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Demucs Music Source Separation

Code for the paper Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation

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Data Utilities MIT Medium setup 10,341 stars

Overview

Description

Demucs separates any song into its individual components — drums, bass, vocals, and other instruments — with state-of-the-art accuracy. Musicians and producers can isolate stems for remixing, karaoke, or audio cleanup without needing a studio. The big picture: it's a free, open-source tool that delivers professional-grade source separation on a standard computer.

Technical scorecard

License

MIT

Commercial use

Yes

OpenAI-compatible API

No

REST API

No

Fine-tuning support

No

Quantization support

No

Docker available

No

GUI / no-code available

No

Telemetry

Unknown

Offline after setup

No

Data & Privacy

Does it send data online?

This listing is not marked offline after setup.

Does it store history?

Not verified in this directory yet. Review the upstream docs for persistence, logs, and workspace storage.

License checks?

Commercial use is marked as allowed or likely allowed by the listed license.

Telemetry?

Unknown

Last verified: Jul 22, 2026. Maintainer verification should be treated as directory guidance, not legal advice.

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Setup & Installation

Medium

A developer can usually get this running with standard docs.

# Start with the official project repository
# https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs

Hardware Requirements

Hardware tagsGPU (NVIDIA), CPU
LanguagesPython

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