spleeter/README.md

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## About

**Spleeter** is the [Deezer](https://www.deezer.com/) source separation library with pretrained models
written in [Python](https://www.python.org/) and uses [Tensorflow](https://tensorflow.org/). It makes it easy
to train source separation model (assuming you have a dataset of isolated sources), and provides
already trained state of the art model for performing various flavour of separation :

* Vocals (singing voice) / accompaniment separation ([2 stems](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki/2.-Getting-started#using-2stems-model))
* Vocals / drums / bass / other separation ([4 stems](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki/2.-Getting-started#using-4stems-model))
* Vocals / drums / bass / piano / other separation ([5 stems](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki/2.-Getting-started#using-5stems-model))

2 stems and 4 stems models have [high performances](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki/Separation-Performances) on the [musdb](https://sigsep.github.io/datasets/musdb.html) dataset. **Spleeter** is also very fast as it can perform separation of audio files to 4 stems 100x faster than real-time when run on a GPU.

We designed **Spleeter** so you can use it straight from [command line](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki/2.-Getting-started#usage)
as well as directly in your own development pipeline as a [Python library](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki/4.-API-Reference#separator). It can be installed with [Conda](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki/1.-Installation#using-conda),
with [pip](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki/1.-Installation#using-pip) or be used with
[Docker](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki/2.-Getting-started#using-docker-image).


## Quick start

Want to try it out but don't want to install anything ? We have setup a [Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/github/deezer/spleeter/blob/master/spleeter.ipynb).

Ready to dig into it ? In a few lines you can install **Spleeter** using [Conda](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki/1.-Installation#using-conda) and separate the vocal and accompaniment parts from an example audio file:

```bash
# install using conda
conda install -c conda-forge spleeter
# download an example audio file (if you don't have wget, use another tool for downloading)
wget https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/raw/master/audio_example.mp3
# separate the example audio into two components
spleeter separate -i audio_example.mp3 -p spleeter:2stems -o output
```

You should get two separated audio files (`vocals.wav` and `accompaniment.wav`) in the `output/audio_example` folder.

For a detailed documentation, please check the [repository wiki](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki)

## Development and testing

The following set of commands will clone this repository, create a virtual environment provisioned with the dependencies and run the tests (will take a few minutes):

```bash
git clone https://github.com/Deezer/spleeter && cd spleeter
python -m venv spleeterenv && source spleeterenv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt && pip install pytest pytest-xdist
make test
```

## Reference

* Deezer Research - Source Separation Engine Story - deezer.io blog post:
  * [English version](https://deezer.io/releasing-spleeter-deezer-r-d-source-separation-engine-2b88985e797e)
  * [Japanese version](http://dzr.fm/splitterjp)
* [Music Source Separation tool with pre-trained models / ISMIR2019 extended abstract](http://archives.ismir.net/ismir2019/latebreaking/000036.pdf)

If you use **Spleeter** in your work, please cite:

```BibTeX
@article{spleeter2020,
  doi = {10.21105/joss.02154},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02154},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {The Open Journal},
  volume = {5},
  number = {50},
  pages = {2154},
  author = {Romain Hennequin and Anis Khlif and Felix Voituret and Manuel Moussallam},
  title = {Spleeter: a fast and efficient music source separation tool with pre-trained models},
  journal = {Journal of Open Source Software},
  note = {Deezer Research}
}
```

## License

The code of **Spleeter** is [MIT-licensed](LICENSE).

## Disclaimer

If you plan to use Spleeter on copyrighted material, make sure you get proper authorization from right owners beforehand.

### Forks and related projects

As is commonly the case with open-source projects, there are multiple forks exposing **spleeter** through either a Guided User Interface (GUI) or a standalone free or paying website. Please note that we do not host, maintain or directly support any of these initiatives.

## Troubleshooting

**spleeter** is a complex piece of software and although we continously try to improve and test it you may encounter unexpected issues running it. If that's the case please check the [FAQ page](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki/5.-FAQ) first as well as the list of [currently open issues](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/issues)

### Windows users

   It appears that sometimes the shortcut command `spleeter` does not work properly on windows. This is a known issue that we will hopefully fix soon. In the meantime replace `spleeter separate` by `python -m spleeter separate` in command line and it should work.

## Contributing

If you would like to participate in the development of **spleeter** you are more than welcome to do so. Don't hesitate to throw us a pull request and we'll do our best to examine it quickly. Please check out our [guidelines](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) first.

## Note

This repository include a demo audio file `audio_example.mp3` which is an excerpt
from Slow Motion Dream by Steven M Bryant (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution (3.0) [license](http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/stevieb357/34740)
Ft: CSoul,Alex Beroza & Robert Siekawitch