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audio-demo/demucs
steve-adminandClaude Sonnet 5 d072cdaa07 Commit full-length compressed exports of both demucs stems
vocals.mp3 (narrator only) and no_vocals.mp3 (background/instrumental
only), 128kbps MP3, so both are viewable/playable directly in Gitea
without needing local playback or GPU-box access.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y1oQ4h4WE4R9KRvMQLr5Ey
2026-09-12 17:44:00 +00:00
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demucs

Source separation demos using Demucs — splitting audio into stems (vocals, drums, bass, other).

Demo run

Ran two-stem separation (vocals vs. everything else) on an RTX 3090 against media-files/audio/service-mbrs-ntscrm-01840194-01840194.m4a:

python3 -m demucs --two-stems=vocals -n htdemucs \
  -o separated \
  ../media-files/audio/service-mbrs-ntscrm-01840194-01840194.m4a

Took ~12s for 11 minutes of audio. Outputs vocals.wav and no_vocals.wav (44.1kHz stereo PCM, duration matches source) under separated/htdemucs/<track-name>/ — gitignored, left on the GPU box at /root/projects/audio-demo/repo/demucs/separated/.

Full-length MP3 versions (128kbps, ~10MB each) are committed as vocals.mp3 and no_vocals.mp3 in this directory so both stems are reviewable directly from Gitea without needing local playback or GPU-box access.

Known gotcha: demucs 4.1.0's package metadata doesn't declare numpy as a dependency even though demucs/transformer.py imports it directly — pip install demucs alone leaves the env broken (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'numpy' at runtime). Install numpy explicitly alongside it.

The isolated vocals.wav is intended as the clean reference/source audio for a voice-cloning TTS step (see top-level README for the planned audio-translation pipeline).