How many times have you heard a song in a movie or on the radio and liked only one specific part? Maybe wanted to use that part in something you create? Taking the songs you love and turning them into something that's your own can be a fun, creative process. If mastered, it can be used in your own work to have the highest quality audio. This is a basic start to doing that, using Audacity, which is a simple, free audio editing software.

Steps

  1. 1
    Download Audacity and open it. Find Audacity at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
  2. 2
    Find the source of the audio file you would like to extract on your computer. Export it as an mp3.
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  3. 3
    Open up the exported song that you would like to extract from in Audacity.
  4. 4
    Extract specific parts of the song for use, or remove the vocals to obtain an instrumental only track.
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Updated: December 23, 2021
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