Music Filter

Removes background music from YouTube videos and keeps the voices. Runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

Music Filter removes background music from YouTube videos as they play and keeps the voices. Use it to follow a talk, lecture, podcast or vlog without the soundtrack. It helps with focus, sensory sensitivity, or a personal preference to avoid music. How to use it • It's on as soon as you install it. Open a YouTube video and the music is removed. • To hear the original audio, tap the music-note button in the top-left corner of the player. It shows with YouTube's own controls. • The Music Filter button in the browser toolbar has the same switch and shows the status. • To keep sound effects and ambient sound wherever there is no music, turn on "Keep other sounds when there's no music" in the toolbar button, then reload YouTube. What to expect • Speech comes through clearly. Most music is removed, including music under speech. • By default it keeps voices only, so sound effects and ambient sound are removed too. Keep other sounds brings them back where there is no music. Effects that sound like music, such as drums, often stay filtered. • Singing is a voice, so sung vocals still come through. • While the filter is on, the original music never plays. With Keep other sounds on, very quiet music can slip through. If filtering fails, the video is muted with a message. Private by design • The filtering models run inside your browser. • No account, no analytics, no data collection, no server. • Audio is held in memory only while you watch. Open source under Apache-2.0. Uses the DPDFNet speech enhancement model by Ceva and the EfficientAT audio tagging model.