, M4A or FLAC file, or a video, onto the page, or click to choose it.

2

Isolate the vocals

Pick MP3, M4A or WAV and press Separate. The first run downloads the model once.

3

Download the acapella

Play it beside the original, then download it, named after your song, such as "song (acapella).wav".

Isolate the vocals of any song

Drop a song and get the voice back on its own, a clean acapella for a remix, a mashup, practice or study. The acapella is selected and downloaded first, and the instrumental comes out too. Everything runs in your browser, so the song stays on your device.

How the acapella extractor works

The page runs Spleeter, an open model made by Deezer and released under the MIT licence, which splits a song into the voice and the music. Your browser downloads the model once (about 38 MB) and keeps it for the next song. The song is separated in pieces of about 12 seconds joined back with a short crossfade, so the acapella is exactly as long as the song and every word stays on its beat, ready to line up in a DAW. Play it beside the original, then download it as MP3, M4A or WAV. Need the music rather than the voice? The Instrumental Maker opens on the instrumental.

Open any song, save MP3, M4A or WAV

The acapella extractor opens MP3, WAV, M4A and AAC, FLAC, OGG, Opus and WEBM audio, plus the sound of a video file such as an MP4, MOV, MKV or WEBM. The acapella is saved as MP3, M4A or WAV, in stereo at 44.1 kHz. For a remix, WAV keeps the most detail.

The song stays on your device

The song is read, separated and saved by your browser, so it stays on your device. Nothing is downloaded but the separation model, once, so the first run needs a connection; after that the model is kept in the browser.

Limits

On a current Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Safari, the tool sets no length limit of its own, because the song is read in pieces. Very old browsers and a few formats, such as AVI and AC-3 audio, go through a fallback decoder that handles up to 30 minutes, and 10 minutes on a phone. The model hears the song up to about 11 kHz, so the very top of the voice is shared with the music. A WAV track can be up to 2 GB.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get the acapella of a song?

Drop the song on this page and press Separate. The model takes the voice out of the music, and the acapella is ready to play and download as MP3, M4A or WAV, named after your song with "(acapella)" at the end. Spleeter, the open model by Deezer under the MIT licence, does it in your browser.

Why does the acapella sound dull above 11 kHz?

Spleeter listens to the song up to about 11 kHz. Above that it cannot tell the voice from the cymbals, so the tool shares the highest frequencies between the two tracks in the same proportion as the rest of the moment. The air and breath at the very top of a voice can come out softer, and a little hi-hat can be heard in the acapella.

Can I use the acapella for a remix?

The tool makes the file, but the rights to a song stay with the people who own it. Separating the vocals does not give you permission to publish them. For a remix you share or sell, get a licence or use a song whose owner allows remixes, such as one released under a Creative Commons licence.

Why can I hear a little music in the acapella?

Separation is an estimate. Instruments that sit where a voice sits, such as a lead guitar, a synth or a snare, can leave a faint trace in the acapella, most of all in loud, dense parts. A clean studio mix with an upfront voice gives the cleanest result.

Tips for a cleaner acapella

Start from a WAV or FLAC when you have one. Compression smears the detail the model uses to tell the voice from the music, so a small MP3 gives a rougher acapella.

Songs with a dry, upfront lead voice separate best; heavy reverb and stacked harmonies come out with the voice.

The acapella starts on the same moment as the song, so drop it at the start of the original in a DAW and it lines up with the beat.