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I have an old song. I need to remove the vocals and get only the music from it. I used Audacity (Effects > Vocal Remover). After applying, there's no sound!
I used Audition (the Center Channel Extractor). After applying, a tiny noise came (a small squeeking). Nothing else.
Is there another way to do this?
This implies that your track is in mono. Centre channel extraction gets the difference of the L and R tracks - making the assumption that the difference broadly equates to a middle channel, which is usually where the vocals are.
If your song is old, it may have been recorded in mono, which means there is no difference between L and R channels (or almost no difference - the squeak is the difference)
In this circumstance, this question is a duplicate of Removal of Voice from single track in Audacity
This is possible with MashTactic, a special filter plugin for isolating areas in the frequency and stereo spectrum. Here is a video that demonstrates it:
Also there is ISSE: An Interactive Source Separation Editor which is an opensource software based on what appears to be a research paper that permits visual identification of frequency clusters in timeline of a song, for isolation and separation. The identification is a manual process, but the outcome, in many cases is quite rewarding. There are a few youtube videos describing how to use it for fairly good vocal removal.
