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what if you want just the music from a song in the background of a podcast can you mute just the audio in a song

The instant you start to do live audio production for anything--podcast or live radio broadcast--you fall into the market for a mixer. Two microphones or a microphone and music playback can certainly be done in Audacity--in post production, maybe a day or two before the finished show goes out. Record one microphone and then go back and record the other and then import the music bed and mix them all for the final show.

Audacity isn't a real-time production tool no matter how many people want it to be. That and it only supports one Sound Device at a time, so that one sound device is the mixer and all the microphones and music playback machines go into the mixer. The mixer will also provide connections to the headphones so you can hear what you're doing, another place where the computer is dodgy from trying to record (the show) and play (to the headphones) at the same time.


The other possibility is that I misread the question and you want to get rid of the singers in a song and just use the music. That would be the Center Pan Removal tool...

Center Pan Remover (Voice Remover--Search the page for "Center Pan Remover")
http://audacityteam.org/download/nyquistplugins

It's not called Vocal Removal because all it does is take out everything in the middle of a stereo song. The singer is usually in the middle so they go. Sometimes the bass and drums are in the middle and they do, too.

Koz