People lack easy ways to remove unwanted sounds from recordings
People working with audio and video want to remove specific sounds, background music, or noise while keeping the content they care about. One request involves finding the same 0.4-second sound across more than 10,000 files; others ask for music removal that preserves dialogue or local cleanup of CD rips. These are related problems, but the processing needed differs, so a useful product would need to start with one workflow rather than promise to solve every kind of audio cleanup.
For audio and video editors, archivists, and media hobbyists. Mentioned from Oct 2023 to Nov 2025 on Bluesky and Stack Exchange.
4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
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- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
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- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- High
What people said
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I need to delete a specific sound (0.4s) from 10,000+ files. The sound is the same in all files, sometimes there are even more than one in the same file
Is there a tool that strips out the background music from videos, leaving the dialog intact, and lets you swap in your own music?
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