How does one rip out the singing from a song so that only the background music is left?
99102
by finding the original producer of the song and asking for a remastered track without vocals.  really the only way to get the normal recorded version without vocals, unless an instrumental mix was also produced.
841460
There's no easy way.  The companies have really worked hard to make sure you can't enjoy your music.\n\nIf you have the permissions to, the simplest way is to make a music CD, then put the CD back into your computer and rip the file to an mp3 using audiograbber or a similar mp3-ripping program.\n\nYou can also use one of those programs that records the output of your sound card to an audio file - the result is usually less than optimal, though.\n\nIf you don't have permissions to play the file (ie, it's protected off someone else's computer), you're pretty much SOL.
957632
Its called instrumental or karaoke.\n\nI don't know where you'd get it, though.
128616
There's a program called "the amazing slowdowner" and that allows you to cut the lyrics out... Other than that I'm not really sure.
1064577
The easiest way that I know of is to burn a CD with those songs on it, then import the CD into Music Match. I believe that everything else that you try will not work because license information will be attached to the file.
708830
Google for a program called Audacity. It's free and will capture anything your pc plays. You can then save the file as Wav or Mp3 and burn to disc with nero or whatever program you use.
588244
Try Myspace or some other mp3 website such as mp3shits. Then turn it into karaoke mode.
341097
you can do it in iTunes.  when you have the song in your library, just right click on it and choose like song info or something.  then just look through the menu, and there should be a start and end time.  it you only want half, put in how long you want the song to play for until it stops.  say if its a 3 minute song, put 1:30  and it will end halfway.
104755
Your best bet is to look for MIDI files.\n\nMidi is an interesting category, because it is generally free, as long as it is for private, non-comercial use.\n\nThis is because they are not samples,. but basically keyboard and synthesysized orchestrations of songs.  They fall under the "public playing" part of song copyrights.\n\nAnd because they are insturment only renditions of songs, there are no vocals involved.  I work part-time as a DJ, and I still use MIDI for that reason.  It is nice when I want to play something in the background to talk over, or as "bumper music".  That way, I am not trying to talk over the singers.  ANd I can stop them whenever I want, without worry of killing a song in the middle.
934125
try a karaoke program. i don't actually know of one, but they do exist. this will allow you to take out certain tracks. but you probably won't be able to do it all in FL. try Acid pro as a multitracker.
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a "how to remove vocals" can be found at link indicated using a free Vocal Remover DirectX Plugin.\n\nas indicated in the other answers "It's not a perfect process"...
888500
There are lots of software out there that will claim to do this, but the software only works on certain songs that were recorded in a certain format that hasn't been used since the 1970s. \n\nYour local best buy or circuit city should have vocal supresiion hardware--typically in the form of a "kareoke" tool--for about $80.00. Just look on the packages for something that says it will remove vocals from DIGITAL recordings.\n\nThe other thing you can try is to download in "instrumental" version of the song using P2P Software, such as LimeWire (www.limewire.com), napster (www.napster.com), and countless others. Just search for the somg title and add "instrumental" to the end.\n\nHope this helps.
201762
You could convert only audio information to mp3, you could do it with winamp(www.winamp.com) or Microsoft Windows Media Player (www. microsoft.com/download)
1098536
it's over on youtube. there's also a way you can rip it from there.
868378
Musicmatch Jukebox.  \nFile >>\nConvert Files
474226
right click the song or file and click "remove from list"
588502
Get a wav editor that allows you to delete the first and last parts of the song.  There are several free ones on the net (search search engine results below).